3 Video Games You May Have Missed in March

At least one end-of-year awards contender was released in March, when a studio that focuses on cooperative video games brought Split Fiction to the masses. Our critic called it “a manic mash-up of science fiction and fantasy” with “many spectacles that make you pick your eyes up off the floor.”

Those looking for single-player experiences could turn to Assassin’s Creed Shadows, which follows two stories of vengeance in a vibrant feudal Japan; the cozy game Wanderstop, where a former warrior manages a tea cafe in a meditation on burnout; and Atomfall, which spins an alternative history around the worst nuclear event in British annals.

Here are three other games you may have missed this month:

Karma: The Dark World

Reviewed on the PlayStation 5. Also available on the PC.

The brilliant Karma: The Dark World is one of the most aggressively disturbing horror games released in some time. When the investigator Daniel McGovern wakes to an empty hospital room, his left arm is grossly black and bionic. After removing three tubes, he sees ebony ooze burbling out and screams, a little too emotional to be a government sleuth.

This weirdly unpopulated hospital is only the beginning. Through extremely dim, maddening office mazes, it’s discovered that McGovern’s mission is to find and interrogate Sean Mehndez, a family man addled by constant work for the autocratic Leviathan corporation. He’s also accused of robbery.