Golden Realms have improved both tactical combat options and magic. They add tens of game units along with the ways of playing. While the game mechanics are not changed, the game's new content will surely make you happy.

Greater, more predatory, more brutal, more dynamic, more sophisticated, richer. Simply better. A game that shows how a good-looking sequel should look like. An excellent base of gameplay has reached almost perfection from last time and creators also worked on support mechanisms and systems where they were needed. The result is a splendid, blood-filled entertainment.

This collection of old-school board games, party games and minigames should be a staple of every Switch console. But if you want to enjoy it to the fullest, buy yourself some Joy-Cons!

Excellent first person action with a strong RPG element allows countless gameplay approaches with its sensitively set systems and fantastic game- and level- design. It brings an eye-catching story, a great scriptwriting, a mercilessly exciting atmosphere, and it does not allow criticism of logical deficiencies because it explains everything carefully. Technically, it is flawless and runs smoothly. A handful of minor flaws can be overlooked with no regret.

Classical horror game remastered to HD addresses mostly those who remember the original so they know what to expect from this title. Years haven’t been kind to the game especially the technical part deserved bit more care – but the RE fans will be satisfied nevertheless, which was the goal Capcom obviously wanted to achieve.

Loop Hero is a fresh indie success that’s more interested in your time than skills. Maybe you’ll be able to kill hours upon hours in its repetitive loops. And perhaps you’ll lose your patience halfway through.

Veilguard delivers a solid sequel filled with epic story moments and a fascinating world, yet it doesn't quite reach the heights of its predecessors. While the character writing feels weaker, battles can be repetitive, and the beginning is somewhat unsteady, the game still offers much for devoted series fans. However, it lacks that spark needed to fully restore BioWare’s former glory.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist is like a plasticine. It tries to satisfy everyone and suits all without stealing their experiences.

A cyberpunk life sim, as rough as it is emotional. Citizen Sleeper is all about the story (which is great), not so much the gameplay elements (which are very simple).

For excited fans of the year 2033 it is a must, for Slavic games lovers it is a reason to be interested in it. However, not even its superb graphics quality is enough to get over the game's shallow moments along with its thoughtless script that has been cooked with plain water mainly. Although radioactive, plain water still.

Rising Storm brings no shame on Red Orchestra 2. Quite the opposite, it strengthens its position as a multiplayer shooter game. The game's atmosphere, graphics, Japanese banzai attacks, and American weaponry along with balanced maps will get you. You will not find a better adapted battlefield of the Pacific War.

Botanicula continues in the point-and-click entertainment that's been typical of Amanita Design studio. This game brings an imaginative mix of visual story-telling and rebuses making it extremely engaging and entertaining fun for everyone.

The Crimson Court offers a dense, well-made addition that enriches an already excellent title with fresh content, playability and balanced difficulty. The bloodthirsty monsters, the masochist hero, the giant epic dungeon, and the pile of new difficulties to keep all chars alive and sane are well worth the price.

From a small game has grown a full-featured multiplayer action, that scores on almost all fronts. Only the single-player part could be more sophisticated. But the crazy game world and addictive gameplay will make it up for you.

A bigger, better, more action-oriented sequel, with everything that's been great in the original title on top of that. Hello Games did a fantastic job and they proved that even on a simple concept such as a bicycle hurdle race you may still find many great ideas.

Bigger, prettier and filled with content to the brim, but also very simple and limited in what you can actually do - that is the new Skywalker Saga. If you love your Lego and a bit of accessible fun, this is just the game for you.

An old school RPG addressing those who love classical narrative full of turn-based combats, fiddling about with their characters, and tons of dialogues. Schematism of its visuals sort of comes with it.

An adventure you must play. And read. And listen to. And have a good time with it.

An excellent online game that works from the very beginning and that is entertaining even though it brings no revolution. If you are serious about a mix of sci-fi, fantasy and a hint of Monty Python's humour here and there, you may feel free to enter into Wildstar.

Hybrid of endless runner and skateboard sim can extremely piss and satisfy you at the same time. Short levels combined with high-speed, great trick system and precise controls will draw you to OlliOlli 2 like a magnet.

