We’re doing things slightly differently today with Five of the Best. Instead of talking about a particular part of a game we like, we’re going to talk about what we always talk about at this time of year it seems – the games we’re going to play during the end of year break. And we’re opening it up to everyone, not just Eurogamer Supporters.
You know how it goes: you earmark an ambitiously long list of games to get through and then end up playing something completely different instead. Maybe you snuggle up with a game you don’t have to think too hard about, or maybe you close out the real-world for a while and lose yourself in an imaginary world that’s less grey. Whatever the games and whatever the reasons, please share yours below.
Meanwhile, Chris has curated a little list of his own – of the games he thinks will fill the vacuum between Christmas and New Year perfectly. Have a lovely break.
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I’ve always loosely associated Star Wars with Christmas, maybe because of that infamous holiday special, or maybe because early 80s sci-fi and fantasy is always a go-to for terrestrial TV Christmas film offerings over the years, or maybe because I have a Christmas jumper with Chewie singing carols on it. Regardless, Jedi: Survivor is in my mind the ultimate holiday armchair video game. It’s melodramatic but still never anything but charming, it’s sort of lightly challenging but never a huge obstacle (read also: all family holiday films labelled with “mild peril”), and it’s big. Maybe slightly bloated even, but crucially, not by too much: get your head down and your leftover sandwiches ready and you could hundred percent this thing in a week.