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The hit Netflix show becomes a fun, if functional, turn-based strategy.
Daniel Fortesque's tale is retold with style, but the fundamentals frustrate.
Two players, two developers, but half the story: this spin-off isn't firing on all cylinders, but the combat is still hugely satisfying.
A brief, frequently beautiful meditation on mental illness that can be overly blunt in its messaging.
A slick psychological horror plagued by poor pacing and infuriating instakills
The humour is even more annoying, the guns even more amazing and Gearbox's shooter is more divisive than it's ever been.
An action-packed, if anticlimactic, close to Clementine's journey.
A moody shooter undermined by a lack of polish and purpose.
5pb's 2009 visual novel gets a sizeable makeover - but don't expect it to make new fans for the genre.
So much of this promising collaboration between id and Avalanche is unremarkable - but it's salvaged by bloody, brilliant combat.
There are flashes of promise in this first-person shooter, but this is a mostly uninspired, unpolished waste of an opportunity.
A tense, imaginative thriller that buckles under the weight of its own ambition.
Frontier follows up Planet Coaster with a licensed park simulator, with varied results.
A breathlessly brilliant tactical RPG, it's just a shame that Valkyria Chronicles isn't quite as assured off the battlefield.
A beautiful turn-based RPG whose brutality can sometimes get the better of it.
An admirable ARPG gets lost in a less than thoughtful Switch port.
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.
Grounded's charming, Honey I Shrunk the Kids premise is elevated by its uniquely welcoming approach to wonder.
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.
Far: Changing Tides' story is a little longer and its puzzles more refined than its predecessor, while its world is as beautiful as ever.