A Way Out
Hazelight got its start as a force in co-op games with A Way Out, which follows two criminals who escape from prison and are on the run. That could easily be a setup for a generic third-person crime shooter, but A Way Out marks the beginning of Hazelight’s inventive and varied co-op design. Everything you do in A Way Out is a team effort, whether it be setting things in motion for your prison break or escaping to freedom with the cops on your tail. The studio’s later offerings lean harder into fantastical premises and riff on more interesting cooperative ideas, but A Way Out is where it all began and it still holds up. — Kenneth Shepard
