A moody, well-wrought action role-player with striking, desolate landscapes and a couple of great dungeons.
A blatantly unfinished and uninspired nostalgia project that sheds a certain, peculiar light on the immersive sim at large.
More Hitman: Season 2 than an experience in its own right, but a couple of great maps plus a fun competitive mode make for a solid fan pick.
A childhood bond reimagined as a series of elegant, time-based diorama puzzles, The Gardens Between is short but very sweet.
An ambitious, stylish and savage takedown of British hubris, but clunky crafting, collecting and combat make for a somewhat dull game.
The Metroidvania at its best: a swaggering role-playing beat-'em-up that's very easy on the eyes and dense with secrets.
A beautiful if brief puzzle platformer that invokes the spirit of Flash gaming.
Another fine turn-based battle system and some charming dialogue and visuals make up for an occasionally dry ensemble campaign.
A magnificent nightmare, for those with the stamina to master the gruelling card game that houses it.
A mournful yet bright and enormously warm-hearted adventure with a novel landship mechanic, sublime backdrops and a brilliant score.
Technically shambolic, obsessed with hoarding, and a waste of a once-promising society simulation.
Ubisoft's novel fighting game finally comes into focus.
Make Montana emergent again
Not the charmer its predecessor was, but a jolly 40 hour epic with dashing combat and an engrossing empire-building subgame.
Weather its bugs and lacklustre stealth, and Ghost of a Tale is a quietly ravishing potted epic with a serious subtext.
A continent-sized anthology of American campfire tales that will keep pulling you in deeper, once you acclimatise to its slow pace.
An earnest eco-platformer that is at once under and overcooked.
The measure of an open world is ultimately not the story it tells but whether you're happy to kill time within it, and Kingdom Come: Deliverance offers plenty of ways to do that, even if a lot of them will, in fact, get you slaughtered.
An oppressively beautiful portrayal of an undersea environment, and a well-wrought survival game with a vaguely eco-friendly message.
Though not without its moments, Forces is a depressing return to form for Sonic the Hedgehog after the joys of Mania.