A few of the things that had us hooked this festive season.

4th January

Hello and Happy New Year!

Did you have a nice break?

Indiana Jones blows air at a scorpion as he hangs from a ledge in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Catch up with the older editions of this column in ourWhat We’ve Been Playing archive.

What surprised me, doing this, is how complimentary the games can be.

Path of Exile 2 is frugal.

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It doesn’t give up anything easily.

Path of Exile 2 certainly doesn’t shower you in rewards like Diablo 4 does.

I even had time to re-equip a few other characters.

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It’s fitting for January, I feel.

This is what I was able to finish over the holidays, expanding my playtime closer to 20 hours.

And some of those eggs are so well hidden!

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I’ll happily admit to some initial scepticism about it.

How wrong I was!

I’m having more fun than I’ve had with pretty much any other game launched last year.

But it goes beyond Indy simply being a fun game to play.

Then there’s the attention to detail.

I just didn’t expect it to be this.