Artribune's Year-End Video Game Roundup: Dispatch, Dreams of Another, Horses, Sillabo, Sleep Awake

Artribune kicks off 2026 with reviews of late 2025 video games. Dispatch by AdHoc Studio and Critical Role Productions is a gamified animated series about a superhero managing rehabilitating supervillains, available on Windows, PlayStation 5, and coming to Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on January 28, 2026. Dreams of Another, part of the PixelJunk series by Q-Games directed by Tomohisa "Baiyon" Kuramitsu, is a shooter that creates rather than destroys, using point clouds to recompose entities that deliver monologues exploring human and non-human art, available on PlayStation 5 (with PS VR2 support) and Windows. Horses by Andrea Lucco Borlera and Santa Ragione is a horror game about participation in power systems, set in a farm where humans are treated as horses, using silent film intertitles, available on Windows via GOG and Humble Bundle after being rejected by Steam and Epic Games Store. Sillabo by Mauro Vanetti and Jacopo Rovida is a puzzle game offering a non-predatory alternative to free-to-play mobile games, where players form Italian words using syllables, available online and on Android and iOS. Sleep Awake by Eyes Out and Blumhouse Games is a narrative walking simulator set in a dystopian future where sleep causes disappearance, developed by Robin Finck (guitarist for Guns N' Roses and Nine Inch Nails) and Cory Davis (co-director of Spec Ops: The Line), available on PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series S/X.