Wreckfest will surprise you with its perfect driving model, top demolition, entertaining artificial intelligence, and a career full of funny challenges. There is some space for improvement, for example the user interface and old school multiplayer which will probably discourage the spoilt players.

With its dense atmosphere, cruel Medieval setting, beautiful France and thousands of hungry rats, this is an adventure you’ll not forget any time soon. It’s just a shame that the puzzle element is very basic.

Burning Shores does a fine job in setting up the climax of Aloy’s adventure and the very destiny of humanity, but the DLC itself could use more content and more reasons to explore the ruined Los Angeles. The wait for a true sequel will be interminable.

Be patient, work through your failures. If you do, you’ll get to enjoy a truly fascinating simulation of the 19th century world with all its diplomacy, trade and social developments. War is secondary. And it’s for the best.

Starbound is not as polished and debugged as other games, and sometimes it may seem repetitive. But compared to more "modern" sci-fi games its explorative, almost melancholic spirit and emphasis on building catches your heart. Spare a few hundred hours of your time, the ultimate boundary once again calls for the survey.

An outstanding fighting game that scores not only because of its attractive setting with more or less popular DC comics heroes, but mainly because of its well-made system, interactive arenas, and its casual/hardcore accessibility.

The most frantic party game since Mashed, the most elegant Budokan since Budokan. A surreal elaboration delivers more juice to its engaging swordplay, the engaging swordplay delivers more juice to any of its random jousts.

Battlefield 4 is delivering what's been expected. Long hours of gameplay, team co-operations, calling names on the uncooperative ones, and surprisingly a flexible system of the chosen profile. All in the neat graphics available even for those with the standard configurations. And its single-player game? Forget it, it's nothing unusual.

A stunning comeback. If you like RPG and don´t mind a tons of texts-to –be-read, a rough story and a little chaos from all the strangeness around, then you just have to play Torment: Tides of Numenera.

Again, it's the best ice hockey simulation game under the sun. Comparing it to the last year's volume it brings just a few cosmetic changes that won't probably bring you home to it. However, if you missed it last year, then NHL 14 is the only option.

An experience above all genres built on mundane concepts will hit gamer with its story of love, loss and dealing with one's destiny. Balancing on edge of interactivity and kitsch has turned out well and even though some lines have been made too sweet and the other ones too complicated the moments when those two meet each other have no parallel in video games.

You can’t find a better American football game. Not because there is not another game, but mainly because this one is pretty damn good. It looks great, sounds great, and plays great.

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

Excellent story, likeable characters and dynamic missions filled with tension. In the latest addition to the modern Shadowrun saga authors gave their best.

Cute, colorful and imaginative game offers plenty of widgets and hardly any gaming challenge. If you just want to "run through" another game and not lose your nerves, you have the opportunity.

A worthy successor to the delightfully unexpected detective hit Strange Horticulture. It boasts excellent writing, a strong audiovisual identity, a generous variety of puzzle types and a wonderfully bizarre catalogue of curious items. For the next installment, the narrative could use a more confident structure, a slightly shorter runtime would likely strengthen the pacing, and one unnecessary minigame should have been left on the cutting-room floor. Still, for anyone who delights in inventive deduction, and reading both between and beyond the lines, this is an adventure worth entertaining.

Assassin's Creed Shadows isn't a sudden revolution for the brand. With minor tweaks, we get great stealth, fun combat, and likable protagonists. The concept of the game doesn't change much from its predecessors. But if you want to see the most beautiful depiction of Japan in any medium, look no further.

Splatoon is an original title that will delight first of all the players who do not play multiplayer shooters much. Experienced users should consider if the innovative concept is enough to accept insufficient number of maps and a certain imbalance in the game.

Sunless Sea looks as if it fell from Jules Verne’s novels. You are facing the sea monsters and pirates and appreciate the warmth of each and every island pub. Fortunately, this marvelous maritime trip is plagued only by a handful of problems.

The third episode makes a clueless spectator out of the gamer, but all that nerve-racking moments are still worth it. The game's linear, rough tough, and generally excellent.

