Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands

Play it on: PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, PC

Current goal: Get to the good stuff

I’m mostly playing stuff that I can’t talk about just yet, but while those projects take up the bulk of my time, me and my best friends have been trying to find new co-op games to fit into our rotation. After weeks of deliberations, arguments, and bullheadedness, we finally landed on Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, the fantasy spinoff of 2K and Gearbox’s storied Borderlands franchise. The announcement of a new one (as well as some sales on the existing ones) piqued our interest in the larger series, and given the fact that some of us really love Dungeons & Dragons, Wonderlands seemed like the obvious choice. It starts a little slower than I care for, but we’ve reached the overworld—which If you don’t know has been fascinatingly reworked into a top-down board game complete with random encounters—and I’m intrigued to see how it further delineates itself from the mainline sci-fi shooters through its classes, structure, and weaponry. Here’s hoping that Wonderlands can still capture some of that early Borderlands magic. —Moises Taveras