Additionally, it blends that traversal-based gameplay with excellent, emergent social mechanics, that lend a whole another layer to its moment-to-moment action. It puts almost all of its focus square on traversal-based gameplay, which relies on a web of interlocking mechanics and systems with much more depth than one would think.
But it’s precisely because of its unique nature that it’s so impressive. NOTE: The nominees and winner were decided by an internal vote held among the entire GamingBolt staff.ĭeath Stranding is a very unusual game, and one that doesn’t necessarily fit the description of any genre very well, even though it’s not the brand new genre that Hideo Kojima may have claimed it would be. Here, we’re going to recognize the best of the best, mentioning our nominees for what we felt were the ten greatest games of the genre this year, before declaring one ultimate winner. 2019 was no different, and there was an abundance of excellent new action-adventure titles this year. The action-adventure genre is packed full of new releases every year, perhaps because it is the genre that casts the widest net.
