Magic 2015 gives you fewer reasons to love a fantastic game.
Stronghold Crusader 2 brings smart army strategy, but squanders its most interesting asset: the castle.
Randal's Monday's strict adherence to bad design and unpleasant humor makes this one Monday you don't want to relive.
Excellent puzzles are only the tip of the iceberg for The Talos Principle, an existential journey about what it is to be human.
This accessible heist game demands confidence from you, but ultimately short-circuit that aim due to inconsistent AI and dull level design.
Amazing writing and a good sense of discovery makes Sunless Sea's glacial pace and mismatched roguelike elements worth plodding through.
We Are Doomed delivers a satisfying-feeling twin stick shooter, but does so without any flair whatsoever.
The Old Blood's madcap attitude shines throughout its campaign, but the game fumbles when it strays from its Nazi-filled levels.
Awkward platformer Sym speaks to a vulnerable issue, but it's difficult to figure out what exactly it's trying to say.
Lego Jurassic World is a joyful, brightly-colored tribute to Jurassic Park that fails to channel the franchise's trademark tension and excitement.
Though the puzzles this time prove vestigial, Road To Gehenna delivers the same smart environmental puzzles and thoughtful commentary on humanity as its predecessor.
It's rare for a game to so ruthlessly and completely nail the altered reality games place us in the way Undertale does. Whether it's the nameless NPCs you always meet in RPGs or the hundreds of mooks you mow down with gunfire in games like Uncharted, Undertale brilliantly demystifies these conventions and questions why games are still codified this way. But even outside of its ambitious themes, it proves to be a compact, perfectly paced RPG experience with hilarious, tense writing and endearing charaters.
Mohawk Games really hit on something special in creating the heart and soul of what makes Offworld Trading Company tick. It’s just a shame they didn’t stretch and twist it far enough to broach the limits of what this brilliant idea can really do.