If Infliction was a colour, it would be beige. If it was a biscuit, it'd be the tasteless disc of a Rich Tea. If it was a band, it'd play nothing but Coldplay tracks. Sure, they all have their fans and they all technically deliver on what's promised on the tin, but let's face it: you could probably live without them, too.

This hardcore off-road driving sim is focused and compelling, but just a bit too austere for its own good.

From its winning art to its calming music and puzzle design, Luna has a lot going for itself. [Eurogamer Recommended]

In combining an open world monster-rush format with PUBG-esque PvP, Crytek has crafted a stealth survival game like few others. [Eurogamer Recommended]

The setting is elegantly eerie, but this Gone-Home-inspired first-person mystery struggles to overcome its tired, melodramatic story.

Level-5's latest multimedia outing makes a belated western outing in an RPG that's eccentric, exuberant and more than a little clumsy.

A gently interactive experience that will put a smile on your face. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Kunai throws a grappling hook and a fair amount of style into the Metroidvania genre for a solid if not stellar example of the form.

A narrative postal adventure delivered with zip and style. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A serene, quietly uplifting afternoon's entertainment for urban explorers and platform fans alike.

The sun warms the scene and, for the first time, the world of Kentucky Route Zero feels tangible, whole, held together. After a week drifting through Cardboard Computer's elusive dream of a game, this was quite a moment. I can only imagine how it feels after seven years. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Gentle anarchy reigns in this brilliantly humourous adventure. [Eurogamer Recommended]

While its fighting is fun, Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot doesn't do enough to carry the subpar side content.

Unable to combine the best of two beloved series, this JRPG can't really find its focus.

Wattam would be a simple little delight, if it weren't for its technical issues.

This tale of two brothers marks a more intimate and accomplished return for a studio keen to tackle tough issues with honest characters. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Tequila Works' teen-rated horror might surprise you with its shocks and creepy atmosphere, but it's a little thin.

Genesis may look like a departure, and it is in some ways. But at its core, it's the same old pleasures for this entirely pleasurable series, albeit with the odd new trick and delivered from a new perspective. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Playing Phoenix Point has been a powerful propulsion back through my past, pinballing me through 25 years of alien-fighting nostalgia. And if I still find myself returning to it again, keen to blow the floor out from under another tentacled terror the moment I finish this review, then you know it's got much more right than wrong. Even if I never reach the end, I will still have enjoyed the journey, and the friends (soldiers) I met (renamed as my friends) along the way.

Though, admittedly, expectations might have been a little low, Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is surprising in all the right ways. Its loading screens offer a stunning blend of animation and FMV straight from the show, and while the in-game graphics don't quite share the same slick polish and the combat can feel a little stale, Narcos: Rise of the Cartels is a thoughtful, unusual take on Escobar's legacy. Yeah, I'm a bit surprised, too.

A bewitching time capsule that transports us to late 80s China, and to turn-of-the-century video games. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Taito's comeback continues with this revival of its most famous series, and while it's slim the old magic remains.

Generic and boring, Terminator: Resistance's only redeeming feature is its fan service. [Eurogamer Avoid]

When I reached the end of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, I didn't feel like I'd had a rewarding experience. I was relieved it was over. With some side-meandering, it took around 30 hours, and I didn't enjoy a lot of them. I'll admit crunching a Souls-like in less than four days is an unnatural and gruelling experience: I imagine if I'd played Fallen Order over several months, I would have been less frustrated, but probably still bored. It's such a shame, as Fallen Order has an incredible gameplay experience at its core, with fantastic environments and well-directed action sequences. Yet it's unable to sustain this thanks to some fundamental design problems.

Pokémon Sword and Shield add some brilliant new creatures, but like their gargantuan Dynamax forms, the games feel like a hollow projection.

Pokémon Sword and Shield add some brilliant new creatures, but like their gargantuan Dynamax forms, the games feel like a hollow projection.

Pokémon Sword and Shield add some brilliant new creatures, but like their gargantuan Dynamax forms, the games feel like a hollow projection.

