First-person action games are tricky. There's an easy flow to first-person shooters that makes swinging a gun around and aiming down the sights feel natural. The same isn't always the case with ...

Video game developers, designers, and scholars have devoted a substantial amount of time to understanding immersion—the psychological state in which players feel present within the game world—and ...

Springs, Eternal is a lo-fi first-person story exploration game that takes place at a mysterious hot springs in the dead of night, its evocative visual style recalling the dithered and pixelated ...

Anastasia Maillot is an Evergreen Editor based in Finland. At GameRant, she combines her passion for fiction writing and video games to share her love of all things nerdy with the world. Her love for ...

Beat the Devil at his own game. A folk horror card battler with beautiful stylized art, animated figurines, dazzling effects, haunted sound and music, and an original first-person narrative set in the ...

The first-person perspective can be a great boon in a huge range of games. It's very effective indeed at making the player feel more immersed in the experience. For example, first-person horror titles ...

Developer Cognition Europe announced the single-player narrative adventure and exploration game, Lunar Strike, will launch for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam in May 2026. View a ...

From cinematic serial killer dramas to contemplative (and occasionally bloody) games about the nature of mortality, this story rich bundle has something for almost everyone. Almost.

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...