Best for side character depth
Hollow Knight: Silksong
4.7 feature score
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Forza Horizon 5
4.3 feature score
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Doom: The Dark Ages
4 supporting reviews
Has the broadest review evidence for this feature.
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South of Midnight
3.7 overall score
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Side character depth receives positive evidence from a review praising Pharloom’s supporting characters as charming and motivated.
Pros: core gameplay loop, world interactivity
Cons: loot system, accessibility options
Side characters earned praise for having enough interaction and backstory to avoid feeling flat.
Pros: atmosphere, voice acting
Cons: world interactivity, camera behavior
Side characters add more car culture, local context, and human texture than prior entries.
Pros: controls responsiveness, movement feel
Cons: tutorial quality, animation quality
Side character depth was usually criticized, with reviewers calling supporting characters forgettable, unmemorable or impossible to care about.
Pros: environmental detail, polish
Cons: camera behavior, value for money