Sometimes, beautiful graphics and interesting dice-based combat just aren’t enough, like here, where the story is weak, the humour is hit and miss and the sense of progress is non- existent. This game is strictly worse than Dicey Dungeons.

The frozen survival strategy has been greatly expanded by this piece of DLC. It will challenge your tactical nous and stress resistance, so prepare your thickest socks and your warmest tea. You’re going to need them.

Dead War is proof that even a topic as unoriginal as a zombie apocalypse can still be a lot of fun. This is a great co-op shooter with a solid campaign and an acceptable horde mode. Just don’t expect anything new - and don’t play alone.

This remaster simply increased resolution and added minor cosmetic improvements, but at its core, this is a very old strategy game which will frustrate most modern players.

This new Warcraft III is still a brilliant strategy game, much prettier than before. But it’s also much more broken, full of irritating bugs and broken promises. What’s more, it murdered its older brother.

Fun times for all explorers eager for well-made levels full of secrets. You probably won’t enjoy the action parts too much, but it’s still well worth your time.

This game offers a unique perspective on isolated civic defiance to Nazism in the heart of Berlin. It’s full of emotion and heavy moments to ponder, even though its strategic part is a bit underwhelming.

The rhythmic legend is back in a very solid remaster. Beware the risks of addiction! Pata, pata, pata pon!

The Wild Age honours its source material and the move to a 3D environment makes sense. The game can be immensely enjoyable for the first few hours but that gives way to bland routine later.

This is an unbelievably powerful engine, yet quite simple to grasp and create games, movies and music. Anyone can create anything. That you can do so with a gamepad in hand is nothing short of incredible.

This game is, unfortunately, buggy and broken. It was unable to fully utilize its time in early access, but you can still find moments of genuine fun if you look hard enough.

This low-cost successor to Mutant Year Zero is still quite fun, but I can truly recommend it only to hardcore fans of its predecessor. There are many better turn-based strategies.

An utterly average dungeon crawler with surprisingly solid RPG elements, but very boring, repetitive gameplay and bland graphics.

We expected a classic RTS in the vein of Age of Mythology. What we got instead is a half- finished product with a few good ideas drowned in a sea of technical and gameplay issues.

This monumentally huge game, full of unprecedented detail and atmosphere of the Wild West, simply has no equal. Its PC port isn’t perfect by any means, especially regarding the mouse and keyboard controls and the clunky interface.

Beautiful new graphics and many game improvements guarantee that this, the Definitive Edition, is by far the best way to experience the legendary Age of Empires II. Even the new content is awesome. Shame about the intermittent lagging and a small multiplayer player pool.

Great atmosphere meets awful technical state. Cleverly designed environments meet dumb enemies. Ideas both good and bad meet each other. In Terminator: Resistance, you don’t fight just against Skynet, but sometimes against the very game as well. This is not a perfect game, but still one of the best in this troubled franchise.

Still There is an unassuming little game with the potential to completely overwhelm you. You will laugh with it, marvel at its plot twists and despair at the fate of ordinary people. This emotional experience is further underscored by great music and beautiful visuals. The only possible rebuke? The puzzles are a tad more difficult than they should be.

No great surprises here - the new Pokémon RPG again offers dozens of hours of good, predictable fun. The database is smaller and the graphics don’t look all that impressive, but the core experience was upgraded in several useful ways.

A barely above-average horror game which wages everything on the Lovecraft licence and its impressive, exotic Mars. The rest of it is just pathos, boredom and frankly not a very good game.

Blacksad’s potent atmosphere and several good ideas are completely overshadowed by tons of awful mistakes, terrible controls and zero player impact on the story. This is a huge disappointment - and I’m a fan of the original comic.

Shenmue 3 is a trip to gaming’s history, specifically around the year 2001. Some of the game mechanics are positively archaic and slow down the engaging story of personal vengeance. I’d honestly rather play Yakuza.

This stunningly beautiful journey across a magical world deals with themes of personal loss, betrayal and punishment as you watch a civilization turn into a memory. And it doesn’t even matter that you don’t get to actually play the game all that much.

A good recipe usually makes a good cake, and so it proves here. This investigative adventure will stagger your brain and make you think - think hard and deep, sometimes uncomfortably so.

A classic is born. This World War II strategy game is basically perfect and every turn-based general simply must try its comfortable armchair.

Woven is a cute, novel game in a creative world full of fun puzzles. It tends to drag on a bit but remains well worth a try - especially thanks to the wonderful narrator.

Seemingly profoundly clever, this adventure is actually extremely shallow. Neither the story nor the gameplay mechanics do justice to its strong theme of a petrified Ancient Greek world.