This year's combination of small improvements and innovations creates an excellent experience, that helps the newcomers join in. The veterans will be on other hand pleased with clarity and overall balance. It’s not a revolution -thankfully- because revolution could cause more harm in the moment.

Tearaway Unfolded is a perfect handheld-to-console conversion. Only slight repetitiveness spoils the game, but it will be noticed only by players, who have searched the Vita version through and through.

Downwell is an arcade game with purposefully archaic look and Spartan equipment for gaming masochists. Fans of retro, speed run and especially extreme difficulty will be thrilled, others should let their hands off!

It's high-pitched, talkative, crazy, hysterical, and funny. A lawyer-like thriller made in Japan. It's simpler and more straight-lined than its previous installments. It's pretty playable, though.

Regardless of its 2D adaptation, Lone Survivor takes pride in its incredible gaming freedom. Not only it contains many original game elements and courses of action, it contains a thrilling story as well. Moreover, several game endings guarantees a strong motivation you replay the game again and again.

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.

A stealth game that is not a disgrace to the Alien movie, and both its fan and a gamer who has not been kissed by its teeth will enjoy this, if they do wink at the game's story.

If you want to experience the "Vietnam trauma", play Rising Storm 2. This multiplayer action is almost tuned to the max and extremely nerve-wracking. Only if the authors would add more content.

Notwithstanding little issues here and there, this is an RPG sure to be loved by every fan of HP Lovecraft. For everyone else, it’s a serious challenge comparable to reading the master’s work for the first time.

Are you still striving to gather enough courage to enter the unforgiving world of Dark Souls? Try Ashen instead. It’s a natural beginner’s choice in the genre of brutally difficult action RPGs.

Borderlands has found its identity again with the latest installment. The humor has been toned down, but the sheer fun of the gameplay has taken its place. The story could be stronger, though it’s far from the lows of the third entry, and the open world would benefit from more varied activities. On the other hand, it serves its purpose well as a playground for hunting top-tier loot, cosmetic trinkets, and mountains of gear. With every hour, I had more fun, and in the end, I’m left with the feeling that the series is finally back on the right track.

Amazing platformer nearly without any mistakes. Visually stunning, soulful, great, pleasant and with catchy music. Unravel is a pleasure to play no matter your genre preferences.

Are you ready to figure out the very limits of your adrenaline tolerance? Then play Ghostrunner, a devilishly difficult action game let down only by its slower platforming portions.

This is a brilliant political strategy game, very well written and full of gut-wrenching decisions. Only you will decide the fate of the Republic - and its embattled president.

A soap factory called Vessel is awaiting your engagement into the game with its many ideas. Don't worry that you've never heard of this puzzle platform title, it may still be the best puzzle-solving game of the year.

Songs of Silence is a well-crafted strategy game that brings a refreshing breeze to the genre, though some changes come at the cost of deeper city-building mechanics. It delivers a solid campaign and highly entertaining skirmish mode, all wrapped in a stunning visual style inspired by Alphonse Mucha’s illustrations and complemented by an excellent soundtrack. Instead of hundreds of hours, expect higher tens, during which you’ll thoroughly enjoy yourself, testing new cards and unlocking heroes in a beautiful, poetic world.

Sometimes unnecessarily frustrating and obsolete, but still top turn-based strategy with great emphasis on RPG elements. Fans of the series will be thrilled. And the others? For them, it's just another good reason for buying 3DS, and to try Fire Emblem finally. It's really worth it.

Ghostrunner 2 is incredibly addictive and entertaining, honoring its predecessor. Most changes are for the better, but there are a few alterations that don't quite harmonize with the overall feel of the game. Nevertheless, Ghostrunner 2 undoubtedly earns its place among the best action games of the year. The second installment is a resounding success.

Let us be honest here. Mario & Luigi: Dream Team has its bugs. However, you may kill them with one blow of a steel hammer, and out of every single dead bug Mario gets 1UP.

Fresh and accessible turn-based strategy not only for fans of the genre but also for all who simply enjoy unusual and elaborate game worlds.

