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The open-world game Star Wars Outlaws. Photograph: Ubisoft

In 2023, seeds sown during the pandemic months blossomed into some of the best
video games of the decade. This year’s slate looks empty by comparison, an issue
compounded by recent industry-wide layoffs. Still, a few towers of promise loom
before Grand Theft Auto VI’s arrival in 2025, a game that will surely become the
highest-grossing work of human entertainment yet made.

Where Winds Meet is a big-budget Chinese attempt to transpose GTA’s freedoms to
10th-century China in a game that draws influence from Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger,
Hidden Dragon. Star Wars Outlaws takes a more sci-fi approach. It’s not the first
open-world game set in George Lucas’s universe, but it is the first developed by Massive
Entertainment, the respectable studio behind Tom Clancy’s The Division series. Simon
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