Elden Ring is one of those rare games that leads the industry by exemplifying with its open-world design and elaborate dungeon crawling, never-ending content that could fill several games. [Recommended]

Breath of the Wild is one of the best video games ever. Tears of the kingdom is even better. [Recommended]

One of the best video games of the year. An imaginative action platform game with tons of tributes to PlayStation's legacy. [Recommended]

Even if you expected that Shadows of the Erdtree would be good, I think it will exceed your expectations. [Recommended]

Hades II knows what to improve to be the best version of itself. [Recommended]

A superb remaster that brings back one of the best shooter games ever created. [Recommended]

A great port to Nintendo Switch of one of the best JRPG ever. If you haven't played Persona 5 Royal on PS4 or PS5, this is a perfect moment! [Recommended]

Arguably one of the best RPGs of this generation. Atlus expands its horizons with its own medieval fantasy world, and the results are amazing. With a very good plot, top tier turn-based combat and one of the best soundtracks ever composed by Shoji Meguro, Metaphor: ReFantazio is one of 2024's strongest GOTY contenders. [Recommended]

God of War Ragnarok isn’t just an amazing game and one of the best action adventures games in recent years, this game is also the legitimization of Sony’s way of making AAA games. [Recommended]

I can not find anything to reproach this port of God of War to PC. The masterpiece that was in 2018 is still valid today. The adaptation of its controls to the keyboard and mouse makes you forget the remote control after a few minutes of play. Thanks to the use of NVIDIA DLSS 2.0, those who have compatible cards can enjoy the title at 4K, 60 images per second, HDR and ultra graphics, having a complete next-generation experience. An essential in any PC library. [Recommended]

Not only does it pay homage to the 2005 classic very well, but it refines many situations and modernizes them to add more tension. One of the best remakes I've ever played, and also one of the best Resident Evil. [Recommended]

Funny and really beautiful. Real Racing 2 is one of the best racing games you can find on iOS devices.

Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth is many things, but, above all of them, I am left with the feeling of having played a Final Fantasy like those of yesteryear. [Recommended]

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is one of the most complete, varied, accessible and fun 2D platformer games ever made. Simply wonderful. [Recommended]

Resident Evil Requiem is two games in one, and both are among the best you're going to see in 2026. It perfectly combines the horror of Resident Evil 7 with the action of Resident Evil 4. [Recommended]

One of the best fighting games ever. Capcom has done magic with one of the most popular franchises in the world. [Recommended]

Blue Prince is one of those games that demonstrates a depth and excellence that we rarely see in the world of video games. [Recommended]

A rare experimental game that gives a huge importance to the player's choices, and that 's not bad at all.

The bravest Nintendo has shrugged off the easy sell of another Super Mario to embrace an adventure that smacks of plumberdom but has a completely different flavor. Donkey Kong and Pauline become a fun and endearing duo that demonstrates the potential of Switch 2 and shows us that taking other paths can also be successful. [Recommended]

A surprising metroidvania game with a lot of twists in terms of design and mechanics. [Recommended]

Silksong is one of the best games of this year. A marvellous adventure game with a great (and hard) combat system, an incredible sense of exploration, and tons of secrets and remarkables moments. [Recommended]

Vengeance shows that Atlus just keeps getting better and better at making re-releases. With upgraded resolution and performance, tons of content and some of the best fights that the SMT series has seen, Vengeance is a must-have for every JRPG fan that enjoys a good challenge. [Recommended]

My partner and I didn't want to let go of the controller, and if you go to it with a bit of grief for an industry that is sometimes rightly accused of a lack of creativity, this is the antidote you needed. [Recommended]

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is one of the best games of the year. That's something we all might have thought before we even played it, but it shouldn't belong to the group of deserving high marks, it should be in the select group of outstanding ones. Miles and Peter give us a hilarious adventure, full of necessary messages about asking for help when needed, and technically it is a delight for the senses. And it shows us that Insomniac is one of the fittest studios on the planet, and it's been that way for many years now. There will probably be bigger titans in 2023 when it comes to video games, but Marvel's Spider-Man deserves a place right after them. [Recommended]

Square Enix is a studio that hasn't left the PC behind, but it hasn't greatly benefited from it either. Mistakes are meant to be learned from, and after a Final Fantasy XVI that perhaps stumbled due to Luminous Engine, Rebirth is a solid, powerful, and visually stunning.[Recommended]

