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While the setting and inspirations are Filipino through and through, the themes of friendship, love, loss, and acceptance in this visual novel are universal.
Bungie sticks the landing as it finally brings together the threads of its epic first saga.
Much of Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is more of the same gruelling beauty - but a shift to explict storytelling and signposting means its essence as a living, evolving shared text is lost.
While Still Wakes the Deep is a beautiful work of atmosphere and tension, all that can be shattered by its strictly linear trappings.
Skald is a propulsive throwback RPG that exudes grisly character, though its commitment to tradition holds it back in a genre rife with competition.
More than just its nostalgic visuals, Crow Country is funny, self-aware, and extremely hard to put down.
With Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, Sayonara Wild Hearts developer Simogo weaves together interlocking puzzles, infinite timelines, and supernatural mischief with only minimal clumsiness.
It starts with a bump, but played the right way, V Rising offers riches few other crafting survival games can match.
Hellblade 2 continues Senua's story with grace, confidence, surprising brutality and thundering conviction.
While its battles can be surprisingly punishing and occasionally uneven, there's a lot of heart in this gorgeous turn-based tactics anthology, and the scale of its ambition just about sings through.
Bleak realism meets absurdist fairytale in a stylish, surreal, and astonishingly surefooted - if mechanically unadventurous - exploration of faith, free will, and demonic temptation.
Watcher, who worships her god the ALLMOTHER, must learn the language of resistance and uncover a thousand-year-old lie, in this intense and intimate narrative adventure.
Explore a bright vision of subterranean nature in this astonishingly rich Metroidvania.
Supergiant's first ever sequel may feel very comfortable and familiar, but Hades' best weapon remains the power of surprise.
Sand Land proves once again that Akira Toriyama and video games are a perfect match.
After a brutal start, No Rest For the Wicked's early access build settles into a compelling gameplay loop, but a lack of standout moments tempers expectations.
Stellar Blade has a fair bit of weirdness, but its killer tunes and vibey, flow-state combat - plus a transformative hard mode - are enough to leave you entranced.
There's a confidence to Manor Lords that belies its one-person development, and what's there can be spellbinding, but it's a pastoral idyll that still needs significant development.
What Tales of Kenzera lacks in creative game design it makes up for in vital, passionate storytelling.
A big throwback RPG that doesn't meaningfully mess with Suikoden's 30-year-old formula.