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The 12 Best Hiking-Simulator Video Games


With Death Stranding 2: On the Beach out now, we run down the very best games that scratch a similar itch of trekking though pristine wilderness.

They were meditative, slow moving, and (mostly) nonviolent, more akin to an Andrei Tarkovsky or Béla Tarr movie than, say, Michael Bay’s popcorn action flicks — and they arrived like a shot in the arm to video games. The answer invariably involves high-tech ladders; zip-lines (yes), and no end of clumsy scrambling over treacherous terrain, all while you lug delivery items for the survivors in this post-apocalyptic take on America. The setting also feels real because it’s the site of an utterly touching, expertly crafted story: Middle-aged Henry has retreated into the mountains to make sense of the implosion of his marriage to Julia, who is suffering from early-onset dementia.

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