It stands apart from its contemporaries for relying heavily on audio over visual cues.
Platinum Games isn’t interested in tricks. Instead, they expect the player to rise to the occasion.
The Rock Band 4 experience is little more than an expensive new coat of paint.
On a technical level, it nearly pulls off the impossible task of dazzling on par with its predecessor.
Robomodo’s Activision-mandated update most often challenges players, strangely, not to score big, but stupidly.
This is the best kind of remaster: a lovingly crafted technical update that’s also a master class on how a developer can evolve ideas.
The narrative, like the coding, doesn’t hold the player’s hand, and the storytelling and puzzle-solving are, for the most part, enriched by the reserved delivery.
The mere suggestion of indie misery will captivate industry insiders and tantalize anyone else who may or may not get what Davey Wreden is going for.
Frictional Games has attempted to merge sci-fi horror with a philosophical investigation into the mind-body problem.
Unlike life-simulator and open-world games, it doesn’t presuppose and anticipate your addiction. It simply uplifts.
It’s an experiment that acts as a deconstruction and overjoyed celebration of everything Super Mario Bros.
A digital conversion of a physical game is worthwhile, but it might have been best to leave this one on the tabletop.
This could’ve been the unholy child of Dr. Seuss and the Marquis de Sade.
This is a surprisingly hardcore affair that demands patience, constant communication, and dedication.
There are still plenty of thorns, but it manages to address and improve nearly every aspect of the original 1.0 release.
Runbow is a party game for the hardcore.
An impressive epic, even if it falls several steps shy of the open-world grandeur realized by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
The premise and its presentation, along with a generous difficulty curve, ultimately, if barely, saves the game.
It asks us to buy Max as a wasteland messiah whose life consists of spending his most sane years playing fetch.
If Tearaway was a diamond in the rough world of Vita gaming, it’s an exceedingly polished masterpiece on the PS4.
Shutshimi: Seriously Swole is one of the best shooters since the turn of the century.