The magic word is perma-death and makes looking around for food and trying to survive thrilling. Technically it's mediocre but if you like zombies you need to play State of Decay.

Immortal Pillars is a worthy China expansion that only lacks some really outstanding moments.

Although the game degenerates into quite a grind after the completion of the first series of missions, the procedurally generated worlds and the friendly community provide enough variety for long enough.

The interesting characters and the thrilling story were worth the wait. Now let's hope the second episode can keep up this kind of quality.

Fascinating and surreal adventure with witty dialogues, bizarre scenes, countless innuendoes and imaginative puzzles.

Funny time travel to the beginnings of the genre. Veterans will like the allusions to the classics and the 80s setting.

Creative tribute to text adventures and an in many ways surprising storytelling experiment with a well-done 80s-like scary atmosphere.

Exo One delights with innovation and an immersive atmosphere - if you let it.

Quotation forthcoming.

Finding Paradise is a simple game, but convinces with its emotional and unusual story as well as the clever humor.

Camelot instead of Washington, Excalibur instead of muskets and the Round Table instead of Founding Fathers. Lots of ideas taken straight from the Total War series and lots of good own ones, too. If you like to enable more and more things in a game instead of being shown everything at once, this is a game for you. It's not a game worthy for a King yet, but more than worthy for a Prince.

Firaxis takes some risks, yes. But probably to bring a little variety to the XCOM series and maybe build a bridge to a real successor. The new features are all well thought out and offer enough differences to XCOM 2 to justify the purchase, but you shouldn't expect a revolution.

Echo doesn't use its potential, but with the adaptive AI it offers an interesting gameplay approach and a cool sci-fi story.

Pony Island is a very entertaining experience full of constant surprises and funny things.

The central game mode - "hunting" - is splendid that makes Evolve a recommended game. All the rest seems a little immature and makes me hope for a more mature and sophisticated successor.

Sunless Sea is special, though it is not for everyone. That's okay.

Brute, thrilling turn-based battles with superheroes, action cards and tactical maneuvers. Too much chatter between missions.

Timberborn isn’t the prettiest or most exciting city-building game, but it’s great fun to tinker with.

Quotation forthcoming.

Good 4X game with some interesting changes, but it can't surpass the predecessor due to a lack of innovations and the old-fashioned presentation.

Extremely addictive despite some weaknesses. A captivating world of model railroads.

I have waited 19 years for a worthy successor to Battle Isle 2 and it was worth it. Well animated units, simple to understand, tricky to master, challenging AI. The presentation could be better though.

A stylish action adventure with stunning graphics and exciting fights that sometimes gets too carried away with details.

With the Vaulters a very sympathetic race finds its way back into the Endless universe and excited us with cool new gameplay mechanics.

Quotation forthcoming.

Pandora is a world beautiful enough to make you fall on your knees. You can happily spend dozens of hours exploring - only the story can't quite keep up.

The atmospheric open world doesn't reinvent the wheel, yet entertains with sublime puzzles and fun combat.

Buy recommendations rarely fall so easily like this: If you want just more Borderlands, buy the Pre-Sequel.