It is the future. A young man, arms strong from competing with 100 other shoppers every day to be the only person to buy groceries at Target, eyes his grandmother expectantly. Her features betray exhaustion from years of delivering raw, unfiltered internet to those the three mega-providers deem unworthy, but there is fight in her still. "When did it all begin?" the young man asks. "2017," she finally replies.

Often, video games are about making decisions, and you won't always make the right one. Sometimes, there is no right answer. Sometimes, you've got to live with what you did.

It was back when I was playing World of Warcraft in high school that I first realised I had a problem. My bags were always full, laden with old gear and miscellaneous baubles I just couldn't bear to part with, even if that just meant putting them in storage for a bit.

The video game gods have been good to us in 2017, but that means there are way too many games to choose from. Take this quiz to find out which one you should devote your precious time to.

Bastion and Transistor are complicated games with emotional depth. Supergiant Games' latest, Pyre, follows its predecessors -- this time with a focus on existential questions of freedom, religion and dogs with mustaches. Accompanying the games are equally as complex and gorgeously arranged music by composer Darren Korb.

Every character in Pyre has a story. Some are about the nature of freedom. Others focus on religion. Others invite you to scrutinize systems that purport to offer justice while privileging a select few. But the story that helped the game find its voice and its heart was the unlikely story of a dog's mustache.

There's no such thing as a happy ending -- at least, not for everybody. Warning: this article contains Pyre spoilers.

It's not often that sports and RPGs gets the fantasy narrative treatment. But then again, there aren't many games like Pyre, and fewer developers like Supergiant.

Pyre, the new game from the creators of Bastion and Transistor, is full of difficult choices. This, however, is easily the roughest. What will you do?

Controlling the field is a core tenet of any competition. Fighting games are about the footsies, League and Dota demand good positioning, shooters like Overwatch and Counter-Strike are as much about tactically holding or taking key areas as they are shooting accuracy. At a high-level, controlling the field of play is as important as play itself.

Supergiant Games has a penchant for creating games that stand out. Pyre is no different.

I'm a multiplayer game sceptic. The idea of playing against another human both online and in real life usually doesn't appeal to me at all. Overwatch, Splatoon 2 and Pyre are making me come around on this, kinda.

The makers of Transistor and Bastion have a new game out, and I'm very excited to play it.

Pyre is a sports game about starting a revolution. In a worse game, that would be a joke, but Pyre takes both its sports and its politics seriously and combines them in an unexpectedly compelling way.