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

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Oct 6, 2025

A teenage slice-of-life tale, an energy-management challenge and a satire of diet culture – this indie award-winner is a flavoursome treat

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Oct 2, 2025

The follow-up to Ghost of Tsushima leans into its young protagonist's thirst for bloody vengeance

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Sep 24, 2025

Supergiant's successor is exemplary sequel-craft – more doesn't always mean better, but here variety is the spice of afterlife

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Sep 17, 2025

Familiar and predictable, but also well-honed and significantly less juvenile, the fourth Borderlands game is a blast

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Konami's lavish remake of Hideo Kojima's PS2 masterpiece swaps in slick controls and stunning visuals, but leaves the eccentric espionage drama as gloriously unhinged as ever

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Aug 15, 2025

This Cosa Nostra caper has few fresh ideas to revitalise the cover shooter, but benefits from a well-researched time and place

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This high-fantasy life simulator is brimming with Hobbit-holes but lacks the Tolkienian depth to maintain your interest

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Jul 16, 2025

Given that its hero can smash through any barrier – which is delightful fun in itself – Nintendo's new 3D platformer has a surreal freeform audacity

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This remake is a nostalgia fest of grabs, spins, flips and skids – and a stiff, even occasionally humiliating test of skill

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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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