A solid ice hockey simulator with very few true innovations. The new Frostbite engine is probably the most important one - not that it will blow you away, mind you. If you want your miracle on ice, look elsewhere.

There’s no innovation, no evolution, nothing particularly exciting about this DLC. What you get is what you’d expect - three new missions which feel exactly the same as the original ones. 

War Mongrels pulls no punches in its grim, realistic depiction of WWII. Do you like Commandos? Then try its new cousin and attempt to overlook several mistakes, such as the unimpressive AI.

We certainly did not expect this story-driven, narratively focused game to be as good as it is. Its world is truly original, the characters inhabiting it feel lifelike and the whole game, with its book-like treatment, is simply marvellous to look at.

The new Halo game is far from flawless. There’s no co-op, even though there should be, and there’s a boring open world, even though there shouldn’t. The multiplayer feels unfinished as well. Still, at its core, it’s a solid story-driven shooter with a more-than-acceptable Cortana replacement.

Building your own Dino Park may be more fun than last time and the game is beautiful, with a certain cinematic quality to it, but there are just too many missteps, both connected to game design and technical in nature. Unless you absolutely adore dinosaurs, just play Planet Zoo.

This game is utterly bizarre. Gripping. Breath-taking. Surprising. Innovative. Turbulent. You simply must experience it yourself, from start to finish, to truly understand how amazing it is. One of the best games of the year.

The creators of the Steamworld universe stepped out of their comfort zone for the first time - and it’s a solid step indeed. The Gunk is visually stunning and its central mechanism, vacuuming the titular substance off the ground, is really well done. The combat, though, is disappointing, as is the progression system.

Do you have four friends and are you not afraid to spend a bit of cash? Try GTFO. It’s an exceptionally good horror action game that borrows a lot of the best stuff from other, similar experiences. It may not be perfect but it sure as hell is addictive.

This is simply a phenomenal game, a brilliant ballet of flawless design and gripping gameplay. The PC port has its flaws even though it’s by no means a catastrophe. Let’s hope repairs are on the way.

A commendable return to form for a legendary brand. Metroid Dread does everything well but never truly excels.

FIFA 22 looks amazing on next-gen hardware which was to be expected. What was not to be expected is the brilliant gameplay. It still isn’t a full-blown simulation, of course, but it’s way more tactical and fun than before, including the (in)famous Ultimate Team. The only thing that truly suffers is the neglected Career Mode.

This is a surprisingly well done, fun racing game, full of thrill and fast toy cars. It’s highly addictive, the car designs are adequately crazy and there’s a robust editor to satisfy your creativity.

This is the best version of Alan Wake you can play - but it’s also pretty much identical with the original game and the gameplay definitely feels a bit dated.

A brilliant game that’s all about conversations. You get stuck in a time loop which sounds potentially frustrating but actually isn’t because you don’t have to repeat yourself in any way. It’s just a shame that the game’s a bit ugly and the puzzles a bit trivial.

The Good Life unfortunately isn’t very good. It’s a thoroughly average game supported by a few good storylines and the personality of its author.

Supermassive Games don’t know where to go. They made some changes trying to find their lost recipe for success but that cannot save the weak scares and unlikeable characters.

Do you want to massacre undead hordes? Go ahead - but the technical issues and design problems are much scarier than any old zombie.

The first instalment was problematic, the trilogy as a whole is an entirely different proposition. This is a type of shooter game that simply doesn’t exist in today’s market and if you didn’t play it then, you should certainly play it now.

Only true fans of the series who never owned the WiiU will truly appreciate this port - or perhaps the nostalgic souls among you who cannot live without old Japanese horror games.

An MMORPG with great potential - but there’s so much work to be done. It is, however, already highly addictive for those who are patient and forgiving.

A fantastic little horror game with an art style and a soundtrack that are both simply stunning - and an imagery so disturbing you won’t be able to take your eyes off.

Gamedec is a fascinating detective RPG where even a bad call can lead to interesting outcomes. The setting is very original, a blend of our reality and a virtual world. But the story loses its breath somewhere along the way which is a real shame.

Forget the action set-pieces, forget the puzzles - the main draw of this sci-fi adventure is the irresistible chemistry between the main heroes. The story drives everything forward - and since it’s a very good story, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a very good game with a brilliant soundtrack to boot.

