Shadows of the Damned (PS3/4/5, Xbox)

A no-brainer if ever there was one, but this gets a special place at the top of the heap due to the fact that it’s also getting a fancy remaster due out exactly on Halloween. It’s also $15 cheaper than RePOP, and doesn’t mess with the core gameplay as much. Both good things.

Even beyond that, though, like most things with Suda 51’s name on it, it’s most certainly A Vibe. Kinda like a weirder/hornier/angrier Resident Evil 4, which makes even more sense when you realize this was Suda teaming up with Shinji Mikami for the second time. The result of that unholy marriage has a demon hunter named Garcia Hotspur hunting down the hellspawned asshole who took his partner, with the help of his trusty strawberry-loving sidekick/gun/torch/motorcycle, Johnson. It’s not as wild and ambitious as the original pitch—thank early-2010s EA for that—but there’s still a lot of fucked-up, freewheeling gothic demon slaying to do therein, all while a very pissed-off Latino swears like a goddamn sailor the whole time.