A port so good for consoles than you would have to consider trying it even if you are not specially interested on flight simulators. [Recommended]

Nothing in this Remastered is completely essential except Naughty Dog's work itself, which seems not to have aged one bit. [Recommended]

The God of War: Ragnarök PC version improves the quality of the PS5, with improvements in performance and shadows that generate a more polished and epic visual experience. [Recommended]

A much better port than the original The Last of Us Remastered. The game works perfectly on PC, offering one of the best action adventure games ever. [Recommended]

It achieves that sense of player satisfaction for which the first one became so famous, with puzzles that are not only well designed, but very well presented to build their rules. [Recommended]

Chicory is more than a game to picture. It is one of the best surprises I have had the pleasure to play. [Recommended]

Tekken 8’s generational leap is more evident than ever in this game. With 32 characters in its starting roster, a story mode that’s both bombastic and deeply personal, and an amazing game feel, it’s impossible not to recommend this game. [Recommended]

Nihon Falcom has done a spectacular job visually, giving it a beautiful cel-shaded style that brings the characters to life. If you've never played this series before, I envy you: this is the best introduction you're going to find. [Recommended]

It's probably the best videogame created by Josef Fares. A cooperative experience like no other, that pushes you to collaborate with other person in order to complete very imaginative situations. The variety is spectacular and the narrative very fun to follow. The coop-adventure definitive experience. [Recommended]

Square Enix has done its homework with a port that, although it remains at 30 fps, offers very high image quality in both docked and handheld modes, attempting to adapt the PS5 version rather than converting the PS4 version, which would have been the easy option. [Recommended]

Definitely, one of the biggest JRPG ever made. If you love the genre, you should play it.

A brilliant return. This is one of the best 3D platformers made by Nintendo, and now it is even better thanks to the online multiplayer and Bowser's Fury, a very enjoyable open world experience. [Recommended]

Pokémon Pokopia is what happens when you let other creatives breathe new life into an increasingly worn-out formula. It's fresh, innovative and addictive, yet without losing the essence of what has been drawing millions of fans for years — and along the way, it manages to pull in those of us who got left behind. [Recommended]

You've got to play it to understand it. If you liked Untitled Goose Game you will love this one too.

Phantom Liberty is a dark, complex storyline that makes you question your decisions at every step. With some of Cyberpunk 2077's most engaging missions & content, it is undoubtedly the return of CDPR to their best.

A brilliant return for the classic Dead Space with a great remake that looks amazing, and feels really good with all new options. [Recommended]

Nier Automata: The End of YoRHa Edition is a good port for Nintendo Switch that does what it needs to do: unfold the action of Nier Automata on the hybrid machine smoothly and consistently. [Recommended]

The best Destiny content ever with a great story, amazing action and marvelous design. [Recommended]

Ultimately, Death Stranding 2 is a good video game, even recommendable, but for me, it's not as good as Death Stranding, and that's what pains me the most. And, while I celebrate Kojima's authorship and courage, and I liked the game as a whole, in terms of narrative, which for me is always where the author excels, I struggled to connect with it as I did with the first one. [Recommended]

What Nixxes achieves is, once again, a tremendous success, and it was not easy with a Decima Engine that is demanding even for the best PC. The port of Horizon Forbidden West to computer is as good as it is beautiful. [Recommended]

Bigger, better and deeper than Like a Dragon, Infinite Wealth is the most addicting game that you are going to play this year if you love JRPG, and an emotive homage to RGG's long lasting Yakuza saga. [Recommended]

Reload is a great remake, not only because of the profound aesthetic change that modernizes the classic, but also because of the constant changes that you are discovering in every moment. [Recommended]

Alan Wake 2 tries to do many things. Some of them work better than others, but I still think we have to appreciate that effort for not being "the typical Triple-A". Not perfect, but different. [Recommended]

A new and fresh layer of contents for one of the best beat 'em up games ever made. [Recommended]

One of the best and more realistic RPGs that we've played ever.[Recommended]

The Last of Us Part I may not be the most necessary remake in history, which seeks a new audience for the new generation and also future viewers of the HBO series; but also aims to remain for posterity, giving a greater aesthetic cohesion between Part I and Part II. [Recommended]

Cocoon is so good that seems designed by angels. [Recommended]