This is basically Age of Empires II modernized and with asymmetrical factions - and it’s great. The mistakes it makes are relatively minor and can be fixed, the exception being a weird, narrative-breaking choice of framing the campaigns in the style of a documentary film.

A very solid addition to the popular RPG series. The graphics are amazing, as is the freedom of choice regarding your demon underlings. Just be prepared to grind due to the brutal difficulty.

This is a better game than its predecessor - richer, with more paths to take and with a better story. Its world is extravagant, yet detailed. Its systems complement each other and make it one of the most robust RPGs on the market, a few design lapses notwithstanding.

The best-reviewed board game in the world gets its own digital adaptation - and it’s excellent. The board game comes to life thanks to beautiful animations and sounds. This is a true treat for any strategy game enthusiast.

A brilliant party and family game that somehow doesn’t suffer because of its lack of support for Joy-Con movement controls. There are many hours of fun to be had here.

Vanguard isn’t bad at all but there’s certainly room for improvement. The gunplay is solid, the graphics are beautiful - but the campaign is weak and the multiplayer unbalanced.

Sherlock Holmes: Chapter One is the best detective game from Frogwares. It blends the open world of The Sinking City and an emotional story of a young genius and adds the beautiful environment of the city of Cordona. My only wish for next time? Get rid of the combat.

The fourth generation of Pokémon brings several truly important upgrades and changes, but it just as often stands still, stuck in the past.

The final score is three points, one for each of the brilliant games hidden underneath this pile of garbage.

After three years of waiting, we’re getting a promising but unpolished farming game with a host of aging systems in dire need of updating. Even so, virtual farmers will happily spend hundreds of hours here.

t’s broken, it’s stripped of content, it’s just plain boring. The worst Battlefield of the modern era.

Not a game without its faults but what it needs to be doing, it does very well - namely the adrenaline-filled, headless ride down the hill.

The new Forza Horizon is here, but the word "new" must be handled with care. For the most part, the fifth part is the same as the fourth. The content has just swelled in all aspects, the career has deepened its storytelling and fans of multiplayer and shared experiences have even more options to get rid of it. This is the fullest part ever with the potential to entertain you for years to come, and since the four are among the best racing games of all time, its slight evolution can't be any different.

A rich, original-Fallout-inspired RPG with a brilliant story. You can play it in any way you want and it’s the good kind of gaming freedom. But the sound design could have been so much better.

Gas Station Simulator has its flaws and in the end just isn’t deep enough to keep you interested for long. But if you like your simulators, you’ll get your 10 hours of fun out of it.

A truly huge game that adds more and more content without really fundamentally changing anything. It’s not a very good shooter but it will successfully distract you with countless relatively fun activities.

A visual novel of two halves - a bland, awkward, ordinary storyline and boring action sequences. This is as forgettable as they come.

The Siege of Paris means more of the same for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, with the addition of more stealth passages akin to those in older instalments. The content itself is repetitive, however, and overall just not very interesting.

This game is low budget, sure, but that doesn’t hold it back in the slightest. It’s a very good card game, especially attractive for Eastern European players due to the captivating way in which it deals with Slavic mythology.

Psychonauts 2 managed to restore my faith in the genre of 3D platformers. This is a creative volcano spewing ideas left and right - it can make you laugh, it can make you cry, it can make you think. And it will definitely make you have fun.

Great idea woefully executed. The story, gripping at first, soon devolves into frustrating repetition. The characters just aren’t interesting enough and the A-list actors offer what might just be the blandest performances of their careers. Spend your twelve minutes elsewhere.

This legend shows that it’s still standing strong even in the year 2021. A necessary piece of gaming education for every shooter fan.

This next-door neighbour of Sid Meier’s Civilization is mostly very well done and always beautiful. It can, however, also be pretty dull and some design choices don’t work as well as they should - including the vaunted culture morphing.

Neo: The World Ends with You is a traditionally non-traditional JRPG. At first glance, you could mistake it for a brainless button smasher but as you’ll soon find out, there’s a great deal of thinking to be done. A very strange game full of very strange charm.

King’s Bounty 2 offers solid battles of fantasy armies that can too often slide into frustration and inconsistency. Its world is beautiful but completely devoid of life and story. And the controls are simply awful.

A very good action JRPG. Very traditional, very spectacular, well done, a feast for eyes and ears, fun and addictive. It’s not, however, innovative in any way.

