Fall’s a great season for picking up some games you’ve been meaning to get around to. Luckily, as the holidays start to close in, publishers and storefronts begin heavily discounting huge chunks of their respective catalogs to help in that department. These sales often come in waves, and it’s now Xbox’s turn to host a “seasonal savings” sale which features some pretty great and overlooked games until October 14 .
Here are the games we feel are most worth your time and cash. So you’ve probably heard by now that Assassin’s Creed Shadows has been delayed, which means there’s now a perfect opportunity for folks to catch up on the older open-world RPGs in the series. Back in 2017, Ubisoft reinvented the franchise with Assassin’s Creed Origins, turning the open-world stealth games into action-RPGs a la The Witcher series.
Origins, set in ancient Egypt, sets the series’ current storyline in motion and was expounded upon in the subsequent game Odyssey, which moves the series to Greece. Both Assassin’s Creed Origins and Odyssey are massive as hell, and some of the most unabashed fun in the franchise, and now they’re packaged together as the Antiquity Pack for $US20 . While I’ve yet to play Origins, I easily spent about a hundred hours in Odyssey, and believe it or not, I was cutting corners to meet a deadline at the time.
You’re likely to spend the next several months wrapping up both, which is perfect considering Shadows is now set to release at the tail.