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Tom Marks

Palo Alto, CA

Favorite Games:
  • Valkyria Chronicles
  • Fez
  • Skies of Arcadia: Legends

76 games reviewed
78.9 average score
80 median score
69.3% of games recommended

Tom Marks's Reviews

Tom is an Associate Editor at IGN focusing on PC games coverage. You may have seen him during 2016 and 2017's PC Gaming Shows at E3. Formerly an Associate Editor at PC Gamer.
7 / 10.0 - Maquette
Mar 1, 2021

Maquette is an incredibly clever and absolutely gorgeous first-person puzzle game, even if it doesn’t really push the boundaries of its own recursive concept in any particularly surprising ways. That left me feeling like its straightforward story and puzzles were a missed opportunity to do something more, but playing through Maquette’s brief adventure was at least a lovely, mind-tickling evening well spent.

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Feb 9, 2021

Persona 5 Strikers' simple real-time combat is consistently engaging, and its summer vacation story (while slimmed down) is a sequel nearly worthy of the '2' it lacks at the end of its title.

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9 / 10.0 - Cyberpunk 2077
Dec 7, 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 throws you into a beautiful, dense cityscape and offers a staggering amount of flexibility in how you choose to take it from there.

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Nov 24, 2020

Sackboy: A Big Adventure is a charming LittleBigPlanet spin-off that trades its creation tools in for a more straightforward Mario structure.

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Unscored - Godfall
Nov 11, 2020

I’m enjoying Godfall, even if it’s not doing much to wow me and the repetition of its missions is wearing a bit thin. It’s got some fun and satisfying combat, a few genuinely novel mechanics, and graphics that range from absolutely gorgeous to a little over the top – but unless its thin story morphs into more than an excuse to go stab stuff, the grindable action-looter structure doesn't seem like it has enough variety to sustain its otherwise expansive customization.

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9 / 10.0 - Pikmin 3 Deluxe
Oct 28, 2020

Pikmin 3 Deluxe makes an already excellent game even better with some small but enjoyable content additions and a boatload of quality of life improvements.

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Oct 1, 2020

Star Wars: Squadrons' single-player campaign tells an entertaining story, while its flight controls hit a sweet spot between accessibility and nuance – and it's made even better by VR and HOTAS support.

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Sep 4, 2020

Marvel's Avengers' campaign is fun and endearing, but the loot-based post-game meant to be the meat of this meal is unrewarding and overly repetitive.

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9 / 10.0 - Spiritfarer
Aug 18, 2020

Spiritfarer's gorgeous mix of an exciting action-platformer and a touching town manager is a journey worth savoring.

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7 / 10.0 - Iron Man VR
Jul 2, 2020

Tony Stark's story may not be very interesting, but flying around as his alter ego in Marvel's Iron Man VR is still a lot of fun.

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Apr 23, 2020

XCOM: Chimera Squad plays with some interesting new ideas, but doesn't bring them together into a particularly graceful whole.

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Apr 10, 2020

The Room VR: A Dark Matter offers an enjoyable and impressively polished VR puzzler while it lasts.

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Apr 6, 2020

Final Fantasy 7 Remake's dull filler and convoluted additions can cause it to stumble, but it still breathes exciting new life into a classic while standing as a great RPG all its own.

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Mar 11, 2020

Murder by Numbers successfully blends a Phoenix Wright-style visual novel with a Picross-style puzzle game by making each aspect great in its own right.

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Jan 27, 2020

Kentucky Route Zero is a beautiful poetry generator in the body of a point-and-click adventure game.

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8 / 10.0 - Wattam
Dec 16, 2019

Wattam is a weird and wild fever dream of a game, but it's the most enjoyable fever dream I've ever had.

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Sep 4, 2019

Monster Hunter World: Iceborne adds loads of impressive monsters and tons of quality-of-life improvements to an already incredible game.

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9 / 10.0 - FAR: Lone Sails
Aug 16, 2019

Far: Lone Sails is a gorgeous little game with an incredible soundtrack and a journey packed full of both stressful and serene moments alike.

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Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is a fun, if fairly simple, comic book beat-em-up that's enjoyable alone or with friends alike.

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6.6 / 10.0 - Defector
Jul 11, 2019

Defector is fun, but shallow mechanics and a brief, jumbled story keep it from being the appealing spy game it starts out as.

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