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.