Exceptionally tough, rewarding strategy and a masterful reworking of the XCOM formula. We'll play this forever.
Even in its immutable, heavily cutscene driven form, The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine is an accomplished piece of genre fiction with some characters I'll come to miss. Pour a goblet of the red stuff and join them, you won't be disappointed.
A worthy upgrade to one of the best strategy games ever, featuring the best space battles in the business.
A brutal, uncompromising action game with sensational sword combat. From Software has done it again.
Infuriatingly difficult, but perfectly constructed. Ikaruga is the PC's best bullet-hell shooter.
A gorgeous, relentlessly entertaining open-world piracy simulator packed with interesting 18th century rogues.
Three great characters and a beautiful, fluid combat system make this a must-buy for hack-and-slash fans.
A moving adventure starring an extraordinary companion. Framerate issues intrude, but don't let them stop you from finishing this wonderful game.
A gorgeous world, bursting with personality. Great storytelling makes up for the short length and unchallenging puzzles.
Gorgeous guns, a glittering universe, and a great port. Destiny 2 is an endgame away from true excellence.
A decent port of a great Final Fantasy with one of the cleverest combat systems in RPGs.
Involved, spectacular, space battles packaged into satisfying campaigns, and great fan service too.
A confident remaster of a true classic. The puzzles have aged badly, but the sparkling humour and world design still shine.
A few technical issues aside, Quadrilateral Cowboy is a clever puzzle game bursting with personality.
The new classes and super villains are excellent, even if the expansion bloats the campaign a little.
Sharp and deeply satisfying combat carries this imaginative, occasionally cringe-worthy tale, but don't bother if you played the 2013 original.
Sloppy combat and ongoing optimisation can't quite spoil this dark fantasy adventure, set in a stunning world of blood and black magic.
There's a category of games I think of as Saturday morning cartoon games. They lack depth, but they are fluffy and easy to enjoy. As I look back on some screenshots as Pippin laser blasts a poor marauder into a pile of dust, I realise that's what The Outer Worlds is to me. If you meet it on those terms, I think you'll enjoy it.
A fighter with a great roster and exciting brawls, let down by an undercooked singleplayer component.
Beautiful combat livens up Overload's tedious levels.