Guardian's Reviews
This gripping adventure set in a hellish realm filled with gorgeous gods and monsters is well worth the years it took to make
This is a gripping tale of crime families, sharp shooting and sharper suits – but has this remaster lost some of Mafia's charm?
Awe Interactive's hellbound original finds the music at the heart of the first-person shooter
Derek Yu's influential cave-delving game is updated for PS4 and PC and expands the magic – with turkeys
Feel the polygonal burn as super-speed graphics bring old-fashioned car chases a fresh thrill
This extraordinary game tests you to the limit – even as it insists that it absolutely does not exist
The legendary skateboarding sim is back in a brilliant rerelease that offers a portal to the past
Colorado is a cold and violent den of outlaws in this characterful action game that gives players choices over its benighted society, but lacks a distinct hook
With genre music battles and stylish design, this should be great – but it can't decide whether it's a third-person fighter or a rhythm-action game
The player in this TV series tie-in game is more like a frustrated foot soldier than a gangland kingpin
From craggy snow-topped mountain ranges to swooping desert valleys to bustling cities, the landscape is alive with detail.
While the game’s style is like a Homeric epic seen through the panel of a comic book, the soundtrack of melancholic twanging guitar complicates the theme to something new and unexpected, a kind of undead western. It’s slickly compelling stuff, if repetitive after a few hours and, invariably, punitive.
Unleash your inner warrior and wreak havoc in this deck-building game's series of exhilarating face-offs, now available for Apple devices
This silly multiplayer online game is like a Teletubbies-style athletics tournament, and is a good entry point for the battle royale curious
It might be made of papercraft, but Origami King has a lot of structural integrity, and unexpected depth. If you don’t fold at the tricky battle mechanics, the reward is an elevated, postmodern delight.
Inspired by a 1950s sci-fi horror movie, Carrion turns you into a malign marauding blob, swallowing scientists whole
Röki’s pleasing aesthetics are well-matched by an absorbing story that always keeps you on your guard.
Glitches aside, this sequel to Beneath a Steel Sky is another absorbing journey into Union City
Ultimately it doesn’t matter who you’re fighting or why. What matters is the fight itself, the spectacle and the flow. Superhot’s self-directed choreography emerges triumphant; stylish, dynamic and gripping.
The Czech studio best known for point-and-click adventures Samorost and Machinarium brings its idiosyncratic genius to the puzzle platformer