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643 games reviewed
75.7 average score
80 median score
67.6% of games recommended

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This is a mystifying and provocatively slow-paced game with more celebrities than you would find on a Cannes red carpet

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Jun 10, 2025

The Nintendo Switch 2's flagship game is a winner, and often feels more like a journey with your friends than a straight competition

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May 28, 2025

Fortnite meets Elden Ring in a matchup where a three-person team faces so many high-speed challenges you may feel distinctly short-handed

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May 20, 2025

This 1950s-set game offers a gorgeous, fully destroyable map but makes baffling decisions on how to use it

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May 14, 2025

Set during Ecuador's 2002 World Cup qualifying campaign, this fascinating, semi-autobiographical game gives you control of the life of a soccer-mad eight-year-old

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May 9, 2025

This prequel takes a blunt force trauma approach to problem-solving and demon-killing, with a slower pace but more spectacular weaponry

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May 6, 2025

Build a card deck of landscape features; organise your territory on a Tetris-like playfield; battle enemies and bosses to progress. It might sound complicated, but this is an ingenious experiment in game design by combination

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Apr 30, 2025

This attempt to cosy-fi an immersive sim game is full of 'zany' gags as you rescue cats from a spaceship, but it gets a bit too saccharine

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Boasting a unique world, challenging combat and great writing, this RPG has a lot going for it, if only it didn't revel in its own mysteriousness so much

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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 12, 2025

Inkle's latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh school

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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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