{"id":19355,"date":"2025-07-04T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/close-to-perfect-readers-favourite-games-of-2025-so-far\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:37:55","slug":"close-to-perfect-readers-favourite-games-of-2025-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/close-to-perfect-readers-favourite-games-of-2025-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Close to perfect\u2019: readers\u2019 favourite games of 2025 so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether Nazi-punching your way through an Indiana Jones sequel or losing yourself in a beautiful fantasy world, you told us your best video game experiences of the first half of the year <br \/>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2025\/jun\/12\/the-best-video-games-of-2025-so-far\">The best video games of 2025 so far<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Enshrouded is a beautiful combination of Minecraft, Skyrim and resource gathering that makes it at least three games in one. My daughter told me I would love it and I ignored her for too long. I\u2019ve tackled Elden Ring, but much prefer the often gentler combat of Enshrouded. It sometimes makes me feel like an elite fighter, then other times kicks my arse in precisely the right measures.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/jul\/04\/close-to-perfect-readers-favourite-games-of-2025-so-far\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/058416114a0348e87dbcd6baa3f6106832ca0c3a\/901_0_2700_2160\/master\/2700.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5bab3762e0b2a4b1da40088afad81492\" title=\"\u2018Close to perfect\u2019: readers\u2019 favourite games of 2025 so far\" \/>Whether Nazi-punching your way through an Indiana Jones sequel or losing yourself in a beautiful fantasy world, you told us your best video game experiences of the first half of the year \u2022 The best video games of 2025 so far<br \/>\nEnshrouded is a beautiful combination of Minecraft, Skyrim and resource gathering that makes it at least three games in one. My daughter told me I would love it and I ignored her for too long. I\u2019ve tackled Elden Ring, but much prefer the often gentler combat of Enshrouded. It sometimes makes me feel like an elite fighter, then other times kicks my arse in precisely the right measures. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether Nazi-punching your way through an Indiana Jones sequel or losing yourself in a beautiful fantasy world, you told us your best video game experiences of the first half of the year \u2022 The best video games of 2025 so far Enshrouded is a beautiful combination of Minecraft, Skyrim and resource gathering that makes it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/04\/close-to-perfect-readers-favourite-games-of-2025-so-far\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Close to perfect\u2019: readers\u2019 favourite games of 2025 so far<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19355"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}