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Fans and newcomers alike will find an accessible, compelling real-time strategy experience in Age of Wonders 4.

If you're after a different, more cerebral kind of dungeoneering experience, Desktop Dungeons: Rewind might just be the adventure you're looking for.

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is bigger than Fallen Order in every way, offering excellent combat and traversal, as well as a fantastic story.

Cassette Beasts is the best monster collecting game I've ever played, with sensational combat and a wonderful world to explore.

For a game designed by a relatively small indie studio, Strayed Lights is more than competent in terms of gameplay and combat.

Afterimage looks great and is fun enough to play, but it's a bit lacking in creativity and makes some questionable design decisions.

Coffee Talk 2: Hibiscus and Butterfly is a relaxing visual novel, but make sure you've played the first game before starting this one.

Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores offers more of the same with some new ideas, yet it's still well worth playing, and looks gorgeous.

Mr Sun's Hatbox blends a whole lot of fantastic ideas together, offering great variety, and a unique take on a familiar genre.

Advance Wars 1+2: Re-boot Camp feels like it's for the fans who loved the games back on Game Boy Advance, and despite some issues, it's a superb package overall.

While it suffers from some interesting glitches, Dead Island 2 puts some much-needed fun and mayhem back into the zombie apocalypse sandbox.

Ib is a truly unsettling horror game, with charming characters and sound design that will send shivers down your spine.

Beyond the Long Night is an entertaining twin stick roguelike, but the constant time pressure it provides won't appeal to everyone.

Hunt the Night doesn't reinvent the genre, but with a gorgeous art style and variety in combat, there's still plenty to love about it.

Minecraft Legends is a surprisingly deep strategy title that embodies what people love about the franchise, adding much more along the way.

The Mageseeker is another reason to be excited about where Riot are going to take League of Legends in the future.

I don’t mean to be down on a smaller dev who has made a competent enough indie shooter, but I feel this genre is at a point where if a new entry isn’t doing something unique, then it needs to stand out some other way, and Hyperviolent just doesn’t. If you’re after a few hours spent mashing demon brains and roaming around looking for keys and matching doors, then Hyperviolent has you covered. If you’re after something fresh and new, maybe not so much.

Vernal Edge is a great Metroidvania game, with deep and satisfying combat, a whole lot of freedom to explore, and gorgeous pixel art.

Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection is a wonderful bundle of action RPGs that will appeal to new and old fans alike.

Murderous Muses has a whole lot of interesting ideas, but because of them it struggles to tell a cohesive story.