The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017

The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017

Games love to pummel you with lists of things to collect, places to get to, and enemies to beat. Sometimes you just need to take a moment to pause, catch your breath, and look up at the beauty above.

What follows is a list of some of the year’s most memorable games and the skies that hung over them. It’s by no means exhaustive though, so please share some of your own personal favourites in the comments below.


The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017
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Gravity Rush 2

As the name would suggest you spend a lot of time in Gravity Rush 2's atmosphere, but the warm yellow and green hues of the game’s “A House in the Blue Sky” sidequest are hard to forget.

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Horizon: Zero Dawn

We could have made an entire list of just Horizon: Zero Dawn shots. Say what you will about everything else, the game is beautiful, and few studios know how to do lighting like Guerrilla.

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Mass Effect: Andromeda

Havarl is one of the game’s most breathtaking planets. If it doesn’t make you want to travel the stars nothing will.

The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017

The Legend of Zelda: The Breath of the Wild

Pick any mountain in the game, sit long enough, and you’ll see a stunning sunset.

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What Remains of Edith Finch

Even if there was nothing else to do or see in Edith Finch, staring out into Giant Sparrow’s brooding sea beneath the clouds and stars would be enough.

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Total War: Warhammer II

How it feels when a dragon unit swoops through a sky shimmering with the colours of the battle waging below should be the measure of any strategy game.

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Sonic Mania

When they put No Man’s Sky in a Sonic game it was like coming home.

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The Long Dark

The Northern Lights will get you every time, even when you’re hungry and freezing to death.

The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice

For a game filled with tragedy and sadness, there’s an incredible amount of thrilling life that always feels just over the horizon in Senua’s Sacrifice.

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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

What did you expect?

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Ark: Survival Evolved

It’s a survival sim about collecting resources and taming wild animals, but don’t let that fool you into thinking Ark doesn’t have an awe-filled world worth exploring for its own sake.

The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017

Destiny 2

I’ve spent almost as much time looking up at the sky in Destiny as shooting aliens and comparing guns, and I’ll never stop looking.

The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017

Dishonored: Death of the Outsider

The city of Karnaca is filled with rats, corruption, and the stench of death. It’s also filled with colours that pop as vividly as any blood splatter.

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Forza Motorsport 7

If you’ve been playing racing games for the cars you’ve been doing it wrong.

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Assassin’s Creed Origins

When the sand storms finally settle down it’s entirely worth it.

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Super Mario Odyssey

Only Nintendo could stick the moon, a rainbow, and a sherbet sky all in one shot and get away with it.

The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017

Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus

The grim sky that hangs over a forest of gnarled steel beams in Wolfenstein‘s New York City still haunts me.

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Star Wars Battlefront II

I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing that I’d rather look at Battlefront II‘s gorgeous clouds than the Tie-Fighters and X-Wings flying through it, but it’s the truth.

The Year In Video Game Skies, 2017

Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Sometimes you just got to go for it. For all its repetitive fluff and impenetrable systems, bright yellow sunsets that look like they could melt your skin off are never a bad thing.

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds

Most people aren’t playing PUBG in 4K at a high frame rate, but if you do its deep blues will keep you too distracted to last long.


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