Best games of 2017: Horizon Zero Dawn, Hidden Folks, Resident Evil 7, and more

Updated February 21st: The most recent update adds Horizon: Zero Dawn and Hidden Folks.
I’m a sucker for end-of-year lists. They’re positive, celebratory, and useful. But too often, lists are backloaded with fall releases. A book published in January? A video game released in March? They’ll need luck and a good publicist to score best-of list slots come December.
I empathize with annual curators. Given the constant deluge of new titles, each arriving with their own noisy hype,