Jack Penwell

Ah, the shooter. You know where you are with a shooter. Point and shoot at the enemies, don’t get hit by said enemy. Or so you think. For there are actually many different varieties of shooter, almost as many as there are insults shouted down the mic in a Battlefield game. For this list we’ll be looking at the plucky games that look at the shooter genre and decide to Jacob Elordi (Frankenstein for those not keeping up with the Oscars) it together with another genre.

Open world games give players ultimate freedom, offering a huge world filled with stuff to do and places to see. Of course, to get to these places, you’ll need to traverse the world, which could be as big as, well, infinity. Some games just allow you to run (and some, like Fallout 3, don’t even allow that), but others really take this traversal conundrum and run with it.

If there’s a genre that has seen a massive explosion in recent years it would have to be the roguelite. For the uninitiated, a roguelite is a game which consists of uninterrupted runs to the end boss, where each death or failure results in the run being wiped and you having to start again.