AquaPazza: Aquaplus Dream Match remains a very fun game nearly 15 years later. Even without being revolutionary, its visual and mechanical appeal still holds up, carrying the distinct style of its era. On the other hand, what Shiravune delivered is downright disrespectful. Bugs that didn’t exist in the original game, no quality-of-life improvements, control issues, an unplayable online mode — and the list goes on. Hopefully these problems will eventually be fixed, but as it stands, this is far from a good example of a re-release.

Zombie Rollerz: The Last Ship is a game that knows exactly what it wants to deliver: uncompromising fun and chaos on wheels. While it doesn't reinvent the genre, it succeeds by combining intense action, humor, and resource management elements in a lighthearted and addictive way.

If you're a fan of the bullet hell genre, Mamorukun ReCurse! is definitely a great choice for your library. This title has plenty of action and content, and the twin-sticker implementation makes everything more frenetic and dynamic. Now, if this isn't a genre you're very familiar with, don't worry, there are plenty of features to make it one of your favorites.

As a great remake, Yooka-Replaylee is a well-deserved second chance for a game from 2017 that hadn't quite reached its true potential. Besides the graphic improvement, Playtonic has successfully modified the campaign for the better, removing obstacles for a more fluid, open, and fun progression.

Sonic Wings Reunion focused on reviving a past star, but without capitalizing on its glory or bringing anything new. Not even nostalgia can be a draw, given that many other franchises, such as Gradius, Darius, and X-Out, have dedicated themselves to releasing collections or remastering their main titles, adding achievements and memorabilia. The Aero Fighters' flight deserved more attention.

Absolum combines beat 'em up with roguelite elements to create an immersive and nuanced experience. The game offers deep combat, consistent progression systems, and a visually striking world, despite stumbling upon some structural repetition and limited variations in areas and powers. Its strength lies in the balance between technical precision and tactical variety, rewarding mastery and pattern recognition without sacrificing the fast-paced rhythm typical of beat 'em ups. Even without reinventing the genre, Absolum demonstrates its own identity.

Battle Suit Aces is a unique experience that blends anime narrative, strategy, and card mechanics into a creative and engaging package. Its story captivates, the characters are overflowing with charisma, and the visuals impress with their hand-drawn style. The card-based combat manages to be both accessible and deep at the same time, despite a few limitations. With loads of charisma and a vibrant universe, the game by Trinket Studios delivers an experience that balances tactics and narrative in well-measured doses. For those seeking a different kind of card RPG with the soul of an anime and the heart of science fiction, this is an adventure that's definitely worth embarking on.

Dreams of Another stands out for its artistic confidence and poetic vision. Its inventive mechanics and hypnotic atmosphere make up for the lack of challenge and replayability, offering a brief yet memorable journey through Baiyon’s surreal world of dreams.

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles is a great way to revisit the classic tactical game in Square Enix's franchise. Faithful to the original release but truly worried about offering a comfortable experience for a new generation, the title remains a tactical RPG of the highest quality and a must-play for fans of the genre.

Following the rules of a good remake, PAC-MAN WORLD 2 Re-PAC is a great platformer. The revamped production delivers beauty and joy, while the improved gameplay offers good and fun challenges. Going beyond a well-rounded campaign, we have plenty of content in the form of side missions, online rankings, and even future DLC. Another incredible addition to your library, whether you're a fan of the genre, the franchise, or just a great video game experience.

Alien: Rogue Incursion – Part One: Evolved Edition is a competent and fairly well-adapted adventure, standing out for the relationship between its protagonists and its excellent atmosphere. It’s a shame that the design philosophies inherited from the virtual-reality version still influence the experience. The simple structure of the puzzles and combat, the lack of enemy and environment variety, as well as the bugs and other technical issues, ultimately hinder the game’s potential. Even so, it’s worth playing despite the setbacks — especially for Alien fans.

Candy Rangers is a visually charming game with interesting mechanics for the rail shooter genre. Its colorful atmosphere, combined with a lively soundtrack, creates an engaging initial experience. However, the requirement to collect tokens to advance compromises the fluidity of progression, making the journey more repetitive than it should be. Despite this, it still delivers fun and a challenge, especially for those who enjoy overcoming obstacles perfectly.

Baby Steps is clearly aimed at a specific audience, with its clueless exploration and gameplay based on trial, error, and eventual frustration. Therefore, it may not be the best choice for those who just want to enjoy an open world. However, if you're the kind of person who can compose yourself after taking at least 80 deep breaths before redoing the same thing before freaking out, Bennett Foddy's new creation is ideal for your library.

