UFO 50 was the best game released last year. I'm still nursing a grudge against my editors for leaving it off our list of the best games of 2024, but now, finally, I'm too happy to care, because UFO 50 is on Nintendo Switch and getting an incredible-looking physical collector's edition and guidebook that I'm about to slam the pre-order button on.
This is essentially a collection of 50 NES-style retro games created for a platform that never existed, created by Spelunky dev Derek Yu and a handful of other notable indie devs. Yu described UFO 50 to me as something of "an open-world game in its own right," where the idea is to explore the library like you would a box full of forgotten NES cartridges, or even a folder full of ROMs for your favorite emulator.
