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Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream

Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a 2025 isometric narrative stealth game by Swedish studio River End Games (Nordcurrent Labs), following Hanna, Alva, and Sebastian in a 1900s Nordic city; Metacritic 78.

Ermac

Ermac, the red soul-collective ninja of Mortal Kombat, began as the "Error Macro" (ERMACS) audit-menu entry in the 1992 arcade game, became a hidden-character rumor, and debuted playable in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (1995), returning as DLC in Mortal Kombat 1 (2024).

Escape from Duckov

Escape from Duckov (逃离鸭科夫) is a 2025 single-player top-down PvE duck-themed extraction shooter by Team Soda and Bilibili, parodying Escape from Tarkov; sold 3M+ units, peaked at 301,322 Steam concurrents.

Escape from Tarkov

Escape from Tarkov is Battlestate Games' hardcore extraction shooter by Nikita Buyanov; closed beta July 2017, 1.0 and Steam release November 15, 2025, over 1 million copies sold, Mixed Steam reviews.

Escape the Backrooms

Escape the Backrooms is a Fancy Games co-op horror game (1-4 players) based on Backrooms lore, launched on Steam Early Access in August 2022, with 1.0 in October 2025 via Secret Mode and Blackbird Interactive, 30+ levels, and over 4 million players.

Esoteric Ebb

Esoteric Ebb is a 2026 isometric CRPG by solo Swedish developer Christoffer Bodegård, published by Raw Fury. A Disco Elysium-inspired, D&D dice-driven political mystery about a cleric investigating a tea shop bombing before a city's first election.

Eternal Darkness

Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, 2002 GameCube psychological horror game by Silicon Knights, published by Nintendo; twelve protagonists across 2,000 years, sanity meter with fourth-wall effects, never remastered, IP held by Nintendo.

Eternal Strands

Eternal Strands is a 2025 fantasy action-adventure game by Yellow Brick Games, the debut studio of ex-Dragon Age director Mike Laidlaw. Players as Brynn fight nine roaming Epics using physics-based flame, frost, and kinetic magic.

Ethan Winters

Ethan Winters is the civilian protagonist of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (2017) and Resident Evil Village (2021), played in first person while searching for his wife and daughter.

Etrian Odyssey (世界樹の迷宮)

Etrian Odyssey (世界樹の迷宮) is Atlus's 2007 Nintendo DS first-person dungeon crawler RPG where players hand-draw maps of the Yggdrasil Labyrinth on the touch screen; series ran through 3DS (Nexus, 2019) and HD remasters (Origins Collection, 2023).

Euro Truck Simulator 2

Euro Truck Simulator 2 (ETS2) is a 2012 truck driving simulation game by SCS Software, featuring 7 licensed truck brands, a 1:19-scale map spanning 37 European countries, company management, extensive modding, and ongoing DLC and updates.

Europa Universalis

Europa Universalis is Paradox Interactive's grand strategy series, adapted from a 2000 board game, covering early modern history from 1337 onward; entries include EU4 (2013) and EU5 (November 2025).

Europa Universalis IV

Europa Universalis IV (EU4) is Paradox Development Studio's 2013 grand strategy game covering 1444-1821, with hundreds of playable nations, monarch power, trade nodes, and over 30 DLC expansions; succeeded by Europa Universalis V in 2025.

Eve (Stellar Blade)

Eve is the protagonist of Stellar Blade (2024), Shift Up's PS5 and PC action game. A 7th Airborne Squad soldier, she fights the Naytiba to reclaim Earth, and her sexualized design and blank-slate characterization drew extensive commentary.

Eve Online

Eve Online (EVE Online) is a single-shard sci-fi sandbox MMORPG in New Eden by Iceland's CCP Games, launched 6 May 2003, known for its player-driven economy, permanent ship losses, and the elected Council of Stellar Management.

EverQuest

EverQuest (1999, Verant/SOE, now Daybreak) is the foundational 3D fantasy MMORPG of Norrath; 30+ expansions, ~600,000 peak subscribers, grouping-centric combat, raids, TLP servers, still running after 25 years.

EverQuest expansions

EverQuest expansions are commercial content packs for the MMORPG EverQuest that add zones, spells, and level-cap increases, released nearly every year since The Ruins of Kunark in 2000.

Everybody's Golf Hot Shots

Everybody's Golf Hot Shots (Hot Shots Golf) is an arcade golf game by Hyde, published by Bandai Namco, released September 5, 2025 on PS5, Switch, and PC; first non-PlayStation entry, three-click shot system, 29 characters, Metacritic 72.

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (2015) is a walking simulator by The Chinese Room, published by Sony for PS4 and later PC, set in the vanished 1984 Shropshire village of Yaughton, known for Jessica Curry's acclaimed choral soundtrack.

Evil Dead: The Game

Evil Dead: The Game is a 2022 asymmetrical 4v1 multiplayer horror game by Saber Interactive (Saber Madrid) based on the Evil Dead films, starring Ash Williams with Bruce Campbell's voice; delisted in 2025 but servers remain online.

Evo Moment 37

Evo Moment 37, the Daigo Parry: Daigo Umehara's 2004 Evo semifinal parry of Justin Wong's Chun-Li super art in Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike, esports' most famous viral clip.

Evolution Championship Series

Evolution Championship Series (Evo), the largest and longest-running fighting game tournament, founded mid-1990s from Battle by the Bay; $500,000 prize pool, 12 games at Evo 2026 Las Vegas; owned by Qiddiya since 2026.

Evolution: The World of Sacred Device

Evolution: The World of Sacred Device (Shinkisekai Evolution) is Sting's 1999 Dreamcast dungeon-crawling RPG starring Mag Launcher, the first traditional RPG on the US Dreamcast, published by Ubisoft outside Japan.

Evolve (video game)

Evolve (2015) is Turtle Rock Studios' 4v1 asymmetric shooter published by 2K, with four hunter classes versus one player-controlled monster; sold ~2.5M copies, relaunched as free-to-play Stage 2 in 2016, servers sunset 2023, P2P restored 2024.

Evony

Evony (originally Civony) is a free-to-play MMORTS franchise: a 2009 Flash browser city-builder turned mobile 4X strategy game Evony: The King's Return (Top Games Inc., 2016), known for misleading ads, pin-pull puzzles, and over $1 billion claimed revenue.

Exodus (2027 video game)

Exodus is a single-player sci-fi action RPG by Archetype Entertainment (Wizards of the Coast/Hasbro), launching April 7, 2027 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, starring Matthew McConaughey as C.C. Orlev and built on a no-FTL time-dilation premise.

Expeditions: A MudRunner Game

Expeditions: A MudRunner Game (Expeditions) is a 2024 off-road exploration sim by Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment, third in the MudRunner series, swapping hauling for scientific scouting missions with drones, winches, and echo sounders.

Ezio Auditore da Firenze

Ezio Auditore da Firenze is the fictional Renaissance Assassin protagonist of Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations, ancestor of Desmond Miles, voiced by Roger Craig Smith, and widely considered the series' most popular protagonist.

F-Zero

F-Zero is Nintendo's futuristic anti-gravity racing series, beginning with a 1990 Super Famicom launch title built on Mode 7 graphics, set in the year 2560, and continuing through the 2023 battle royale F-Zero 99.

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity

F-Zero: Maximum Velocity (F-Zero for Game Boy Advance) is a 2001 NDcube futuristic racer and GBA launch title, set 25 years after the original, Mode 7-based, Metacritic 86, about 1.05 million sold, re-released on Switch Online in 2024.