It's fun to play with a friend in co-op mode for an hour or two, but the game lacks the content to be interessting for much longer. Once you are really into it, it already ends. More diversity and a broader range of possible tactics would have been nice.

Apart from the over-the-top hero management, Darkspore feels like an unfinished torso of a game. Killing a few monsters and picking up items isn't enough for a game in 2011. Leaving out a story, dialogues, real quests and good level design killed of the fun, too.

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

Torchlight 3 is not worthy of its name. Exploring the game world is worth zero. Where have all the side missions gone? The transformations for my pet? The fight with two one-handed weapons? Why are there no more jewel sockets and why do I have to collect rat shit in a main quest? This game is monotonous, generic and soulless. If you just turn off your brain for an hour or two, you can still get in here. But if you want more for your money, you're in the wrong place.

Accessible, humorous text adventure with solid puzzles and pleasant comfort features. It was fun to play something showing the hand of the genre master Bob Bates.

If you like puzzles, this may be for you. If you want some Kafka, stay away.

Short free campaign for fixed co-op groups and fans of the source material, but unusable for solo players and full of balance problems.

A solid core of action and an entertaining fight mechanics can't save the game from being mediocre.

Uninspired, boring endgame expansion that is difficult to recommend even to hardcore fans of the main game.

The laying of tram tracks and overhead lines is so complicated that I'd rather build five bus lines as a single tram line, even if it's humbug economically.

The courier action game was fun at the start, but has quite a few flaws and suffers significantly from the increasingly tonally unfitting story.

The stealth brawler offers a fresh setting, yet quickly loses its appeal due to shallow gameplay mechanics and lack of enemy variety.

The actionpacked battles are fun for a while, but story, quests and the whole MMO part of the game are tiresome.

Quotation forthcoming.

A disappointing sequel that sacrifices stealth mechanics in favour of tedious co-op missions.

I myself was surprised at how negative this test was.

Such small inconsistencies fade before an embarrassing overall picture that Colonial Marines delivers: an ugly, poorly voiced and narrated lousy 0815-shooter.

It's not a bad game, but it has no soul. It's sterile and doesn't stir up any emotions due to the nameless, disposable characters. It's still fun for a short time, though.

What remains is a fatal vortex of wasted opportunities.

An unnecessary sequel that is miles behind the original in every regard.

One step forward, lots of steps back - and the magic is gone.

Flint: Treasure of Oblivion puts on a fancy pirate outfit, but suffers shipwreck in terms of gameplay.

The game mechanics are fundamentally broken.

Stray Blade wants too much and fails to deliver most of it satisfactorily. You're better off playing Elden Ring again.

Even when wearing the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia one has to admit: Reincarnation just isn't a good game - but it's very faithful to the original.

Base One cannot (yet) exhaust its actual potential due to various problems.

It's a sleeping pill disguised as an online action game with mediocre graphics, bad controls, frustrations and most of all: boredom.

The concept with it's economic parts, RPG elements, real time battles and PvP sounds tempting, but fails due to bugs and game mechanics that haven't been thought through.

Monotonous tactical battles without depth, combined with a rudimentary building part and repetitive missions.

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

Moderately entertaining third-person hack 'n' slash with lousy AI, camera issues and too many goblins.

It's very short but we still had to force ourselves to play on. Dumb non-stop battles, oversized dungeons and a tiring story is basically all there is. Think twice before buying this one.

The basic idea behind Conquest is cool: play the largest battles from Lord of the Rings from the perspective of a soldier. The out-of-date graphics, bad class balance and stubborn controls would be no problem if this was a mod for Battlefront or Battlefield, but this is a full price game. The only thing worthy of the big license is the soundtrack and that's available for less.

Cooperative, grind-heavy sci-fi shooter with exciting ideas, which generates more frustration than pleasure with the current scope and condition it is in.

A shooter that hasn't been thought through to the end and that doesn't mesh its gameplay mechanics enough. Unsuitable for soloists, but still reasonably entertaining in co-op.

Doesn't live up to its potential. The game can be fun, but never feels right. Well done, but missed the mark.

Quotation forthcoming.

Mata Hara was a legendary woman – this game is a one-dimensional disappointment. Instead of offering a thrilling story the game is just a line of mediocre dialogues, held together by some stereotypes. The riddles are boring and often only seem to be there to connect some mini games together. That’s not enough.

At the beginning it looks like investigating, secretly rummaging the abbey and questioning other characters could be fun, but the game turns out to be made of pointless little riddles and requires searching through the same locations over and over again. Why somebody did something doesn't seem to matter at all. The Abbey is not about playing through a story, it's about forcing the player to solve riddles. At least the music by Emilio de Paz is well done.

If developers of real military simulations try to develop games, things can go terribly wrong regarding the balance between complexity and fun. Despite the great AI there’s not enough fun in there. Try again, please.

Quotation forthcoming.

Technically, Damnation is not up to date, it looks like a game from the 20th century with overly complicated controls. It's a shame, because it could have been so much better. Blue Omega, please try again.

The delays before the launch of the game were a bad omen - and another delay would have been a good idea. The game feels like it has been taken away from the developer before it was finished, but released nontheless.

Quotation forthcoming.

What's left if you remove the roleplay elements from an action-based RPG? In this case it's three hours of uninspired action. Everything that made Fallout 3 a good game has been removed, obviously to rip off gamers who already explored the whole wastelands - and for those players it's totally worthless.

