Brett Todd
The Duke is back in a somewhat new (but very familiar) 20th-anniversary world tour.
The banality of evil is on full display in the dark and disturbing Tyranny.
This 2016 take on Hitman is a brilliant game. Expansive level design and nearly unlimited replay value courtesy of so many routes to your assassinations (and so many methods with which to carry them out) make the experience almost completely different each and every time you play.
This is one of the best treatments of disasters in a city simulation, blending the actual demands of emergency planning measures with apocalyptic moments that ratchet up the tension in the virtual mayor’s office.
The New Frontier is off to a great start, and its troubled cast's harrowing journey is just getting started.
The conclusion to The Ties That Bind is a gut-wrenching, gory masterpiece up there with the very best episodes of The Walking Dead.
Space Hulk: Deathwing has great atmosphere and attitude, but is ultimately undone by its frustrating gameplay.
A satisfying story can't make up for the lack of action and interactivity in Above the Law.
Storylines finally converge satisfyingly in Thicker Than Water, the penultimate chapter of the New Frontier.
Endless Space 2 provides loads of 4X strategizing and space-opera-styled storytelling in this epic about building an intergalactic empire.
Some odd dramatic choices and a less-than-satisfying conclusion wrap up the New Frontier season of The Walking Dead.
With all of the extras added in the various expansion packs, the game now feels a little more like a municipal engineer or municipal planner simulation than anything that properly depicts what it's like to be the mayor overseeing everything. Even with that caveat, Mass Transit adds more character and depth to what's already the premier city-building simulation.
The Rise of the Necromancer DLC offers a great new character class for Diablo III--but is it enough to keep the five-year-old game afloat?
Traditional MOBA gameplay with an impressive cast of characters and a great setting help Gigantic breathe fresh air into an old genre.
Obnoxious attitude, poor mission design, and technical bugs make Agents of Mayhem chaotic and repetitive.
Unforgiving difficulty and atmosphere are the main characteristics of dino-survival sim Ark: Survival Evolved.
Join the ranks of the gods in Divinity: Original Sin II, an RPG so fantastic that it may well have been divinely inspired.
RPG and RTS join together for the somewhat unwieldy but still engaging SpellForce III.
Subnautica is a terrifying, mystifying, massive, and brilliant survival game.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance offers enthralling medieval history alongside demanding systems and troublesome bugs.