88 Heroes is an excellent 2D platformer that makes great use of a unique premise to make it infinitely replayable.
River City: Knights of Justice is an excellent beat 'em up on the whole.
Micro Machines World Series is a great buy for anyone who enjoyed prior entries in the series or simply wants a great racing game that the whole family can enjoy.
Master X Master is an outstanding MOBA for both veterans of the genre and newcomers alike.
Super Cloudbuilt is an impressive upgrade from the original.
Crashday: Redline Edition is an excellent pickup for anyone who loves intense racing action.
Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth continues the trend of the first game and improves upon its combat.
Time Recoil is an outstanding top-down strategy game that gives off the appearance of a top-down shooter.
Featuring an enormous roster of over 200 characters with revamped gameplay, WWE 2K18 is a solid upgrade from last year's game.
Super Lucky's Tale is a fine 3D platformer.
Summon Night 6: Lost Borders excellently brings together visual novels and tactical RPGs. Fans of the visual novel portion may be turned off a bit by the English voice-over work, but the story itself is amusing.
DOOM VFR is an outstanding, but limited, game. The lack of arcade and multiplayer content hurts the overall package, but it does its sole purpose of replicating the campaign in VR incredibly well. The fat has been trimmed from it resulting in an "all killer, no filler" approach that keeps the tension and action levels at a high point that exceeds even the base campaign from the reboot. Anyone who enjoyed that and wants to play it in VR should do so if they have a Vive or a PlayStation VR.
Aside from sub-par sound design, Gear.Club Unlimited offers up an outstanding racing experience for Switch. It straddles the line nicely between offering up a sim-infused experience while keeping the on-track action fast and exciting. The amount of racing types available is impressive and the sense of progression makes it easy for a quick play session to turn into a marathon.
Tiny Metal doesn't copy the Advance Wars formula — it improves it.
Under Night In-Birth Exe: Late[st] brings new additions to the table, but doesn't offer massive improvements over the games that came before it.
The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is a must-buy fighting game compilation.
Trailblazers is a fantastic game that blends racing and a team-based dynamic to craft a memorable experience.
Combining the same kind of fast-paced fun that worked so well years ago with a picture-perfect progression model, Horizon Chase Turbo is exactly the kind of arcade-inspired racing game the industry has needed.
Fox n Forests is a great game, but does wind up being slotted a bit below something like Shovel Knight. The core platforming and action-oriented combat work well, as does the seasonal shifting mechanic.
Onrush is the finest off-road racer ever made.