Developer Shift Up’s Stellar Blade is right around the corner, introducing itself as a character-action game in a sci-fi story starring Eve, a human arriving in a futuristic depiction of Earth filled with all sorts of monsters to take down. If you tend to pay more attention to combat set pieces than story beats, this is a game that should be on your radar.
Available as a PS5 exclusive, Stellar Blade will have you facing increasingly dangerous threats while investing points into large skill trees. Fights often demand precision and lots of parrying, with boss fights in particular being quite memorable in the smackdown they offer. It also has quite a lengthy campaign with side quests and hidden corners to wander off to.
Reviewer Imran Khan wrote in GameSpot’s Stellar Blade review that he “came away from Stellar Blade having enjoyed the game quite a bit despite its foibles on the back of its incredibly strong systems. That its biggest weakness is that its tribulations can go on too long is perhaps praise from another perspective not my own.”