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633 games reviewed
75.7 average score
80 median score
67.5% of games recommended

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Apr 11, 2025

Thoughtful design details and puzzles will keep you returning to an atmospherically uninhabited family mansion to search for a hidden room and family secrets

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Apr 4, 2025

A spell-casting high-school athlete ventures into the heart of southern folklore in this distinct yet uneven action adventure

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Mar 13, 2025

A fallen warrior trades in fighting for putting the kettle on, wandering round gardens and watering plants. Much more than cosy – it's healing

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Mar 5, 2025

This humorous management game puts you in charge of cultural institutions, creating entertaining displays on everything from natural history to the paranormal

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Feb 13, 2025

Obsidian's huge, heavily detailed fantasy world has a lot of variety and texture, and interesting people to meet - but the combat and exploration wear thin

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In a year that has given us not one but three Mario-themed RPGs, I was ready to be underwhelmed by Brothership. Yet thanks to captivating combat, varied platforming and well-judged difficulty, Brothership not only lives up to my childhood nostalgia for this series, but improves upon it. It is an inviting serving of sun-soaked delight at the beginning of a gloomy November.

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There is lots to do in this huge and beautiful fantasy world, but inconsistent writing and muted combat dull its blade

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Oct 12, 2024

This bundle of 50 new games from the creator of Spelunky offers an electrifying range of retro genres rebooted, from point-and-click horror to Pong

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Oct 9, 2024

This remake of the 2001 hit is frustratingly slow, long and filled with one-dimensional characters

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Bethesda's gigantic space RPG's first major expansion only highlights the game's fundamental limitations

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Oct 1, 2024

This voyeuristic life simulator depicts Arthur’s lonely life in his unassuming flat as he gets dragged into danger – but you’ll get the biggest thrills just from washing his dishes

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It's great to finally get to play as Zelda, but working out how to take an active part without being able to fight is rather hard work

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Sep 19, 2024

Meta spin on arts-and-crafty games has you helping an eccentric trio able to access the world outside their story to battle the evil Humgrump

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Sep 10, 2024

PC; Strange Scaffold Deep in the woods, hardbitten spec ops soldiers are having a proper falling out in this gleeful piece of pulp brilliance

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Sep 5, 2024

Fun-packed and brimming with personality, this full-length Astro Bot outing pays tribute to PlayStation history while pushing the console's capabilities

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On the verge of World of Warcraft's 20th anniversary, Blizzard appears to have pulled off a tentative return to form for this historic game

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Aug 27, 2024

Prior to this release, few would have heard of Chinese developer Game Science, but the studio has produced a totally original epic

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Aug 26, 2024

A genuinely likable new lead and intense attention to the mythology of the Star Wars films made this a nostalgic thrill

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Guide a mismatched team including a Navy Seer and a necro-medic through this smart, funny, and resolutely empathetic espionage thriller

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In this brilliantly surreal, slapstick cartoon puzzler set in a fictitious northern town, you (a junior salesman) help an array of weird characters with odd jobs

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