Ghost of Tsushima

Ghost of Tsushima is the best samurai game ever made. Sucker Punch built a breathtaking recreation of feudal Japan where the wind guides you instead of waypoints, foxes lead you to shrines, and standoffs let you cut down enemies in a single slash. The combat stances system gives you tools for every enemy type, and the Kurosawa mode — black and white with Japanese audio — proves the studio understood exactly what kind of love letter they were writing. It is gorgeous, respectful, and endlessly playable.