Tyler Wilde
Sifu will test your patience, but learning how to coolly dismantle a room full of goons with virtual kung fu is worth the pain.
Battlefield 2042 makes gutsy changes to a series that needed them and sets a new standard for built-in custom mode support.
A battle royale game that's fun to play in a loose, aggressive style, with melee combat that's trickier than it may first appear.
A brilliant mix of high skill and low comedy, and the best medieval combat game out there.
A smorgasbord of spectacular WW2 action scenes, none of which are excellent, and some of which are downright unfun.
It's got well-observed characters and some genuinely weird moments, but the actual bug hunting isn't much fun.
Disc Room provides hours of high-stress fun for daring adventurers, and a few mysteries to solve.
Mowing down thousands of aliens in Vatican City is worth doing at least once.
A time-bending puzzle game clever enough not to be just another time-bending puzzle game.
It's inconsistent and sometimes annoying, but ultimately a charming, challenging, heart-string-pulling fable.
A sensational audiovisual experience that starts to drag around halfway in.
A jog-fest with sluggish combat and inconsistent stealth, but a story that will pull you toward the end anyway.
A superb water park for four friends to splash around in, but progression is sluggish and there are too few surprises beneath the waves.
There are beautiful and tragic scenes, songs, and passages to find in WTWTLW's journey, but they're spread far too thin.
A spectacular, occasionally very fun tour of Star Wars battles that disappoints with a boring story, crappy progression system, and endless grenade spam.
A great customizable fighting system and a cooperative spirit fill the empty spaces in a bleak open world.
A fiery test of awareness, speed and accuracy which upholds the series' devotion to teamwork and authenticity, but doesn't nail the asymmetry of modern era combat.
It needs more maps, but right now Friday the 13th is a gory game of hide-and-go-seek that's fun with funny people.
A hearty improvement on Sniper Elite 3 that embraces freeform play, gets better in co-op, and most importantly lets us shoot things from very far away.
Repetitive but fun, a hellish challenge or a relaxing, spectacular gore bath depending on how you approach it.