AltChar's Reviews
A cosy and cute Kiki's Delivery Service-inspired baking adventure where baking stuff and healing hearts go hand in hand, all wrapped up in a gorgeous hand-drawn Paris.
Planet Zoo 2 feels like Frontier listened to the people who spent years wrestling with the first game. The things that used to be a chore now take far less effort, and that leaves more room for the part I actually love: making a habitat look and feel right.
E-Day is the Gears game newcomers and hardcore fans have been waiting for, with a spectacular city-wide collapse and real heart.
One More Level’s first-person soulslike pairs slow parry duels with spells and guns in a plague-ridden Napoleonic Europe, with a few pacing and structure choices that may divide players.
Hellraiser: Revival is a bold horror title, one that feels like it doesn't belong in 2026, and that's what I admire about it the most, despite its shortcomings.
With around 80 hours of content, a story that outclasses the base game and performance that is finally stable, Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen caps Capcom's remarkable 2026 and gives the Arisen the adventure it deserved two years ago.
Order of the Sinking Star surprised me. I came in expecting a small, mobile-style stone pusher and found a big puzzle adventure with lovely music, real voice acting, and level design that keeps pulling you forward.
Galactic Racer is a well-designed arcade racer that's tightly built with an excellent single-player structure that rewards players focusing on repeat runs. Additionally, the multiplayer adds another layer of reward for players who are actually fans of the podracing culture in Star Wars. I would recommend Galactic Racer to almost every Star Wars fan.
Minecraft Dungeons II turned a reviewer who had avoided every Minecraft game on principle into a believer, thanks to a surprisingly engaging story, a deep gear system, and combat that turns out to be far more than button-mashing.
Farming Camp wants to be your next cosy obsession and mostly succeeds, right up until its teenage campers start bickering like they wandered in from a nastier game.
Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve made me feel like an idiot for the first few hours, and I’m grateful for it. Once I stopped expecting Top Gun and started flying the way the game wanted me to, it turned into one of the most immersive flying experiences I’ve ever had, backed by a grounded, surprisingly emotional story about a scared pilot wearing a dead man’s helmet and a presentation that comes very close to perfection.
The Alighieri's Circle: Dante's Bloodlines brings a combat-free descent into Dante's Hell, with clever trials and a weird, unsettling and personal atmosphere. However, it never really gets under your skin properly.
SiN Reloaded resurrects a forgotten 1998 shooter with sharper visuals, a toggle back to the original look, and just enough charm to awake a nostalgia in you if you're an older gamer or a curiosity if you're a younger one.
Beyond my expectations, EA Sports FC 27 feels like a game that has some ambition behind it, but it still has its own shortcomings. With continuous updates catered towards performance, I think EA can manage to make FC 27 a major upgrade over its predecessors.
Aniimo does something I didn't think a free-to-play game could pull off twice in two years: it made me forget I hadn't paid for it. Between a story I wasn't expecting to care about, an open world I could have wandered for days, and a cast of creatures I got attached to faster than I'd like to admit, this is a game that earns every comparison to the AAA space it keeps getting held up against.
Silent Hill: Townfall doesn't need to be a flawless game to make a statement, and it isn't. Its story is the real draw: three overlapping perspectives, an island drowning in mystery, and a slow-building dread that No Code clearly knows how to feed us with – one small bite at a time. The first-person shift is a gamble that mostly pays off, trading the series' more theatrical combat for something rawer and more vulnerable.
Well Dweller has its own identity, built in a charming fairy-tale premise, a cast of characters that you start to care about, and a tone that manages to find a balance between real darkness and humour, never allowing things to get too heavy.
It’s been a long time since I was as excited to play a game as I was for this one, and I can say that Control Resonant delivered that in almost every way that mattered.
Milestone manages to deliver a strong homage to the childhood days of playing pretend with toy cars with their new Hot Wheels Infinite Rush game.
Sharp writing, forgettable combat: The Blood of Dawnwalker is a solid vampiric RPG worth playing for its story and quests alone, if you can stomach the gameplay jank.