There’s nothing quite like a good old jolt to the system, isn’t there? You settle comfortably into the status quo, you’re activating your open world towers, you’re looking at the rarities of the loot in your inventory, you’re cracking packs and progressing through battle passes- and then this game comes along out of nowhere that just refuses to play by the rules. It gleefully tears up the precious status quo and revels in its weirdness- and it might be a little rough around the edges, but you can’t quite take your eye off it. 2024 had a surprising number of such games, and here, we’re going to talk about a few of them.
SLITTERHEAD
There’s an abundance of horror games out there in our current market, but few of them (or more precisely, none of them) are anything like Slitterhead. Coming from Silent Hill, Siren, and Gravity Rush creator Keiichiro Toyama’s new indie team at Bokeh Game Studio, Slitterhead is undoubtedly a flawed game, and probably not to everyone’s tastes. It does tout a fascinating core premise and body swapping gameplay hook, however, which makes for one of the most unique action horror experiences in recent memory. Yes, there are a dozen different ways it could have been a better game, but even in its current state, Slitterhead has an undeniable (if very specific) appeal to it.
