What will you play this weekend? The week that is about to end may not have been full of very important releases, but two very interesting games have nevertheless arrived, which you may have thought about spending the next few hours with: No Rest for the Wicked And Harold Halibut.
Available on Steam in early access, No Rest for the Wicked is the new, ambitious project from Moon Studios, the team behind Ori and the Blind Forest and Ori and the Will of the Wisps, this time dealing with an action RPG like Diablowith an isometric view and an extraordinarily captivating graphic style.
Against the backdrop of a kingdom fallen into disgrace, between the death of the king and the arrival of a mysterious plagueour character is sent to investigate the origins of evil but the ship he is traveling on ends up being attacked by a band of ferocious rebels and crashes into the rocks.
The shipwreck leaves us dazed but still alive, determined to explore the coasts of Isola Sacra while we recover important pieces of equipment to face the many dangers along the way, handling different weapons that boast peculiar characteristics and affect a solid and visceral combat system.
Or Harold Halibut?
If the experience of No Rest for the Wicked appears as engaging as it is demanding, perhaps for this weekend you want to relax a bit and Harold Halibut, available from April 16th on PC, PlayStation and Xbox, in the latter case included in the Xbox Game Pass catalogcould definitely be the title for you.
As you may have read in our review of Harold Halibut, we are in fact talking about a purely narrative experiencewhich stands out for its stop motion graphic style and a very interesting plot, which tells of a journey into space to return to Earth after an exodus that lasted centuries.
The protagonist of the story, Harold, is an assistant who works on the spaceship and finds himself interacting with a large group of personageseach with a different background and something significant to say, as part of a story that we found really well written.
The recall of the backlog
Of course there are those who will take advantage of the weekend to dispose of some titles from the backlog or to try your hand at the latest successful live services; for example Helldivers 2, whose players have just eliminated two billion Terminids while waiting for the next Major Order from the Super Earth Command.
What will you play this weekend?
