May is packed with great games, but don’t miss these 3 hidden gems

While its biggest hitters have been Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2, XDefiant, and Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, May has also seen indie games thrive. While some of these games, including Animal Well and Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, have clearly gotten the respect they deserve, in the past week alone, three standout games flew under the radar among all the AAA releases.

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is a remake of one of the most influential video game RPGs ever made, and it just exited early access on Steam and launched for consoles on May 23. Zet Zillions is a quirky roguelike card game with an enthralling gameplay loop and character designs that I won’t be forgetting anytime soon. Finally, there’s Starstruck Vagabond, a chill sci-fi shipping game created by Second Wind’s Yahtzee Croshaw. These three games are all quite different from each other, but that also makes it more likely that one of the games will speak to your specific tastes.

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

There’s a good chance that many gamers under 30 have never heard of Wizardry before. That’s a shame, as it’s actually a very influential RPG series of games. It was one of the earliest titles that adapted the formula of tabletop games like Dungeons & Dragons for digital screens and went on to influence the creators of now-beloved video game RPG series like Final Fantasy. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was the first game in the series, and The Making of Karateka developer Digital Eclipse created a 3D remake of the game.

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It’s similar to the treatment Colossal Cave got in 2023, and hopefully, just like Colossal Cave, it gives a whole new generation a chance to learn about and experience what makes a classic so special. In typical Digital Eclipse