GameMAG's Scores

  • Games
For 678 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 30% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 65% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 4.4 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 70
Highest review score: 100 Keeper
Lowest review score: 10 The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 30 out of 678
679 game reviews
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Fort Solis is a beautiful, yet very boring game with a stellar cast and walking simulator-like gameplay.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Earthblood is a low-budget effort with a cool looking blood effects, but not much else. So don't expect anything good from the visuals or the overall narrative.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Deadly Premonition 2: A Blessing in Disguise could have been a good game and a worthy successor to the original, if the developers did not try to copy “True Detective” (unsuccessfully), but create more interesting characters and non-standard atmospheric stories. Future patches can fix the framerate, errors and bugs, but they can't change the artificially prolonged plot and a very limited number of characters. And this is completely disappointing.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The Walking Dead: Onslaught could've been a good replacement for Arizona Sunshine if it didn't have a forced grinding problem and weapon balance issues.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Predator: Hunting Grounds is difficult to advise even the most loyal fans of the franchise. The game is not worth your time, even if it will be distributed on a PS Plus subscription or sold at a huge discount. It is almost impossible to get pleasure here. Terrible graphics, unbalanced gameplay, poorly developed mechanics and broken matchmaking leave only a deep sense of frustration.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Redfall is a broken mess that serves as the worst kind of Xbox Series X|S representation and a huge stain on Microsoft, Bethesda and Arkane's reputation going forward.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    After several years of stagnation, the Tour de France 2025 looks like an attempt to take some kind of step forward, given the niche nature of the series. However, the ultra-budget pipeline has not gone away.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Gangs of Sherwood is interesting due to its style and setting, but everything is spoiled by fundamental problems in gameplay and balance.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    It's hard to actually review Bright Memory, as it's not a game you can easily recommend, even for its relatively small price. But what we can definitely rate is a passion the developer has put into this project, while trying to give a new life to a slowly withering genre. We can only wish luck to the FYQD studio with their next game, which we will judge accordingly.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Lost Soul Aside leaves a mixed impression. The game offers truly spectacular battles with unique bosses that provide fresh experiences, and the environment is designed in a memorable art style with high-level detail. However, players must endure lengthy levels, a mediocre plot, and subpar voice acting.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    There is so much wrong with Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition that we doubt that any amount of updates could fix the game in any significant way. As of now, we can only hope that moving forward, Rockstar Games will learn for their mistakes. Or at the very least will find more experienced development partners and invest in quality control. The work done by Grove Street Games is just straight up bad.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Apex Legends remains an excellent battle royale game. However, we're strongly recommend you to skip it on the Nintendo Switch.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Unknown 9: Awakening is a game a couple decades too late.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Harvest Moon: One World turned out to be an extremely weak project that is of interest only to the most loyal fans who are not afraid of disappointment.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 10 Critic Score
    The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales feels like a nice little adventure that can hold your attention for a couple of great hours, and yet the astonishingly bad console versions make little to no reason to even touch this game.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    As of right now Die by the Blade feels like an early access title marked as a full-fledged release. There's a huge ways in which the game can be improved. Here's hoping that by the time of console ports developers will turn their project into something much better.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Redneck Ed: Astro Monsters Show shows some really stylish visual and great characters designs, but sadly the game is far from polished state, which is disappointing, given that it's not an early access release.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    I Saw Black Clouds is a good idea with a terrible implementation, where a good cast plays at the level of a school play.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories is a hard-fought project that captures your attention thanks to interesting characters, violent scenes, well-written situations during a global disaster and great gameplay. So in this case the graphics and bugs doesn't matters.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown today looks not just like a greeting from the past, but inferior to its predecessors.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    1348: Ex Voto is a rough-around-the-edges project that still manages to be engaging. With a bigger budget and proper polish, it could have stood alongside Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice or A Plague Tale: Innocence, but that didn't happen.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Captain Blood is obsolete in every way and now looks like an HD remaster.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Those Who Remain is a trivial story about corruption and injustice. Trying to seem like a horror game, it is not able to scare even a schoolboy. Pixel hunting and a weak story cause only disappointment. However, from a small company that has not released a single notable project before, it was hardly worth waiting for pleasant surprises.