This is a puzzling masterclass with a heart as well as a brain. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Ghost Games strips back the recent excess to deliver a simple, satisfying take on the Need for Speed formula, even if some problems persist.

Hideo Kojma's first post-Metal Gear game is a messy, indulgent vanity project - but also a true original. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Infinity Ward rekindles the Modern Warfare magic with a more tactical first-person shooter - for better and for worse.

Mesmerising and thrilling, this is a puzzle game for the ages. [Eurogamer Essential]

The motion controls of the Wii original are stripped out for this remaster, leaving an entertaining if not quite excellent outing.

Night School Studios follows on its excellent work in Oxenfree with this touching look at the absurdity of life and video games. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A new spin on the series sees Next Level Games serve up character and charm in abundance. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Daniel Fortesque's tale is retold with style, but the fundamentals frustrate.

A conventional, easygoing scifi RPG with slightly wasted satirical elements that fades very quickly from the mind.

Arcade elegance meshes perfectly with a glorious wilderness. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A verbose and rich psychological roleplaying game that doesn't offer enough choice in the role you play.

There's an end-of-pier charm to it all, the showmanship of the arcade matched with Nintendo's time-proven ability to take something - here the humble pilates ring - and imbue it with a sense of play and wonder. Ring Fit Adventure is that and then some, boasting all the inventiveness of last year's curio Labo and matching it with a video game that compels you to come back for more. This might not have the show-stopping pull of a Mario or Zelda, but I can guarantee that it's the purest Nintendo experience you'll play this year. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Don't let the cuteness fool you, Kine is one of the cleverest puzzle games around. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Playtonic tightens up its nostalgic take on platforming and turns its eyes to the future. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A small, perfectly formed adventure. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Stylish cinematic super-violence is transformed into smart temporal puzzles. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A masterly racer that gets to the very essence of motorsport's magic. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A smudge of systems from other Ubisoft games fail to coalesce - and sometimes are plain crippled - in this weak open world shooter. [Eurogamer Avoid]

Outrageously pretty and newly refined, Frozenbyte's series finally strikes gold. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Capybara Games makes a triumphant return to colour-matching with this gratifying, tactical splatterfest. [Eurogamer Essential]

A suite of enhancements help bring the virtues of this staunchly traditional RPG into focus. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Rogue Corps is elevated at times by the fact that it's hard to truly screw up a twin-stick shooter.

A kind and gentle adventure that's filled with vivid life. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A survival strategy game that might be too uncompromising.

Slapstick gaming at its silliest, Untitled Goose Game delivers brilliantly on its premise. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A masterly remake that preserves Koholint Island for a new generation. [Eurogamer Essential]

This is a game with meaningful, welcome changes on the pitch. This is a fun football video game made by developers who clearly love football and are well aware of community feedback. But FIFA 20 is also a video game made by a publisher that's seemingly incapable of changing some of the problematic stuff that comes with each and every FIFA game - at a time when the conversation has most certainly changed.

Equal parts tense and unpredictable, this serves the kind of memorable experience that makes exploring branching storylines a joy. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Simogo shuffles through a stacked deck of rhythm-action delights, mastering yet another genre. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A tough, well-wrought action-platformer distinguished by some toe-curling portrayals of sin. [Eurogamer Recommended]

PES 2020 is a patch or three away from being a very good game. As it stands, it's a weird mix of brilliant and broken.

A stomping, stylish mech game that's classy and clumsy in equal measure. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Mixed multiplayer and a depressing grind can't dim the light of a superb new Gears campaign. [Eurogamer Recommended]

GreedFall has more than its fair share of faults, and its curious mix of the sweet and the sour is far from a roleplaying revelation. But the elements that matter have been imbued with such love and care - so much so that I quickly forgave this ambitious RPG its shortcomings. [Eurogamer Recommended]

With a beautiful handling model, much-improved visuals and a savvy use of the official licence, WRC 8 is a triumph. [Eurogamer Recommended]

The Layer of Fear devs deliver some effective horror with a side of smart ideas, though it's not without its faults.

