Tacoma's space station corridors, seemingly cold and barren, are alive with story. You can explore them to your heart's content, piecing together a tale about the station's crew -- and much more. Or you can just stand around and do nothing, if you want.

Tacoma is a narrative game about chasing ghosts. Set in the future aboard a large space station, players search for answers in augmented reality recordings of past events. The digital remnants of the station's crew steal romantic moments, play video games and strum guitars. These shadows are all too human, and observing them is a haunting and captivating experience.

Tacoma, the new game from the makers of Gone Home, is coming to PC and Xbox One on August 2. That's surprisingly soon! The game is about uncovering "the mysteries held by Lunar Transfer Station Tacoma and its crew, living at the edge of humanity's reach."

Much like 2016, where most of my favourite games took me by surprise, I get the feeling I haven’t even seen or heard of 2017’s best games. Yet.

That being said, here are some of the games I’m most looking forward to this year.

Over the years, humanity has sent a number of people into space to explore and document the far heavens. We've seen pictures, videos, and accounts from people that have been to space. But it's still pretty difficult to imagine life out there, isn't it?

People seemed to enjoy Fullbright's Gone Home, enough so that the developer's new game, Tacoma, serves as a strong influence. Of course, it helps to mix things up and along with a sci-fi theme, an important component of Tacoma involves observing the electronic "ghosts" -- very reminiscent of those from System Shock 2.