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Hohokum is inventive, beautiful and relaxing, especially for players who won't freak out when they're unsure of exactly what to do next.
Ultimate Evil Edition is an admirably cultivated realization of Diablo III's hidden ecosystem of rules, action, and randomly generated loots.
Surgeon Simulator Anniversary Edition finds fun in frustration by laying out vague goals that can only be completed by mastering awkward controls.
CounterSpy goes heavy on style, by Dynamighty's bid for replayability fizzles around shallow shooting galleries.
Infamous: First Light is all gameplay no heart. The action that made Second Son feel so tight is back, but it lacks the earlier game's excellent story and design.
EA Tiburon delivers a Madden game to be proud of in Madden NFL 15, thanks in large part to a clear emphasis on bringing new fans into the fold.
Is Dark Souls 2's second expansion a song of ice and fire? Nope, that's ash, not snow.
Metro Redux is the physical realization of 4A Games' impressive, admirable ambition.
The Walking Dead: Season 2 is a triumph of interactive storytelling, from beginning to end.
Shadowgate is a loving recreation of a seminal point-and-click adventure, with a few modern touches tacked onto a thoroughly 1987 chassis.
Destiny is a good game, but not a great one. You'll want to spend tens of hours with it, but you'll wish certain things could be better all the while.
NHL 15 offers stepped up physics and superb visuals, but it's a regression for the series due to a significant number of missing features.
Hyrule Warriors is a well-made, sometimes simultaneously dumb and brilliant good time.
No Goblin's open-world puzzle game puts the player in control of a spinning limousine, and things only get weirder from there.
Lichdom: Battlemage is a fun magic-driven shooter with a deep crafting system, but repetition creeps in across its 20-plus-hour playing time.
The Sims 4 killed my girlfriend with fire. It's the same quirky, oddball good time it's always been.
Super Smash Bros. for 3DS isn't perfect, but it comes very close.
Gauntlet is just as chaotic as its predecessors, but more refined and less haphazard too.
Forza Horizon 2 is light on challenge, heavy on fun, delivering one of the most exciting and enjoyable racing games in years.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor nears perfection, but the demands of a scripted narrative work against its freeform structure.