Afterlight is the Game of the Year frontrunner — and it's only April

It's rare for a game to land in spring and dominate the Game of the Year conversation before E3 even happens. Afterlight has done exactly that.

Built around five photographers documenting the same impossible day, the game uses perspective as its core mechanic. Each chapter changes what you saw in the last one — sometimes by a degree, sometimes catastrophically.

Critics are already calling it the most confident debut from a major publisher in a decade. We sat down with creative director Mira Velez to talk about what comes next.