Short and simple, Donut County is absolutely sublime.
A stern yet scintillating 2D adventure that makes a point of not holding your hand.
A smart, witty adventure that makes a virtue of its self-imposed constraints.
Aggelos treads a path many others have followed in recent years, but it does it all with a charm of its own.
A slight but smart adventure it's hard not to be charmed by.
Colourful, characterful and disarmingly charming, Guacamelee 2 is a hit.
Swery's brand of wonky mechanics underlined with impeccable writing and atmospherics proves just as effective in the 2D platformer field.
An artful puzzle platformer that'll stay with you long after its short running time.
An over-familiar follow-up, perhaps, but New Dawn whittles away the rough edges of Far Cry 5 for something extremely enjoyable.
A devastating story unfolds across text messages in this unforgettable piece of interactive fiction.
Gentle anarchy reigns in this brilliantly humourous adventure.
Shades of Picross and Phoenix Wright blend together in this unlikely but utterly lovable genre mash-up.
Sumo Digital takes Sackboy for a breezy delight of an adventure.
Playful and wholesome and stuffed with adorable creatures.
Bloober Team goes back to the classics for possibly its best effort yet.
Tarsier returns with another slice of horror that's just about glorious enough to make up for the frustrations.
The weight of Halo with a neat borrowing from Valve makes this a shooter to remember.
Moncage offers a gorgeous blend of narrative threads and teasing puzzles, that makes for a game of real elegance.
Far: Changing Tides' story is a little longer and its puzzles more refined than its predecessor, while its world is as beautiful as ever.
Those few quibbles aren't quite enough to sully Cosmonaut's otherwise thoughtful game, though, and it sank its talons in deep enough to keep me experimenting with "just one more" event into the wee hours. It's possible some may mislabel its careful pacing as slow, and others may think its prosaic presentation boring. For me, however - whilst it's not without its flaws - Eternal Threads presents its story, characters, and mechanical systems with care and precision, weaving together an entirely captivating experience.