https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/oct/17/neva-review-sublime-portrait-of-a-warrior-and-her-wolf-in-a-dying-world

PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox; Nomada Studio/Devolver DigitalRarely do games move me to tears, but this tale of a woman rearing her cub in a world plagued by demons had a deep emotional effect

A warrior and her wolf are running through perspective-shifting collages of the most sumptuous nature scenes I’ve ever seen in a video game. Cranes flit from shining pools, boar and stags roam in the background; as the camera zooms out on the plain, yellow flowers extending off on all sides, a cleaved mountain comes into view in the distance. But there is a corrupting force at work. Here birds fall from the sky, black flowers blooming from their tiny bodies. Formless masked demons emerge from the ground to feast on them. These are your enemies, vanquished with a thin blade drawn from your warrior’s side. But there are so many of them – and you’re just one human, and a wolf.