It stands apart from its contemporaries for relying heavily on audio over visual cues.
Donkey Kong’s return to full-3D platforming is an expansive, destructive triumph.
The game’s politics, like its labyrinthine world, gesture at meaning but find nothing to grasp.
What stumbles there are do little to loosen the game’s sturdy grasp of genre.
The real masterstroke of Kaizen is how seamlessly it eases you into its complexities.
Kojima’s magnum opus gets a bigger, weirder, and far more cohesive sequel.
Our favorite games of the year released thus far present a fairly strong argument for not rushing.
Expect more than one of these games to become breakout hits in the upcoming year.
Perhaps the best showcase of the Switch 2’s tech can be felt in the game’s nuanced physics.
The style of the game is far from the one that Remedy is known for.
The Alters is missing the skin-of-your-teeth hardship that defines a great survival game.
Nightreign is a thrilling roguelite riff on FromSoftware’s open-world masterpiece.
Pippit’s yoyo is the core of the gameplay, and it delivers trick after tightly strung trick.
The game lavishes idiosyncratic detail on its ground-level view of the world.
Despite the artificiality that creeps into the game, its intimate moments remain resonant.
This is a competent shooter with occasional highs and frustrating lows.
With Blades of Fire, MercurySteam hammers out the joy from the Souls formula.
The game offers ample opportunity for delightful trial-and-error experimentation.
The game is a sumptuous but brief shot of bedtime-story vibes.
The game’s world is silly and impressively congruent, but its stages want for more variety.
The new trailer puts vigilante lovebirds Jason and Lucia in the spotlight.