Overloop's Falcon Age is a compelling action-adventure game and highly original, deeply satisfying falconry simulator, making it a feather in the cap for PlayStation VR.
Pathway is a workmanlike XCOM-lite whose breezy tone stumbles into some tired tropes.
An ambitious narrative adventure that mixes fun lore with fiddly mechanics.
My Time at Portia feels like it has a bounty of offerings, but there's not as much to the world as first appears.
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain makes a few much-needed tweaks to the old formula, but it's still just another bug hunt.
Despite its limitations, inventive use of the Switch and Joy-Cons pave the way for a novel VR experience that's more about creativity.
Weedcraft is a well-designed management sim with stylish art and catchy music. Generally, it does its job well. Managing things is hectic and engaging, and you can't afford to take your eye off the ball for too long, lest someone take advantage of your ignorance and kick you out of the market and into prison. However, its characters are stale, its dialogue is boring, and its depiction of ill people is really disgusting. These aren't minor flaws by any means and they drastically affect play.
Zanki Zero's strange blend of roguelike exploration, survival gameplay, and sci-fi character drama is truly unique, but lousy combat and a rough beginning stretch keep it from greatness.
As a spiritual successor to Burnout 3: Takedown, Dangerous Driving bottles up some of that Criterion magic, but these moments are fleeting and too many issues pile up to make it little more than a pretender.
Tropico 6 builds on strong foundations, honing detail and offering expansive new sandboxes in which to craft your ideal island nation.
Fantastic world design, exciting combat, and a seemingly unending sense of meaningful progression make it easy to get completely rapt by The Division 2.
PS4's MLB The Show 19 continues the series' upward trajectory with significant improvements to fielding and plenty of enjoyable new modes.
The World Next Door has fairly stereotypical characters, but it delivers some enjoyably frantic puzzle battles in the second half of its campaign.
Operencia transports you somewhere far, far away, and once you get there, you'll probably want to stay a while.
With Take Us Back, Telltale's Walking Dead meets its true ending with the grace it deserves.
Delightful and imaginative, Yoshi's Crafted World rewards your curiosity with the little things.
From Software takes its unique brand of challenging gameplay to the stealth-action genre, and delivers something unforgettable.
Baba is You is a clever, challenging indie puzzle game that often confounds, though not always in satisfying ways.
Ethereal's frustrating technical issues are alleviated by the satisfyingly challenge of its puzzles.
Hypnospace Outlaw is a time capsule of the late '90s internet that has a message for today.