Love is a warm but brief puzzle game about playing with time and fate and people's lives.

Supermassive still knows how to plunge you into paranoia, but the second Dark Pictures entry feels a little lost in the woods.

Like its many buried riches, Nintendo's Pikmin series remains a treasure ready to be rediscovered. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Ghostrunner never loses sight of being about speed and agility, making it a constant joy to play. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Kinetic action, beautiful, horrible pixel-art and a sense of place that stays with you - this is a dark treat. [Eurogamer Recommended]

There's real magic at the heart of this brilliantly faithful AR take on Mario Kart, but a fair few caveats abound.

An inventive platformer with an unforgettable sense of style and wit. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Frictional returns with a subversion of horror tropes, though it's not quite the measure of other games in the series.

A rock-hard procedural tinder box brimming with imagination and chaos. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Quotation forthcoming.

Savage satire that's backed up by some exquisite writing and fascinating mechanics. [Eurogamer Recommended]

I Am Dead, with its ghosts, its world of objects, large and small, curiosities charged in some ways by the people who owned them, speaks to this very clearly, for me at least. It speaks of the ways that conversations with the dead go on. The way rituals and responsibilities take on new and perhaps confusing dimensions. More than anything it is a reminder of that bright contradiction - that death has absolutely everything to do with life. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Fun football with plenty of goals, but the grubby business of selling loot boxes lets the side down.

An immersive space sim that's dazzling in VR, Squadrons provides an exhilarating multiplayer experience, even if the story feels pedestrian. [Eurogamer Recommended]

With some imperfections, Toys For Bob delivers an enjoyable, goofy, deviously challenging and occasionally genius sequel. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A mostly thorough remake of 2002's original, Mafia: Definitive Edition has its moments - but it struggles by the standards of today.

Like a playable poster for an iconic rally event, funselektor's top-down racer is a blast. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A new classic of narrative and strategy, and a game with plenty of space for the player to enjoy themselves. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A fascinating experiment in narrative techniques, even if there's some tonal whiplash along the way. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Hades is a proper lark. I love it. But there is something else here, something that I have always felt about games but never been able to put into words. There is something about polished, smartly conceived Hades, about so many of Supergiant's games which, the joyous brilliance of Pyre aside perhaps, are always too rigorous, too responsibly conceived not to know exactly what spot they're going to fit into on the shelf, which pillars they're going to present to the press - there is something about these games that are so assuredly products that reminds me that games are never ever just products. Games are always a way of being. To play Hades, Roguelite aside, economy aside, loop aside, is to be furious and vengeful, to be driven by bitterness, self-hate, ennui, to be pulverisingly powerful and yet horribly efficient. This is the truth of it down to the controls, which encourage you to grip the pad by the facebuttons and squeeze and squeeze and squeeze like you're one stress ball away from telling your boss to shove it. This game comes from Hell, and it takes you back there, and it's brilliant. Get in. [Eurogamer Essential]

Don't bother with PES 2021 if you can option file PES 2020, but if you're coming in fresh, PES 2021 is a decent shout at a decent price.

Two of Nintendo's finest, and one of its most interesting, come together in a compilation that isn't worthy of their greatness.

Enigmatic and unapologetic even in the face of its most absurd ideas, this is sometimes messy, sometimes boring, but always astounding. [Eurogamer Essential]

A legendary game gets a legendary sequel. [Eurogamer Essential]

Draknek masters a genre with a game of little touches, big challenge, and giant heart. [Eurogamer Essential]

A stylish, dreamily wrought open-world detective adventure that dances masterfully on the edge of cosmic nightmare. [Eurogamer Recommended]

An enjoyable and detailed racer successfully invokes the spirit of the 90s arcade, even if it doesn't quite have a spark of its own.

As a live-service game, you can expect lots of tweaks and changes as the weeks morph into months, but having magpied so much from those kinds of games it's left with little identity of its own. Despite the promise of its campaign, its endearing cast and impressive voice work, Marvel's Avengers is an unoriginal and uninspired affair that falls sadly short of what it could have been - what it should have been.

