Christian Donlan
Improvements abound, but Knack's adventures still suffer from a lack of charm.
Clickers meet twin-sticks in a game that will eat your time like no other.
Housemarque has just made the game of its career.
Beautiful, strange and sometimes a bit fiddly, Tokyo 42 offers a dazzling toybox to explore.
Pared-back and wonderfully focused, this is a welcome blast of Burnout magic.
Tequila Works conjures a powerful spell from seemingly familiar elements.
This ruminative travel game is beautiful, poised, and a little predictable.
Llamasoft's latest is one of its best.
Sony's superhero series has lost none of its thrills - or its wayward nature - in the shift to PS4.
Ubisoft's wayward winter sports game is at its best in moments of solitude and exploration.
Does the successor to Ico and Shadow of the Colossus live up to its lineage? It does so much more.
Despite the scrappiness, there is something special about this oddball Buffy-alike.
Great art and a distinct approach to rhythm action makes this a brilliantly horrible twitch experience.
There are showier VR games out there, for sure, but this is a nice thing to return to once you've had your fill of gimmicks.
Virginia's an astonishing piece of narrative design, and a game that goes where few others are capable of following.
Live action games rise again, just about, in this clumsy but earnest adventure.
A playful examination of the relationship between human and machine, and a focused, entertaining puzzler.
At best, Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme VS Force is a competent but dull beat-em-up with a few neat mechanics, and at worst a cluster of battles mostly controlled by the game’s AI, with only a small amount of help from the player.
A lovely setting can't quite make up for a game that plays things a little too safely.
Playdead's follow-up to Limbo is a superior game in every way.