Dishonored: Complete Collection

I’m still mourning Arkane’s closure. It’s simply not fair that one of the brightest teams in the AAA space no longer gets to make the wonderfully inventive and stylish games that they specialized in because one project went awry under bad management and pressures from publishers. While Prey is my favorite of their titles, you can’t go wrong picking up the Dishonored games either, which put Arkane on the map. These steampunk stealth games represent some of the very best of the immersive sim subgenre, especially in the 2010s, and boast a truly timeless style I don’t think I’ll ever tire of. I can take or leave its morality system, but Dishonored’s branching paths and inviting level design inspired some of my favorite off-the-cuff thinking, all the while allowing me to rip through the nobility of marvelously rich locales like the rat-infested Dunwall or the lush Karnaca. We got three of these bangers before Arkane kind of put the series on ice, and you can pick them all up by buying the Dishonored: Complete Collection for $15 on GOG.