The best video games of 2022

It should be noted that this selection will be updated regularly throughout the year. It only takes into account the video games edited in 2022.

After marking the spirits of the gamers in 2017, Aloy offers a new adventure on PS5 and PS4 with Horizon Forbidden West (see our full test here). It is a trip as only the great science fiction narratives can and know how to propose. By stalking the devastated world of Aloy, one thinks of the novels of Pierre Bordage or Jack Vance. This Horizon Forbidden West, which is directly following the Zero Dawn episode, always flirts with the ecological theme.

Beyond the only technical performance, the studio delivers a fascinating SF universe. The many scenes of action, still spectacular, are punctuated by long dialogues that should not zap itself on pain not to take advantage of this fantastic immersion in this post-apocalyptic world imagined with an incredible luxury of details. We would almost want to get out of this journey to paraphrase Joachim of Bellay. "Happy and happy who like Aloy made a nice trip." Because this Forbidden West is certainly part of these odysses that we remember a long time.

Horizon forbidden West, Sony, exit on February 18 on PS4 and PS5.

In recent years, we were entitled to wait for a more ambitious Pokémon game. At the beginning of 2022, it is to Pokémon Arceus that the eyes of trainers around the world are riveted. And it is also fed by all these expectations that we started in this new quest. We discover a game that finally leaves a lot of freedom, punctuated by a synathic scenario and colorful characters. Game Freak, the creative studio of the Pokémon Games, puts on a flat of many mechanics and finds the way to permanently restart the player's attention with new challenges (sometimes too much) of which we leave you surprise.

If Pokémon Arceus is not perfect (see our full test here), we never took as much pleasure to come back to his open world, populated with small missions and challenges. The most expensive being to browse the Pokémon's backgrounds and to say that all the creatures of our Pokédex have no secrets for us. Above all, Pokémon Arceus touches the intention of a certain Zelda Breath of the Wild, permanently titillating our curiosity of Gamer to better relaunch its interest. A tower of which few games can be proud.

Legends Pokémon: Arceus, Nintendo, on Switch.

Windjammers is a legend of arcade halls. Its suite, ruffling, is available on consoles and PCs. Huge 2D sprites, Flashy colors, a dubious dress style... No doubt, the game of Frisbee edition 2022 makes a tribute supported by his elder, released 28 years ago. On paper, Windjammers seems for a formidable simplicity (see our full test here). Two very personal look adversaries are faced on a ground and send frizz at very high speed. Whoever fails to make up the object loses the point. Simplistic? Yes, but this mix between a part of Beach-Volleyball and Pong is of course embellished with a flop of options, that it is absolutely necessary to master to move forward.

Little by little, the patient player will succeed in climbing the steps of success, but we advise a few hours of practice in arcade mode or against a friend before you start in the big bath of the online games in classification, extremely punitive for beginners.

Failure is not an end in itself. This is a bit of the moral of this new rainbow six extraction (see our complete test here) in which it is possible to help, in the mode of the exfiltration (extraction), to the soldiers fallen in enemy territory. In this new FPS which contains partly the universe of Rainbow Six Siege (2015), and very vaguely that of the world of the novel of Tom Clancy, the player accompanies operators of international special forces in their fight against an extraterrestrial threat : The archeans.

Extraction is a little rainbow six siege with Alien sauce, more accessible and in a pure spirit of cooperation. FPS enthusiasts will not miss this except experience.

Rainbow Six Extraction, Ubisoft, PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S.

Genuine carton with 500,000 copies sold less than three days after its launch on February 8, Sifu is the very example of the game that we did not see coming, a bit like the tiger hook worn by an old Chinese master drunk that we would have underestimated. Because Sifu, you will guess, talks about Kung-fu. On a basic scenario on a bloody story of revenge, our hero will have to play fists and feet to put the ideas and vertebraes in place (or not) of his opponents in a gangrenous city by the underworld.

We then discover a Beat Them All not like the others, where it will be necessary to be patient to integrate all the techniques that will make you a true master in martial arts. Especially that every death, your fighter returns more seasoned, but also... older. And the concentration as well as reflexes worthy of a feline will be the only ways of salvation to hope to triumph over your opponents. If the terrible difficulty of SIFU has built its reputation, it does not have less than the game of the French Studio Sloclap gives to see and live an impressive show, constituting a sincere tribute to Kung Fu's films. We then enjoy playing with his environment and grasp the objects that fall under his hand, to overthrow a fight that seems lost and admire a choreography both spectacular and mortal.

SIFU, SLOCLAP, on PS5, PS4 and PC.

Announced in 2018, Dying Light 2 is an open world FPS that adds to its Gameplay a Parkour dimension (with a jump button on the trigger). Understand that here you have to climb, jumping roof roof, walk on narrow gateways or filins, avoid obstacles... while avoiding cohorts of living dead.

What to alternate racing sequences (platform and fight), with other more discretion oriented or exploration. There is always something to do in this Dying Light 2 (see our complete test here) which ultimately proposes a very correct realization (but certainly not transcendent) for a colossal life.

Dying Light 2 Stay Human, Ed. Techland, on PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One and soon on Switch.