James Cunningham
SuperHot VR is one of the best games VR has seen yet.
Drive!Drive!Drive! has the heart of a great arcade racer, but isn’t quite there yet.
Digital pinball can’t replace real pinball, but it does an excellent job of approximating it.
While Xanadu Next is buggy and its menus just plain busted for controller use, the rest of the game is a wonderful trip through a classic JRPG world.
Slayaway Camp is a brilliant and funny block-sliding puzzle game that’s drenched in good-humored gore.
Yomawari: Night Alone is a game that will be remembered more for its tone and story than gameplay, but that’s enough to recommend it.
DoDonPachi Resurrection is a monster of an arcade shooter.
Gonner is a single gameplay mechanic away from being a fantastic run & gun roguelike, and if you don’t mind passing up a set of options, that problem can be ignored.
Blue Revolver is a shooter that meets its audience more than halfway.
By the end of Thumper, the speed is insane, the music wild and oppressive, and the feeling of just barely holding on to a beast that wants to send you flying so it can gnaw your bones is disturbingly strong.
The result of all its elements is a shooter that requires thought and planning, but Thoth won’t let you go light on the arcade reflexes, either.
RunGunJumpGun is simple arcade action taken to its extremes.
The Metronomicon is bright and upbeat fusion of two genres that shouldn’t fit together as well as they do.
DOGOS is close to being a fantastic free-roaming shooter and only held back by a few small issues and a giant glaring one.
While the PC port is a little janky, the actual game of Little King’s Story is as instantly likeable as it’s ever been.
Time Machine VR is the kind of game you tend to see at the start of a new technology.
Anarcute is a warm and fuzzy, utterly adorable game that plays with mob violence and social unrest.
Score Rush Extended is a fantastic remake of what had already been an excellent shooter.
Lumo is a big, puzzley, dungeon-romping love letter to the history of gaming, filled with references to a huge number of titles but still more than able to carve out its own identity.
Samorost 3 is a fantastic point & click adventure game, and a perfect sequel to the previous two.