I’m really excited for the board game version of Divinity: Original Sin! I’ve been a huge fan of Divinity and Larian Studios for many years now so I have quite high expectations.

I’ve been avoiding most of the available details so I can experience it for myself when it arrives, but the process of adapting an idea across different formats is just fascinating to me in general, and it will be really fun to see how they’ve gone about reformulating for the tabletop gaming space.

There’s a lot of great recs in here! A few that I don’t see posted yet:

• Gone Home is a highly atmospheric exploration game where you play as Katie, a girl investigating her family’s house after she arrives home and finds it empty. FYI in case you’re with me in the “easily frightened” camp: this one can be just a little tense/scary in that “alone in the house at night” kind of way, but it’s decidedly not a horror game.
• A Short Hike is a(n unsurprisingly) short and sweet little game where you play as Claire, a bird who goes on a little hike/adventure through, essentially, an island nature preserve. One of my go-to “relax and feel good feelings” replays.
• Bayonetta was already mentioned, but I’d specifically like to call out Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon. It’s a quite different game from other Bayonetta installments, with creepy-cute fairy tale vibes and somewhat unique controls.