Games have been trending bigger and longer for the past few years. True to form, 2025 has delivered a deluge of life-consuming experiences, including the monumental new sci-fi adventure from Hideo Kojima, Death Stranding 2: On the Beach , and Assassin’s Creed Shadows , a game that re-creates feudal Japan in brilliantly all-consuming, historic detail. But plenty of smaller games exuding greater focus are also worthy of your attention, such as a life simulator about obsessive dieting and a punishingly difficult hike through a surreal wilderness. More than that, 2025 has delivered two major, highly anticipated gaming events: the release of the Nintendo Switch 2 console and the long-awaited action-platformer Hollow Knight: Silksong . The latter, especially, seems to embody the best o

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