Excellent co-op top-down action offers a very satisfactory gameplay focused on the endless bloodbath and well designed, but slightly stereotypical tasks. With the right bunch of teammates it will attract your attention for long hours. But join the wrong group and you will feel like the hell broke loose.

Hershel Layton said goodbye with dignity of his own, and even for the sixth time he's capable to deliver the entertaining adventure game full of puzzles. On the other hand, the bell tolls for the professor already, and because of the constantly recycled content his latest adventure is unnecessarily dull.

Great story campaign which is a pleasure to play. The need to strategize is extended on a global map. The missions are variable and cleverly designed, so they are able to tease your wits. It's a pity that the game has several flaws and is too expensive, but fortunately we can expect various discounts in the future.

More action-oriented, richer but mainly more thrilling than its first episode. The Walking Dead is in good shape. Besides, House Divided is one of those episodes where you feel your gameplay decisions actually make a difference. If only its characters grew up.

The third episode entertains again, but the series slightly loses its pace at the halfway mark - last time it was more fun. It is a wonder what great influence have your decisions from the previous part. Telltale is often not good in this stuff but this time the made a real fork in the story.

Although the fourth episode offers the longest story, it not enough and the narration is shallow and dialogues are surprisingly weaker. Therefore we can only look forward (and hope) to the first season finale.

A colourful urban action game that will torment you at first but eventually reward you with its loopy freestyle riding. The game has a bit dull and drab content, and our fellow country gamers will probably get annoyed experiencing humour of the American teenagers. However, as a smaller crazy alternative to GTA it works great.

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!

Crysis has gotten a new facelift and on the console it suits it very much. It is a pity there is no multiplayer. But otherwise this game stays true to its great action, neat graphics and exotic surroundings.

A refreshing trip to the beginnings of modern Japan in a company of furious, heavily armed samurai. The tactics are everything and the best offense is a solid defense. Not every retro is cool, but this comeback is absolutely worth the price.

A trip to the wonderfully stylized nature of wild Wyoming fully wakes your imagination. Unfortunately, a well-developed story doesn´t reach to a satisfactory ending. Thanks to excellent dialogues, fabulous views and immersive atmosphere Firewatch certainly deserves your attention.

Proun is an attractive ride on an invisible glued tube. You feel shapes, you feel colours, you feel music and you combine all of this and let it roll in your own mind. This game is great. Unfortunately, there is very little of it. Hopefully, there will be more of it. Some day.

A city-building strategy game that is dangerously addictive and captures its historical theme through its gameplay mechanics. In Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic, you'll transform villages into sprawling concrete metropolises, coordinate complex production chains, and manage massive distribution networks. Most importantly, you'll have a great time doing it, even though the game occasionally throws a wrench in the works with its clunky elements.

Darkest Dungeon 2 is so different from its predecessor. A true roguelike with only one significant problem: The creators should learn how to explain things better. It’s also rather long for the content it provides. But the combat is great, the graphics beautiful, the narrator splendid.

Another addition to the series of legal detective stories. Very solid game with the established pattern boosted by several pleasant news.

A personal and humorous adventure game with a distinctive graphic style that prefers situational gags before playability. The game is not difficult or sly, but you’ll forgive it in the right mood. It works well as a casual interactive movie.

By far the biggest and the most famous racing simulation video game ever. But it does not deserve further superlatives. It knows how to entertain, how to amaze. But it does not know how to cover its semi-finished state. Again, it's a must for hardcore fans. However, racers of the mainstream will more likely roll their eyes than their wheels.

Even if there was only one out of ten indie games like Rochard, then an indie scene would still have its meaning. After all, it is a good thing that mainstream has lost its interest in platform genre. Because of that we may now play games by people with their clear minds and their baskets of ideas.

A confident and stylish extraction shooter that stands out through its atmosphere, richly developed world, and the signature gunplay Bungie is known for. It offers surprisingly accessible progression and a strong identity that sets it apart from trend-chasing competitors. A weak tutorial, cluttered UI, fast-paced combat, and high skill demands make it less approachable, but those who push through the rough start will find an intense and addictive experience among the better entries in the genre.