This crazy bundle of more than 200 micro-games offers a truly bonkers visual mix and furious tempo. It’s not very good in singleplayer but if you’re looking for something to spice up your house party, this might just be your best bet.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2021 is, more than anything else, a light remaster of the previous instalment. It’s really pretty and its minigames are fun, but if you’re looking for anything significantly new, you’ll be disappointed. If you own CMS2018 with all its DLCs, there’s little reason to switch to the new one.

A modern narrative adventure game with an amazingly lovable heroine and plenty of strong scenes. But it’s also a tad too ambitious in scope. It looks great, sounds great and its story holds together for the most part, so in the end, you should probably play it. Just not on consoles!

Lost Judgment isn’t some cheap knockoff. On the contrary - it really smartly expands on the story of Yagami the ex-lawyer and uses a beautiful Yokohama to its full potential. It’s full of action set-pieces and typical Japanese humour. The only downside? Its mechanics are a bit too familiar.

A beautiful, pleasant adventure game, designed very well, if not very originally. This lack of invention, in addition to a story that’s just not too interesting, keeps Kena from truly shining, but it’s still well worth your time.

Lost in Random feels just like a hand full of wonderful cards – and then some of them don’t work the way you’d expect. The art style is a triumph, as are the characters and the story setting. This would be a proper jewel - if only it wasn’t for the combat system which is, to put it plainly, just too random.

Diablo II: Resurrected brings the legend back in some style, with all the old joys and all the old pains as well. This 20-year-old holy relic is, in some respects, far surpassed by its successors and its systems sometimes grind to a halt, but the magic is still here, as strong as ever.

This action RPG boasts a simple yet quite bearable combat system and beautiful environments. But the level design is nothing short of a tragedy and so are the preposterously long loading screens.

At its core, it's still absolutely amazing, now a bit more beautiful and smoother game.

Arkane serves a successful evolution of their older concepts, which will entertain with variability, delight with stylization and excite with action. Too bad it is too much guidance and inconsistent artificial intelligence.

A great addition to a great game. The Director’s Cut brings a lot of new additions, at least on the PS5, and a whole new island offers many hours of new fun.

It’s too rusty for new players, too shallow and incomplete for veterans. Ninja Gaiden will have to transform itself significantly in order to attract a new generation of fighters.

Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade shows the correct way to conclude a console generation’s journey. But beware - the Intermission episode won’t really satisfy the hunger for the next instalment - on the contrary, your impatience will probably only increase.

Spellcaster University is a perfect example of an independent project done right. There’s humour, there’s micromanagement galore, even the weird graphic design will grow on you almost instantaneously. I don’t think there are any better games about building a magical school.

A fun little game, but far too short and without any challenge at all. Do you want to relax and gaze upon lovely illustrations? Don’t hesitate. But if you want to actually play a game, look elsewhere.

Wings of Ruin can drag on a bit which isn’t helped by its trite story, but you’ll have so much fun all the same. And the amount of content is simply stunning.

The base is solid, so are the minigames, but the resulting experience just isn’t deep enough for you to care about for more than a few hours. There’s no career mode and, what’s even more inexplicable, local multiplayer only supports two players. At least there’s a solid editor.

This old-school dungeon mixes the classic genre with modern real-time approach and a great atmosphere - but it’s meant strictly for dungeon-crawling fans. And even they will have to handle quite a few design mistakes.

After their magnificent debut in the form of Mini Metro, Dinosaur Polo Club managed to accomplish something extremely difficult - clear their own raised bar. Mini Motorways is a better game in every department, more beautiful, more relaxing, more complex.

If you don’t own a Nintendo Switch, this is one of the best takes on the classic Zelda formula, a combination of fun combat, beautiful graphics and many, many secrets. Prepare to be charmed!

This judicial detective story will require a lot of attention and language skills in order to fully appreciate all its features, but if you can do that, you’re going to be thrilled.

Wildermyth doesn’t just tell you a single story. Instead, it weaves together many narrative strands to form a procedurally generated adventure for your characters. The tales it tells are superb and underpinned by an excellent combat system.

Svoboda 1945 can do it all - thrill, move, teach and entertain. That it manages to do all of it against the background of an infinitely complex topic, that of the bloody and chaotic post-war years in Czechoslovakian borderlands, is so, so impressive. The only shame is that the central mystery doesn’t work as well as it could.

