Superhot
In deciding what video games evoke the spirit of John Wick, we’ve pretty much settled on: you shoot loads of people and feel cool doing it. And there’s surely no game that delivers that better than FPS Superhot?
Here’s the conceit: time only moves when you do. Stand still, and so does time, meaning that you can plan out your actions between moves. There’s a bullet hurtling toward you? Stop, and so will it, and then you can dive to your left or right to avoid it. We’re pretty sure this is how Wick works too.
The 2016 PC indie hit then went on to greater acclaim with VR releases, perhaps most significantly on the Oculus Quest in 2019, by which point more than 800,000 units of the VR version had sold. There you literally have to move your body for time to progress, with the freedom to move your head around while things are frozen. Epic.