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Instead of focusing on key design aspects, the dev team created a whole mess of conflicted ideas and decisions. And the quality of console port is just unacceptable.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The problem is that at its core, PO'ed: Definitive Edition remains an extremely mediocre game with a couple good ideas.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    If only the team behind Remothered: Broken Porcelain spent more time working on crucial plot points, character motivation and gameplay mechanics, then we could have a rather good game on our hands. As of now Broken Porcelain is just full of game breaking bugs, some of which the devs are desperately trying to get rid of. If you're planning to buy Remothered: Broken Porcelain anyway, at least wait some time before the game will be fixed.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All in all Balan Wonderworld is an archaic action-platformer with tons of shortcomings in terms of level design and overall presentation. If you love the genre, you would probably be repulsed by this game, instead of welcoming it with open arms.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Uncertain: Light at the End is a very rough project with a weak plot, outdated animations and a myriad of bugs.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Bethesda clearly cannot decide on priorities, grabbing everything in a row and rushing from one extreme to the other. As a result, we get a crooked, boring and ugly semi-finished product - The Elder Scrolls: Blades on Switch. Yes, the game is F2P, but spending time in it is physically unpleasant. At the same time, a full-fledged version of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is available on the Nintendo Switch, which makes Blades completely unnecessary. Well, unless you want to spoil your impressions of the cult franchise.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Terrible visual effects, ugly animation and constant objects pop-up clearly shows how the game is simply way too good for PlayStation 5 to handle.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    With complete lack of any steamy scenes, inane sexism, and weird choices, Super Seducer 3: The Final Seduction feels like a relic of the past. Besides some boring dialogues, this game can't offer much else.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Westmark Manor is a nice nod to Alone in the Dark. It consists of an interesting story and good puzzles wrapped in a package of annoying resource collection system and buggy implementation that needs to be fixed after a dozen of patches.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Troubleshooting: Abandoned Children is a big, complex game with an incredible number of settings, crafting and modifications, which can take hundreds of hours to complete. The anime style, atmosphere of Atlus games, deep characters and a strong plot make this project a real gift for fans of the genre.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    ANNIE: Last Hope is a very unexpected and stylish game based on rare voxel technology, which offers a good story, rich gameplay and interesting bosses in a six-hour story about struggle and survival. Be sure to try it in quarantine.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Picklock with a cheerful start and an interesting concept quickly gets bored and causes only persistent irritation due to the bad controls and too harsh task conditions. Therefore, after half the game, your desire to play disappears and you do not want to steal printers and toilet paper.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    For all its Communist coloring, Tonight We Riot is a very stylish, fun and well-presented project. Stylized 8-bit graphics along with hand-drawn violence and powerful music give you a few hours of great immersion.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Neon City Riders is a modern reinterpretation of the classic The Legend of Zelda with its own features and unusual setting. The high level of difficulty and challenging situations along with a strong emphasis on exploration can scare most players, but this is one of the most notable projects in its genre, especially if you are the lucky owner of the Nintendo Switch.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Liberated is a vivid noir work that does a great job with the visual presentation and can charm you with a story, but completely fails in many other departments.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    One Way: The Elevator is a very touching project with a positive message and beautiful animation, which is designed for short gameplay sessions.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Kombat Pack 2 for Mortal Kombat 11 turned out to be a good DLC with three interesting characters, two of which players hoped to see in the game from the very start.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Sir Lovelot is a very short and cute game that will allow you to relax after a hard day's work and have fun. Super Meat Boy for beginners.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Xuan-Yuan Sword VII offers a dramatic story based on Chinese mythology. Of course, the drabness of battles and long roads to some places can be tiring in the final part of the game, but in general, Xuan-Yuan Sword VII deserves an attention.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    There are plenty of shortcomings in Outriders - from the gameplay standpoint and to the massive number of technical hiccups. But even so, the deep and rewarding role playing system can make up for some of it. If you love the looter-shooter genre, then wait for Outriders to get a price drop, or simply try the game with Game Pass.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Deep atmosphere, rare setting and cool puzzles are tied up with lackluster music, boring monster encounters, and a plot, that's a little way too obscure. There is a lot to like about DARQ, but be ready for many shortcomings.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It's clear that the team at Madmind Studio have a very vivid imagination, but sometimes it would be best for Succubus to just slow down a little.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This new game by Frontier Developments is a great gift to all the fans of Jurassic Park. The core of Jurassic World Evolution 2 remains the same, but now with expanded depth.