Behind pixel graphics, 2D perspective and minimalistic controls hides an amazingly complex strategy game.

With its innovative color boost mechanism Trailblazers provides a tactically inspired racing pleasure, especially for team players.

Quirky and entertaining space adventure for patient people with a lot of patience, patience and above all patience.

Behind the reasonably pretty shell Insomnia: The Ark consists of an unnecessarily complex core, for which fun is an unknown word.

Minimalistic and consistent real-time strategy game, which lacks some variety in the long term.

That's the way remakes should be. The new edition of Resident Evil 2 transports the horror classic of 1998 with stylish graphics and top technology into the modern age.

Narrated without bells and whistles, the varied escape story with authentic protagonists keeps on resonating in one's mind for a long time.

Classic JRPG with well-proven concepts that tells its story from the heart and shines as Definitive Edition with new content.

Very difficult RPG playing in the post-apocalyptic Soviet Union, which is strongly based on Fallout, but never reaches it qualitatively.

Many innovative and motivating game mechanics, but due to passive AI factions and lack of diplomacy it stops being a challenge too quickly.

Ace Combat 7 is a thrilling game due to its varied missions, but the story can't repeat the magic of older titles of the series.

Fast-paced mecha action game with great aesthetics, but problems with controls and story.

Colorful and well presented Warhammer40k battles with three campaigns that lack a bit of balance and variety.

The roguelike Sunless Skies is more accessible than its predecessor and thrilling like a good book through its exciting stories.

Fabulous, but very short VR adventure with innovative puzzle mechanics, great synchronization and an unique atmosphere.

Surreal action-adventure, which is more art than game. The PC port has not aged.

My Time at Portia is fun for the whole family, a mix of farm sim and RPG with cute design and easy learning curve.

Unusual puzzle platformer with great anime presentation, which thrills especially with its adult story.

Nobody had expected Below in 2018 anymoe - and even more unexpectedly the low-poly Roguelike is one of the hits of the year.

Fantastically playable old-school FPS with great soundtrack and well-emulated retro graphics that even works as a horror game.

Extremely demanding, extremely intense. But to be a hardcore success, Insurgency: Sandstorm still needs optimization and bug fixing.

Great, extensive, colorful theme park simulation for roller coaster and park manager - even with snack stand supply system.

Overkill's The Walking Dead can be fun in a group but most of the time monotony and balancing weaknesses are frustrating.

Complex, serious hospital simulation with building, management and diagnostic part. The fun hides behind a bumpy start.

Above all, the first four Settler games benefit from the purely technical changes. All seven have aged with dignity.

With the return to World War 2, Battlefield reaches a new zenith thanks to meaningful innovations - if one disregards the single player.

Fans of the series are happy about new visuals and content, the unchanged gameplay won't win over anyone who finds farming boring.

Despite all the freedom for the player, Underworld Ascendant is a bug-spectacle that, in spite of its great looks, is more boring than thrilling.

Get Famous is focused on individual fame and its consequences, but doesn't use a lot of potential apart from influencers.

Darksiders 3 offers fresh new approaches and fun gameplay, but leaves much to be desired in terms of story, heroine and keyboard controls.

Tactical fights, great story, fresh setting: Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus is the fresh wind the franchise needed.

Short, firm soul-like that keeps you entertained for 20 hours. Learning curve and replay value are low.

Partly extremly hard, but never quite unfair retro platformer with idiosyncratic charm, which properly picks up steam in arcade mode only.

Jagged Alliance Light: Only four controllable mercenaries, small maps and comic graphics - but if you don't expect Jagged 3, you'll get solid tactics.

Gris is an arty platform adventure that combines sophisticated platform mechanics with a dense, emotionally charged atmosphere.

Iris. Fall is a very short and fairly easy puzzle game, but it shines through intense atmosphere and creative puzzles.

Explosive open-world spectacle in the form of a playable B-movie. Graphical weaknesses and boring missions lower the score for Just Cause 4.

Quite difficult turn based strategy battles in a densely narrated and graphically great looking post-apocalypse with fascinating animal heroes.

Fallout 76 aspires to offer a lot with West Virginia and exciting co-op, but fails due to unbalanced game design and technical flaws.

NBA 2K19 is a complete upgrade from 2K18 and therefore a top sports game. But Pay2Win, cheaters and technology quirks are extremely annoying.

With the Champions League, new modes and fine gameplay innovations, FIFA 19 continues to evolve in small but noticeable steps.

CrossCode is a funky, charming and sometimes even too extensive action RPG with a pleasant nostalgic side.

Nostalgics will enjoy innuendos to pop culture, everybody else a slender, picture-pretty puzzle adventure that also speaks to your emotions.

Very good move of a classic into the modern game era. Veterans of the series have been waiting for it, new players will miss innovation.

A detective adventure with lots of conversation and exciting cases in a varied steampunk world.

60 Parsecs sometimes feels unfair, but because of the entertaining adventure-survival-mix you always want to try again.

A charming sequel to an RPG milestone with a great combat system and great music, but it still has technical problems.

Successful mixture of strategy, tower defense, survival sandbox and sci-fi story generator with a guaranteed high replay value.

Thanks to improvements to details and the extensive solo mode, Soul Calibour 6 is a very good continuation of a Beat'Em Up classic. Soul Calibur is alive! Also on the PC.

Cyanides Space Hulk is close to the board game, but suffers from sluggish control and too short a campaign. Best played against a buddy.

