Now's the time – 15 epic video games for the socially isolated - MW

It is a popular chorus among video game players of a certain age. In the early 20s, we can spend the day immersed in epic role-playing video games, sacrificing monthly to meet the requirements of the latest Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest adventure. But, in our 30s and 40s, we were fortunate enough to catch 10 minutes of Fortnite here.

However, now many of us are finding we have time on hand, which may be the opportunity we need to try some of the video storytelling masterpieces from the previous decade. Here are 15 things that will see you in the next six months - and more.

Assassin from Creed Odyssey
The story of Ubisoft's revenge-seeking mercenaries fighting the chaos of the Peloponnesian war gives us a vast reproduction of ancient Greece, almost Homeric about its depth and detail. .

Death trapped
A truly strange, sometimes presumptuous, but always fascinating, apocalyptic movie from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima may look like a bribe a few weeks ago but now seems like a reasonable time. and even education.

Trio of dark souls
Difficult and rife with gothic fear, Dark Souls games from the developer FromSoftware are prominent action adventures of the modern era. Trying all three will give you enough fighting with monsters and hunt dungeons for a year.

Dishonored: Complete Collection

These two hugely atmospheric stealth adventures, set in a plague-ridden world full of aristocratic intrigue, offer versatile combat and evasion options as you tiptoe over rooftops and through alleyways assassinating corrupt officials. If Dickens had written interactive steampunk fiction, it would have looked like this.

Divinity: Original Sin II Definitive Edition
Set in the battle-scarred fantasy realm of Rivellon, Divinity: Original Sin II is one of the most painstakingly detailed role-playing adventures of all time, providing a truly open world, crammed with quests and characters that truly react to player actions. Play it alone or in a party of four.

Dragon Age: Inquisition
One of the definitive achievements of role-playing specialist BioWare, this is a vast adventure that mixes sword-and-sorcery combat with political intrigue, humor and hot romance.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
One of the finest entries in the defining action role-playing series, Breath of the Wild lets you loose in a truly open version of Hyrule Kingdom, making your own story amid the eccentric characters, intriguing relics and clever, physics-based game systems. An utter joy.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Hideo Kojima’s final visit to the stealth adventure series that made his name is a baggy, idiosyncratic and at times bewildering espionage thriller set in and around the war in Afghanistan and filled with what-just-happened? moments.

Fallout 4
Set 200 years after a nuclear war, the latest title in Bethesda’s apocalyptic survival yarn has you emerging from a fallout shelter to discover a world descended into tribal barbarity - that you can gleefully participate in.

Monster hunter: World

With 15 million copies sold, this is the culmination of the Capcom monster-killing adventure series, in which players prepare sophisticated and then engage in intense monster battles. Craft your own weapons and develop unique hunting strategies through hundreds of hours of side missions and a variety of environmentally diverse areas.

No Man Man Sky
Expanding in a difficult way since its first release in 2016, No Man no Sky is a ridiculously ambitious space exploration game with a more borrowed style and spirit since 2001: A Space Odyssey versus Star Trek or Star Wars. Galaxy Travel upgrades your ship and roam unexplored planets while following an elegant story to the center of the universe.

Royal 5
An expansive version of an already huge Japanese role-playing adventure, Persona 5 Royal is a bizarre, beautiful rage in cartoons involving school-hunting demons running wild in an alternative Tokyo.

Red Dead Redemption 2
No one has actually done the mature open-world storytelling adventures like Rockstar and this is said to be the company's masterpiece - a slow-burning West, its six guns filled with dull revenge injuries. Come to the gun battle, stay to see the beautiful scenery and stories full of imagination and often humorous.

Game version of the year Witcher 3
Arguably the closest we will come to the interactive Game of Thrones, this fantasy adventure has killed the Glem monster killer against a kingdom full of brutal warriors, predators and Glamorous witches - but still provide time and space for interesting side quests, emotional and sexual subplots. Lots of sex.

Yakuza 0
The story of the open-world Sega Rib offers dozens of hours of entertainment when you cruise in Tokyo in the '80s with ambitious bosses Kazuma Kiryu and Goro Majima, working for rival clans and Passionate fighting on the street. All the life of the Japanese (low) city is caught here in eye-catching, expansive detail.

MW