GAMES.CH's Scores

  • Games
For 872 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 66% higher than the average critic
  • 12% same as the average critic
  • 22% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 5.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 80
Highest review score: 95 The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
Lowest review score: 25 Captain Blood
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 5 out of 872
874 game reviews
    • 74 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Princess Peach: Showtime benefits a lot from the idea of wearing different costumes, giving Peach a high variety of special abilities. Like usual for Nintendo games, the game brims over concerning loving details. The very low difficulty level and the partly inappropriate performance prevent the game from a higher score.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Concord isn't a bad game. It's a solid hero-shooter with appropriate gunplay and movement. With the right squad by your side, the 5v5-matches are solid fun. Yet again, Concord plays it very safe and doesn't stand out in any department against free-to-play-competitors like Valorant or Apex Legends.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Spirit City: Lofi Sessions is a game that can be easily integrated into everyday life. The game can help you to work in a more structured and productive way without forgetting to take the necessary breaks. It's cute, fun and offers a variety of different music and sounds and if that's not enough, you can even integrate YouTube.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Build on the rocky foundation of Dynasty Warriors 9, Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires is inherently flawed, both when it comes to its technical aspects as well as its gameplay variety. With only siege battles throughout the entire campaign, you’d think that the streamlined combat and barebones graphics would be enough to break the game’s back but they didn’t. Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires manages to cleverly link battles, relationships with other officers and empire-management together into an addictive gameplay loop that works despite all its glaring flaws. The game can be a lot of fun, even if pleasure is as guilty as it's always been with the series.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Sniper Elite: Resistance delivers Rebellions patented action-stealth-experience. While the gameplay remains intense and enjoyable, the presentation and the handling need an overhaul for the next parts of the series.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Killer Klowns from outer Space - The Game is a solid asymmetrical horror shooter that lacks polish and sometimes liveliness, but not humor.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    My Hero Academia: All's Justice offers fans of the anime series in particular an exciting gaming experience that impresses with its fantastic presentation. Unlike Deku & Co., however, the gameplay fails to transcend its limitations.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Silent Hill f shows some good approaches and, in some parts, even presents itself as innovative for the series, without losing sight of the essence of Silent Hill. But the unintuitive, schematic and too sluggish combat system significantly dampens gameplay and immersion. The game, particularly due to its atmospheric strengths, is far from a complete failure. Unfortunately, "Silent Hill f" hasn't become the hoped-for, more or less consistently successful series comeback.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Deliver Us Mars proves, that its predecessor has not been just a flash in the pan. Developer KeokeN Interactive delivers a nice sequel with a twistful story, a pleasant heroine and a comparatively diversdye gameplay. At least, if you're a fan of Deliver Us the Moon, you need to get the sequel as well.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Star Overdrive is a fresh take on the action adventure genre and it combines puzzle solving, fighting with high speed hoverboard action. In the end the mix was maybe too much to handle and it would have benefited from focusing on just one gameplay element.
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    • 73 Critic Score
    Grimoire Groves is a successful mixture of roguelike dungeon-crawler and cozy game. While the graphics are absolutely cute and adorable, the story is unfortunately not, it lacks depth and variety. The game is fun for a few hours, but then quickly becomes grindy and monotonous.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Finally a game for larger groups which is easy to connect and ready to play right away. All you need is some friends, enough space and everyone setup with a smartphone. The minigames are diversified and you can even play bingo against your granny. The game overall is a nice way of passing the time, not more not less, and makes the most fun when played in larger groups.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    As an unique blend of role-playing game and strategy in a 1920s prohibition setting, Empire of Sin is most definitely an ambitious title. Sadly, some balancing issues, a very poor tutorial and a spreadsheet-nightmare of a user interface are holding the game back from ever being as fun as it wants to be. Empire of Sin is by no means beyond redemption, but it is also a far cry from an offer that we can’t refuse. Strategy veterans will easily exploit the poor AI, while more casual players will hit a brick wall trying to solve the obtuse economic puzzle that the game so poorly explains.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Arietta of Spirits is a cute, sterotypical action adventure, which tells a meaningful and emotional Story about friendship, family and death. Arietta fights together with her new spirit friend Arco for a better world and try to defeat the monsters which hunts the little island. Eventhough you can play through the story in about five hours, you can choose different difficulty levels and enjoy the game again.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    If you want to experience the two Another Code games in a more or less completely new manner, the Recollection is a great opportunity for doing that. But new puzzles, cutscenes or voiceover can't hide that Another Code Recollection does not look and feel like a high value current game production.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    MotoGP 23 is a solid successor fort he racing-series, but has a lot of flaws, that prevent the game from hitting a mainstream-appeal. Presentation outside the races is bland, the career-mode lacks overall depth and the racing-gameplay is still too difficult to attract fresh players.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Short game fun for the puzzle in between, which is fun in the family, but lacks long-term motivation and new ideas.
