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15 Games Worth Picking Up in the Black Friday Sales

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Nazarii Verbitskiy

Gaming - November 4th 2026, 00:00 GMT+1

The Last of Us Part II — 15. The Last of Us Part II (2020)
Neil Druckmann killed off Joel in the first two hours of The Last of Us Part II and the internet has not calmed down since. Some players quit on the spot. Others finished it twice and still argue the Abby sections make the whole thing work. Either way nobody walked away neutral, which is rarer than it sounds. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment

Forza Horizon 6 — 14. Forza Horizon 6 (2026)
Picture the finish line of a cross country race in Forza Horizon 6, rain cutting visibility to almost nothing. Playground Games built the series on spectacle over simulation, and the weather systems here push that further than any entry before it. Purists who want Gran Turismo precision tend to bounce off it. That tension between arcade joy and realism has followed the franchise for over a decade. | © Xbox Game Studios

It Takes Two — 13. It Takes Two (2021)
Josef Fares stood on stage at The Game Awards and told the audience to stop giving awards to his own game. That was for It Takes Two, a co-op only title you physically cannot play alone. It swept Game of the Year categories in 2021 anyway. The split isn't about quality, it's about whether a game with zero single player mode should be allowed to win them. | © Electronic Arts

Hades — 12. Hades (2020)
Here's the number that should have ended the debate: Hades had 21 narrators worth of dialogue that changes based on how many times you've died. Supergiant Games used failure as the entire storytelling engine instead of punishing it. People still fight over whether roguelikes count as real RPGs. Zagreus dying for the thousandth time and getting a new line every time kind of answers that on its own. | © Supergiant Games

God of War Ragnarök — 11. God of War Ragnarök (2022)
God of War Ragnarök shipped with a photo mode and a story that deliberately delays its own final boss for a dozen hours. That pacing choice split people fast. Some call the slow middle stretch the best character writing Santa Monica Studio has ever done. Others wanted Thor's fight thirty hours sooner than they got it. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment

Marvels Spider Man 2 — 10. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (2023)
Insomniac gave players two Spider-Men in Marvel's Spider-Man 2, and the fanbase immediately split over who deserved more screen time. Peter Parker fans wanted the grounded stuff, the Harry Osborn tragedy, the stuff that made the first game land. Miles Morales fans point out he was the breakout character back in 2020 and got sidelined for a symbiote story. Nobody agrees, but swinging through New York at the speed this game allows ended most of those arguments mid sentence. | © Sony Interactive Entertainment

Resident Evil 4 — 9. Resident Evil 4 (2023)
Capcom remade a game released in 2005 that most people already considered finished business. Leon Kennedy's new voice actor, Nick Apostolides, had to replace a performance fans had quoted for nearly two decades. The merchant's "what are ya buyin" line survived the rewrite, but entire sections like the U3 fight got cut or reworked. Whether a remake should preserve the jank or sand it down is the exact fight this one reopened. | © Capcom

Baldurs gate 3 — 8. Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)
Three acts, one city, and a door that Larian Studios let players seal shut forever if they wanted to. Baldur's Gate 3 shipped in 2023 with so many branching paths that even its own developers couldn't map every ending in testing. Some players treat that freedom as proof RPGs had been playing it safe for years. Others point out a game this reactive barely resembles a traditional Dungeons & Dragons campaign anymore, and both of them are describing the same save file. | © Larian Studios

Elden Ring — 7. Elden Ring (2022)
Malenia has one attack that heals her for the full damage she deals, and FromSoftware never patched it into something fairer. That single boss fight turned Elden Ring into the thing people argue about more than the open world surrounding her. The game sold over 25 million copies by 2023, which means plenty of those owners never finished it. A map this open was supposed to make Soulsborne difficulty less punishing, and somehow it just gave the punishment more room to breathe. | © Bandai Namco

The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt — 6. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (2015)
Geralt of Rivia spends The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt hunting monsters, but the Bloody Baron questline is the part nobody can stop bringing up. CD Projekt Red built a side quest about addiction and a missing daughter that outweighs most main campaigns entirely. Some players call it proof the side content was better than the plot it was attached to. The game came out in 2015 and people are still rerouting conversations back to that one farmhouse. | © CD Projekt

Grand Theft Auto VI — 5. Grand Theft Auto VI (2026)
Two trailers for Grand Theft Auto VI have pulled over 200 million combined views, and the game still doesn't have a confirmed price. Rockstar set the release window for 2026 after pushing it back from its original fall 2025 date. Fans spent that delay arguing over Vice City's map size instead of waiting quietly. A game nobody has played is already somebody's most anticipated purchase of the sale. | © Rockstar Games

Cyberpunk 2077 — 4. Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)
Night City glitched so badly on base PlayStation 4 that Sony pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from its store in December 2020. CD Projekt Red spent the next three years patching it into the game its 2020 trailers promised. The 2.0 update and the Phantom Liberty expansion changed enough that longtime critics quietly rebought it. Buying it now means buying a different game than the one that launched. | © CD Projekt Red

Stardew valley — 3. Stardew Valley (2016)
One person wrote every line of dialogue, every crop stat, and every pixel of Stardew Valley, and his name is Eric Barone. It took him four years alone before release in 2016, which sounds impossible next to its sales past 20 million copies. People expecting a quick cozy loop instead find themselves tracking marriage candidates' exact gift preferences by spreadsheet. A farming game built by one guy outsold projects with hundreds of names in the credits. | © ConcernedApe / Chucklefish

Hogwarts legacy — 2. Hogwarts Legacy (2023)
Hogwarts has a body count problem, and Hogwarts Legacy never quite reckons with it. Warner Bros. shipped it in February 2023 into a storm over J.K. Rowling's public comments, and it sold over 24 million copies anyway. Players who wanted Hogwarts without the politics got exactly that experience. Whether buying it is separable from the author is a conversation the sales numbers already answered. | © Warner Bros. Games

Red Dead Redemption 2 — 1. Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)
Arthur Morgan's death plays differently depending on how much honor he's earned, right down to who shows up at his grave. Rockstar built that variance into Red Dead Redemption 2 on purpose for its 2018 release. Some players spent sixty hours keeping him clean just to see a different final shot. A western about outrunning consequences ends the same way no matter how well you ride. | © Rockstar Games

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Black Friday is the best time of year to finally grab everything that’s been sitting on the wishlist, and these titles are worth every discounted penny. Here are 15 games worth picking up in the Black Friday sales.

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Black Friday is the best time of year to finally grab everything that’s been sitting on the wishlist, and these titles are worth every discounted penny. Here are 15 games worth picking up in the Black Friday sales.