As a movement shooter, you’ve got a whole host of abilities at your disposal to get the drop on your enemies, all of which can be fully upgraded as you make your way through the game. Set in the Warhammer 40K universe, you control the titular Hired Gun, a bounty hunter in the hive city of Necromunda squaring off against the various gangs that call the city home. Over here at Cultured Vultures, we’ve become big fans of the genre, largely because it gives us another excuse to namedrop Titanfall 2, so perhaps it’s no surprise that Necromunda: Hired Gun has become one of our most loved games of this year. Movement shooters have come to be a hugely successful genre unto itself, especially after the incredible success of DOOM 2016 and subsequently DOOM Eternal. Necromunda: Hired Gun Necromunda: Hired Gun

Whether or not they succeed is down to you, and whether or not you can channel your own inner Hank Scorpio.Ģ. Players attempt to take over the world with a variety of tools, machinations and doomsday devices, all the while trying to fend off the attempts of meddling do-gooders who’ll stop at nothing to try and thwart your plans. A sequel to a decades-old cult classic, Evil Genius 2 builds on the already established formula by introducing new characters, minions, features and more, creating a management game that actively encourages you to be evil, instead of just half building a roller coaster in Planet Coaster and letting people fall to their deaths. Evil Genius 2 knows this all too well, allowing players to take on the role of Bond-esque villain of their dreams. Here’s our picks for the most underrated games of 2021.īeing good is, well, good, but being bad is better.

Feel free to represent some of your personal picks in the comments below, but only if you’re nice about it. While this isn’t a comprehensive list of every single underrated or under-appreciated game that’s launched in 2021, these are some of our favourites. There’s been quite a few games that have launched this year that have managed to fly under the radar. But enough about the big releases from this year, what about the underrated games of 2021? Just look at Super Mario 3D World (though new expansion Bowser’s Fury absolutely slapped, even if it was a bit short), Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Nier Replicant. Fantastic ports, sure, but ports all the same. There’s been plenty of landmark releases like Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, Deathloop, Guardians of the Galaxy and Resident Evil Village, but many of 2021’s big games have been ports or remakes from previous generations. 2021 has been a bit of a weird year for gaming.

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