Set in an Amazon-like fulfilment centre, this satirical adventure has interesting ideas but fails to adequately explore them
With genre music battles and stylish design, this should be great – but it can't decide whether it's a third-person fighter or a rhythm-action game
BioWare's shooter jets promisingly into battle on a stunning alien world, but what unfolds is patchy
Pitting you as a doctor turned bloodsucker protecting London from other vampires, this action role-player only fitfully explores its moral setup
Lacking the sharpness needed by both shooters and comedy, High on Life is a low point in the gaming calendar.
Poorly stapled-on mechanics and a general lack of polish make Breakpoint's open-world tactics simply not worth the time.
I find myself thinking back to a Gabe Newell quote from the book Half Life 2: Raising the Bar, regarding the game's large portions of missing content. "It doesn't matter what we cut, so long as we cut it and it gives us the time to focus on other things." I feel like this outlook is more pertinent than ever; there are too many games being released these days for them to waste players' time in the way Battlemage does. Editing in game design is as important as it is in writing or filmmaking. Get to the point. Respect both the time and financial investment of your audience. Above all else, don't send me chasing after the goddamn lorry.
Beyond the shock value of its demonic horrors, this survivalist city-builder has little to recommend it.
Necromunda is a sight to behold, but it's undermined by wonky shooting, superfluous mechanics, and bugs.
Gangs of Sherwood shows initial promise with its creative setting and colourful combat but runs out of steam well before the end of its already brief running time.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong offers an impressively flexible story, but that can't save it from its mediocre writing and scattershot game design.
There's merit in Ravenbound's kinetic combat, but the game's ambition is undermined by technical issues and an empty world.
As a prohibition-era mob boss, you're at war with rival gangs as well as the police in this ambitious, if uneven, gangster sim
The Swedish studio's latest offering tracks a plane-crash survivor as she grapples with her new, terrifying reality
Colorado is a cold and violent den of outlaws in this characterful action game that gives players choices over its benighted society, but lacks a distinct hook
The granular gameplay in this post-apocalyptic strategy game becomes an administrative headache, and the story is presented with all the drama of an engineering textbook
There's much joy to be had building freight networks and watching cities grow … but what about the real-world pitfalls?
With weapons including a firestorm revolver, the shooting is thrilling and stupendously violent – but the vast post-apocalyptic setting is a letdown
Spidey swings through the canyons of Manhattan in eye-popping style, but the set-piece supervillain showdowns are confused and messy
This lush and dynamic RPG prides itself on the historical accuracy of its recreation of 15th-century feudal Bohemia