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For 376 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 42% higher than the average critic
  • 27% same as the average critic
  • 31% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 Blue Prince
Lowest review score: 30 Rocco's Island: Ring to End the Pain
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 219 out of 376
  2. Mixed: 148 out of 376
  3. Negative: 9 out of 376
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    The Run
    You’ll certainly speed through the experience with no real gameplay slowing you down, but it's more than just a compelling survival tale. The live-action presentation is highly immersive and the game’s killers provide a tense creep factor without going full-on slasher flick frightening. While the instant do-or-die decisions could provide more clues as to what the right option is, it’s in the choices about who Zanna is as a person that the game finds its most meaningful moments, culminating in a heartfelt outcome that is both surprising and satisfying. It’s not much of a gaming workout, but The Run is at times poignant, at times metaphorical, and at times an experience sure to get the blood pumping.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Confidential Killings - A Detective Game
    Fun enough while it lasts, Confidential Killings gets in and out a bit too quickly with its tightly paced plot and lack of much challenge, all wrapped up in the glitz and glam of 1970s Hollywood.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Among The Whispers - Provocation
    Among the Whispers: Provocation took the issues of its predecessor and improved on all of them to deliver a lengthy, scary and highly realistic ghost-hunting simulator with more active gameplay in solving puzzles and figuring out the spirits’ identities.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Daymare Town
    If you can get on its distinctively weird, oppressive wavelength and stay there, you’ll find Mateusz Skutnik’s Daymare Town second to none in terms of atmosphere, aesthetics, and ability to keep you clicking just to find out what the impossibly imaginative setting will show you next.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    The Last Case of John Morley
    The Last Case of John Morley transitions from a film-noir mystery into a psychological horror that reveals just how fragile the human psyche is, prioritizing atmosphere over detective work in its short run time.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Golden Idol Investigations: The Curse of the Last Reaper
    The Curse of the Last Reaper is a triumphant finale to the acclaimed Golden Idol saga as we know it. Beyond being the best expansion chapter of the series, this is one of the best pieces of DLC out there, period.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Wednesdays
    Wednesdays is a short, beautifully designed, thoughtful treatment of a heart-wrenching subject that is anything but a simple walk in the park.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    The Jester and the Madman
    The Jester and the Madman is a wonderful homage to 1990s-era slideshow adventure games. The script can be a little stilted and the plot a bit too convenient, but the overarching story and breadth of clever puzzles and challenges make it engaging from start to finish.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    BrokenLore: LOW
    LOW has enough surprising moments and weighty themes to warrant experiencing this BrokenLore debut, but an array of minor irritants leave plenty of room for improvement in what will hopefully become a more regularly rewarding franchise.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    REANIMAL
    Tarsier’s REANIMAL isn’t just Little Nightmares reskinned, with a new start, a new name, and a few welcome surprises added to an already winning horror adventure formula.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Shadows of the Afterland
    In every sense of the word, Shadows of the Afterland is a spirited point-and-click adventure that weaves together a gripping post-mortem mystery into an ironically lively setting with a lot of heart.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit
    There’s nothing dishonest about Penelope Pendrick and the Art of Deceit. As advertised, it’s an homage to the classic Nancy Drew series, both a masterful emulation and an exciting evolution. Featuring challenging puzzles and a gripping mystery, you won’t need a magnifying glass to see that the era of a new girl detective has begun.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Riddlewood Manor
    While it teeters on the brink of succumbing to genre pitfalls at times, Riddlewood Manor is a delightful series of ghostly escape rooms tied together with a playfully macabre tale about spirits and dark magic.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 89 Critic Score
    The Dark Rites of Arkham
    The Dark Rites of Arkham is another compelling thriller from Postmodern Adventures, blending Lovecraftian influence, retro-styled production and classic adventure gameplay into a beautifully eerie, wonderfully written murder mystery.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Rue Valley
    It’s not as open-ended as other narrative RPGs and lacks a believable ending, but Rue Valley has an appealing graphic novel aesthetic and engagingly human time-looping story that avoids becoming too repetitive or frustrating each time it resets.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Earth Must Die
    Earth Must Die revels in its comedic, over-the-top adult sci-fi insanity while delivering a genuinely great adventure game experience starring a power-hungry megalomaniac. Never before has it been so much fun to be the arbiter of your own species’ destruction!
    • 86 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Perfect Tides: Station to Station
    Station to Station is as worthy a follow-up to the brilliant original Perfect Tides as anyone could have hoped, continuing Mara’s story with the same insight, compassion and immersive writing while deepening and expanding its narrative through interesting new mechanics.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    TR-49
    Its unrelenting vagueness surely won’t be for everyone, but with TR-49 inkle expands on the growing investigative deduction subgenre with another polished and rewarding title, its added audio component providing a particularly compelling extra layer of intrigue.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Ealu
    Helping a little stop-motion mouse escape its hand-crafted maze prison in Éalú will warm your heart like a cheese fondue on a cold winter evening.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The House of Tesla
    The House of Tesla’s biographical elements are very well integrated into the numerous puzzles in this beautifully designed mechanical puzzle lover's bonanza.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Golden Idol Investigations: The Age of Restraint
    After two stellar Golden Idol Investigations spinoff DLC chapters, The Age of Restraint falters a bit under the weight of its complicated conspiracies, though it still manages to mostly deliver the goods. If only it wasn't so blisteringly hard to deduce its secrets.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence
    It will likely leave you praying for more, as Scholar Adventure: Mystery of Silence takes you on a very short and simple but intriguingly eerie mission in a mysterious abbey teeming with secrets.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Thank Goodness You're Here!
    Thank Goodness You're Here! is an absolute triumph of comedy. It’s not a classic point-and-click adventure game, but every single aspect of this self-described “slapformer” combines to make it a genuinely funny game that will have you in stiches with its absurdity and cartoon-like atmosphere.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    s.p.l.i.t
    Everything works effectively to build tension over the course of s.p.l.i.t’s grim hour-long campaign, though the learning curve in the role of a rogue hacker may be a bit much to ask for some gamers.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Scott Whiskers: The Search for the Golden Cat
    Scott Whiskers: The Search for the Golden Cat takes you on an entertaining point-and-click jungle adventure that improves significantly on its predecessor in a number of important ways.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    The Seance of Blake Manor
    Draped in darkness and gothic Irish trappings, The Séance of Blake Manor makes the most of its eerie atmosphere and mysterious cast of characters in this detective's race against the clock with satisfyingly smart gameplay.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The Empty Desk
    The Empty Desk is a supernatural whodunit with components of conspiracy theories made into an average game with some serious shortcomings.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 43 Critic Score
    Detective Hayseed - The Cloning Madness
    The hand-drawn world is beautifully remastered and the story hints of promise, but Detective Hayseed: The Cloning Madness is riddled with illogically designed puzzles, poorly written characters and misplaced attempts at comedy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Supper: New Blood
    The Supper: New Blood has the right recipe for a darkly delicious cartoon adventure, though repetition and limited gameplay opportunities work against its sinister premise, and its campy but fun B-horror shocks elicit diminishing returns long before its last course.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Intrigue At Oakhaven
    In telling its tragic story against a striking (and swampy) Louisiana backdrop, Intrigue at Oakhaven delivers the short atmospheric experience it promises, but structurally the adventure feels less like playing a well-rounded game than it does listening to a two-chapter novel with a brief intermission to bang out some familiar puzzles.
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