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816 games reviewed
75.6 average score
80 median score
64.8% of games recommended

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4 / 10.0 - Accident
Mar 1, 2023

Accident doesn’t look good, runs poorly, controls even worse, and feels like it’s in bad taste more often than not. The basic premise makes little sense, but it does have an excellent soundtrack of all things. If you’re feeling morbid and want to rescue breath a 13-year-old whose mom is dead in the front seat then get help and still avoid this game.

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Mar 1, 2023

The Redress of Mira is an oddly titled, terrible experience.  It never plays well, and never looks good. It will, however, get you a lot of achievement points in a relatively short period of time.

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8.6 / 10.0 - Scars Above
Feb 28, 2023

Mad Head Games' first foray into the cinematic third person games doesn't try to reinvent the formula, yet offers an engaging, memorable and atmospheric adventure that I can wholeheartedly recommend to any fan of the genre who's able to appreciate the game's relatively limited scope.

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Feb 23, 2023

Theatrhythm Final Bar Line is an awesome rhythm game. There’s plenty of content to unlock, tonnes of songs to listen and play along to, and the option combat system adds onto the core gameplay mechanics in such a way that doesn’t hinder it but enhances the experience. I love it.

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Feb 23, 2023

Chef Life: A Restaurant Simulator is the best kind of laidback experience you could ask for. Being able to cook meals at your own pace as well as making the restaurant your own space feels cathartic and you could spend hours unlocking and upgrading meals. Not to mention how you decorate your restaurant to appeal to certain crowds, building your own wardrobe, etcetera. A Michelin-star worthy game.

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4.5 / 10.0 - Blood Bowl 3
Feb 23, 2023

It frustrates me that I have to leave Blood Bowl 3 with a middling review, but despite the solid core gameplay, everything around it frustrates me too much for me to continue playing. These issues may be fixed in the future, but at the moment I struggle to recommend this game to fans of Warhammer, strategy, or possibly even the more hardcore Blood Bowl fan.

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Feb 22, 2023

Grim Guardians: Demon Purge is a good action platformer that comes together remarkably well. Another score for Inti Creates’ catalogue of fun 2D platformers.

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2.5 / 10.0 - Remoteness
Feb 22, 2023

There is a lot in Remoteness that could have worked out well on paper, but the game’s good ideas clash with a disastrous execution where even the basic controls are nearly unusable and almost all elements of the game are severely unfinished and often straight up not working, making it near impossible to even aim and shoot at enemies.

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8.4 / 10.0 - Atomic Heart
Feb 20, 2023

Atomic Heart is an excellent game, and it’s an incredible debut title from Mundfish.  Clever storytelling, massive set pieces, fun combat, and more make this one easy to recommend.  Hell, it’s on Game Pass Day One, so go pre-install it already and enjoy this ridiculous ride.

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harm0nica
Feb 17, 2023

For fans and newcomers alike, this game is a triumph and needs to be experienced. PLAY THIS GAME.

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8.5 / 10.0 - Wild Hearts
Feb 16, 2023

Wild Hearts was low on my list for 2023.  After spending 30 or so hours with it I’m stunned.  It is an incredible first effort from the team at Omega Force.  Mixing Monster Hunting with Green Lantern crafting works beautifully.  I hope this series is around for a very long time, because this game is excellent.

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3 / 10.0 - Wanted: Dead
Feb 14, 2023

After spending 12 or so hours with review code, I’ve come to the conclusion that frankly, this game just isn’t very good

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Harm0nica
7 / 10.0 - Ten Dates
Feb 14, 2023

It may overstay its welcome in the end, but fans of the first game will have a lot of fun playing this. Are Twenty Dates on the horizon? Only time will tell.

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Feb 12, 2023

It plays ok, looks decent, and is an easy 1000 gamerscore for a couple of bucks.

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2 / 10.0 - 8-ball pocket
Feb 12, 2023

This feels like it’s a cheap Gamerscore game, but it’s neither cheap enough or easy enough to get the full 1000 achievement points.  If you can get this for a couple of bucks on sale it might be worth frilling away your time, but even then I’d say give this game a pass.

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9 / 10.0 - Hogwarts Legacy
Feb 6, 2023

Hogwarts Legacy borrows a lot of design choices and ideas from other open-world titles, and yet, it creates a truly unique product, unlike any title in the genre, with a true focus on world-building rather than non-stop combat encounters. It’s a game that should be experienced, even by those who aren’t Potter fans at all.

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8 / 10.0 - TRANSIRUBY
Feb 6, 2023

Although TRANSIRUBY isn’t particularly evocative, it’s a solid Metroidvania through and through. Completion is a couple of hours, and its slow pacing makes it a game that I can recommend to beginners of the genre.

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2.5 / 10.0 - Castle Renovator
Feb 2, 2023

The idea of cleaning, repairing, and building ancient European houses and castles was an appealing one.  Unfortunately, Castle Renovator fails to be enjoyable by any metric.

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7.8 / 10.0 - Chained Echoes
Feb 1, 2023

Despite my frustrations with the combat system, there’s a lot of good you’ll find in Chained Echoes. I can easily recommend this game for any Super Nintendo era role-playing game. A beautiful rose with a very sharp thorn.

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Feb 1, 2023

Fashion Police Squad is smart, plays pretty well, and doesn’t overstay its welcome.   It’s priced at $20 on Steam, and if that holds true for the Xbox launch then this one is an easy recommendation for any lover of first-person shooters and fashion.

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