Saints Row delivers no shortage of shallow shoot 'em up thrills, but it's a very familiar and uninspired brand of sandbox fun.
Madison is a creepy crawl through a twisted haunted house with enough genuine out-of-your-seat scares to leave you shaken like a Polaroid picture.
Matchpoint Tennis Championships serves up a smooth-playing game of tennis, but saddles it with a sub-par career mode and under-featured multiplayer.
Sniper Elite 5 is still a satisfying and spectacularly gross way to shoot Nazis in their nether regions, but it feels like the series needs to start aiming its sights a little higher.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga provides some rollicking reimaginings of Star Wars' most iconic moments and seats them inside a series of interplanetary playgrounds that are dense with discovery and entertaining diversions.
Martha is Dead is an unflinching and utterly absorbing ordeal to be endured rather than enjoyed.
Terminator: Resistance Annihilation Line features slightly tougher combat, but fails to inject new ideas to spark any real life behind its glowing red eyes.
GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition is defective, disappointing, and surprisingly disrespectful to three classic games and their many legions of fans.
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One is a decent detective game set in an open-world that's a bit too elementary.
Alan Wake Remastered is a fairly inessential upgrade for existing fans, but this moody mystery is still well worth a look for newcomers.
Death Stranding Director's Cut is more accessible than the original, but feels like a compromised version of the director's vision.
Lost Judgment disappoints with its main story and simplistic detective work, but excels with its substantial school-based side quests.
There hasn't been a guitar-based adventure as excellent as The Artful Escape since Bill met Ted.
Hoa is a beautiful but brief puzzle-platform adventure that's all chilling and no killing.
Road 96 is a fascinating and frequently tense adventure that manages to keep its story on track despite the odd bump in the road.
Axiom Verge 2 is a dual-dimensional Metroidvania that's engaging to explore despite its one-dimensional combat and underwhelming boss fights.
Last Stop tells three interesting stories, but lacks enough meaningful choices or consequences to create investment in its drama.
Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 is a competent sniper sim that lacks the edge required to be a real sharpshooter.
Resident Evil Village is a genuinely engrossing and increasingly combat-heavy continuation of the Ethan Winters story.
It Takes Two is a beautiful, breakneck-paced, co-op adventure that's bubbling over with creativity.