Cruelty Squad celebrates feeling bad in surprising ways, all of them fun.
Biomutant's stunning world barely survives the painful narration, broken progression, and dearth of stuff to do.
Strikers walks and talks like Persona 5, but no social game and bland combat make it one strictly for gigafans.
Some nice characters and stories nested in an astounding open world, undercut by jarring bugs at every turn.
Doom Eternal is a ceaseless, panicked nightmare that pushes you to point and click with more skill and style than ever before.
Red Dead Redemption 2's stark, slow depiction of America's fading frontier is a monumental work straining against stubborn mission design and stability problems.
An endless font of bad jokes and cool guns in the series' most vapid story yet, Borderlands 3 skates by on watching numbers fly and goons explode.
Jesse's telekinesis joins Half-Life 2's juiced gravity gun in the videogame physics toy hall of fame.
Youngblood's gorgeous, terrible world is worth exploring, despite a slight narrative and oppressively boring progression systems.
Sea of Solitude is a gorgeous adventure that knows its way around mental illness, but doesn't make great use of the medium to tell its story.