Death Road to Canada Collector's Edition

You can teach a dog to drive a car in this game. That alone should be enough, but let's talk about why the Death Road to Canada Collector's Edition on PlayStation 4 deserves a permanent spot in your collection. This is a roguelike road trip through zombie-infested America where you control a car full of argumentative survivors, recruit bizarre strangers, rescue dogs, and face swarms of up to 500 shambling undead at a time.

Every run is different. Locations, events, survivor appearances, and personalities are all randomized, which means the stories this game generates are genuinely unpredictable. The character creator lets you drop yourself, your friends, and your family into the apocalypse, and the interactive fiction events give you branching choices based on your party's traits. It doesn't take itself seriously for a single second, and that commitment to absurdity is what makes it brilliant.

Four-player local co-op turns this into one of the best couch games of the PS4 era. The pixel art style has aged perfectly, and the Collector's Edition gives physical form to a game that most people only know as a digital download. For those of us who appreciate the intersection of survival horror and comedy, this is the disc-era artifact that tells visitors exactly what kind of gamer you are.