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

The puzzles are boring after a while, the graphics are old-fashioned and even more annoying: the game tells what to do and when to do it. It's like Ma telling you how to build your sand castle.

The atmospheric shooter never rises above its station as a fascinating proof of concept.

An atmospheric tribute to old-school RPGs, but currently overambitious and unfinished.

The Ascent looks fantastic and offers grandiose combat. Frequent technical problems and annoying bugs, however, spoil the fun.

There's that feeling that I should have fun playing the game, but most of the time I'm bored or angry because the controls are buggy. But if you like to be creative, maybe you'll be happy in this colourful world.

It's an average game, but it could have been much better with some polishing, a better story and less of the mostly boring fights.

Quotation forthcoming.

Gorgeous sci-fi shocker for genre fans, but it suffers from some massive design and technology shortcomings.

Quotation forthcoming.

This game turns everything upside down – and that’s good and bad at the same time. The physics simulation isn’t bug free and there is no story at all, but the puzzles are challenging, there are lots of save points to avoid frustration and even an online-ranking.

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

Technically this game has missed the last 15 years, but if you like science and polar exploration or more complex puzzles, you might like this game.

In Firefall the clear line is missing. The game was changed so frequently during its long development time, and re-designed, that it's just mixed way up from many individual ideas in the end, but not really in harmony as a complete work.

An unusual racing game that offers realistic, challenging drift races and a wild plot – but nothing more.

In principle an exciting, but technically and content-wise disappointing co-op shooter.

Quotation forthcoming.

It may have some old fashioned charm, but its age clearly shows. Controls and game design are out of date.

This adventure borrows liberally from some obvious role models, but fails to live up to their examples, despite innovative audio mechanics.

The DLC sets the wrong priorities and, despite its interesting story, annoys with overly complicated puzzles.

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

This one really is old-fashioned in all areas. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but the controls are and keep the game from being a business simulation that we could recommend.

The concept of Metal Gear Survive works, but some annoying mechanics and the soullessness diminish the fun.

Prussian virtues like discipline and order aren’t much fun and turn-based battles like in Rise of Prussia aren’t much fun either. If you are very interested in the Seven Year war, then go for it, otherwise take a look at Napolean: Total War instead.

Even though Ice Age 3 is definitely targeting a very young audience, it is still fun to jump through the levels. But it lacks the funny bits – except for Scrat – and the story of the movie. Still, it's one of the better licensed games out there and probably worth a try if you're looking for a game for the kids.

A solid hunting sim, despite animals displaying behavioural problems and some bugs.

I can only laugh about the casino games because they are so absurd and ridiculous. This kind of thing just does not belong in a serious sports simulation and always distracts me from the actual game, because I want to throw baskets in NBA and not spin lucky wheels. Without casino and VC, NBA 2K would be a much better game.

This could be a really great game, cockpits, landscapes, the planes – everything is perfectly done, full of details. But why is there no documentation, why are the most important functions hidden in large menus and why is there no support for certain flight sticks?

If you expect a new Payday here, you will inevitably be disappointed. Crime Boss: Rockay City has many interesting features and good ideas, but only half-heartedly pursues most of them.

Whether you enjoy it depends on your expectations. Maneater is trash. It makes no secret of it. The game is not pretty, it is not very varied or complex. But at least you're a shark. And eats people. And alligators. And other sharks. And everything at all. So the game does exactly what it says in the description. If that appeals to you, go ahead! Otherwise you can safely ignore the part.

Dice Legacy can only partially convert its innovative concepts into an entertaining gaming experience.

Top Spin 2K25 offers challenging gameplay for tennis fans, but struggles with technical weaknesses and pushy microtransactions.

A technically crude medieval story game that was clearly made with love, but can’t hold a candle to contemporary titles.

As an RPG, however, Shadowrun Returns falls flat on his stomach.

A pucking cute looking arcade hockey game that only manages to entertain for a few hours.

Annoying mobile mechanics and omnipresent microtransactions leave a solid role-playing game no room to breathe.

While most bugs may sound harmless, they are fatal to campaigners, as we can not build endlessly or recruit new people there.

Quotation forthcoming.

Quotation forthcoming.

A childlike and visual appealing adventure with gameplay that fails to motivate in the long term.

Neverending Nightmares could be an interesting horror-adventure, but fails on the most important element: the horror.

As an action RPG or MMO Marvel Heroes is at best mediocre.

Simply lacks power and depth.

Quotation forthcoming.

As a 3D Sonic a step in the right direction. The open world has a lot to offer but gets lost in redundancy.

Airborne Kingdom constitutes a negligible game around an unusual city-building idea.

With a hint of art, this is a borderline horror trip through hell, with boring tasks and technical problems.

It’s thrilling for the first hour, but then it’s just routine. There’s no way to try and find a clever solution for a problem because the game only offers a single one. That’s annoying even for die-hard fans of the TV series.

Perfect as a tech demo for Oculus rift and visually impressive even without the VR headset. But the gameplay is weak and sometimes even annoying. [VR Tested]

Quotation forthcoming.

If you are a cycling enthusiast and need up to date season details, then regrettably there is no alternative to this game. Everybody else should ignore this expensive update that doesn't offer a single relevant improvement.

Quotation forthcoming.

