18 embargoes from Summer Game Fest just lifted; ranking everything I saw in LA

I have been to every Summer Game Fest: Play Days event, and I just got back from this year's in-person Play Days in Los Angeles. The three-day event has grown a lot over the years, though its footprint remains small compared to E3, and I saw and played a boatload of cool games.

The days immediately after Summer Game Fest are something of a whirlwind. Most developers set publishing embargoes until after the show so we're not incentivized to rush, which is great, but it also leaves approximately one billion embargoes attached to the same day — this year, June 10.

I rounded everything up and ranked the 18 embargoed showings to review what I saw. I called out when showings were hands-on or hands-off, because it's more fun and convincing to play games than have developers describe them. Nekome: Nazi Hunter felt rough in pre-alpha, with slow, overly simple combat.

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