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Wario Ware: Get it together delivers a nice bunch of characters within fast paced and creative mini games and challenges. But especially for solo players the game will run out of air in just a few hours. Even with co-op and competitive modes included, the game does not offer long term fun like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate or funracer king Mario Kart 8 do.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    While drawing you in with an original setting, interesting art and a fun, albeit shallow combat system, Helvetii quickly deflates as the rogue-like elements harm the game more than help it stand out. The reason being that there simply isn’t enough variations to make each run feel distinct, making for an incredibly repetitive experience. The foundation is solid, but Helvetii either needed more content to make runs feel unique or ditch the rogue-like elements to deliver a more hand-crafted brawling experience and deepen the combat with new moves and abilities.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Tamagotchi Plaza has refreshing minigames, some of which we haven't seen before. Unfortunately, the motivation to play quickly fades, and a touch control option would have been beneficial for some games.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    SPYxANYA: Operation Memories is a short-term very cute activity for fans of anime with children, which unfortunately mainly suffers from the repetitive gameplay and lack of story.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    The minigames luckily do ramp up at least a bit in terms of challenge and offer a fun little distraction if you don't go in expecting anything groundbreaking. However, we can't overlook the steep pricing when comparing price vs. amount and quality of content. So only the most ardent Pokémon fans as well as smaller kids might really enjoy this for longer than a handful of hours.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    While Akimbot doesn’t do much to iterate on the Ratchet and Clank formula, it does a good job at capturing the fluid movement and combat. It’s lacking a little in depth and true variety and instead focuses on a rather mundane story and surprisingly unlikable characters. With some more variety and depth in the selection of weapons as well as more intricate level designs, a sequel could fill a much needed gap in modern gaming though.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Gangs of Sherwood is the definition of a one-trick pony. Its colorful and entertaining battles weaving the abilities and attacks of up to 4 players together are not just unique but also very fun to play. Sadly anything outside of combat fails to really leave much of an impression. The setting in a science-fantasy version of Nottingham definitely had potential, but little of it actually was used effectively. Instead the final product hides its most fun parts behind a wall of generic mediocrity. Those willing to stick with the game and bringing friends along will still have a wonderful time despite obvious flaws.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Schleich is a German brand that specialises in making little plastic figures for mostly kids.Eldrador Creatures: Shadowfall is based on a line of these figures and would be primed to be turned into a genre that is easily digestible for young gamers. Yet the developers turned the license into a surprisingly deep and for the most part breezy and fun turn based tactics game. While the technical aspects are mostly middling it can still be a very entertaining first foray into a new genre for young and old alike.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Being the first big box-simulation after 14 years, Undisputed certainly does a solid job to reestablish boxing in gaming. The boxing-simulation may be a bit rough and pure around the edges but delivers in the ring with great atmosphere and intense bouts.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Empire of the Ants isn't your typical RTS-game. Instead it's a wonderful looking experience, that drags you into the life of insects. Despite the great presentation, the game itself suffers from lackluster controls and camera-issues.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Underneath its technical disappointments lies, at heart, a good game. Given the high performance of the PSVR2, the implementation disappoints.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes successfully brings the series’ signature horror atmosphere into an immersive first-person VR experience. Its chapter-based structure keeps gameplay varied with stealth, climbing, and chase sequences. However, the snap-turn camera system can break immersion during tense moments. Overall, it’s a strong VR entry for fans, though its dark visuals and controls have minor drawbacks.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    While being a solid experience it is somehow stuck in between arcade and simulation. Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 isn't really one nor the other and thus makes it hard to recommend to either casual and core gamers.

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