The Last of Us 2013

Is it still worth playing?

Naughty Dog's 2013 third person action game for the PlayStation 3, set in a post-apocalyptic United States around 2033. Twenty years earlier a mutated Cordyceps fungus turned humans into cannibalistic infected. Joel, a smuggler, takes a job to move Ellie, a 14 year old girl who is immune to the infection, out of the Boston quarantine zone. Along the way you fight infected and hostile humans with firearms, improvised weapons and stealth. Everything in those fights is scarce: ammunition and health supplies run short, and crafting is central to combat. The enemies also differ in how they find you, since some infected are blind and track you by sound while human bandits rely on sight. The fights still come down to that scarcity today, and retreating to come back from another angle is often the way through, in levels open enough to improvise in.