14 Video Game Trends of 2022 That Were Actually Great

DORMANT FRANCHISES COMING BACK

Success is never guaranteed for franchises, now matter how big or beloved they may be. There’s no shortage of examples of such franchises that have stumbled one time too many, only to be put on ice. Many of them do eventually end up coming back into the limelight though, and this year brought that revival for several of them. The biggest example if obviously Silent Hill, a massive pillar of the medium that has been dormant for so long, but announced multiple major upcoming titles in 2022. On the relatively less mainstream end of the spectrum, you have something like Alone in the Dark, another dead franchise that’s been emboldened by Resident Evil’s success to make a comeback. Hell, even Monkey Island came back from the dead. Absolutely no one could have predicted that.