Zelda's first adventure is colorful, cute and surprisingly versatile fun. Dozens of echoes provide variety, the friendly game world and Zelda-typical puzzle fun do the rest.

The development team behind Ara: History Untold succeeds in competing with the established titles of the genre with new ideas and creative gameplay, cleverly packing complex economic systems and production processes into a graphically sophisticated and lively framework while retaining the roots of its genre predecessors.

Garden Witch Life has too little substance and too many problems. Big ouch, but some of it has potential.

One of the best PlayStation games of recent years gets an equally good port: God of War Ragnarök is also a hit on the PC and plays more smoothly than ever - countless settings make it possible. An almost perfect port.

If you're looking for complex challenges and moral choices, Frostpunk 2 won't disappoint. Hours of entertainment are almost guaranteed.

Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions feels like a bag of chips with a lot of air left in it. The contents taste OK, but you quickly come across only crumbs.

Bloody and stupid: Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is just as over the top as the original – and that's why it's still a hit today.

A colorful and varied 3D platformer full of fun ideas and some surprising cameos. Not simply fans of the genre should get their money's worth - it would not be surprising if Astro Bot wins many new friends with this game.

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is one of the best action games of 2024: It crashes, it bangs and it looks fantastic too. The overall package of story campaign, PvE mode and PvP is also a content-rich board.

Emio – The Smiler: Famicom Detective Club is presented as an authentic detective experience with which Nintendo has fulfilled each and every one of the expectations. Both its plot, the characters and the development of the same are a real treat for players who are fans of the interactive visual novel genre. If the game already seemed attractive on its first appearance, as soon as players start playing it, they will not be able to stop until they finish it. Will Emio be a simple legend or will he end up being a cruel murderer who will have to be stopped so that the full weight of the law falls on him?

Sneaking, shooting, smuggling: Star Wars Outlaws delivers a good and compact open world adventure, but without ever wanting to deliver more. Protagonist Kay, on the other hand, is a real asset to the franchise, while minor bugs and AI weaknesses slow down the otherwise good game flow.

With Age of Mythology: Retold, the developers have managed to breathe new life into the aging title and make it presentable for a modern audience without losing sight of its roots. Players who already liked the fantasy spin-off back then will definitely get their money's worth here.

Creatures of Ava has many ideas that work, but not all of them are fully developed. All in all, the colorful mix is ​​entertaining despite some weak ingredients.

Not a graphics blender, but not a savior either: Black Myth: Wukong is a largely successful action role-playing game with fun fights, visual variety and, despite minor flaws in terms of gameplay variety, is captivating.

Dungeons of Hinterberg is a successful mix of Persona and Zelda, where some superficial game mechanics are supported by a charming presentation and clever puzzles.

Soulslite with an immersive world, a foxy companion and a mystical touch – Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn follows a few good approaches that are quite successful for a game of this size.

I didn't have to jump over my shadow to give this rating: Even if SCHiM falls short of its ideas, the charming game treasure offers a great presentation, a beautiful story and a fun gameplay flow.

At first glance, a solid, if not very creative loot shooter, where massive weaknesses in the mission design quickly become apparent. Added to that is a boring story, excessive in-game prices and hardly any motivation to stay on board in the long term.

As expected, the minimal revision hasn't made it significantly different or better than before, but the title is still a lot of fun even by today's standards, even if I wasn't particularly enthusiastic about it. So if you'd like to catch up on Luigi's Mansion 2 or the Switch version is enough of an argument for you to check it out again, I would recommend buying it.

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is on par with the main game and even surpasses it in some respects, even if it can't shake off its flaws. This is the DLC fans have been waiting for.

Great entertaining samurai open world adventure, which was ported cleanly to the PC. With the Director's Cut you currently get the best version.

Wonderfully weird and always surprising: Indika is a real experience that is worth a look despite the monotonous gameplay.

From Early Access to the 1.0 release: V Rising is now a promising survival game with vampire elements. If you're more interested in building than in blood, you'll know which game to capture in your cart.

We don't mince words: The new edition impresses in all aspects of the original and even goes one better thanks to its contemporary presentation and modernized music. However, the legacy problems in the form of tiny inventory and pacing problems due to too much running back and forth could have been avoided.

Visually outstanding, intense adventure in which horror and the fight against one's own demons are staged particularly effectively.

No sailor’s yarn: Another Crab’s Treasure brings a breath of fresh air to the soulslike genre thanks to innovative ideas. Smaller problems cannot be denied, but thanks to a lot of charm and humor they don't make any waves.

One of the best combat systems in recent years provides adrenaline-pumping action in a successful post-apocalypse setting and makes minor gameplay failures and flat characters easily fade away.

Lovely characters, stylish 2D HD graphics and a catchy soundtrack - it could have been so nice if performance weaknesses and accumulated interruptions hadn't noticeably spoiled the experience.