IGN's Reviews
Valheim is already a paragon of the survival crafting genre, with excellent art and music highlighting a world that generates endless exciting stories from only a few simple ingredients.
Two solid platformers in one; neither of which approaches the franchise's most dizzying heights.
Adol Christin shows us a good time as he grapples, glides, and wall-runs while mowing down innumerable monsters in Ys IX: Monstrum Nox-all while wearing some damn fine threads.
Persona 5 Strikers' simple real-time combat is consistently engaging, and its summer vacation story (while slimmed down) is a sequel nearly worthy of the '2' it lacks at the end of its title.
Little Nightmares 2 delivers similar stealth and scares to the original, but leaves less of a lasting impact.
Destruction AllStars can provide fun bursts of frantic car combat action, but never adds up to much more than that.
Blue Fire's compelling approach to 3D platforming makes parkour a blast in both its challenge rooms and moody world.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood has decent stealth going for it, but its weak story forces you into painfully mediocre combat too often to be worthwhile, wasting the potential of the World of Darkness universe.
Olija is a memorable 2D action platformer with great combat that is over all too soon with little reason to return.
Brilliantly paced and palpably tense, The Medium is a psychological horror adventure that's all thriller and no filler.
Skul: The Hero Slayer puts skull-swapping and fast combat front and center in this bone-afide retro rogue-lite.
Cyber Shadow's excellent gameplay, level design, variety, and music make it a great modernization of the classic Ninja Gaiden formula.
Rich, rewarding, and highly replayable, Hitman 3 is one of the barcoded butcher's best appearances.
Factorio is dauntingly complex, but offers almost endlessly enjoyable depth for optimizers and survival fans if you take the time to learn its systems.
Do you like Slay The Spire? If so, you should absolutely try Monster Train's more tactical spin on the deck-building roguelike, which literally layers on new ideas and has every bit as much depth and variety.
Please don't play Cyberpunk 2077 on a base Xbox One or PS4. It is a shockingly bad way to experience what is a fantastic RPG on better hardware.
Apart from a few inconsistencies with the relationships between its main characters, Hivebusters does everything a great Gears game should and then some.
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is a pretty but average-at-best VR shooter that comes with an impressive WW2 tribute in tow.
Through engaging puzzles and a captivating story, Call of the Sea provides an excellent, poignant adventure.
Cyberpunk 2077 throws you into a beautiful, dense cityscape and offers a staggering amount of flexibility in how you choose to take it from there.