4. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013)
The first “weird” spin-off, Blood Dragon is a smaller take on what is now a franchise tradition. Like Primal and New Dawn, Blood Dragon takes the engine and assets of the most recent mainline entry (Far Cry 3, here) and builds upon them to create something smaller, weirder, and memorable. Blood Dragon is a neon-soaked parody of all those hilariously terrible ‘80s era sci-fi action films. It also roasts video game tropes, like tutorials, and features some of the coolest weapons ever seen in the series. There’s a reason that, all these years later, Far Cry 6 and other Ubisoft games still reference Blood Dragon.
