Yesterday, gaming website IGN posted a trailer for Ashfall, described as a “post-apocalyptic massively multiplayer online shooter/RPG.” Today, the same YouTube account dropped a video for another title called Lords of the Fallen, a “spiritual successor to the popular soulslike action-RPG” to a game with the same name released in 2014. Later this year comes the “action role-playing” Atlas Fallen, while February showed that even VR isn’t spared with After the Fall. Add to that the launch of Redfall, a much-maligned “co-op looter-shooter,” and you have to ask yourself: why do so many games have “fall” in their names?

For one, the English language offers so many other exciting words here. Plummet, tumble, topple over. Don’t tell me you...

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