3. Assassin’s Creed Origins

This was a return to form for the Assassin’s Creed series.

Fans who had been disappointed by Assassin’s Creed Unity and Syndicate were looking forward to Assassin’s Creed Origins, the first entry in the series which was released as a full-blown role-playing game.

And while this brought some welcome improvements to combat, its biggest highlight was the ancient Egyptian setting. The temples, statues and hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt sure looked great here. Arguably, this is the best-looking Assassin’s Creed game to date.

Aside from riding camels through the desert and navigating the Nile, this also had an interesting story to follow. And finding out about the origins of the Assassins sure was fun here. Also, this being an RPG you could level up protagonist Bayek and pick up all sorts of cool gear in Ancient Egypt. Meanwhile, meeting historical characters like Cleopatra was icing on the cake in what no doubt is one of the series’ best games to date.