Escape the Dark Tower

Escape the Backrooms is free on Xbox Game Pass as the horror game's console version finally goes live

Fixes all my issues with The Dark Ages and injects plenty of Eternal's movement for the best demon-slaying action yet.

Although Mina the Hollower doesn't feature a manual save button, you can trigger autosave instead.

Here is a game that feels like an adventure. And it feels like it was an adventure to make, too. Mina the Hollower took six years to design and build, six years that took it from what sounds like a kind of coding doodle to a panoramic journey across a richly imagined island, taking in platforming and combat, puzzle-solving, and sheer immersion in the world building. It's Zelda and it's Bloodborne. It's smacking bosses and reading the in-game newspaper. All of which is to say that those six years of design work are apparent throughout, in the complexity of the landscapes you travel, in the dens

Mina can offer whatever challenge you're up for.