CGMagazine's Scores

  • Games
For 2,616 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 76
Highest review score: 100 SUPERHOT
Lowest review score: 10 Vroom in the Night Sky
Score distribution:
2628 game reviews
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Pridefest probably seemed like a very good idea, and it certainly is a game that represents not only LGBT culture, but one of its most prominent events. Instead, what’s been delivered is a boring, stale, derivative free-to-play game that isn’t even free. It’s a game that fails to accurately depict the LGBT community outside of rainbow flags and outdated ideals, and fails harder at being fun.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    The game’s quite simple, a basic one-hit fighter with a cool design. It can be fun to play, but I don’t see any staying power.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    Cute Things Dying Violently is a boring, frustrating, mediocre physics game that’s been done a hundred before and a hundred times better.
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    • 85 Critic Score
    The game is just fun to play as a whole. Matches don’t drag on for longer than they should, and firefights happen frequently with a large degree of nuance to the action. While top-end players will revel in the opportunity to theorycraft the current meta and its propensity for counterplay, casual fans will have no trouble acclimating to most of the characters on offer
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    • 95 Critic Score
    Considering that it’s both free and quite probably the best ARPG that we’ll ever see, I can think of no valid excuse not to give it a whirl. To be honest, every time I get lost for a weekend in refining a new build, only to die and start again, I wonder why I bother playing anything else. There’s always been something for everyone in Path of Exile; now there’s even more.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    There’s definitely some fun, entertaining stuff here, but to be frank, there are better, cheaper games out there, with more to do and more to see.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Abraca is a fun and charming fairy tale party game that is sure to end friendships.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    I thoroughly enjoyed Space Food Truck, and not exactly for the reasons I thought I would. It’s a challenging and engaging card game, set in a fascinating and fun universe. It’s a real gem that only a better tutorial, and elements that make the cooking part of this game easier, could improve. Now if someone could make a space food truckin’ game like No Man’s Sky, I would give them all my money.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Deathstate is a familiar but fun roguelike.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Welkin Road is puzzling, yet thrilling, blend of precision platforming and puzzle-solving that overcomes a few mechanical hiccups to be an overall rewarding title.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    A novel aesthetic and solid core gameplay go to waste in Capsule Force, thanks to a woeful lack of content and no online functionality.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    StarBreak is a free-to-play videogame that anyone’s machine can run, but a lack of substance and mundane gameplay make it feel like a waste of time.
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    • 95 Critic Score
    Afterbirth is basically a love letter to the base game, introducing items and mechanics that perfectly entwine themselves with the main game to improve and compliment the already unforgettable experience that is The Binding of Isaac. If you liked Rebirth, you’d be doing yourself a major disservice by not treating yourself to Afterbirth.
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    • 90 Critic Score
    Much like Vermintide itself, it may not be groundbreaking in any one way, but it’s reliably and consistently fun, and still beautifully immersive in that Warhammer sort of way.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    K Station is an intriguing sci-fi mystery that uses archaic mechanics to say something important about the fickleness of human memory.
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    • 55 Critic Score
    If you’re addicted to the puzzle genre and need another game to get your fix, you’d ultimately be better off picking up Mystery Castle on a Steam sale. It has some clever ideas and gets pretty good later on, but you have to wade through so many re-used concepts you probably won’t get that far.
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    • 90 Critic Score
    Western Press is a great party game for those with friends who want a challenge and are sick of playing Mario Party 2 (the only good one.) It’s fun, exciting, tense, and has a ton of indie charm. For a good time that won’t cost a lot, it’s definitely worth checking out.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Chambara lacks solo play, but its fast-paced kinetic action makes for a thrilling co-op experience.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    A really complex building mechanic mixed with an overly simple battle system are just a few of the problems that plague Robot Arena III.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    The Song of Seven Chapter One delivers a fun, though flawed adventure game.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    This is one of those games that could use a little more time in the oven.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Edge of Twilight: Return to Glory is a janky and odd little game, but its creativity and heart carries it far enough to merit a cautious recommendation.
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    • 55 Critic Score
    Satire and nostalgia are not enough to make a game good. Games should be fun, and Barrow Hill: The Dark Path is not.
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    • 65 Critic Score
    Kokurase is a text-heavy, visually sparse little adventure with some frustrating issues, yet some people will undoubtedly find something to love here.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Balance is something that most people don’t particularly treat as a guiding principle in life, yet when playing Even the Ocean, it’s clear that Kittaka and Hogan both view it with reverence. If there’s one thing that should be taken from it, it’s that perhaps more of us should.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Held back by a lack of polish and some persistent netcode issues, War Commander: Rogue Assault is nevertheless a decent mobile distraction that doesn’t tread into pay-to-win territory.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    With Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force, Compile Heart has proven to be the Platinum Dunes of otaku entertainment – an assembly line of titles with similar plots, repeated mechanics, and fan service that feels designed for middle schoolers.
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    • 20 Critic Score
    In what can only be described as a "chill adventure," Heaven Forest is basically a VR wandering simulator.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    If ‘They Shall Not Pass’ is any indication of DICE’s long-term plans for Battlefield 1, fans have got a great season ahead of them.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    A sheer work of art with some archaic design choices, Banner Saga still dazzles now as much as it did during its release.

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