V
Cyberpunk 2077 is set in Night City, and V is the mercenary you build — background, body and voice all chosen. A heist early on leaves a biochip lodged in…
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Alexandra Roivas
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem is a 2002 GameCube horror game from Silicon Knights, built around a sanity meter that attacks the player rather than the character — muting your TV,…
Maelle
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a turn-based RPG whose battles are interrupted by real-time dodges and parries, set in a Belle Époque world where a figure called the Paintress erases…
Kassandra
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey runs through the Peloponnesian War. Kassandra is a misthios — a mercenary for hire — descended from Leonidas and carrying what is left of his spear, and…
Link
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild opens with Link waking after a hundred years asleep, Hyrule already lost and Calamity Ganon still barely held. He is the series’…
Naoe
Assassin’s Creed Shadows is set in late-Sengoku Japan and splits its story between two protagonists. Naoe is the shinobi half — Iga-trained, built for rooftops, shadow and patience — where…
Vex
Borderlands 4 is Gearbox’s looter-shooter, relocated to the world of Kairos and its ruling Timekeeper. Vex is one of four playable Vault Hunters — the Siren of the group, fighting…
Metzae
World of Warcraft is Blizzard’s MMORPG, still adding chapters to Azeroth two decades on. Metzae is my own night elf rather than a character the game wrote.
Quo
Baldur’s Gate 3 is Larian’s Dungeons & Dragons RPG, which opens with a mind flayer parasite behind your eye and lets almost every scene be talked, fought or schemed through.…
Ellie
The Last of Us is Naughty Dog’s post-apocalyptic series, set in an America brought down by a fungal infection that hollows people out into the Infected. Ellie is immune to…