A gentle cadence and quirky characters can't counter Mythwrecked's repetitiveness, making this more Greek tragedy than odyssey.
Slitterhead can be a slow-burn to begin with, but once its combat clicks, this is an action horror game like few others.
A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead takes some very usable source material and fails to do much with it.
Against the odds, Bloober Team has delivered a remake that both expands Silent Hill 2 in just the right places, and gives careful attention to what it preserves.
I Am Your Beast is a sensationally rapid-fire action game in every sense, but there's also a surprisingly well-realised thread of narrative running through.
Once Human offers a deeply moreish open world scavenge-em-up, but weak action and generic clutter hold it back.
More than just its nostalgic visuals, Crow Country is funny, self-aware, and extremely hard to put down.
Gory and exacting, Children of the Sun mixes the highs of tactical precision and cracking a killer puzzle.
Great ideas and a storied history are mired in mediocre combat and a disappointingly unpolished delivery.
Silent Hill: The Short Message shows glimmers of the classic horror series at its best - despite the very heavy-handed metaphor, a frustrating chase sequence, and the long shadow of P.T.
Despite an uneven start and a woefully predictable story, Supernormal can offer some sincerely spooky scares.
Despite some occasional frustrations, Cookie Cutter is a gory, gorgeous, and bloody good Metroidvania.
We're still making progress through Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, but so far it's been just the game you'd expect: a lush and vibrant world spread over the typical Ubisoft formula.
A shallow shooter that doesn't offer anywhere near enough bang for your ill-gotten buck.
A delightfully macabre homage, this asymettrical horror could finally threaten Dead by Daylight's crown, if you didn't spend more time fighing the servers than Leatherface himself.
Remnant 2 is an ambitious sequel stuffed with delightful - and deadly - surprises.
Amnesia: The Bunker corrects the missteps of its predecessors and adds in a sense of invention, creating a truly unsettling adventure.
The Outlast Trials is excessive and frantically enjoyable - but can occasionally tip over into frustration more than fear.
An intimite, mindful story of journalling what matters hits a few small bumps in the road.
Dead Space comparisons are impossible to avoid - but while The Callisto Protocol's missing some of the depth and tension, it makes up for it with production value and bloody-minded fun.