COGconnected's Scores

  • Games
For 4,978 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 32% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.3 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Final Fantasy XVI
Lowest review score: 10 Wander (2013)
Score distribution:
4983 game reviews
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Downwell personifies the ‘gameplay is king’ mantra and it backs up its approach with a perfect suite of controls that are predictable and consistent.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Marrakesh falters in its volume of storytelling and willingness to let the player in on what’s going on behind the scenes and in between episodes.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If you’re looking for some weekend entertainment and enjoy run and gun, first person shooter style games in a futuristic setting – at $15, you really can’t go wrong.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Goliath has an appealing premise and a promising goal, but in the end it doesn’t live up to its own expectations.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    If you enjoy other rogue-likes or roguelites, there’s a very good chance you’ll enjoy Neon Chrome.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Demetrios – The BIG Cynical Adventure is a quirky point n’ click title with a perfect blend of smart, mature, and pop humour that tells a refreshingly new story without pushing itself into the realm of slapstick exaggeration for the sake of a gag.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 97 Critic Score
    Like all of Vanillaware’s titles, Odin Sphere oozes with quality and polish, and because of this HD re-release, this one’s had extra polish time.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 59 Critic Score
    Dead Island Definitive Collection is the best way to get these two flawed experiences, ones that are enjoyable despite some poor design choices. There’s still nothing quite like Dead Island’s analog combat, but the game’s poor structure can’t be saved with a graphical facelift.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Perhaps Lumo’s greatest asset is the surprisingly fun throwback to a genre of puzzle adventures that seem to be lost in time.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    A charming little indie action platformer with a distinct retro feel. While the difficulty is greatly reduced this time around, the game remains as punishing and rage inducing as ever.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    It doesn’t commit any wrongdoings, but it’s also boring enough to become forgettable.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    Though Stellaris has its blemishes and can bog down in the middle, it’s an intergalactic success more often than not. It looks and sounds superb, and provides an infinity varied experience through its random elements.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The gameplay is Total War at its finest, and the variety in factions and units allow for many ways to handle your short and long campaign objectives.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 98 Critic Score
    To sum it up, Overwatch is absolutely deserving of the majority of the praise it’s receiving. Some people will be turned away by just how much hype has surrounded the game as they have been burned by over-hyped games before, but Overwatch has objectively proven itself to be a great multiplayer shooter.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Far Harbor feels like a classic Bethesda move, where we’re being given a ton of content that is littered with bugs and seemingly half-assed pieces, but contains some seriously fantastic bits as well.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Letter Quest Remastered is definitely worth your time with an abundance of content and customization features, a sweet soundtrack and simple controls.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Ultimately, Disney Art Academy does exactly what it promises to do on the back of the box. It doesn’t do much more than teaching you how to draw some of Disney’s most memorable characters, but that’s fine.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s brutal, highly replayable, and one slick combination of old and new ideas into a game that really feels unique, and those types of the titles leave more of an impression on me than any other.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Ideally a strategy game such as Tropico 5 would give the player the choice of either a game or player directed playing experience. Tropico 5: Penultimate Edition at first blush gives the player more but once you start playing it, you realize it has also taken away something a segment of its fan base enjoyed before – freedom to play the game they want.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    All in all, Dungeons 2 is an enjoyable venture. The dungeon aspect of the game is great and really sent me down memory lane even if the controls annoyed me a bit. The Overworld RTS style play could be polished up a bit to make it more engaging.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    If you missed out on Not A Hero elsewhere, then this is the version to get. It might not live up to its subtitle of Super Snazzy, but this is a slightly snazzier version of Roll7’s great shooter. It’s a shame that there isn’t more of a reason to double dip, though, as playing as BunnyLord is an enticing extra. Even if it’s one that’s separate from the main game.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Overall, OlliOlli 2 is a blast, a simplistic time waster that will have you addicted for hours trying to complete challenges (especially if you’re a completionist like me) with the kick-ass soundtrack and gorgeous art style, it really drives home the point that you don’t need to have AAA production value to make a stand-out game.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Battle Worlds: Kronos is completely functional, even good by indie standards, but it just made me want to play other games. The story is not gripping and the neither is the gameplay.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 49 Critic Score
    Homefront: The Revolution has more problems than I can list, including some illogical design decisions I couldn’t wrap my head around. But it truly executes on some of the good ideas it presents, and redeems itself in its latter half to an extent.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Gremlins Inc is a smart, stylish online board game with tactics both fun and deceptively clever.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    TASTEE: Lethal Tactics brings serious style and grace to some turn based chaos.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    A flick of an analogue stick, the press of the X button and a mind geared towards strategy is all it takes to master this game. Simple and comical, Life Goes On: Done to Death captures the best parts of a platform puzzler.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    If you like first person shooters, if you’re an old DOOM fan, or if you just like killing demons, treat yourself to DOOM 2016.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 71 Critic Score
    Under normal circumstances a title like this wouldn’t have been worth a $60 price tag, but free is an entirely different story. It has a surprising amount of content, but ultimately suffers from lack of variety.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    If you’re a comic book fan and love MMO’s than this game will rock your world and then some.

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