[cap-drop]G[/cap-drop]ames have gotten bigger and more content-rich over the years, but quantity isn’t the only reason we feel compelled to continue playing a title. A game also has to grip us with addicting and rewarding gameplay to keep us from stepping away from boredom. A well-told story also keeps us on the edge of our seats waiting to see how things resolve. The games on this list exemplify the best of the best when it comes to huge worlds to explore, incredibly addicting gameplay, and gripping narratives. Here are 15 games that made you stay up all night playing.
The Witcher 3
Even longtime fans of The Witcher couldn’t have anticipated just how masterful The Witcher 3’s open-world design and storytelling would turn out. To this day, The Witcher 3 stands as a benchmark for how to make side quests just as engaging, and in most cases even more engaging, than the main quest of the game. I spent many sessions just exploring the immersive capital city of Novigrad alone. It wasn’t just the scope and quantity of things to see and do that made The Witcher 3 so great, it’s the consistent quality throughout it all that made us not want to miss any of it.