Quotation forthcoming.

The simulation itself is quite good, but it suffers from a totally inept AI and a lack of content.

Lazily modernized graphics, completely outdated gameplay: This remake of a classic is only for the most nostalgic of veterans.

It's obvious that the scope of this game has been too much for the first project of an independent studio. More time, money and experience would have improved the game a lot.

Diablo Immortal stands as an entertaining action RPG, but it suffers from heavy pay2win systems and annoying grind.

This game could easily win a title for the most extensive and absurd key assignments. You’d need Jedi fingers to play the game without a gamepad. There are far too many key combinations. The result: pure chaos.

Even if the charm of the originals reveals itself every now and then - these masterpieces deserve a better remake.

Dragon Forge lacks depth; expect idleness and tasks with little variety. Unfortunately just average.

If Techland would have called this one "Stupid shooter with pathetic characters full of cliché", it would have been less of a disappointment.

The problem of Starpoint Gemini: there are no strong points, nothing special, nothing that stands out. It's just an unnecessary game.

Not so amazing after all. Technically, it a catastrophe. It you really love Spidey, you may like it to some degree.

That's one thing we didn't want to know: That Creative Assembly can create bad games, too. The main reason for this is a new control concept that went terribly wrong. It's almost impossible to control your troops which enables the otherwise dumb AI opponents (no control problems there) to dominate in massive battles. In addition to being unplayable, Stormrise requires Windows Vista and a DirectX 10-card, too.

Quotation forthcoming.

A great stalker shooter that's marred by catastrophic technical issues and stumbles over its own open world.

Flight is a waste of time.

Quotation forthcoming.

There's a line drawn between uncomplicated action and stupid nonsense and that's exactly where Wheelman is lurching about. In large parts it's like GTA with the exception that nothing really works. The game feels artificial, unfinished, has no soul and takes itself too seriously. At least that's unintentionally funny.

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

The game lacks diversity. In each of the similar looking rooms you're doing the same thing. The less well done shooter elements and climbing passages can't change that.

Lifeless Planet looks like quite a nice sci-fi novel, which squeezed very awkwardly in a game backbone and then as chewing gum was pulled to the maximum possible length.

What does dying feel like? This game tries to answer this question, but the level design is just too difficult and requires absolute precision.

It's the same game as Cities XL with very small differences. Selling it at almost full price is nothing but a rip-off.

Right now, it's unplayable. With patches it may be a nice survival-roguelike for fans. The main problem is the botched release.

To mix the first generation robots with the ones from the Bay universe was a bad idea.

It’s like a browser game with improved graphics. The upside-down look was a bad choice, everything except the survival mode get boring quite fast. So it’s just the hunt for a new high score or rank. Boring.

Outdated shooter with a dinosaur bonus. Only retro fans with too much money to spend will be thrilled.

New Alliances demolishes everything the series has previously built.

Quotation forthcoming.

A side-scrolling shooter with fantastic art design which slows down half way through and abruptly ends after two hours of gameplay.

Quotation forthcoming.

If we had to choose never to play a multi-player shooter again or to play breach, we would stop playing. Hitting walls with a hammer is probably more entertaining than Breach.

First-person shooter with great atmosphere that suffers from monotonous gameplay, performance problems and a poor co-op mode.

Wild West Dynasty offers an exciting story and a beautiful game environment, but suffers from strange design decisions, bugs and outdated technology.

Decent tactical battles, which however quickly become boring, have no greater connection and fail due to camera and AI problems.

This game won’t be published in Germany and that’s no loss at all. The game looks like a game from a few years ago, the single player campaign is finished in 4 hours and if the hero Dick Marcinko really was that kind of inhuman, he doesn’t even deserve a game.

More complexity doesn't automatically create more fun. The successor to Puzzle Quest, the entertaining mix between role-play elements and puzzle game, turns out to be uninspired and boring. It's more complex but confusing, even for experts. There are less rewards to motivate you and the AI doesn't work properly. A candidate for the list of bad sequels.

At best just an above average game with strange design decisions.

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.

Quotation forthcoming.

Akaneiro is absolutely nothing special, either for better or for worse.

Quotation forthcoming.

Good ideas, mediocre implementation. There's a lot of blood, a solid story and well done cut-scenes. Dreamkiller tries to be different, but in the end it's just short-lived fun for players who enjoy games like Painkiller.

Rogue Mage demonstrates why Gwent and roguelikes are not a good combination.

The concept reads really interesting on paper. Also the lore and mythology can be quite appealing for inclined players. But all the construction sites reduce the fun at crucial points.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is like a bargain at the dodgy used car dealer around the corner.

I'd rather stick with zombie alternatives like Left 4 Dead, just because I can because in co-op play against the undead.

Quotation forthcoming.

Heist shooter with a captivating stealth system. Sadly the game is hardly more than a basic framework and also struggles with severe server problems.

The sequel to the controversial Vietnam first person shooter abandoned the use of torture and atrocities to civilians. It also abandoned good graphics, atmosphere and almost everything else needed for a good game. Dumb enemies, exaggerated splatter effects, boring levels and graphics right from the last century - Shellshock 2 has nothing interesting to offer.

Quotation forthcoming.

It really hurts to see a game that could have been great failing because of lots of small and medium problems. Without bugs it could have easily scored 70 or more, the potential is there.

Quotation forthcoming.

Quotation forthcoming.