Cities XL plays like Sim City from 1988 of City Life from 2006: Building streets and industrial, residential and commercial areas. But once you start building, you realize that a lot of things don't seem to work - because they only will after you've bought playtime. And only then you will be able to buy extra packages. To be fair, one month is included already.

X3: Terran Conflict is the last episode of the space saga from Egosoft. There is a huge war going on, a war against the Xenon and against the game's controls. Terran Conflict looks great, there's more action than before and it's possible to control lots of ships - theoretically. But in reality controlling more than one ship is very complicated, if not impossible. But if you liked the other X-series games, then you might like this one, too.

Online shooter of average quality that doesn't feel like it's finished yet.

Old game, new graphics. Story? Who needs one? Mission targets? Nope. Just go and shoot everything until your hand hurts. The new graphics can't hide the fact that this game is hopelessly out of date.

It does not want to be a modern shooter, of course, but a little more depth would not have hurt.

The DLC is really worthwhile only for Anno players who enjoy searching and collecting objects.

Solid Kart racer with charm and many funny ideas, but its potential is not fully used due to some problems in details.

Usually adventure games don't need great graphics, but here the visuals are so weak, they rob the game of its atmosphere.

Never before we've been so glad to be able to use the ingame help function. Time and tima again we asked "what am I doing here? What's that good for? What should I do now?". Even after solving a puzzle, we didn't know why we did it. It's a relict of the late 90s, but not without its charme.

Worth a look for nostalgics. But even connoisseurs of the original will quickly lose the desire to play due to the dusty game mechanics.

We wanted to like this game, really. There's a lot of potential there and from time to time it's even fun to play. But nothing has been implemented properly, it's just a half-baked game full of bugs.

Spore is a simple game and the add-on doesn't change that. It can only offer simple adventures and there's not much use for thousands of them if ten are enough already. Instead of improving Spore, Galactic Adventures promotes the weaknesses of the game.

Toy Story 3 is obviously targeted at a younger audience or casual players and will keep fans of Pixar busy for some time. It's not a bad game at all, but older gamers may just be, well, too old to really enjoy it.

A good port that can't deny its F2P heritage. Fine for beginners, but for advanced users of the genre there are better games.

If you like to try out different things and new concepts, it's more than worth a look. The co-op play, the battles and experiments with new spells are fun, but there are many balance problems and bugs the developers need to fix.

Somewhat negligent VR implementation of the series with so much untapped potential.

A groundbreaking third-person shooter is becoming available on new platforms, everything else remains unchanged compared to a decade ago.

Why use stealth if brute force works just as well? Good ideas, bad implementation and lots of wasted potential.

Quotation forthcoming.

It's a nice little and funny game for fans of Sam & Max, Team Fortress, Penny Arcade or Home Star Runner, but it's a bad poker game. Medium difficulty is too easy and in hard mode the game seems to cheat.

It's quite short. The credits were rolling after less than seven hours. The weak presentation is just as annoying as the question why the game deprives the player of lots of exciting situations. There are better games of the genre like Rainbow Six: Vegas.

Here and there it's possible to see that the developers really tried to deliver a decent game, but for some reason they couldn't. A sword fighting game that doesn't include good fighting animations is just as pointless as a racing game without physics or damage.

A thrilling mystery story wasted. A shallow action adventure with sloppy programming.

Although Killing Floor 3 is a well staged co-op shooter, it still lacks variety and a lot of polish before its release.

A rather charming life and business simulation game is spoiled by too many tedious tasks. Technically underwhelming as well.

Solid oldschool turn based tactics game, based on the Netflix series. Lacks any highlights, both gameplay- or storywise.

It's still fun as long as you don't care about a single player campaign and up to date visuals.

Quotation forthcoming.

Technically outdated turn-based tactics with tedious gameplay. Only the multiplayer is worthwhile for fans.

It's a motivating variation of Portal, but not as good. It's a case of "great idea, bad realization". The use of the glove works great, but unfair trial-and-error puzzles and the tracer battles are annoying. The last third of the game doesn't offer anything new.

Quotation forthcoming.

Yes, just like in 2001 this game can be fun and will be remembered for consequently reducing the game until there’s nothing left but shooting things. In a way, that’s simple and honest and worth playing – once. This is a modern version, but graphically not up to date.

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

Desktopia is neither a pure building sim nor an actual idle game, and it falls short somewhere in between.

The DLC has an intriguing concept that can never fully unfold and, to make matters worse, it is also very brief.

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

The idea behind Kyn is great, but it suffers from a lot of bugs, problems and half-baked game mechanics.

The game design is completely outdated, but you get a lot of old-school Tomb Raider for your bucks!

Quotation forthcoming.

Technically great upgrade of an average action game.

Quotation forthcoming.

We did not expect much from this game to begin with – its predecessor only achieved 44 out of 100 points. The second part is clearly better, but that still means nothing more than mediocrity because it fails in areas like AI, mission design and long term motivation.

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

An unusual idea with an intriguing setting, but immature mechanics.

Years ago Turok was an instant hit on game consoles. But today on PC things are different. The controls are probably the worst of all console-to-PC conversions and not editable. It's not possible to save the game freely and save points are so rare, it almost feels like the developers want you to give up. Turok fails in level design and game controls, but we've played it until the end because it tells an interesting story.

A bee’s life can be a bit boring, but it’s a touching interactive story.