Ian Birnbaum
- Arma 3
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim
- Kerbal Space Program
An ARPG with weak combat and too many bugs, Bombshell isn't worth your click-click-clicks.
An unsatisfying, forced march through the source material.
Persistent bugs, a convoluted interface, and incompetent colonists hold back a great premise.
The Walking Dead gets the zombies and the theme just right, but everything else is a mess.
A wonderful art style and interesting setting can't make Traverser's shallow puzzles and exasperating stealth sequences acceptable.
Etherium is never aggressively terrible, but there's nothing to recommend it over other, more interesting RTS games.
Bland and mostly harmless, World War Z is another co-op zombie shooter that you could play.
An empty galaxy and endless grinding mar clever writing and engaging combat.
The setting is great, but weak combat and limited choices stop this RPG from going anywhere fun.
Overstuffed and underdeveloped, Kyn is a buggy RPG with good combat, but without a great story or engaging character progression.
Repetitive and middling, Crackdown 3 is a totally average open-world game that doesn't give itself a way to stand out.
Half enjoyable adventure, half clunky mess, Beat Cop is a talented rookie in need of a long talk with HR.
A bare-bones basic shooter that's good for some fun with friends, but there are other, better co-op adventures out there.
Tartarus shows off some excellent puzzles aboard a disappointingly empty spaceship, but it's usually more charming than frustrating.
Strider is a liberating, free-form action platformer studded with frustrating callbacks to an arcade era better left behind.
A bloated, grindy mess, but so packed with options that a better game is hidden inside it.
A punishing take on the Rogue-inspired genre, Bedlam is weird and colorful and stressful.
Weedcraft, Inc is a tricky tycoon game that overextends itself—but almost nails it.
The graphics get a little prettier, the story gets a little darker, and another Call of Duty counts time as we march together toward death.
An intricately detailed RTS, Men of War: Assault Squad 2 is packed with features and refuses to tell you how to use them.