It is no exaggeration to say that 2022 has got off to a flying start when it comes to video games. The first three months of the year have been packed with the kind of festive releases that tend to clog up the holiday season, when end-of-year shopping and awards ceremonies are the talk of the town. It’s not even April yet and we already have close to a dozen games that easily qualify as some of the best of 2022.
What follows is a comprehensive list of those games, blockbusters and indie highlights alike, that have already left a meteoric impact on igamesnews‘s collective taste. But we also understand: your time is precious, and even if you spend every second of your free time gaming, you’ll never be able to knock them all out before the next wave of must-play games comes out. To that end, we’ve included rough estimates of how long it would take you to complete each game, citing figures from the ever-helpful HowLongToBeat
All right, that’s enough fuss. Here are, in no particular order, the best games of 2022.