Inertial Drift has its quirks - that drift mechanic won't be to everyone's tastes, and I can imagine a fair few bouncing off this hard after they've spent one lap too many bouncing off walls, while the lack of clipping in competitive races can also seem a little odd. Personally, though, I get why you're allowed to drift through other racers like they're ghosts. Inertial Drift is about you and the road, pure and simple. It's about placing this novel twin stick drifting in your hands and letting you explore its nuances, and exploit the potential in each car and each apex until you edge further up the leaderboard. It's just about the most stylish, thrilling racer I've played in an absolute age. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Taking a healthy dose of inspiration from Ridge Racer Type 4, Inertial Drift is a unique arcade racer with an exquisite core mechanic.

Bottomless wit and some inspired design choices make this genre mash-up a joy to play. [Eurogamer Recommended]

More sweet puzzley charm from the people behind LostWinds. [Eurogamer Recommended]

From temple to fortress this journey into mythology is an absolute treat. [Eurogamer Recommended]

There's witty and satisfying puzzling here but it takes patience to get through it.

Dontnod has crafted a brilliant narrative that once again puts teenagers and young adults at the forefront of today's big issues, never shying away from talking about our world. But this isn't just an "issues" game. It reminded me of the TV series Rectify, about a convict released from prison thanks to DNA evidence proving his innocence. There is similar poignancy and sadness throughout the story in Tell Me Why, as Tyler and Alyson discover the meaning of their childhood memories, while being unable to change the past, trying to reach a mother now lost to the world. Not only does it provide emotional depth, but the story seeks emotional justice, and it never fails to bring us along on this journey for the truth. [Eurogamer Recommended]

On the Edge provides a tense new challenge and is the perfect reason to rediscover an exquisite city-building game. [Eurogamer Recommended]

inXile's old-school RPG is the Fallout game we've been craving. [Eurogamer Recommended]

An engaging presentation and some cool ideas can't help elevate No Straight Road's hollow loop.

Slightly Mad's expansive world of motorsport arguably works better as a hard-edged arcade racer than it ever did as a sim. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Battletoads is short. Really short. TOO short.

By marrying metroidvania, management sim and a good dose of kindness, Spiritfarer manages to feel simultaneously familiar and refreshing. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Llamasoft's latest arcade treat is as thrilling as ever. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A technical marvel, as well as an education and exploration of the joys of flight. [Eurogamer Essential]

There is undoubtedly improvement here over the unremarkable Thrones of Britannia. Troy may not be as impassioned and hot-blooded as the characters it represents, but its distinctive factions, thematic systems and nuanced interpretation of myth nonetheless succeed in firing the imagination. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A decent Fast & Furious tale is undone by a disaster of a game. [Eurogamer Avoid]

An effectively eerie backdrop is undone slightly by frustrating stealth in this enjoyable indie horror game.

A squirming body horror labyrinth whose mix of ability-gating and backtracking slightly cramps its matchless creature design. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Folklore powers a heartfelt game of exploration and empathy. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A weird, wry and wholesome underground puzzler with spellbinding art direction and music. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A brilliant woman's life is centre-stage in a game filled with insight and generosity. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Nintendo sketches another warm and colourful Paper Mario adventure, though never traces its full potential.

Handsome visuals can't quite make up for bugs and a lack of urgency.

Limited by a rote and rigid world, Sucker Punch's samurai homage pairs okay action with enjoyably committed, if awkwardly fawning melodrama.

A characterful, frequently charming sequel that doesn't quite match up to the original - and somehow performs worse.

A new team management mode provides some of the best single-player racing action around, alongside the series' ever-improving authenticity. [Eurogamer Recommended]

There's much to love in this colourful free-to-play Switch exclusive, but it's obscured by some clumsy design.

An overdue but much appreciated remaster of one of the GameCube's - and the early 00s - very best. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Riot Games delivers a masterclass in competitive integrity, soulless precision and zealous, life-consuming obsession. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Kunos brings the full sim experience to console, warts and all, with a few oversights and errors along the way.

Pokémon's first ever expansion offers sunny vibes and another, more open world, but is still lacking the substance to do much with it.

A couple of omissions grate and it's hardly cheap, but this is a sumptuous collection for the grandest of shmups. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Disintegration's campaign is a robot-smashing romp, but multiplayer appears to be dead on arrival.