In spite of its technical problems, Borderlands 3 is still a very solid looter shooter, generous with both shooting and loot. The magic of the second installment - and its excellent writing - is, however, gone.

A deeply complex space strategy game in which you must build your own colony on an inhospitable planet and manage even the tiniest details. All the endings and scenarios will take you a while to discover. The weaker points are its combat system and stupid colonists.

SnowRunner sets the bar for other similar simulators. It’s much better than its predecessors, there are hundreds of hours of content, the game looks great and it boasts the most satisfying vehicle physics of all time.

You wouldn’t say Final Fantasy XV was ten years in. The game is in many aspects breathtaking and offers details worth waiting for. Everyone finds its thing in this game – at least every slightly JRPG-positive player. Croakers will see hundred-and-one little thing that went wrong, but these marginals are lost in the absurd size and content richness the game offers.

Dragon's Dogma is an outstandingly specific action RPG, which doesn´t appeal to everyone, but the one who breaks through the hard shell to the core of the game, discovers surprisingly complex experience, which originates mainly from the sophisticated fights.

Hitman starts on mobile platforms as a turn-based strategy game which will please both fans of the series and those gamers who haven't met Agent 47 yet. Its stylish execution goes hand in hand with debugged in-game system resulting in a title that will consume your time so unpleasantly fast whether you go to school or work.

Leave behind the headaches of everyday life and go out to save the kingdom of Ding Dong Dell. Whether you are a fan of Ghibli or not, Ni No Kuni II will grab you and won’t let go.

With Beyond Earth, Firaxis looks back at Alpha Centauri with dignity. Interaction between different gameplay features and the gamer's free will shape this strategic game into a fine gem. Structurally speaking, however, the new Civilization game does not appear polished, which is the reason preventing the game to be among the best ones.

Jagged Alliance 3 is an explosive return among the giants of strategy. Its turn-based firefights are unbelievably fun and addictive, the beautiful, varied maps are mall strategic puzzles. The story is strong, emphasizing your own decisions, and the whole package is basically what I always wanted as a fan.

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.

Nicely done Deus Ex world adaptation changed into a turn-based game. Slightly lazy, sometimes maybe even too austere, yet highly enjoyable, and with perfect game design and fabulous visuals.

Tales of Vesperia is a clear example of Japanese RPGs from days gone by. Its traditional approach will please only the most conservative fans of the genre. Other players should look elsewhere - there is more than enough modern competition.

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.

It's easy to sell goods that are supposed to be good. However, when authors simply copied everything great from the Street Fighter game because they were not able to deal with their own worn-out game concept by themselves, there is something wrong. We want you to better take care of tenderfeet. We want more bonus content. And we want some fresh juice. SoulCalibur is far from going down to the second league, however, there's no play-off this season. Fans of the series will most likely buy it, the rest of you just take it easy and wait for the all-star mainstream: the Street Fighter x Mortal Kombat game.

A splendid trip to a grimdark future where there’s nothing but war. It borrows a lot from XCOM but stands on its own two legs and respects the Warhammer setting which makes it feel surprisingly fresh and original.

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.

Wasteland 2 is wasting your time in all aspects of its design, although all of them are capable of being entertaining, at least sometimes. A story of varying qualities that is full of clichés, sheer stupidity but also of humorous moments and references to for about billions of things manages to hardly hold a gamer's attention. On the top of that, there are tons of bugs in the game. If it were not for Brian Fargo along with other anointed heads who have created this piece, it would have flown under the radar as a cheap Russian imitation of Fallout that have been delayed for ten years.

Anno 1800 finally returns to its historical roots, enriched by elegant graphics and complex city management. But other half-baked features drag it down - namely diplomacy, warfare and maritime trade.

Jamestown is an old school hardcore arcade shooter. By its visual approach, its music and its gaming philosophy, it creates an imaginary comeback of the golden age of video arcade games. Its background set in the 17th steampunked century is only strengthening the overall enjoyment drawing young gamers on a peep show at those olden times of video gaming.