Phillip Tinner
Turtle Rock's Back 4 Blood is tough as nails and has some minor annoyances, but it's a refreshingly complete and competent multiplayer experience.
It's patently Nintendo and great multiplayer fun.
Cannibal Cuisine is a flawed and crude Overcooked.
Fort Triumph is a brilliantly crafted genre blend.
Mokoko's more repetitive than sexy, but its retro gameplay is engaging.
Stranded Sails doesn't earn its widespread comparisons to Stardew Valley.
MageQuit has compelling combat, brilliant progression, and lots of charm.
Daymare 1998 recaptures the tone that made Raccoon City so unsettling.
Down to Hell is in a category all its own of cheap indies worth skipping.
Devil's Hunt has a poor plot and characters, but it's pretty and playable.
MyTeam greed and issues abound undercut an otherwise excellent sports sim.
Though it remains to be seen if Gunfire can fix the present issues and expand the game into the infinite time sink that the studio promised, Remnant: From the Ashes will no doubt inspire genre fans to hang up their swords and shields for some time in order to dive into a chaotic universe, guns blazing.
Assetto Corsa Competizione waters down its own mechanical excellence.
Monster Jam Steel Titans feels authentic but is hamstrung by poor choices.
Pathologic 2 is a narrative triumph, but atrocious combat gets in the way.
Mordhau is mechanically deep, brutally fun, and encourages experimentation.
Team Sonic Racer is an excellent kart racer, but no one's playing it.
Anno 1800 is a series return to form that a poor tutorial can't hold back.
Rise of Industry is a mixture of addictive fun and irritating mundanity.
Sniper Elite V2 Remastered is pretty, but it's still a mediocre shooter.