You can mix disparate features and still get a great game, but this is not what happened with Tribes of Midgard. Even though it’s muddled, it could still be a great survival game if it didn’t waste so much of your time.

Once again, F1 manages to be just a bit better in all the key areas. And, for the first time, there’s a documentary movie-inspired career mode that takes you right into the Formula 1 backstage. Overall, I guarantee you’ll spend dozens of hours on those circuits.

A game carried by a good story, great atmosphere and solid gunplay, but let down by routine missions and bland non-combat features. Even so, the result is fun to play.

This is a completely average strategy game elevated by solid graphics and a fun campaign. If you’re a fan of the 40k universe, this will be a much better experience for you than for newbies who might be turned off by the impenetrable lore - and the interminable enemy turns.

Foreclosed looks nice and somewhere deep inside there are even a few interesting ideas, but that is, unfortunately, that. The gameplay itself is horrendous, as is the story accompanying it.

Hell Let Loose stands somewhere in the middle between truly authentic WWII shooters and their more casual-leaning counterparts. It’s not without faults, but the team behind it works tirelessly to expunge them all.

It’s lovely to look back at this gem, even today. Skyward Sword feels a bit obsolete and it won’t take anyone’s breath away, but the design work is simply excellent, as is the pervasive playfulness and a ton of creative puzzles.

Shin Megami Tensei is back on modern hardware and modern players will have their fair share of problems with it. I’d recommend this only to very patient, challenge-hungry JRPG veterans.

The new Subnautica is brilliant as long as you stay under water, much less so when you’re forced to leave it. Still, it’s almost as good as the original game.

It’s not easy to survive in a medieval town under siege. Sometimes you’ll have to eat a rat, sometimes you won’t have anything to drink - and it all works surprisingly well in this new survival strategy game.

This is not your usual computer game, it’s more of a learning platform for aspiring game developers. It will actually teach you something and be fun at the same time.

Is the Warhammer 40k world completely alien to you? It doesn’t matter. This is still a great, hectic shooter in which you’ll feel as if you’re dancing when you’re actually killing hordes of enemies. You just have to endure the stiff story opening.

There are a few positives, but the failures are far too many and break the game at its fundamental core. Don’t play this.

Although Mario Golf: Super Rush doesn't do anything groundbreaking, it does what it does, from a great solo career to sophisticated serious golf to crazy Speed and Battle Golf. Singleplayer and multiplayer are absolutely equal partners here, to such an extent that even if you are only interested in one of them, the game can still be recommended without hesitation.

Charming, infinitely fun and full of content and ideas, such is the new game from Insomniac Games. Another notch in the collection of titles that PlayStation owners simply should not miss.

Shelter 3 has solid graphics, music and a story. The gameplay, however, is awful. This game manages to be very short and feel extremely prolonged at the same time.

The old design failures are still here, coupled with new ones - mainly annoying bugs. It’s true, however, that some parts of the game, namely its graphics, are far better than they used to be. There is still a place in this world for Rome.

A brilliant game and a very good reason to buy a PS5. The mysterious world is filled with fun action and a compelling story. This game will get your heart pounding.

This new generation of Pokémon photography achieves what it set out to do - bring cuteness, creativity and relaxation then combine it with the adrenaline of trying to snap the perfect picture. This is a hell of an escape from your daily routine.

It’s good, but it could have been better. Village moves the Resident Evil franchise away from horror and firmly into mainstream territory. You can play this even if you don’t like being scared.

You can tell this is an old game at its heart but if you want to know what came before the phenomenal Automata, you should play Replicant anyway. It’s still a very good game with a great story.

Average, uninteresting, pointless. You should absolutely skip this trip to Ireland - it’s far better if you journey there in person.

Days Gone primarily offers a great, atmospheric story. Its design has flaws, but should you overlook them, you are going to enjoy a detailed world and fun action gameplay. And that is, in the end, worth it.

Biomutant is too ambitious for its own good. The combat is fun, especially when combined with a good crafting system and a beautiful world. Other systems are irrelevant, though, and the quests are boring, as is the damp squib of a story.

Paradise Lost? More like time lost playing this game. Get it for free if you can but you should know that the interesting setting feels utterly wasted whether you pay for it or not.