Gears of War is fun as ever, but the technical flaws and limitations of Ultimate Edition are disappointing.
A peculiar experience that's personal, sincere, and full of questions to unpack, though it asks them far too bluntly.
Space Run is a fairly fun twist on tower defense, but it lacks much of the genre's interesting experimentation.
A sensational audiovisual experience that starts to drag around halfway in.
Stunningly rendered close-ups of nature make Unravel's somber fable and irritating death traps just worth surviving.
Fun sniping and great mission design just barely eclipse bugs, exploitable AI, and other issues that would make a lesser game impossible to recommend.
Mowing down thousands of aliens in Vatican City is worth doing at least once.
A superb water park for four friends to splash around in, but progression is sluggish and there are too few surprises beneath the waves.
Fun, not-too-hard stealth puzzles that look great, wrapped up in a humdrum story with a boring protagonist.
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 time-bending puzzle game clever enough not to be just another time-bending puzzle game.
The campaign is predictable, dumb fun, and the multiplayer is some of Call of Duty's best—but still subject to every existing criticism of CoD.
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 hard campaign (if you play on the hardest mode) and breakneck multiplayer are a good time, if often infuriating.
Disc Room provides hours of high-stress fun for daring adventurers, and a few mysteries to solve.
A great customizable fighting system and a cooperative spirit fill the empty spaces in a bleak open world.
A smart, unembellished survival horror adventure which rewards patience and inspires introspection.
Battlefield 2042 makes gutsy changes to a series that needed them and sets a new standard for built-in custom mode support.
Episode four makes Bigby's struggle more personal, then ends abruptly, transferring the pressure to deliver onto the finale.
It's inconsistent and sometimes annoying, but ultimately a charming, challenging, heart-string-pulling fable.