Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Reviews
Horizon Forbidden West is a great open world adventure, especially as a sequel, with all the slow motion dino hunts you loved last time but bigger, all the noble questing but nobler, and all the high stakes raised even higher.
Open Roads is a well-observed, empathetic story about families and secrets, wrapped up in some lovely art and with barnstorming voice acting performances at the heart of it. It's short but bittersweet.
This Black Isle-style literary RPG puts player agency above aesthetics, with engrossing results.
Its foundations are sound, but Bulwark: Falonceer Chronicles is ultimately quite an aimless and exhausting kind of citybuilder, too fussy to be truly relaxing, and lacking the depth to compete with more ambitious management builders.
A Civ-like with neat ideas, but half-formed fundamentals and messy execution make your decisions feel less than impactful.
A repetitive dungeon dive with high stakes hand-to-hand.
A grand action RPG adventure where you'll make travel plans and have them disrupted by a vengeful griffin whose wing you'd whacked two hours earlier.
Returning to its interwar period roots, Alone in the Dark successfully reworks and expands the original game's scenario and characters, but its exploration, puzzle solving and combat largely stick to now familiar survival horror routines.
A tormented action fantasy that has heart, imagination and style in spades.
A satisfying daily loop turns into a speedy momentum in this open world farming game, but its early access release raises questions that need answers.
A poor (and bored) man's Avatar, Outcast: A New Beginning is a tedious open world shooter that simply doesn't have anything new to say.
A quick adventure with extremely easy puzzling, but it's nonetheless a joy to exist in.
Zoria is systems-heavy and a bit janky and undercooked in places, but it's a hearty RPG with a lot of spirit and great promise.
General clunk, confusing crafting, and a numbers chase make this survival game a tedious grind in its current state.
More offroading excellence from the series formerly known as Spintires, although its scientific theme is not as interesting as it could be.
Berserk Boy is a dashing action platformer that borrows from the greats, and builds frantic, ever-changing movesets on top.
There are a few rough edges here and there, but The Thaumaturge is a compelling and meaty detective RPG with a rich and reactive plot, and whose branching storylines really let you walk the line between vice and virtue.
A properly transportive trip to an island full of jerks - if you look past the clunky combat and immersion-sapping progress gates.
A handsome remaster of an already modern-feeling Star Wars FPS, but even Nightdive's welcome updates can't disguise some of its older, more obtuse edges.
A familiar yet solid revival of late 90s FPS action that brings back a few annoyances but still sticks the landing.