Breathless action combines with perfect pixel art in a game of real character and delight. [Recommended]

This roguelite shooter is a beautiful piece of work. [Recommended]

A highly accomplished sequel that innovates without losing sight of what made the first one great. [Recommended]

A middling racer in a dreary package that contains one of the finest achievements in the racing genre in years. [Recommended]

A shooter that earns its place alongside Rogue Warrior, Turning Point and Hour of Victory as one of the very worst games you could play. [Avoid]

A continent-sized anthology of American campfire tales that will keep pulling you in deeper, once you acclimatise to its slow pace. [Recommended]

A magical experience that is comfortable enough for VR newcomers to enjoy, while intricate and immersive enough to thrill VR veterans. [Recommended]

The follow-up to FTL is just as punishing - and just as elegant. [Recommended]

Witty and wonderfully scrappy, turn-based combat has never looked quite like this before. [Recommended]

Metal Gear's first post-Kojima outing plays fast and loose with the formula, with results that are equal parts brilliant and baffling.

If you've got the stamina - and the space - then Sprint Vector is an awful lot of fun. [Recommended]

Instead of challenging the Dark Age it reinterprets 615 years later, the game seems to delight in it. Instead of seeing notes in the margin of a history book, we get what feels like a glossy pamphlet advertising an escape into an oddly romanticised past. And it's that, ultimately, which makes me too uneasy about Warhorse's work to be able to recommend it.

The 90s classic has never looked better, but beneath the makeover it can creak.

An earnest eco-platformer that is at once under and overcooked.

Visually, then, Pop-up Pilgrims is a hit, providing something unique to look at in a shooter-obsessed world. Unfortunately the gameplay proves to be paper-thin and veteran VR users will absolutely find the package to be an underwhelming experience.

The musou genre needed new ideas - but reinventing it as a shoddy open-world game wasn't the answer.

An earnest and impactful adventure, written within the margins of an homage to 80s cinema. [Recommended]

Messy, boisterous, chaotic - Civilization 6: Rise and Fall is the antidote to the Enlightenment. [Recommended]

Lost Sphear is a more ambitious JRPG than its predecessor, yet it risks abandoning its purpose to return to the genre's simpler days.

The all-star fighter returns via the arcade for a deep, characterful game that struggles to endear itself to fans and newcomers alike.

A melancholy masterpiece is reborn in this faithful and breathtakingly beautiful remake.

A delightful co-op action RPG that's sadly stymied by its insistence on making it hard to play together.

A platformer aimed at speedrunners is also an adventure for the rest of us to savour. [Recommended]

Monster Hunter opens up for the most accessible, most detailed and most magnificent entry yet. [Essential]

An oppressively beautiful portrayal of an undersea environment, and a well-wrought survival game with a vaguely eco-friendly message. [Recommended]

Dragon Ball FighterZ feels like playing a Dragon Ball game built by the anime's biggest fan. For me, Dragon Ball FighterZ is the best tag-based fighting game since Marvel vs. Capcom 2. I can't think of higher praise. [Essential]

Arcade Edition is a breath of fresh air for Street Fighter 5, which is finally the game it should have been at launch. [Essential]

Intelligent and enriching, this is a preview worth playing. [Recommended]