The Big Question: What's The Best Video Game Comeback?

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For once, it’s been a good week to be a Cyberpunk 2077 fan. The game has seen a new wave of success that even CD Projekt Red probably didn’t expect, suddenly becoming the best-selling game on Steam. This comes after the anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners renewed interest in the series, with updates to the game making that return to Night City all the more palatable.

It’s not often that we see a game turn its fortunes around like this, so that got us thinking: what is the best video game comeback story?

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This is a weird pick, I know. Unlike say, No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077, Dragon Age 2 didn’t make a grand comeback through big updates and flashy graphical improvements. But it has endeared itself to the community over the years, and I think that’s worth celebrating. When played through a modern lens, already knowing that Dragon Age 2 is hardly a sequel to Origins, the story of Hawke really shines. A lovely, self-contained tale of a refugee rising to become one of the most important figures in Thedas, Dragon Age 2’s premise has only gotten better with age. Chuck in some fun, fast-paced gameplay and some of the best companions in BioWare history, and it quickly becomes apparent that the awkward middle child of the Dragon Age series isn’t so bad after all.

They removed microtransactions. That's it. That's the entry.

I remember when vanilla Destiny 2 launched. The campaign was so drab that I'm fuzzy on the details. The Cabal attacked, put a massive chastity belt on the Traveler, and forced you through the worst thing possible in a video game – a slow-walk section. The rest of the campaign, and the game overall, was pretty unremarkable, until they killed