The Wandering Village is a city-building strategy game that offers a creative story mode, a tough challenge mode and a great sandbox mode. Secure the future of the nomads on the back of the Onbu and experience fantastic biomes with nice music and their own challenges. The hours fly by and the great Ghibli-like animations draw you into the fantastic, dystopian world.

Fallen Feathers is a good action RPG with brutal, impulsive combat, impressive bosses, well designed game world and nice graphics. But in the end, it can't fully compete with the best Soulslikes, which is why the game does not possess the status as a must-play. But if you can't get enough of this kind of game, Wuchang is still a good choice.

Shadow Labyrinth is a good Metroidvania with a well made, atmospheric setting, nice presentation, cool designed bossfights and appealing platforming that does not suffer, but also does not really benefit from the Pac-Man crossover. Because the fixed difficulty level is a little too high, we can mostly recommend the game to purists of the genre.

It's a power fantasy in its purest form. A powerful, sometimes clumsy, but always honest homage to a time when action heroes weren't cool, but brutal. It's a game for fans, for nostalgics, for everyone who wishes their video games weren't always bigger, but simply better at what they want to do. When RoboCop lumbers through the halls, delivering one-liners and restoring order with his assault rifle and steel fist, it feels right. No other game currently captures the essence of the character so well on screen. And that's despite not even trying to be modern. "Unfinished Business" isn't perfect. But it's RoboCop. And sometimes that's completely enough.

Donkey Kong Bananza is just the best Switch 2 exclusive so far. The destruction system alone offers so much fun and is rounded out by world exploring, a cool combat system, nice puzzles and a high variety of motivating challenges. The bosses could have been a little harder, but ultimately that's just a minor weak spot in a fantastic 3D platformer.

Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream is a tightly crafted real-time tactics game that blends stealth, puzzle-solving, and emotional storytelling. Set in a beautifully rendered, dystopian city, the game follows a trio of characters with complementary abilities who must work together through intricately designed missions. With its smart level design, intuitive isometric controls, and a surprisingly personal narrative, Eriksholm stands out as a hidden gem in the genre. Minor frustrations aside, it’s a strong debut from indie studio River End Games.

Usually only the best horror games manage to create the tension that Ready or Not captures in every level. The build up through slow, tactical clearing of empty room after empty room, followed by the clattering of footsteps a floor above only to erupt in a deadly firefight is unmatched. Aside from a difficult to learn controlling scheme for consoles, its biggest detractor is also its greatest strength. Ready or Not is oppressive and depressing. The violence and hopelessness of the worst a SWAT-team can encounter awaits you in every mission, portrayed in gruelling detail and realism. It's a brilliant tactical shooter with themes and settings so dark, we occasionally had to take a break from the tension.

Patapon 1+2 Replay proves that ingenious game ideas never get old! Even though the music game may seem cute at first glance, it's packed with depth and complexity. The battles are tactically challenging, but also require maximum concentration. There's much more to Patapon than you might initially imagine, making the remake collection both worth playing and highly recommended. If you haven't tried Patapon yet, you should do so now.

If you love Tron then you will probably quickly fall in love with Tron: Catalyst. Characters, missions, world and lore are oozing with love and care for everything that Tron is. Unfortunately most of the gameplay can’t hold up to that. Combat is middling, the upgrade system is boring and while the time travel via your Glitch powers are exciting they are also extremely linear and narrow. This goes for the many dialogues that you’ll have as well. While freedom is suggested it doesn’t actually exist. Still: Tron: Catalyst is Tron to the bone and if you’re into that you will find a lot to love.

Even though the changes to the career mode in the fourth installment are certainly a tough blow for Tony Hawk fans, we're overall satisfied with the latest remake. The presentation, handling, gameplay, and, above all, fun are all spot on.

Overall Chronicles of the Wolf can be a ton of fun. If you like the genre or the older Castlevanias you are going to have a great time with this game. The gameplay itself may not be revolutionary but it is more than solid and entertaining. Unfortunately that entertainment will get bogged down by a tedious amount of backtracking and too many places that will instantly kill you without a warning. Sometimes this means that it will set you back five, ten or more minutes which is just plain annoying.

If you like trains, enjoy traveling and cozy games, you should reserve your seat in Locomoto. The simple gameplay loop is well-received and will keep you entertained for hours.

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.