It's like being trapped in Resident Evil's mansion, but with a lot of clever puzzles and weird characters. [Recommended]

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is one of the biggest surprises in the metroidvania genre and, in particular, in the PoP series. [Recommended]

Forget The Binding of Isaac, Mewgenics will be your new obsession. [Recommended]

Pentiment is absolutely focused on dialogue and a simple exploration, but with these ingredients alone it has managed to capture me thanks to the quantity and quality of the themes it deals with rarely seen in the video game industry. [Recommended]

Monster Hunter Wilds delivers superb action, customization, visuals and cutscenes and is certainly still king of its kind. It might however not please you if you're looking for an old-school hunting experience as this game leans much more into the newcomer side of the audience. There's handholding, a bit too much story going on and some monsters might feel underpowered against our ever-improving arsenal. Great game overall, hopefully it'll be better adjusted with TUs and a likely master rank expansion. [Recommended]

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has become "that" first game that presents the values of the new generation better than any other. [Recommended]

Undoubtedly, this sequel hid more surprises than we expected. [Recommended]

The return of Final Fantasy Tactics could be better, but the game keeps being awesome.

I thought Horizon: Forbidden West would be a worthy sequel that would expand on the outline of its first part, but this game does some very special and to some extent revolutionary things. [Recommended]

13 Sentinels is great. Its has one of the most impressive and surprising storylines in video games, with great strategic battles and a beautiful art style. [Recommended]

Besides being a roguelike of epic proportions, it's a masterclass in game design and marketing. [Recommended]

An amazing remake for two amazing JRPG. [Recommended]

I liked Deathloop, the hours that I have been with him have been entertaining and in no case has it been repetitive despite having to visit some situations with certain recurrence. However, Arkane has been very conservative in a proposal that I think could have given the player a little more freedom. Well cohesive in its mechanics, it is one point below the rest of the studio's games in the last decade in terms of level design, but it is enough to continue to be above the majority. He fails to be outstanding in almost anything he does, including the invasion mode with Julianna, but still a good title worth enjoying. [Recommended]

I have enjoyed exploring Sword of the Sea and its landscapes, aware that this sensory philosophy is what it aims to offer. However, its mechanics have potential that never quite come into their own.

A great example about how to create a great port of console's game for PC. Spider-Man Miles Morales is funny and very spectacular, but it could be more awesome with some innovation and fresh ideas.

Metroid Dread is a superb demonstration about how to make a 2D action platformer with tons of exploration and backtracking. Definitely, a must for Metroid fans. [Recommended]

Monster Hunter Rise returns the beloved action RPG series to a portable platform, bringing along the valuable quality of life lessons learned within MH World a couple of years ago. It’s swift and smooth, looks awesome and you just won’t be able to put it down for a good 40 hours of playtime. Could’ve used a more challenging and compelling endgame, though. [Recommended]

Even 20 years later, this Paper Mario game may still be considered as one of the best in the series (if not the best), and this visual remake shows that. [Recommended]

Hitman 3 is the closing to a trilogy that has accompanied us for the last five years that risks little in its standard version. Some new gadgets such as the camera or the implementation of situations against the clock try to give a breath of fresh air to a delivery that cannot be removed from the seal of continuity. However, everything that has accompanied Agent 47 during these years is still there and lovers of the saga will appreciate it. Obviously the graphic update of previous games and the incorporation of VR mode on PlayStation is something that cannot be looked the other way. However, I would have appreciated a greater effort in narrative terms in this ending, perhaps the weakest point of the saga in these editions. All in all, this is a good game that offers the user a huge amount of hours if what you want is to get the most out of each of its well-worked scenarios. [Recommended]

Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut offers an expansion that learns some lessons from the original game, betting on a better development of protagonist, antagonist and the conflict that links them to the island of Iki.

Sea of Stars is a charming JRPG made outside of Japan that you have to play. [Recommended]

Lack of single player content, but it's one of the most promising fighting games of this decade. The Rollback Netcode will push the on-line competition to new goals. Astonishing visuals. Best cel-shading ever? [Recommended]

A brilliant sequel that definitely deserves the years we were waiting for it. [Recommended]

Uncharted Legacy of Thieves Collection is a somewhat basic remaster with few improvements beyond 60 frames per second and 3D sound, but it is an opportunity to vindicate one of the greatest games of the last generation.

