Outlast 2 puts together all of its nightmares with amazing clarity and execution. It takes the best parts of the original and adds more variety through natural hiding spots, fantastic interludes, razor-sharp jump scares, intense chases, and more horrific foes. Not many horror games get everything to work this well together.
FlatOut 4: Total Insanity is a valiant effort and a modestly satisfactory sequel. Its track design and relative speeds help make it a much better destructive racer than the last effort. However, it still requires tuning when it comes to stunts, visuals, physics, and vehicle damage.
Kona takes you on an atmospheric adventure where answers to the mysteries are always just around the corner. Although searching for items is a bit tedious, and side tasks muddle proceedings, it creates a frozen world that begs to be exposed.
Stories Untold is clever when it comes to delivering the narrative, and its brief text-adventure is interesting. Unfortunately, most of it is pushing buttons and turning dials on command, and this leaves much to be desired.
Sniper Elite 4 breathes new life into the franchise with better stealth mechanics, improved mission setups, smarter AI, and great open levels.
Phoning Home is a mediocre survival adventure through excessively large game spaces with a slow robot and his inept companion.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a great stealth experience featuring a diverse squad of deadly assassins ready to implement the perfect plan.
Lara Croft GO is a brief, intelligent, relic-hunting, snake-shooting, boulder-bypassing, turn-based puzzler.
With an amazing space campaign and a frenetic Zombies mode, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare is worth the fuel needed to reach orbit.
With open maps and confronting action, Battlefield 1 is a stable, balanced and exhilarating multiplayer shooter.
Players seeking an adventure through fantastical worlds, with a slew of mechanical and spatial puzzles, will discover that Obduction is a gold mine.
The Turing Test’s smart new energy orb device meshes carefully with standard elements of the genre to create a puzzler that is worth experiencing.
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided is another outstanding entry in the series containing many viable gameplay options, framed around a fascinating—if not thoroughly conclusive—narrative.
If you can withstand its tiresome first half, Dreamfall Chapters offers intriguing concepts and a satisfying continuation of the adventure series.
Nostalgia is prominent throughout Doom's intense and repeating action encounters against glorious and tormenting foes.
Grim Dawn is a satisfying, complex and clever hack-and-slash adventure that provides great value.
ADR1FT uses simple mechanics to create a subdued and freeform space journey that is worth experiencing.
Far Cry Primal takes the franchise cleverly into the Stone Age era with a minor and important survival influence.
Layers of Fear is a competent demonstration of jump scares compressed tightly into an ever-changing and dark mansion.
With a delightful main character and tight-knit platforming mechanics, Unravel is a simple adventure that is worth playing.