The 10 Raddest Games We Saw During MIX Next

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You want games? Good news. Today, we got new looks at an absolute deluge of games via the MIX Next event, combined with a Publisher Spotlight event and Black Voices in Gaming. Between the three, we saw somewhere close to 100 games - if you haven't seen the entire presentation, give it a look, as there's likely something in there to appeal to every taste, genre, and fanbase.

For our part, there were ten games that really stood out between the three presentations, and we opted to highlight them below. If you're just looking for a quick, broad look at some of the truly standout stuff from the last few hours, look no further. Here are our ten favorite games from MIX Next 2022:

One of the most instantaneously striking games from this entire showcase was Paper Cut Mansion, a haunted house roguelite. You play as a detective named Toby exploring the house to gather evidence to solve a mystery, fighting off enemies in top-down combat with permadeath and solving logic puzzles as you go. Paper Cut Mansion looks to be visually stunning, with the entire world - you, your enemies, the house, all the furniture, everything - made of paper, looking like highly detailed paper dolls and models. I want to play this just for the aesthetic vibes alone, and considering it's out today on Xbox and PC via Steam, Epic, and GOG, this might be the perfect haunted Halloween adventure.

One of my favorite genres of post-apocalyptic game is "the world was destroyed and all that's left are sky islands," but I didn't realize until I saw Wavetale how few versions of that actually involve a giant ocean instead of the sky. Wind Waker? Sea of Solitude maybe? That might be it.

Anyway, the trailer's slowly rolling motions of skating across ocean waves to soothing