Marvel’s Midnight Suns is more than just a Marvel-themed reskin of Firaxis’s XCOM series.
The Knight Witch is a whip-smart, beautifully hand-drawn bullet-hell Metroidvania.
Gotham Knights isn’t as mechanically interesting or satisfying as the Arkham series.
Sparks of Hope is more colorful, more fluid, and just all-around more fun than its predecessor.
For a beginner guitarist, Rocksmith+ is a godsend.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 just cannot get out of its own way.
The Game of Thrones prequel struggles to apply new makeup to the old face of palace intrigue.
Stray is most fun when you allow yourself to, well, stray from its narrative path.
Neon White’s setting thrillingly liberates it from the pesky rules of gravity and the boring old architecture of humans.
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe isn’t just recycling old content and adding new dialogue to it.
In this bursting-at-the-seams collection of over 350 handcrafted puzzles, you’ll need to think both inside and outside the box.
The Forgotten Land may not nail the world-building or plotting, but it’s not snoozing when it comes to Kirby’s transformations.
Triangle Strategy is structured to give you the maximum amount of struggle and conflict, and to never give you an easy way out.
Rainbow Six Extraction hopes to evoke the sensation of battling the unknown, and that’s terrific when it comes to each alien encounter.
Only by leaving WWII in the rear-view mirror does the game live up to the innovation promised by its subtitle.
Riders Republic is a buffet of breathtaking sights and catchy sounds, but it’s bogged down by checklists and grinds.
The game is an unholy hybrid of a roguelike deck-builder and escape-room experience.
The game doesn’t fail, but it’s easy to imagine the better one that isn’t too big for its britches.
In doubling down on the randomness of its microgames, the WarioWare series has at last gotten its shtick together.
For better and worse, the game lacks for the trailblazing go-anywhere spirit of Breath of the Wild.