Games as a service is a phrase that has cropped up a lot over the past few years. It means that a game is updated over time after it is released, promising more content for the most hardcore of fans to consume while the developers work on sequels or major expansions.

Some games do this incredibly well, managing to add plenty of content once the main campaign is over. Other games have a system like this but were never advertised or released as a platform for new content. Some just release with these pieces of content after the credits roll. Here are 10 games with the best post-game content you can experience.

10 Halo: Reach

Halo has always had plenty for players to do when they first boot up the game. Multiplayer, Forge, and Theater are available for those who played Halo: Reach, but the last mission of the campaign was something truly special.

“Lone Wolf” is the last mission in Halo: Reach, taking place after players complete their main objective in the story. It is just you versus an infinite number of Covenant, desperate to take out as many as possible. You can’t win this mission. There are no secret endings where you win. You die at the end and leave your cracked helmet behind, which perceptive players will know is the first scene of the campaign as well.

9 Dragon’s Dogma

Dragon’s Dogma rarely gets talked about for how well it did giant boss fights and party play. The game had its faults—running for 20 minutes between zones wasn’t fun—but did just as many great things as it did poorly.

Fortunately, the post-game content of this game is a sight to behold. The entire skybox changes and most zones get a refresh of enemies and scenery. It’s hard to talk about without spoiling it, but the refresh of loot and enemies and locals make exploring the open-world incredibly enjoyable, arguably more so than the base game.

8 Red Dead Redemption

To truly talk about how amazing this post-game scene is, the end of Red Dead Redemption has to be spoiled. Note that this is the first game and not the recently released sequel.

At the end of Red Dead Redemption, John defends his home against the government but fails. He gives his family enough time to escape, but he has to stay back, getting shot repeatedly in a gut-wrenching scene. Where most games would have ended, Red Dead picks up with John’s son, Jack. Players get to use their gear with Jack and hunt down the men that killed his father. It’s a touching epilogue to one of the greatest games ever made.

7 Batman: Arkham City

The Batman: Arkham series has shown critiques and players alike that superhero games do not have to be cash grabs. These games brought a combination of fantastic storytelling with engaging combat, which many games have tried to replicate since its release.

Batman: Arkham City not only has some of the best storytelling out of any superhero video game, but it also has a fantastic post-game. Players can replay the game after they beat it, keeping their gadgets and upgrades they acquired previously. Enemy groups get reordered and changed as a result, even changing how certain bosses work. Most who played it will tell you how amazing the Mr. Freeze boss is in NG+, being a tense fight that requires plenty of different strategies to beat.

6 Dark Souls II

Every Dark Souls game has NG+, allowing players to carry over their characters into a harder version of the same game. Dark Souls didn’t change much with its NG+ mode, meaning some players found it stale and not worth doing.

Dark Souls II, for all of the things it got wrong, had the best NG+ system seen in the Souls series. Bosses would get new mechanics, enemy placements completely changed, and red phantoms that resembled players would also be incorporated into zones. New items were available to find, and it just took the fun campaign and cranked it up to 11.

5 Timesplitters: Future Perfect

Every Timesplitters game has tons of content for players to explore, but none have had as much to do as Future Perfect. Most will start with the campaign, but that is just the tip of the iceberg.

Arcade maps, challenges, enemies, skins, weapons, and even more were available for players to unlock once they finished the story. The challenges each game made players do are some of the most engaging and interesting that any shooter has done since. Also, being able to unlock a playable monkey and throwable bricks as a weapon is simply amazing.

4 Destiny 2

Any MMO could have been in this spot, to be honest. Destiny 2, however, has added so many systems and activities for players to do after the campaign credits roll that it needs to be commended.

Players can complete strikes—3 man missions with some mechanics and a final boss—or engage with PvP through the Crucible. Over the years, Bungie have added a PvEvP mode called Gambit, redone Nightfalls to make these modified strikes more engaging, open-world activities, exotic quests, and even dungeons for players to clear. Combined with raids and an expansive armor system, Destiny 2 has plenty for players to sink their teeth into for hundreds of hours.

3 Borderlands 2

Bazillions of guns can not be earned in a single playthrough. Or a second. Or probably a lifetime. But Borderlands 2 lets players replay the game in higher difficulties for more powerful loot.

Players can play in a True Vault Hunter setting after they beat the campaign, allowing for more item drops from harder enemies. Complete that, and there’s an Ultimate Vault Hunter mode that’s even harder. A DLC also added Overpoewred Levels, allowing players to replay the game up to OP8, or 10 times if we include True and Ultimate modes. On top of a plethora of seasonal DLCs and major expansions, Borderlands 2 will keep players engaged longer than even its sequel.

2 Path of Exile

Randomized dungeons and loot are the cornerstones of aRPGs. It is what made so many love putting unthinkable hours into the likes of Diablo and Grim Dawn.

Path of Exile manages to take these 2 pillars and create an entire endgame around them. Maps, the game’s endgame system, allows players to find and modify dungeon tilesets with special modifiers that make the dungeon harder yet yield more rewards. There is an atlas with over 100 maps tied to it players can clear, with special bosses towards the end that offer build-enabling items. The campaign looks like a tutorial in comparison to how extensive this system is. It will be interesting to see how the developers expand on this system for the sequel.

1 NieR: Automata

Previous entries have had NG+ modes or endgame grinds players can choose to pursue. NieR: Automata has multiple NG+ modes, but they are not what you think.

These NG+ modes are, for lack of a better phrase, entirely new games. Some delve into different stories with new characters, new settings, and some even mess with different genres. Saying more than that would spoil how amazing these new stories are, but you have not properly beaten NieR if you have not experienced its NG+ modes.

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