

Encouraged by the Gods of Olympus, Zagreus is determined to escape the underworld and his fun sponge of a father, but doing so is no easy job. In Hades you play as Zagreus, the rebellious son of the titular god of the dead.

That Supergiant Games’ dungeon-crawling indie masterpiece beat AAA big-hitter The Last of Us Part II to our 2020 game of the year award is a testament to just how brilliant it is. There are admittedly some technical issues at launch relating to frame rate and overall stability, while the load times can be annoyingly lengthy, but Disco Elysium is just that good that we’d still instantly recommend it to Switch owners who have been holding out for the game’s arrival on Nintendo’s hybrid machine.
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Text is easily readable on the handheld display (which is good as there’s an awful lot of it), particularly if you’re lucky enough to own the Switch OLED, and as this is the “ Final Cut” version of the game, you get full voice acting too. However, Disco Elysium is also perfectly suited to portable play, as it’s as much an interactive novel as it is a game. The game was designed for PC and still plays best on its native hardware with a mouse and keyboard. The question is, is the Switch the best place to do it? Honest answer: probably not. If you’re yet to play through this detective story like no other, you owe it to yourself to do so.

We’ve run out of things to say about Disco Elysium, the masterful combat-less RPG that might well be the best-written game ever made.
