Luke Winkie
Evil Dead certainly does not feel unfinished, but it does seem to be a first step towards something larger. Saber has an excellent multiplayer game that aspires to be a juggernaut in the hobby, and I hope players take notice.
If you're not enthusiastic about being on the front lines of Arma development, Arma Reforger's early access version is not ready for you - you're better off with Arma 3 until further notice. But when it cooperates and you have the right crew, this military sim sings.
A promising mystery concept that doesn't quite give players a truly mind-melting temporal puzzle.
Not Tonight 2 does a decent job of adapting Papers, Please to a terminally hateful America, but the premise wears thin with every pit stop.
Wordle is a fantastic, mesmerizing daily puzzle that's bundled to a community offering some of the best vibes on the internet.
Rainbow Six Extraction brings some great new ideas to the venerable first-person shooter as it morphs to a sci-fi co-op game, but it doesn't distinguish itself quite enough to stand out on its own merits.
In early access, The Anacrusis fails to match its distinctive and colorful setting with compelling co-op shooting gameplay. For a game that looks this cool, it gets boring quickly.
GTFO is hard, mean, and exacting in its demands – but there are few co-op shooters that scratch the same itch.
There still isn't any game on the market quite like Farming Simulator, but the series is overdue for a gameplay makeover.
Vanguard's Zombies mode is goofy, gory, and adventurous, but it suffers from a deadly lack of content.
A surprisingly good time when you're not forced to reload your checkpoint after a game-breaking bug.
Beneath the beautiful new look and smart innovations, this is the same Diablo 2 that came out in 2000.
Death's Door boils modern action-adventure game design down to its fundamentals, and the reduction is excellent.
An excellent combat system buffers a classically unhinged anime story in an action RPG whose ambition outpaces execution.
Oddworld: Soulstorm's charm, characters, and sincere narrative are imprisoned within buggy, erratic software.
Maquette has enough interesting ideas to push any adventure gamer past the finish line.
Quality point-and-click puzzles link a gallery of impeccable artwork.
A bold genre shift, but not a completely successful one.
It's shocking how much depth Dead By Daylight packs into its systems.
It's hard to play El Hijo without wishing for a little more flair in its stealth system.