I’ve started to consider multiplayer spinoffs from story-driven games a recession marker. This is, admittedly, not a political science endorsed by world economists. Instead, it’s predicated on my memories of that time. Occupy Wall Street. Recession pop. Shrinkflation. Tacked-on multiplayer. We’ve been teetering on the brink of a global recession for what feels like forever, so perhaps the emergence of multiplayer games like FBC Firebreak and Elden Ring Nightreign is inevitable. Continue reading FBC Firebreak is dead on arrival, but it didn't have to be this way MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best co-op games, Best FPS games, Best Game Pass games