Well shot, well acted, well crafted - Erica is a high-class FMV game for a new age. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A remaster of a remake - or something along those lines - this is an exceptional beat 'em-up experience. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Supermassive's Dark Pictures anthology gets off to a promising start, but this first nautical instalment winds up a little too promptly.

Light on action but humorous and made with love, Knights and Bikes holds something for adults and kids alike. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Ancestors is ambitious and clunky and not much fun - and it's often quietly thought-provoking too.

Giddy action and astonishing art design combine in one of the great locations of modern video games. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Sprawling, varied and constantly stylish, Astral Chain is a very different breed of action game that ranks with Platinum's best. [Eurogamer Essential]

Dicey Dungeons constantly reinvents a simple idea to delightful puzzling effect. [Eurogamer Recommended]

An interesting battle mechanic can't mask Oninaki's storytelling and design faults.

The creator of Her Story explores its ideas further in a broader, deeper, more unruly video mystery. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Told with nerdish detail - and limited production values - Train Sim World 2020 might surprise you. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A thrillingly authentic take on the first-person shooter's 90s heyday, delivered with nerdish enthusiasm. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A one-of-a-kind splicing of PS1 with 16-bit aesthetics and formal conventions, streaked with self-aware humour, sorrow and yearning. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A quest to find phone signal leads to a glorious game of exploration and reconnection. [Eurogamer Essential]

Competent strategy pastes flat-footed, surface-level sci-fi over a genre that lives and dies by its nuance.

A masterpiece of absurdist theatre, and a damn fine double-A mech game too. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Impressive heritage and a handful of neat ideas bubble beneath this co-op horror, though they're both ultimately squandered.

Two players, two developers, but half the story: this spin-off isn't firing on all cylinders, but the combat is still hugely satisfying.

Fire Emblem goes back to school for the most epic, generous and dynamic outing for the series yet. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is, ultimately, just fine, but it feels like a last-gen game visually and in design. You can see it in every door you have to press a button to open, in every recycled enemy, in every spotlight you wait to pass, in every move-block-to-the-right-pad puzzle. Some of my colleagues said it reminded them of one of those late 2000s superhero MMOs, and I get that. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 launches 10 years after Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, but it feels like it could easily have come out just a year later, when the Xbox 360 and PS3 were still going strong. I suppose this is exactly what some had hoped for from the game, but I was hoping for a bit more.

Atmosphere rules in this narrative game about a cabbie on the trail of a killer. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Sterling hack-and-slash combat meets raw, fractured prose in one of gaming's most essential nightmares. [Eurogamer Recommended]

An homage to the genre-blending classic ActRaiser that never quite gets off the ground.

The Minecraft and Dragon Quest mash-up gets refined for the sequel, with a few other outside influences helping make it a laid-back joy. [Eurogamer Recommended]

A brief, frequently beautiful meditation on mental illness that can be overly blunt in its messaging.

Retro charm can't hide dull design in a game that, almost impossibly, has no clear audience.

Two designs collide gloriously in a Zelda variation that rivals the greatness of the core games themselves. [Eurogamer Essential]

A quirky and powerful construction toy that's fun to play with even if you aren't trying to make anything. [Eurogamer Recommended]

The introduction of F2 and a suite of small improvements elsewhere make for a thrillingly authentic take on motorsport's top-flight. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Frogware's most ambitious title to date sees it take on the Cthulu mythos, but unfortunately it makes for one of its most flawed games too.

SNK's iconic series makes its return in this reboot that's short on features but rich in systems. [Eurogamer Recommended]

Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled is a gold-standard remaster, capturing the loveably janky, off-brand spirit of classic CTR - and then some. [Eurogamer Essential]

My Friend Pedro's two halves of the banana reveal the perilous balancing act of game design. The first half is a stellar example of how to build an action game, of how to engender a sense of creativity through the player's toolset, and how to bake seamless flow into complex and challenging environments. The second half isn't quite the opposite of that, but it tries much too hard to be clever, with humour that's less goofy and more edgy, and level design that's too exacting in its structure.

Sega's spin-off has a few ideas of its own as it takes a detective's perspective on Kamurocho, though it all ends up feeling a little flat.