Gabriele Barducci


144 games reviewed
76.8 average score
79 median score
48.6% of games recommended
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9.4 / 10.0 - Saros
Apr 24, 2026

Saros is a confirmation of the talent and skill of the team at Housemarque, delivering a highly accessible action roguelite that is by no means easy. Both the aesthetic and narrative aspects are outstanding, and the game places the pure gameplay experience at the center of everything-dynamic and incredibly fun. A game that comes close to perfection.

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Apr 20, 2026

Starship Troopers Ultimate Bug War is a solid experiment in old-school 2D FPS design-fun and ferocious. It's a shame it only lasts around four hours, and in the gameplay-both as humans and aliens-you can glimpse some untapped potential. Still, it feels like the right foundation on which to build a bigger and better sequel in the future.

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9 / 10.0 - Cairn
Feb 13, 2026

Cairn is, to date, one of the best gaming experiences I've ever played. Some mechanics need revisiting and polishing, but it's a video game full of love, which tells the story of human obsessions.

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Feb 4, 2026

My Hero Academia: All's Justice, thanks to its story mode and the included roster, is certainly the most complete project dedicated to the franchise, even though it suffers from a difficulty level set too low.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Bye Sweet Carole
Jan 30, 2026

Even on PlayStation 5, Bye Sweet Carole performs admirably, with truly exciting artistic, narrative and musical direction.

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7.5 / 10.0 - Horses
Dec 2, 2025

Disturbing and outside of any canon: horses is a journey into the loss of innocence

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8.4 / 10.0 - Football Manager 26
Oct 30, 2025

Football Manager 26 is finally back, and the work done is undoubtedly of the highest quality and taste. The primary goal was to revamp the game and start from scratch, but obviously the tried-and-true gameplay formula couldn't be completely overturned.

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7.3 / 10.0 - Sworn
Oct 7, 2025

Sworn is a Hades-like game that's aware of its limitations. It's entertaining for hours thanks to its four selectable characters, but the maps are repetitive and the initial difficulty curve is truly inaccessible.

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Oct 1, 2025

Digimon Story Time Stranger is finally a great Digimon-themed JRPG. While it looks a generation older, it makes up for it with a really well-crafted battle and evolution system and a huge catalog of Digimon.

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6.3 / 10.0 - EDENS ZERO
Jul 21, 2025

Edens Zero features a good gameplay system coupled with an excellent combat system. Unfortunately, the game is extremely repetitive and superficial.

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Jul 7, 2025

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3+4 is a great remake. While it plays on nostalgia, the collection also takes advantage of all the skills you can practice during your gaming sessions. The camera issues still persist.

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7.5 / 10.0 - Blades of Fire
May 20, 2025

Blades of Fire alternates very good mechanics (the forge and the combat system) with less successful ones (characterization, narrative and game world). It is well playable and fun, but it has the feeling of a wasted opportunity.

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May 7, 2025

Lushfoil Photography Sim is a very interesting photo-camping simulator. Well done in the mechanics related to the reflex parameters, as in the creation of the game maps.

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Apr 23, 2025

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a title of rare beauty. An unexpected masterpiece that will appeal to all fans of turn-based RPGs.

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Mar 28, 2025

Bleach Rebirth of Souls is a solid fighting game based on Tite Kubo's manga, perhaps the best production related to the franchise. It's not a perfect fighting game and there are some problems with online matches, but it's a solid base to start from.

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Feb 24, 2025

Collector difficult to recommend to all gamers. Excellent for nostalgics, less so for those approaching Yu-Gi-Oh for the first time

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Feb 14, 2025

Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered is an extremely valid title that continues the idea carried out by the previous collector: to recall memories and introduce the first Lara Croft games to very young people. Accessible just enough, the aesthetic modernization is well done and pleasant to look at, apart from some small problems with the lighting. The rest of the package is about taking measures with the type of games and their release period. For everyone, but even more so, for incurable romantics it is something to absolutely have.

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Feb 4, 2025

Synduality: Echo of Ada is an extraction shooter poor in content and plagued by a pay to win system. The slow progression make a frustrating experience.

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Dec 19, 2024

The Thing Remastered is a solid operation that brings attention to a game that, already upon its release, had truly cutting-edge mechanics and solutions. Great to play again today.

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Dec 4, 2024

Fantasian Neo Dimension is a precious JRPG, which finally ends the exclusivity period to be within everyone's reach. Nothing new, but a beautiful work made with a very small budget.

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