The Video Games And More You Should Play This Weekend – November 13, 2026

Calling all sickos of The Rootrees Are Dead, Return of the Obra Dinn, The Incident At Galley House, and everything in between: there’s another good deduction game to obsess over. Funeral for the Sun stars a historian who visits an abandoned Latin American town to piece together its turbulent history, chiefly the truth behind the mysterious disappearance of its hundreds of residents (who were, officially speaking, lost in a fire). Supernatural forces allow players to peer into the town’s past to learn about key people potentially responsible for the calamity, who they must identify by name, establish relationships between, and even match younger and older versions of themselves. You even keep track of information using a multi-function notebook à la The Roottrees Are Dead. Boasting an enticing story, a beautiful painterly art direction, and a tight runtime at roughly 8-hours (or less if you’re really on a roll), Funeral for the Sun is a mystery worth unraveling if you need a new deduction game to cozy up with.

NetEase has continued to impress with the pace and quality of its regular updates to Marvel Rivals, which continues today with the release of an 11th season for the superhero battler. Right here at launch, the notable addition is he arrival of X-Men hero Nightcrawler, who BAMFs his way into battle as a strategist, equally capable of healing allies and taking out foes with his sword and brimstone bombs. As is almost always the case right at a new hero’s launch, it can be hard to snag him on the roster on opening day to see how he plays, but once you do, I expect you’ll find him a versatile healer who can pretty dramatically shake up the battlefield, especially with his Ultimate, which basically consolidates allies and enemies together in one central clump for a frenzied exchange of blows. Alongside the new batch of seasonal cosmetics and events to dive into, it’s once again a good time to don your hero outfit and take on some matches.

Pikmin 4 released on Switch 2 this week (or upgraded to Switch 2 depending on how you look at it), and that's a good thing. Pikmin 4 is the best game in the series and the Switch 2 version is the best version. That's great for those who never finished the game (your save does transfer) or skipped Pikmin 4 when it released in 2023, but if you're looking for an excuse to return to the game and play new content, the Dandori Academy addition is underwhelming. You can read my full thoughts here.

Metaphor: ReFantazio, originally released in 2024, is a great RPG from the creators of Persona. And the Persona lineage is obvious throughout the full game. You have to pick and choose where and with whom you should be spending your time, all while a big world-saving RPG with a memorable party of characters plays out in the foreground.

It released this week for Switch 2 and it’s a game that I think would play well on a handheld device. It’s also just a good RPG to play if you missed it previously.

Fun fact: Metaphor: ReFantazio was the game we had lined up to be the next cover when we were temporarily shut down in in 2024. We went to the studio and had a cover drawn up and everything. You can read the full details of the cover story that never was right here.

You can also read Game Informer's review of Metaphor: ReFantazio by following the link.

As we enjoy the final week in a pre-GTA VI world, what better way to gird your loins for next week’s release, so to speak, than by revisiting the last adventures set in Rockstar’s take on Miami? 2002’s Grand Theft Auto: Vice City is a certified classic that, if you’ve never played it, offers nice foundational insight into what Vice City was like in the ’80s (spoiler: it was a lot like Scarface and Miami Vice). Best of all, Vice City is easily available on modern platforms and with modernized improvements to boot.

If you want to go even further back, chronologically speaking, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories is a prequel set two years before the events of Vice City. Maybe, in some extremely minute way, Vice City Stories lays narrative groundwork for GTA VI. It’s unlikely, but you never know. Originally released for PSP in 2006, Vice City Stories is trickier to play if you don’t own Sony's retired handheld or a PlayStation 2, which it was ported to in 2007. But if you can find the means, there’s no better time to check out this often overlooked chapter of Vice City’s history.

I usually hold off on early access games, to preserve my experience for the finished product, but I just couldn’t resist Slay the Spire 2. The co-op gameplay is an awesome, major change, but even just adding a couple of new characters and cards would have satisfied my cravings. To that end, this week’s free update adds a brand new character, the Fool, who I’m eager to test out.

FYI, this new character is only available on the game’s beta, so you’ll have to go into the game settings on steam, click Properties, then Game Versions & Betas, and then opt into the “public-beta” version of the game to check the new content out. The patch notes for this update specifically say, “We expect to make a great number of content and balance changes before the Fool is ready for the main branch,” so expect frequent tweaks and a bit of a wait before the Fool joins the main Early Access branch. The new beta update also adds two more game modes: Dread and Blitz, which drastically alter your runs. If you want to wait a little while, the team at Mega Crit will refine these options into a more final form. But if you’re like me, more Slay the Spire 2 is more Slay the Spire 2, and I’m hopping in as soon as I can.

Monster Train 2 was one of my favorite games of last year, so I’m always glad to have a reason to jump back in. This week’s DLC, The Punished, is a perfect opportunity to do so, adding a new clan to the base game’s already packed roster. Since any clan can be combined with a second one to start a run, adding just one more option at the game’s start has an exponential effect, expanding the ways you can approach each attempt. As the DLC’s name implies, the new Punished clan gains buffs when taking damage, and you get new suite of cards that damages the whole playing field at once, harming foes and bolstering your allies. Even if you’re not checking out the DLC, the base game is absolutely worth picking up – just read my glowing review.

If you’ve been hankering for a new direction to go with your tabletop RPG group, may I recommend the incredibly versatile Cypher System from Monte Cook Games? The new Character Rulebook includes everything you need to get started, and set your adventures in virtually any fictional backdrop you can imagine, from hard sci-fi to gritty horror to high fantasy. Cypher’s polished approach to narrative-first and player-focused game sessions is much easier to pick up than many new rules systems, but it has enormous flexibility to deliver smart, creative, and exciting adventures that can help to change things up if your playing group has been in a rut.