{"id":5647,"date":"2022-05-06T12:36:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/the-guide-33-from-elden-ring-to-tunic-2022s-best-games-so-far\/"},"modified":"2022-05-06T12:36:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:36:00","slug":"the-guide-33-from-elden-ring-to-tunic-2022s-best-games-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/the-guide-33-from-elden-ring-to-tunic-2022s-best-games-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guide #33: From Elden Ring to Tunic, 2022\u2019s best games so far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Guardian video games editor and writer of Pushing Buttons Keza MacDonald picks her favourite games of the year<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ablink.email.theguardian.com\/ss\/c\/TBl-lE0k4WbTlFRn6v-lQXxTpTslqnvUsR2ofAkC00vqkHXqakTSxrykj9mrdACFM7X02zB_4eaUcPGwGF8aSd8qfug3UI-6On7SZ6NCb1bc8x_o5dndnbkzvJa5hUkQ9nhvD7IJSuyXeKbacJDYEqlFbAZ0vOIKsv3NFHydfPIzaUpYyjP0KfOAhLRYMW2yTAs6TBIgM3bi7aVl__6M8OuHfLZfd7xmigDS_KOnKuU_bc0LD-KQTnN7wlkHVqzvlJ18crhTOgngZzAlM4_3_SCUmWonlgL50tNfCaUIQQk\/3hx\/2l-ct5r6Q8CNEhlq1hSBIw\/h15\/kSGp0pNCsCxOwXsdDM-fI8ISkKBb6hYjBXPF16gxdC8\">Don\u2019t get the Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up to get the full article here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hi, Guide readers! I\u2019m Keza, the Guardian\u2019s friendly local video games editor (and writer of our games newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Pushing Buttons<\/a>), taking over this week\u2019s Guide to fill you in on what\u2019s worth playing while you wait for the next episode of Better Call Saul to drop. Whether you\u2019re in the mood for a vibey skateboarding game, pretend badminton or a grand fantasy epic, 2022 has been very kind to us so far. (And if you\u2019re someone who thinks that video games aren\u2019t for you then hey, stay with me. You never know, I might be able to persuade you otherwise.)<\/p>\n<p>First up, a game that seems directly aimed at everyone who\u2019s ever taken a look at a Mondrian painting and said \u201cBut <em>anyone<\/em> could have done that\u201d: <strong>Please, Touch The Artwork <\/strong>(PC, smartphones)<strong> <\/strong>is <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1097100\/Please_Touch_The_Artwork\/\">a puzzle game about abstract art<\/a>, telling the genre\u2019s origin story by letting you mess around with iconic paintings, trying to recreate their lines and colours. It makes you think about the art, how it\u2019s constructed and what it means, and it\u2019s also chill and unpressured, with no time limits or objectives to hurry you through. I\u2019ve spent a couple of pleasant hours now poking at it on my phone when I don\u2019t have the mental energy for anything more taxing (which, given the current state of the world, it quite a lot of the time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2022\/may\/06\/the-guide-best-video-games-2022\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e7ac4a0713c5a952fc66cba42e5e8c6e20dd9d0a\/0_0_3600_2160\/master\/3600.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8e00220bb2f93dc1f737d3093ebd97ef\" title=\"The Guide #33: From Elden Ring to Tunic, 2022\u2019s best games so far\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Guardian video games editor and writer of Pushing Buttons Keza MacDonald picks her favourite games of the year<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get the Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up to get the full article here<br \/>\nHi, Guide readers! I\u2019m Keza, the Guardian\u2019s friendly local video games editor (and writer of our games newsletter Pushing Buttons), taking over this week\u2019s Guide to fill you in on what\u2019s worth playing while you wait for the next episode of Better Call Saul to drop. Whether you\u2019re in the mood for a vibey skateboarding game, pretend badminton or a grand fantasy epic, 2022 has been very kind to us so far. (And if you\u2019re someone who thinks that video games aren\u2019t for you then hey, stay with me. You never know, I might be able to persuade you otherwise.)<br \/>\nFirst up, a game that seems directly aimed at everyone who\u2019s ever taken a look at a Mondrian painting and said \u201cBut anyone could have done that\u201d: Please, Touch The Artwork (PC, smartphones) is a puzzle game about abstract art, telling the genre\u2019s origin story by letting you mess around with iconic paintings, trying to recreate their lines and colours. It makes you think about the art, how it\u2019s constructed and what it means, and it\u2019s also chill and unpressured, with no time limits or objectives to hurry you through. I\u2019ve spent a couple of pleasant hours now poking at it on my phone when I don\u2019t have the mental energy for anything more taxing (which, given the current state of the world, it quite a lot of the time. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: Guardian video games editor and writer of Pushing Buttons Keza MacDonald picks her favourite games of the year Don\u2019t get the Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up to get the full article here Hi, Guide readers! I\u2019m Keza, the Guardian\u2019s friendly local video games editor (and writer of our games &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/the-guide-33-from-elden-ring-to-tunic-2022s-best-games-so-far\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Guide #33: From Elden Ring to Tunic, 2022\u2019s best games so far<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5648,"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\/5647"}],"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=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}