With a new landmass to explore and new creatures to tackle, Dark Arisen presents a stern challenge even for high level players, in this enjoyably challenging new expansion.
An intricately designed zoo and nature reserve simulator whose well designed interface and controller implementation make it as accessible as anything of this complexity could be.
A gritty, funny, and often beautiful action role-players whose 4K visuals, improved combat, and countless refinements help it live up to decade old memories – even if it comes with many of the same bugs.
A transport focused tycoon game with numerous enhancements to its UI and simulation, that’s user friendly by genre standards but potentially headache inducing for more casual players.
A spirited and open-ended action role-player that blends vampire lore with authentic European history, while introducing an impressive new swordplay and magic-based combat system.
A compelling and well-designed third person action role-player with a re-telling of the Minotaur legend at its core, that reinterprets the themes of the Plague Tale franchise in a more combat orientated prequel.
A skilful remake of one of the best loved Assassin’s Creed games, that retains an impressive diversity of tasks, complemented by gorgeous new visuals, streamlined systems, and perfectly pitched additional content.
A giddying rush of fast cars, beautiful landscapes, and pounding music that never lets up; the forgiving driving model and continual feed of new events providing a conveyer belt of instant gratification.
A competent camping and survival game set in an unpopulated wilderness, whose lack of narrative structure, threat, or competitive elements leaves it feeling disappointingly hollow.
The makers of Until Dawn unleash a new interactive sci-fi horror, whose polish and narrative twists are undermined by under-informed choices and an awful lot of walking about in dimly lit corridors.
A near future third person sci-fi adventure whose believable characters, expressive animation, and glorious icy backdrops are undermined by a linear story with too little variety in its interactions.
A genuinely different kind of team multiplayer game, with exactly the sort of thoughtful weirdness you’d expect from Double Fine.
A colourful and creative first person adventure, whose From-style asynchronous multiplayer, branching plot, and faltering stealth sequences are hamstrung by a very low budget.
A beautiful looking 2D side-scrolling puzzle game whose lack of challenge and regularly recycled mechanics prove disappointingly bland, with no significant improvements over the original.
A sorely underdeveloped, crafting-orientated survival horror game, whose neat comic book art style isn’t enough to compensate for sub-par combat and storytelling.
A loving remake of a JRPG classic, with pitch perfect graphics and charming, if simplistic, storytelling and combat.
A flawed but brilliant mountaineering game that splices survival gameplay and a fascinating four-limb climbing system with exploration, risk-taking, and the emotional fallout from a climber’s loved ones.
A lo-fi 8-bit style twin-stick bullet hell shooter whose exhilaratingly weird music and catalogue of surreal weaponry is undermined by technical problems and a reliance on luck.
An interesting and personal feeling set of first person histories that barely constitute a video game and yet wouldn’t really work in any other medium.
The spirit of Telltale Games lives on, in this interactive superhero animation, with cynical humour, excellent voice acting, and decisions that give at least the illusion of consequence.