Gran Turismo 7 is the most complete game in the series, uniting its offline past with what was learned in GT Sport. The control with DualSense is amazing. [Recommended]

If you liked Returnal, I’m sure you’ll love Saros too. It is a very similar experience, so it doesn't have that same element of surprise anymore, but it is much more fast-paced, "on steroids", and filled with smart design choices that give it better balance and flow.

Both Mario Galaxy are the best of the best, and of course you have to play it; better on Nintendo Switch 2. But I feel a little disappointed for the lack of new extra content to show how these games were created; to do something more as a celebration of the 40th years of Mario Bros's games, and not only like a simple remaster. [Recommended]

One of the better video games of the year. MachineGames has created a truly Indiana Jones's experience with a great story, fantastic characters and all the things that we love of this iconic archaeologist. [Recommended]

Despite its ups and downs, the whole mystery surrounding Marissa Marcel is fascinating and deserves to be discovered in order to understand how video games, even supported by cinematic techniques, remain the best plastic material to mold unique ideas, stories and sensations. [Recommended]

A brilliant beat'em up with a funny co-op action and amazing pixel art. [Recommended]

Theatrhythm Final Bar Line is a good game, but I wish It could be less a 3DS game and more a 2023 game.

Return to Monkey Island is the game that we never expected to play and it's as special as you may imagine. It's hilarious, emotional and very clever. There's a lot of puzzles and islands to explore, and it still bears the heart of the old LucasArts games. [Recommended]

Dispatch debunks many things we believed to be axioms within the video game industry. On the one hand, it slaps down those who believe that superheroes no longer have anything interesting to say; on the other, it revives an episodic, narrative format that we thought had gone out of fashion in video games, and ends up offering a story and characters that we rarely see in this medium. [Recommended]

It's much more than a beautiful game. [Recommended]

Hi-Fi Rush has turned out to be a real surprise. It does so by allying itself with rhythm to power up attacks, but also with a design that works both inside and outside of combat arenas. [Recommended]

Halo Infinite is an absolute delight of a first person shooter, and king in the sandbox field. The shaping of human, believable characters is something you can take for granted with 343 Industries in charge too. The one thing that's missing here is the courage to do something beyond replicating what best defines this IP —that being imaginative, immersive levels [Recommended].

Xenoblade Chronicles X at its peak. Long, beautiful and super fun! [Recommended]

There are games you shouldn't miss, games that strive so hard to evolve ideas and genres that, to understand everything that comes after, you have to go back to them. Absolum is one of them. [Recommended]

Armored Core 6 goes way back into FromSoftware's roots to restore a franchise thought long lost, and it does it faithfully both feature-wise and mechanic-wise. Even certain fan-favorite weapons are back, too. As for newcomers to the series, we think they'll will be happy to discover a fun and fast paced combat that's also deep enough to keep them hooked on PvP and S-ranking PvE missions for long after they beat the campaign. Is it for everyone? Probably not. Is it for everyone who's feeling curious and/or nostalgic about it? Yeah, it definitely is. [Recommended]

Minds Beneath Us is one of the best stories that you will enjoy this year, and also one of the best science fiction tales about hidden secrets and really important decisions. [Recommended]

I never thought that I could play Age of Empires 2 on console without problems. That Definitive Edition shows me how, and it's really fun. [Recommended]

An incredible narrative experience you would like to play one time and another. Disco Elysium The Final Cut is a great RPG, one of the best, and you must play it in PC or console. [Recommended]

Diablo IV is all that you could wish for the return of the Diablo saga. Is a dark and brutal action RPG with tons of content and a surprising story. [Recommended]

Capcom delivers a mighty expansion with Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak, both in terms of content and actual experience. Combat has been heavily refined and the new art, animations and monsters are all beautiful minus the occasional lack of endgame loop material here and there. One thing is clear: even though it might never be as big as Iceborne, it's absurdly fun. [Recommended]

The level design and combat have improved a lot. There have been missed opportunities to improve the weakest moments of the original and in the narrative, although there are few changes and they are subtle details, some scenes lose strength while others are reinforced. All in all, Bloober knows how to maintain the tension and has earned his place to continue working in the franchise.[Recommended]

Mario Kart Worlds is a fantastic evolution of Mario Kart's DNA. The open world works perfectly with the traditional and chaotic races, and it has one of the best circuit designs and OST in Mario Kart's saga.