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The action-adventure genre is one of the most varied in the industry: it covers a huge range of subgenres, from GTA-style games and open-world titles to metroidvanias and cinematic blockbusters. What unites all action-adventure games is a focus on dynamic combat, world exploration, overcoming obstacles, puzzle-solving, stealth, and strong narrative. This list includes games for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Nintendo Switch / Switch 2.

The year has barely begun, yet news of large-scale layoffs and project cancellations in the games industry has surfaced once again. Unfortunately, this bleak trend of recent years shows no sign of fading. This time, Ubisoft employees have been hit: the company has decided to undergo a full-scale restructuring in an attempt to halt the financial decline that one of the industry’s former key publishers has been experiencing for several years now. Let’s take a closer look at what’s going on.

The announcement of NVIDIA's new RTX 50 series graphics cards at CES 2025 has been met with enthusiasm across the internet. Many social media users were pleased with the advertised features: improved gaming performance with ray tracing enabled, higher clock speeds, and access to the latest and greatest versions of DLSS and frame generation. However, not all gamers, hardware reviewers, and industry experts share the general enthusiasm. Their main argument is that if you strip away all the "crutches" of the new cards, the actual performance increase might not be as significant as expected. And there are concerns about those "crutches" too.

The most demanding PC games aren't poorly optimized games — they're projects that honestly load powerful hardware in the name of real technology and real visuals. The difference is fundamental, and this top sticks to it strictly. A demanding game taxes a top-tier graphics card and CPU because it's showing off expensive tech: path tracing and full ray tracing, Nanite and Lumen on Unreal Engine 5, dense world simulation, the streaming of vast open spaces with no loading screens. For every frame it spends, it pays you back in a picture you can actually see — on a flagship system these projects work as a showcase of what a PC can do, and they're also the best-looking games around right now. Crysis once set the bar, and "but can it run it?" became a meme for years. Today there are dozens of such games. As for the ones that drop frames equally on any hardware and give you neither photorealism nor a wow factor in return — that's not about being demanding, that's about bad optimization, and we've got a separate top of the most optimized games for them.

Last year was full of loud releases, take for example Starfield or Baldur's Gate 3. But developers are not resting on their laurels and will soon delight us with new projects that definitely deserve your attention. Some are continuations of familiar and beloved universes, while others are something entirely new but no less interesting. We've compiled a list of the most anticipated games of the new year 2024 for PS4 and PS5, so you won't have to wonder what to play.