Entertainium's Reviews
Ys X is a less ambitious game but still manages to convey what the series has been going for for decades, which will surely please newcomers and long time fans.
The Looney Tunes gang are back and ready to tackle a Wacky World of Sports in a forgettable combo of games better played elsewhere.
Digital Eclipse’s debut in the interactive videogame documentary genre gets even bigger, showing more of one of the most important companies in the business.
With incredibly accessible gameplay, colorful graphics, and lots of content to be played, Victory Heat Rally is a ton of fun.
One of the NES’ best action adventure side-scrollers, Shadow of the Ninja, is back and you shouldn’t miss it.
The Plucky Squire is a delightful light-hearted adventure full of whimsy and charm which both adults and children should enjoy.
Arranger is a palate-cleansing puzzle game which hits all its notes with fine precision.
Dead Rising Deluxe Remaster is a successful rework of one of Capcom’s most off-the-wall games.
While it does little that is genuinely new, and exists firmly in the shadow of its forebears, Sumerian Six is a thoroughly competent addition to the small canon of real-time stealth tactics games. It is a must-play for any fan of the genre. While Artificer were sadly subjected to job losses this year by their owner-publishers Devolver, hopefully they will have the chance to make an even stronger contribution to stealth tactics in the future.
Games Workshop’s prolific videogame franchise strikes gold again with a terrific follow-up to one of its best entries to date with Space Marine 2.
While not necessarily the most out there game in terms of ideas or gameplay, what is here helps give Space Trucker plenty of legs, especially to someone like me who is naturally inclined to enjoy the mundane nature of hauling cargo, with the added hooks of having to do it in space. The setting is cool in its relative routine structure of playing a worker sometime in the future where it’s just another job like any other, which is exactly the type of sci-fi that most appeals to me. Whatever contract is out there, I’ll be sure to pop by and do my best, ten-4, breaker breaker.
Frostpunk 2 is an excellent next step in the evolution of the franchise, adding more complexity while not sacrificing the core gameplay.
Capcom and Marvel’s decades-long partnership is put on display in one of fighting games best compilations with Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics.
Astro Bot is one of the best platformers released in over a decade, oozing with content and fun scenarios that should appeal to just about every kind of player there is.
Then again, it’s nice to get the chance to play one of these games without having to resort to exploitative import prices or worse, ROMs and emulation. Given Sunsoft’s resolve to seeing this release through this time means that a whole new audience will get to do away with myths and legends about this series to find that these are fun and simple games very much worth checking out and adding to your digital gaming library wherever.
Ace Attorney Investigations Collection makes its case admirably by offering two of the most unique games in the series, including one that was previously unreleased outside of Japan.
Bringing some of the finest 2D games to date, the Castlevania Dominus Collection is a brilliant compilation that is helped even further with the surprise inclusion of a much needed rework of the game that started it all.
For those survival horror fans who can lean into the lo-fi, top-down aesthetic, Conscript will be an engaging fusion of familiar elements with an under-used setting. Its sometimes frustrating traditionalism and abyssal bleakness is unlikely to win over new recruits.
Star Wars Outlaws is a serviceable open-world game that makes great use of the license, but fails to provide much of a reason for non-believers to jump in.
Taking place in a crazy version of a not-so-far flung future, Mullet MadJack is a mad dash towards the finish, drenched in some of the best cyberpunk aesthetics I’ve ever seen in a videogame. Brazilian studio Hammer95’s debut game is an incredibly violent, blood-pumping adventure that keeps on giving, stage after stage of fast action and a level of excitement that’s comparable to the seminal indie classic Hotline Miami.