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Deck of Ashes: Complete Edition offers beautiful art design and some fascinating card battles with bosses. Animations during combat are pretty simple, and world exploration is a bit monotonous.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    From visual and audio standpoint, Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll is a significant step up from Everlasting Summer, but the writing itself is rather muddy and downright boring.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Burnhouse Lane is a small treasure by which Rem Michalski proves himself as true genius once again.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    If you can appreciate the setting of Victorian era London, and detective stories is something you often enjoy, then you can try Dance of Death, but be ready that your chances to enjoy this game are rather slim.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Tour de France 2023 is a very low budget and boring sports sim that feels like it stuck in the past.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Lost in Darklight is a chinese FMV adventure with an interesting story and charismatic characters. Sadly, english adaptation is not good enough - some parts just left untranslated.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Annihilation Instinct leaves behind the not-so-great open world elements from from the main campaign. And yet the DLC doesn't really fix any of the other shortcomings the game had.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    DUSK is a fun old-school FPS aimed at people who can appreciate the original Quake. This game requires you to unplug your brain and just enjoy the ride.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Small Saga is a cute and exciting adventure with role-playing elements that influence the development of the story. If not for the strange love line and the lack of Russian localization, the game could be recommended Small Saga to the widest possible range of players.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Prisoner of Limbo" turned out to be quite a distinctive DLC, in which the developers tried to move away from the usual gameplay of Atomic Heart.
    • tbd Metascore
    • Critic Score
    FOUNDRY is perfect for relaxing a bit after a hard day's work. Yes, we're talking about a game dedicated to working in a factory. [Early Access Score = 80
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    My Destiny Girls is a fun dating simulator with cute heroines, tons of funny situations, good English subtitles, and a rich plot that is the envy of many Korean doramas.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    In the 10 years since the release of The Great War, the concept of Valiant Hearts: Coming Home hasn't improved in any way, but has even gotten worse due to its secondary nature and lack of fire.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    After getting acquainted with Tour de France 2024 you will stop cursing EA and other sports sim developers. Because the work of Cyanide Studio is the apotheosis of stagnation.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The Mildew Children is a rare representative of Slavic fantasy, which is much closer to the magical stories of Nikolai Gogol than to the cold pictures of bloody Polish gamedev.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Supernatural is the perfect game for the average streamer while there is a lack of projects in the genre.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Beyond Hanwell is a low-budget hodgepodge of every horror game you've ever played.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York turned out to be a passable and technically backward visual novel. It is ruined by boring characters and predictable story.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sunset Hills is a very cute, homey adventure with likable characters. But the game lacks answers to a number of questions that arise in the course of the passage and a really bright ending.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Although Girls Frontline 2: Exilium belongs to the service games, the monetization level was more than tolerable at the end of the day. You can go through half of the game without any problems, pumping old girls and unlocking new ones.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Atomic Heart: Enchantment Under the Sea It doesn't want to reinvent the bike or try to emulate Bioshock even more. Instead, Mundfish pushes its own line, offering exactly what the main game is loved for.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    PROJECT TACHYON is an example of a colorful blend of several genres, and the roguelike elements make the gameplay a little more interesting than a linear game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Monument Valley 3 continues to deliver the classic zen-like gameplay experience characterized by its striking visuals and captivating puzzles, albeit hampered by a limited amount of content and less-than-intuitive control mechanics.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    I was expecting Wheel World to be a relaxing adventure lasting about five hours. However, in reality, it turned into a frustrating 10-hour race with awkward controls, monotonous progression, and a broken ending.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    However, the strengths of Silly Polly Beast outweigh its flaws. The atmosphere of a Russian provincial town, combined with stunning visuals and an engaging storyline, does its job—immersing the player in a mysterious world shrouded in demonic fog.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Looking at Battlefield REDSEC, it becomes clear that EA still hasn't fully thought through its post-launch support concept. In pursuit of content, the company released an outright raw battle royale that has proven to be hardly needed by anyone, judging by the Steam online statistics. And only the Gauntlet mode justifies the existence of this free-to-play offshoot.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Heart of the Forest is an evening’s worth of cinema with the illusion of choice, where the ending is determined just a few minutes before the credits roll.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It will take about 10 hours to complete Atomic Heart: Blood on Crystal. Although the DLC holds the player's hand, it is still capable of throwing in something unexpected.

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