Digimon Story Time Stranger is a journey of epic proportions within the franchise's universe. Besides being an easy recommendation for fans of Digimon, especially due to its story, it's also a really good RPG and worth exploring at length.

Platypus Reclayed brings a picturesque combination of an unusual visual style for games in general, especially for shoot 'em ups, with a fierce difficulty level and crazy power-ups. You could even say it's a game made, and remade, with detailed and artisanal craftsmanship.

Hotel Barcelona is a complicated game in every imaginable way. While it offers an interesting challenge thanks to the high degree of unpredictability inherent in the roguelike genre, it's hard to ignore its performance issues and clunky gameplay. It's a stylish game that lovingly pays homage to horror cinema, but it nearly ruins everything with its clumsy and almost inconsequential execution. It takes effort to see its precariousness as its own charm, like a genuine low-budget trashy horror film with questionable intentions. Once this hurdle is overcome, it quickly carves out its niche, for which it can be seen as one of the best games in the world.

Real Bout Fatal Fury 2: The Newcomers is a good return to a competent 2D fighting game that deserves to be available in more systems. Its main weakness, however, is that it doesn't offer a rich pack of modes to make the most out of the gameplay. Despite that, the online mode, Practice, gallery and rich settings are fair motivations to get this version.

BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3 captures the essence of Brazilian culture — particularly that of Rio de Janeiro — in a game. It’s a title that requires you to embrace its state of mind, as it doesn’t shy away from its numerous imperfections. In this vast boomer shooter market, it is undoubtedly one of the most unique — at least in terms of its concept.

Newest release in the iconic franchise, EA Sports FC 26 has arrived with few improvements and no innovations. While it remains essentially fun, with many game modes and good gameplay, the game suffers from its dated production and lack of significant changes. Competitive online modes, in particular, remain greedy, albeit with some improvements. In the end, this is a good choice for soccer fans who are familiar with the series or who have been away for a long time and want to get back on the field.

The supposedly open ending of Assassin's Creed Shadows' main campaign actually made some sense, as it was a way for Ubisoft to make it clear that the game has a long life ahead of it, both narratively and regarding the ongoing support updates. In Claws of Awaji, however, this vagueness felt a bit mocking. Even so, while the island of Awaji itself doesn't offer inviting elements, the DLC isn't entirely bad, as the inclusion of the staff, the straightforward mission progression, and the boss fights manage to add value to the overall experience.

Formula Legends suffers from some pretty annoying structural issues that prevent it from shining as a lighter, yet still challenging, alternative for motorsport enthusiasts. The idea of featuring cars from different eras is welcome and well-explored, as is using Grand Prix races from each era to showcase the evolution of the sport itself. However, a racing game that doesn't hone your driving skills needs to urgently return to the pits for repairs.

Dying Light: The Beast, the franchise's peak, offers brutal combat, a modest open world, and intense nighttime chases featuring Kyle Crane. Despite a weak villain, repetitive bosses, few new enemies, and bugs, it is the definitive experience for zombie fans.

Despite navigation and interface flaws, Borderlands 4 is, without a doubt, an ambitious and extremely fun new direction for the franchise. For those who have always loved the series' stylized chaos, the adventure in Kairos is unmissable, and for newcomers, it's the best entry point since the first game.

Marisa of Liartop Mountain offers an interesting take on the Touhou universe, blending puzzle and RPG elements with the feel of a narrated tabletop game. Despite its rigid structure, which requires frequent backtracking (revisiting areas to complete objectives) and distances the game a bit from its initial proposal, discovering solutions to challenges and managing the dice in combat provides a pleasant, albeit limited, experience.

Sushi Ben is an experience of exploring a colorful world with truly compelling characters, but that ends up as a much weaker game than it should be. The sum is worth less than the quality of its parts and, though it's still possible to have fun with the weirdness of the experience, this project eserved more polish to truly stand out.

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian is a competent RPG overall, with good combat, synthesis and exploration systems as expected from the franchise. It's a shame, however, that the management system for the store and the town evolution was built in a way that makes it completely dull and hardly integrated to the other parts and that the characters and elements of other games in the franchise are underexplored and become a hindrance.

In the end, Hades II is that rare sequel that expands without diluting. It respects the past without being trapped by it, preserving what truly matters. It gives us the almost tangible thrill of stepping into a room never knowing which version of ourselves will walk out. Between steel and spell, Supergiant delivers one of the year’s strongest indie titles.

NBA 2K26 regains the momentum lost with the previous title, although it still suffers from an excess of microtransactions that grant unfair advantages to those willing to pay. The other game modes, which are simpler, have become bigger, better, and more fun, leveraging the legacy that the NBA and WNBA have to offer while also making it a great showcase for their improved gameplay.