Dog Man: Bark in Action from developer Floor 84 and publisher Mindscape represents its IP and serves its audience quite well. It’s an easy platformer that doesn’t do too much to frustrate, but does enough to challenge the younger gamers out in the world who love the series. It’s a cool game that doesn’t go above its pay grade.
t’s brutal with its narrative, which drives the experience, and does its best to keep the journey interactive through its repetitive gameplay elements. It’s a good journey to take, but only if you’re prepared for it.
Untouched, not remade or remastered, the collection brings what it brought originally, and adds some goodies to help make the overall experience a bit deeper.
Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters Melee Remastered from Atari is a fun fighting game that isn’t more than it tries to be. It’s a button-mashing good time that may frustrate some players with some wonky controls, but will also make kaiju-loving fans super happy that they can control their favorite monsters and destroy each other and city environments.
Warrior Cats: Clans of the Forest from Bamtang Games is an excellent first step into the world of Warrior Cats on console. It brings some good exploration, wonderful customization, and a lot of gameplay elements that make the experience far deeper than expected. It does have some room for improvement, but it’s a good game that should make fans of the series happy.
Kingdom Rush 6: Genesis TD from Ironside Game Studio is a solid entry into the Kingdom Rush family. It brings a lot of the same content, more items and characters to create solid strategy, and a fair amount of difficulty to make it challenging.
Well Dweller from developer Kyle Thompson is a spectacularly dark and wonderful Metroidvania action-adventure. It does nearly everything right to keep the game interesting and engaging without too much pomp and circumstance along the way.
Jackbox Party Pack 12 from developer Jackbox Games brings all new games to the table without relying on older, more successful titles to prop them up. The latest release has some good times in it, but not all games stick the landing.
Final Fantasy Resonance from Square Enix is another wonderful adventure within the Final Fantasy family album. It’s a fun story with great, innovative turn-based action, and it looks gorgeous. One of my surprise hits for 2026.
Tales of Eternia Remastered from developer TOSE is a fun game with a strong narrative that still maintains its RPG roots. The gameplay lacks its once-innovative variety and still feels like an early-2000s title at its core. Still, this old title has some good charm.
SiN: Reloaded, from developer Nightdive Studios and publisher Atari, is a solid return to an older FPS experience. It improves upon the genre’s evolved design without trying to push beyond its original release’s intentions.
ACE Combat 8: Wings of the Theve from Bandai Namco Aces Inc. is a marvelous, beautiful dogfighting flight simulator.
While the game offers great bonus content and countless hours of gameplay, it doesn’t dramatically improve on the original games.
NASCAR 26 from developer iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations is fun, with enough modes and detail to keep it engaging, and it seems welcoming to new racers through several modes. Graphically, it’s not the most gorgeous racing game I have seen, but it makes up for what it lacks in graphics with strong gameplay.
Monowave from Studio BBB Inc. is an incredibly creative, addictive, and fun puzzle platformer. It has amazing level and puzzle design, wrapped in a cute, simple narrative. The game ramps up the difficulty at times to offer a frustrating challenge, but nothing that goes against what the game is trying to achieve.
Ghost of Yotei: The Complete Edition is worth your time and attention. Its expansion, Echoes of Sekigahara, adds a strong narrative to the overall body of work, while Most Wanted mode will remind players how much fun the gameplay can be. Combined with additional goodies and a great base game, it is truly a ‘complete’ edition of Atsu’s story.
Welcome to Elderfield from developer Chris Cote and publisher Kwalee is a horror-filled cozy game that offers plenty of questing content, a well-designed farming and crafting system, and features just enough turn-based combat to deliver a cornucopia of fun. While it has a few minor, correctable issues, it’s an enjoyable overall gameplay experience.
Garfield: Escape from Monday from developer OSome Studio is a good game that meets the standards of a 3D platforming experience. While it could have used a bit more enemy presence, the controls, levels, and overall game are still fun and make good use of the IP.
Silent Hill: Townfall from developer Screen Burn and publisher Konami is a step in a new and right direction for the old series. Relying more on stealth than fighting and focusing more on the narrative that builds a compelling mystery makes for a good and terrifying time.
Crimson Moon from developer ProbablyMonsters is a gorgeous action RPG roguelike that is quite the uphill battle at the get-go. Still, thanks to good backend and frontend rewards, it makes the difficulty worthwhile. The controls do need some work, as do consistent updates, but in the end it’s more fun than not.