New Open-World Games That Are Rewriting The Rules Of The Genre

The open-world genre has a well-established set of norms that pretty much every seasoned gamer has come to expect: waypoints and quest markers, a lengthy list of main and side quests, a huge map loaded with collectibles, and a runtime pushing 30 to 40 hours (if not more). These genre rules aren’t mandatory, but they’ve become standard in the modern open-world sphere.