With the end of 2021 and another year of awesome gaming goodness coming our way, it is perhaps the best time for all of us here at Twinfinite to reflect and remember some of our best gaming memories for the year. While it is always good to have sequels that keep a franchise alive, a breakthrough debut is also always worth celebrating in this entertainment medium. As voted on by our editors, here are the best new IPs of 2021 you should totally check out!
Best New IPs of 2021
Honorable Mention: New World
Reviews Editor Zhiqing Wan: For all of its faults and missteps, I still sunk an embarrassing amount of time into New World. Amazon’s pirate-themed MMORPG might have stumbled in its economic and endgame aspects, but it more than made up for those shortcomings with an incredibly immersive world and fun crafting and gathering mechanics.
Even now, I still have fond memories of all those hours I spent thunk-ing away at iron veins, hoping for a rare Fae Iron drop, only to get my first one tens of hours later when it had become completely obsolete. New World’s greatest strength was giving players the freedom to choose what they wanted to do to progress; you can barrel through the story for experience, or just spend your hours gathering materials and crafting better gear to level up.
Whether Amazon can recover from its missteps remains to be seen, but there’s no denying that New World shipped with a rock-solid foundation and a unique PvP experience rarely seen in other games in the genre.
