The 20 best video games of 2018

From outlaws in turn-of-the-century America to a young woman falling tenderly in love and Norse gods going to war in spectacular style: our critics pick the best video games of the year

This turn-of-the-century tale of the American Old West is extraordinarily ambitious and luxuriously slow-paced, taking in many hours of riding around a breathtaking recreation of untouched nature as well as gun-slinging shootouts. A game so bewilderingly detailed that it is sometimes difficult to believe.