Helldivers 2

I’ve written exhaustively about Helldivers 2, the cooperative third-person shooter from Arrowhead Studios that took the world by storm when it launched earlier this year. I don’t think Sony expected it to be its biggest game of the year, but often the best things in life can’t be predicted. Since its meteoric rise, the game (as well as the studio behind it) have been in hot water with the fanbase over countless balancingand quality-of-life issues, but that hasn’t ever stopped Helldivers 2 from being a good time when enjoyed in the right company. At the end of the day, it’s still fun as hell to drop into increasingly ravenous hordes of enemies, be they killer bugs or robots, and wage a constantly escalating and satirized war against them. It’s still fun to dive just out of the way of a barrage of missiles and land a well-placed shot from an autocannon into the weak spot of an enemy just in the nick of time. Helldivers 2 regularly churns out incredible stories of survival and endurance (or just baffling good luck) in the face of all odds, and that’s what the game’s all about. You can dive into hell with some good friends and kill some bad bugs by picking up Helldivers 2 for just $32 on Steam and Humble