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2014 video games

  • Assassin's Creed RogueAssassin's Creed Rogue ends its credits with an ultimatum aimed straight at the person holding the controller. A senior Templar named Juhani Otso Berg thanks the player for their help, then offers a choice: join the Templars, or die. The…
  • Five Nights at Freddy's (video game)Five Nights at Freddy's, released in 2014 by Scott Cawthon, ends with its hero getting fired. Night guard Mike Schmidt has just survived a custom seventh night, where the player sets how aggressive the hostile animatronics will be. Then…
  • Assassin's Creed UnityIn the streets of Assassin's Creed Unity, a single crowd can hold up to 1000 individual characters. Each one acts on its own and reacts to its neighbors and to the player. Ubisoft Montreal built that spectacle for its 2014 entry in the…
  • Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii UA 2015 Smash fan poll kept its top winners secret until October 2021. Sora and Banjo and Kazooie led the vote.
  • The Sims 4The Sims 4 arrived on the 2nd of September 2014, and it asked a long-running audience to start their virtual lives over. Maxis developed the social simulation game, and Electronic Arts published it. It was the fourth main installment in…
  • Alien: IsolationAlien: Isolation is a 2014 survival horror game in which the monster hunting the player cannot be killed. Creative Assembly developed it and Sega published it. No weapon in the game ends the threat. The player can only hide, listen and…
  • Wolfenstein: The New OrderWolfenstein: The New Order is a 2014 first-person shooter made by the studio MachineGames, and it first reached the public as three still images with one caption: 1960. Nothing else was explained. The number gave no hint of the story,…
  • Destiny (video game)Destiny, an online shooter from the studio Bungie, took in more than 325 million US dollars at retail in its first five days. That made it the biggest launch of a new franchise ever. It arrived on the 9th of September 2014 for PlayStation…
  • P.T. (video game)The free horror game P.T. was pulled by its own publisher less than a year after its 2014 release.
  • Middle-earth: Shadow of MordorIn Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, an Uruk whom the hero throws into a fire may later return, disfigured and hungry for revenge. No writer scripted that grudge. The game remembered the encounter and built a rival out of it. Released in…
  • Granblue FantasyA live-streamed 700,000 yen spending spree forced Granblue Fantasy to apologize.
  • Sword Art OnlineSword Art Online opens with 10,000 players logging into a virtual reality game for the first time on the 6th of November, only to discover that they cannot log out. The year is 2022, and each player wears a helmet called the NerveGear,…

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