This week on Polygon, we’re looking at games that feel like vacations for your brain. When you don’t want to worry about strategy or challenge or complex narratives, and you’re just in it for the experience. A sunny beach. A snowy cabin. A meditative drive. A… foggy small town designed to scare you? We’re celebrating the cozy places worth visiting when you want to relax, whether the games were designed with that purpose in mind or not. Welcome to Retreat Week.
It’s hard to even comprehend how much PC gaming has changed in the past 20 years. But it was the classic FPS Half-Life 2 that convinced people to install this weird military-green launcher app named Steam and take the...
In Frostpunk 2, I was responsible for a growing population of desperate people, trying to forge a new life in a world that had frozen over. One of the city’s factions pleaded that I, the steward, repeal a law that...
Team Ninja borrows the open-world familiarity and historical tourism of Assassin’s Creed while adapting its own breed of hardcore action for the mainstream. Games set in the Bakumatsu period must feel like buses...
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