Initially, I wanted to quit Bygone Dreams after the first two frustrating hours, but the story, music, and visuals drew me back in. Despite bugs and a crash, I pushed through and appreciated the game’s rich world, unique folklore influences, and impressive scope for an indie title. I hope the developers fix the technical issues, as the game has real potential—especially for experienced players in heroic mode.

Until Then brings us back to our teenage years for the good, the bad and the ugly. This coming-of-age story, set in the beautiful Philippines, takes us on an emotional roller coaster while its darker secrets are bubbling away under the surface. Though it might take some time till you reach the juicy bits of the story, the wait is worth your time.

Death Stranding 2 is looking better, increases comfort and reduces annoying gameplay aspects of part one. But although the story is better and there is (potentially) more spectacular combat, the appeal of something totally new that the first game could have claimed for itself is mostly gone.

Riding a futuristic hoverboard on a desolate and alien planet while listening to atmospheric tunes feels awesome, is a ton of fun and doesn’t get old. Otherwise Star Overdrive is a mostly fine bag of different elements. Combat and platforming are not outstanding, take a while to get used to but ultimately work just fine. The puzzles and the implementation of new abilities is fun and brings a good amount of variety. Crafting and leveling up your character does feel either overcomplicated or too barren though. Overall it is a fun experience especially if you allow yourself to be taken along with the interesting and loneliness-inducing story.

FBC: Firebreak feels like a really solid pitch. Sadly, the game at release doesn’t progress past the pitch and never feels fully complete. The lack of variety in the repetitive missions, the barebones character customization and lack of any of Remedy’s interesting stories makes this very hard to recommend. While on its own it’s far from the worst game ever, it simply cannot compare to any of its competitors, even at their launch, let alone in their current state after many updates.

Trains and Explosion! "Battle Tanks" combines the unlikely combination of Trains and Rogue-Likes to a sometimes grindy and hard but most of the time entertaining Genre-Mix-Up. Tchoo tchoo!

Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD Remaster is still a fine JRPG with nice story, tactical round-based combat and cool job system for varied gameplay without typical classes. But the king is still the strong atmosphere thanks to a fantastic soundtrack and mostly beautiful, if not in any aspect refined graphics. If you love JRPGs and did not play the original, the remaster is a good choice. If you already played the 3DS original, there is hardly anything to find, that can easily surprise you.

Split Fiction is a brilliant co-op experience on the Switch 2 - whether you're playing on a TV, in handheld mode, or online via cross-play. And thanks to Game Share local, wireless co-op play can be realised with just one full version of the game. However, it's disappointing that Hazelight and EA weren't able to fit the entire game onto a Switch 2 cartridge, and even the physical edition ultimately only contains a download code. It also loses points for some missing basic accessibility options, such as the ability to adjust the font size of dialogue texts.

An excellent port of an already very good game makes for a must-buy for any fans of the character action genre. While the PC Version doesn’t meaningfully alter the experience, the upgraded framerate and stunning visuals make this an easy recommendation for anyone who missed the game coming to Playstation 5 last year.

Dune: Awakening has everything a survival game fan would love & like: crafting, building, fighting. But this is also the downside of the game, for being to well known to genre fans. Still a nice choice for survival enthusiast as well as everyone that's interested in the world of Dune.

Copycat is a short, emotionally powerful game that leaves a strong impression despite its brief playtime. The storytelling is impactful, but the limited choices can feel restrictive. While the experience is memorable, some themes and emotional intensity may leave players with mixed feelings.

Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition on Switch 2 delivers an impressive portable take on CD Projekt Red’s sci-fi RPG, combining all updates, DLCs, and the Phantom Liberty expansion in one complete package. With support for DLSS, gyro aiming, optional pointer-style motion controls, and cross-save functionality, the game makes smart use of the Switch 2’s unique capabilities.

Projected Dreams is a cozy puzzle game that slows down the stressful everyday life and comes up with creative game ideas. A great game for puzzle fans who want to play without time pressure, with suitable music and a sweet background story.

Mario Kart World is a great launch title and a good iteration of the Mario Kart series. But beside the much better graphics and the fantastic new knock out mode the game cannot fully reach its predecessor on eye level.

Just like its predecessor, What the Clash offers crazy, colorful minigame action that is so over the top, that you can't help but enjoy it. If you're an Apple Arcade subscriber, don't miss out.