2023 saw the release of a game that not many expected to be anything special, yet proved its naysayers wrong at every turn: Hogwarts Legacy.
This open-world RPG shocked the world by perfectly capturing the immersive gameplay feeling of being a wizard in the Harry Potter universe while becoming one of the best-selling games of all time by selling over 40 million copies (it even outsold Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in the first week it came out by selling over 12 million copies).