There's genuine charm in Promise Mascot Agency that will definitely appeal to audiences already into Japanese culture and crime drama. Just be prepared to wade through the busywork of the management sim side to enjoy it.

A wonderfully realised, stylised world ripe for exploration, but what you find in Outbound's vibrant wilderness rarely surprises.

More time capsule than must-play, Fighting Force Collection preserves a messy, excessive era of PlayStation history, where fun mattered more than polish. A collection that hits harder if you were gaming in the '90s.

A clever and pulpy cosmic mystery, Call of the Elder Gods is at its best when the focus is on puzzles, because its world never feels quite as deep as the ideas driving it.

Hardly groundbreaking, but Survival Kids makes for a breezy co-op island adventure game that's only recommended if you have friends and family to play with together in the same room. But with Marcus Brigstocke's narration and an in-house Unity team based in the UK, it's nice to see the Switch 2 launch line-up has some British sensibilities just like Switch 1 had with Snipperclips.

Beneath is far from perfect. It’s janky, unoriginal, and technically uneven, but also brave, atmospheric, and built with love.

At times Flint: Treasure of Oblivion is charming and inventive, punctuated by expressive comic panels that get you aboard for the voyage, and in other moments weighed down by ambition and complexity.

As the game plods on with quiet predictability towards its watery conclusion by the sea, I'm left with the feeling this horror adventure missed the boat.