As a stylistic experiment The Quiet Man is quite courageous, as a game in terms of execution an absolute flop.

Hitman 2 tells the best Hitman story since Silent Assassin and offers strong and wonderfully creative assassin sandbox missions.

The adventure 11 - 11: Memories Retold is little game, but it tells an emotional war drama that resonates for a long time.

The Colonists is a well-balanced strategy gem for fans of the genre; however, a few more game modes would have been good.

Wet Dreams Don't Dry offers, what Larry fans are expecting. Fans of subtle humor should take a bypass road.

An enthralling, tragic and surprising seafaring fairytale - a complex but always logical adventure for passionate detectives.

Call of Cthulhu is no classic horror game, but a clever detective game with an exciting plot and a great atmosphere.

Anyone who works their way through and does not expect too much eye-candy will be rewarded with a complex football manager that will keep you motivated for months.

The most comprehensive, varied, and balanced multiplayer experience in call-of-duty history.

The staging is more reminiscent of old-school role-playing games, the quests and storylines could sometimes be a bit more expansive and the balancing needs fine tuning. Nevertheless, I can recommend Thronebreaker in good conscience to every witch fan. I was so carried away by the story about Queen Meve that I gave her two nights in a row with just three hours of sleep - what more could you ask for?

If we don't encounter bugs, Pathfinder: Kingmaker with its epic scope is nothing less than the heir to Baldur's Gate.

That's why it's all the more annoying that the game cannot decide what it wants to be in the end. For an Arcade racer with offroad attitude it is too complex, for a race simulation the physics are too exaggerated, the control too spongy and the navigation too imprecise.

Honestly, right now I feel like exploring the last corners of Greece as soon as I'm done, after writing the article...And that's always a very good sign for a game.

Sure, the gameplay comes from the predecessor, so Forza Horizon 4 is very similar to it, but the basic principle still works great.

A carefully preserved milestone of this medium, inviting to start a fascinating journey through time to the beginnings of modern game design.

Atmospheric and thematically very dense strategy game about agents, with some weaknesses and annoying mechanics spoiling the fun.

Dead on time: Garage: Bad Trip presents itself as a fast-paced zombie shooter for very experienced or frustration resistant saviors of the world.

Despite a very atmospheric world and fun basic idea it requires a huge amount of grind and is suitable especially for players with a lot of patience.

Dragon Quest 11 successfully counts on traditional JRPG virtues in a contemporary look, becoming the best current title of the genre.

On the pitch, no one gets the better of PES 2019, apart from that there is still a lot to do and we are still waiting for online modes.

Clever gameplay with changing worlds drives the action role-playing game, but long-term motivation fails to appear.

Acceptable, but altogether too generic shooter variant of the well-known Soulslike formula, which loosens up the genre with a focus on ranged combat.

Creepy disturbing family drama with feature length and escape-room-flair. Shallow gameplay but intense - especially in VR.

Dumb sexism, catastrophic controls, pretended tuning: racing fans should steer clear from Super Street: The Game.

The Tomb Raider trilogy presents itself in its best form for the final. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is an all-round great action-adventure game.

Quotation forthcoming.

Two Point Hospital regularly elicits a smile, if not a loud laugh.

Technically clean PC port of Yakuza history with many configuration options, well suited for newcomers.

Crisp, gloomy genre mix with challenging tactical elements, but still suffers from problems regarding balance and clarity.

My Baby balla balla: The Mother Simulator delivers pure trash humor - in both positive and negative senses.

For newcomers, Madden NFL 19 is a bumpy start for their new favorite hobby, with veterans benefiting from the ongoing uptrend.

Monster Hunter World captivates with thrilling boss fights and its variety of weapons, but the PC port could have been technically better.

Even more funky levels, ingredients and characters: Overcooked 2 will please anyone and should not be missed at any co-op party.

Tempest means storm, the name says it all: if you venture in, you'll experience a unique adventure or you will be blown away by the wind.

Successful genre mix that runs out of steam near the end due to repetition.

Stonehearth is a quiet, fascinating and thrilling building game, at least as long as we are spared the bugs.

F1 2018 has picked up and improved the strengths of its predecessor. Feels like an update, plays fantastic.

The number of bugs in Airport Simulator 2019 is so absurd and almost funny that it almost made us increase the review score. This idea was rejected by editorial vote.

State of Mind pursues a thematically exciting idea, but fails due to trivial gameplay and weak staging.

Ignoring, however, the sometimes really tough legacy of the first draft of the game, still remains at the core of an exciting commentary on bondage, control and repression, which can keep up with milestones such as Bioshock at least on this level.

A top-notch collection of all 2D-era milestones of the Street Fighter series, many of which are still very playable today.

If you don't expect great innovations, you will get the usual action-packed and entertaining adventure for the whole family.

In all respects an uncalled-for continuation of one of the supposedly worst games ever. Yes, the original was better.

Martyr catches the original theme stylistically well, but fails due to generic gameplay and the weak story.

A very short, but lovingly narrated adventure, skillfully combining serious and funny topics.

Diverse arcade racer with an impressively huge game world, but the enormous potential isn't used enough.

Virtual Tipp-Kick using mouse clicks, an insider tip for soccer fans, ideal and entertaining for quick games.

Warhammer 40K meets Civilization, but focuses solely on warfare. Only for 40K fans who prefer gameplay to story.