Sprightly platforming action marks a change of pace for The Chinese Room in this bold if brief adventure. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Can a slick, mainstream action game really reckon with the violence that drives it? The answer is yes - messily, but powerfully. [Eurogamer Essential]

I'm glad the launch version has tweaked the balance slightly in favour of the player, giving you a bit more health and replenishing it more readily, because I was banging my head against Atomicrops a bit in the version before. And it was only really that which made me hesitate in recommending it to you. But now, upon release and with some fine tuning, it sings. And a very jaunty song it is too. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Every now and then I get a reminder that video games are magic. And weirdly, this collection of things that pre-date video games has reminded me just how magical video games are. This is a history of the world, in part. It's also a TARDIS of fun. It's wonderful. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A couple of nifty concepts can't save this uninspired genre piece from its shortage of character or fear. [Eurogamer Avoid]

More an expanded re-release than a remaster, the quality of the original Xenoblade Chronicles shines out in this generous package. [Eurogamer Recommended]

You can build anything in Minecraft, something this fun dungeon-crawler from Mojang ably proves.

It's too anarchic, too messy and too unreadable in its combat, as well as too erratic in its execution. But then it's that anarchy that's key to The Wonderful 101's charm, and that runs through so much of the work of Hideki Kamiya. The Wonderful 101 is Platinum at its most imperfect, but I don't necessarily mean that as a slight. There's a real thrill to be found in all that chaos. [Eurogamer Recommended]

There's plenty to admire in this smart and adventurous horror, though you'll have to endure some missteps to get there.

Eager to please genre fans, Sakura Wars delivers an old school experience with a hefty dose of drama. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Glorious artwork and a fan's eye for detail combine for a sequel that manages to best its forebears. [Eurogamer Essential]

A predictably grim spin on a legendary action license that really deserves better, Predator: Hunting Grounds is unworthy prey.

Cloudpunk offers a beautiful city to explore, but unfortunately there's not much to discover there once you delve deeper.

The classic formula gets an energising remix in this standalone charmer. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A competent tactical retooling of the Gears formula, even if the execution isn't always spot-on.

There's plenty of multiplayer fun in this game of benign wrecking balls. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A likeable indie with cracking source material and a special setting, The Flower Collectors is just missing the magic of detail.

Its shortcomings far outweigh its merits, but what merits they are - Disaster Report 4 is silly, humane and utterly charming.

Eric Chahi's back with a game defined by passion, surprise, heart and beauty. [Eurogamer Essential]

An expansive remake that treads carefully upon this most cherished of games, though some blunders will linger long in the memory. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A rare Stadia exclusive presents a simple, touching story, matched by mechanics that are a touch too slight.

Hypnotic art, otherworldly audio and captivating writing meet in an undersea exploration game that wants you to take your time. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A cult classic gets a fittingly strange remake whose patchiness can't obscure the original's brilliance.

There's a lot to admire in Arc System Works' latest, but it's undone by some familiar faults.

Why it truly sings, I think, is because the game has created such a perfectly irritating place: a place where photocopiers won't fit through doorways and wi-fi routers miss huge swathes of the office. Good Job weaponises your frustrations with the real world, and the glory here, of course, is that you can do things about it all. You can fire photocopiers through walls and push docile colleagues around on their chairs until they have the signal their devices require.

Great new gameplay features can't help the fact that Persona 5 Royal drags on even more than its predecessor.

The Resident Evil 3 remake, like the original upon which it is based, is inferior to its predecessor.

Bleeding Edge could be on to something with meaningful updates, but at launch it's Xbox Game Pass filler at best.

City 17 provides the setting for a VR adventure filled with brilliant detailing. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A handful of improvements and overhauled physics make this audaciously exciting bike sim easy to recommend.

An even faster and bloodier but slightly wayward follow-up to a thunderous shooter reboot.

Artful animation and visuals combine with tightly designed exploration, though beware persistent technical issues.

An impressive suite of improvements combine with a more clearly defined structure for Animal Crossing's finest outing to date. [Eurogamer Essential]

An absorbing, tense and well-wrought samurai adventure let down by a little too much recycling and some muddled new systems. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Eager to do the many issues of medieval life justice, Yes Your Grace can't hit a good balance between challenging and frustrating.

Finally complete after fourteen years, Crowbar Collective's remake is more than faithful to Valve's masterpiece. [Eurogamer Essential]