The hottest trend in games, from Resident Evil 4 to Sons of the Forest to Dredge, is spooky inventory management, where we must organize our lives in spite of the horrors.
If you’re a video game developer that wants to make waves this spring, there’s one easy way to do it: Make a game where you have to organize some sort of inventory while also ignoring The Horrors.
Wait, you might say, that’s just…life? I do that in my closet every day!
A valid response! But consider: Have you ever had the pleasure of finding the best place to put an eldritch fish among your unused fabric, or a chicken egg next to your military-grade rocket launcher?
Exemplars of this format include some of the very best games of the first quarter of the year.
