6) Routine
That (frankly superb) Alien: Isolation reveal may have the Johnny Jumpscares high-fiving each other till their hands are bloody stumps, but Routine has everything seen there, and more – and it had it over a year ago. In fact, when viewing the (also frankly superb) Routine alpha trailer (seen below), there seems to be more than a little in common between the two.
There’s the perfect sense of retro-future styling, the sprawling, lived-in space station and the terrifying lone stalker. It’s almost uncanny. If you’re a betting man, here are two dead certainties that I’d have no trouble putting a year’s salary on: 1) this game will be brutally terrifying, and 2) PewDiePie will do some tedious, shrieking playthough of it on YouTube.
But, unbelievably, that last point isn’t Routine‘s biggest problem. No, the biggest problem here is fear. Not the unquestionable in-game fear, but rather the all too real development fears. The most recent footage may be heart racing, but the lack of any other information in the seven months since means you might not be playing it quite as soon as you’d like.