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For 5,255 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 6% same as the average critic
  • 25% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 3.1 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 78
Highest review score: 100 Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass
Lowest review score: 5 Viridi
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3,709 out of 5255
  2. Mixed: 1,305 out of 5255
  3. Negative: 241 out of 5255
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    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance
    Infested with bugs from start to finish, Dark Alliance is a button mashing affair that drops the 5E rules in favor of flash. The bosses are great, but the parts in between less so. Here’s hoping developer Tuque can pull this out of the Deep Wastes with their post-launch plans.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade
    Intergrade is a decent upgrade to a fantastic game. While some of the new features like haptic feedback leave a lot to be desired, the INTERmission DLC is a blast with some truly incredible gameplay, music, and characters that makes this worth getting if you already own a PS5.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Chicory: A Colorful Tale
    Chicory: A Colorful Tale is a delightful experience that, while confronting some of the darker parts of creativity, will simply make you feel good. The world is cute and fun to explore, puzzles are a joy to solve, and coloring in the Picnic Province is relaxing.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2
    With exhilarating moment to moment gameplay, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts 2 delivers on its promise of longer shots, new gadgets, better contracts, and everything you’ve come to expect. Sure, it brings bugs and design choices that’ll make you scratch your head, but that’s no reason to avoid this one. Lock and load.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A Rogue Escape
    A roguelike where discovery of what to do is as important as how to do it, A Rogue Escape is an imaginative blend of escape room discovery, storytelling, and all the interactive elements you could ask for. While it is relatively short, that doesn’t make the journey any less worthwhile.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Umurangi Generation
    Umurangi Generation is one of the most important games of the modern era. It captures young people’s current anxieties in a masterful way, and allows you to approach them in your own way through taking and editing pictures. It’s powerful and a ton of fun to replay, but sadly suffers from slow down fairly often.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
    Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is one of the best games I’ve played this year. It’s fun, it’s endearing, and I just want to play it again. The gameplay isn’t much different, but it’s refined and has aged like a fine wine, with the technical prowess on display we’ve come to expect from Insomniac Games. If you’re looking for a great narrative, the story is arguably the best in the series, with the grandeur of a Marvel movie in tow. One could imply the game isn’t long enough, but that’s only because they put down the controller, and that’s just not what you’re going to do if you have a copy of Rift Apart.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Tails Noir
    Backbone bites off far more than it can chew, with a completely out of nowhere twist in the third act, disregard of your choices, and a lack of resolution to any of its plot threads. While the promising story and gorgeous visuals had me hooked initially, the game tries to juggle too many things and ends up dropping all the balls.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Guilty Gear -Strive-
    Guilty Gear -Strive- is an excellent fighting game with gorgeous visuals, but feels like it's lacking in content. There are essentially only three modes of play, arcade, survival, and online. While the complex inputs and lack of a decent tutorial will leave some players in the dust, fighting feels so good you won’t want to put the controller down.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Mom Hid My Game! 2
    It doesn't change much, but Mom Hid My Game! 2 is still a fun little game. If you liked the first one, the sequel is basically more of the same, but there's still some joy to be had finding your handheld in mysterious places.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The Sims 4: Dream Home Decorator
    The Sims 4 Dream Home Decorator Game Pack was just what I needed, as I really wanted to start designing some of my own homes and rooms. I very much enjoyed the hands-on experiences with each of the clients' unique homes. My only complaint is that some of the likes and dislikes are not obvious, especially when it comes to particular styles, and that the clients don’t tell you what you did wrong at the end of the renovation. The reveal at the end is super fun, and reminds me of being on a fixer upper TV show.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown
    While there isn't much of an incentive to play the game outside its online modes, Virtua Fighter 5 still does what it does quite well, and with a much-needed updated version now available to a newer generation, more players can now appreciate this stellar classic.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Miitopia
    Summary: Miitopia is a fun and funny if flawed game. While this rerelease may be worthwhile to some for the character creator alone, its unwillingness to provide deeper and more balanced gameplay makes it difficult to want to experience everything the game has to offer or even just finish it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Iron Harvest: Operation Eagle
    Operation Eagle adds new pieces to the board but has trouble justifying their existence outside of a challenging new campaign.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Knockout City
    There are few games that have ever made me scream in anger or shout with unbridled joy as often as Knockout City and I absolutely can’t stop playing. It’s a near-perfect team multiplayer game packed with strategy, heart, and an incredibly impressive level of polish. Even if it’s a bit buggy and lacking in content at the moment, I can’t recommend it enough.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance
    Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance has sadly not held up for a modern audience. If you already enjoyed the game, then this is a decent port to current hardware. For everyone else, the game is clunky, drab, and boring.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl
    Jay and Silent Bob: Mall Brawl does a great job recreating the look and feel of an original NES release, but takes its retro inspired roots a bit too far and becomes a game which few but the most dedicated will finish. That said, I did enjoy my time with the game and catching the references to other Kevin Smith movies.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Knight Squad 2
    Knight Squad 2 is a fun, competent, and chaotic multiplayer game great for parties, but features little to keep players interested beyond the few hours it will take to tackle all the game modes and unlock all the Knights. The addition of cross-platform play is certainly nice and a feature I hope more games implement in the future. A few more unlockables or even a leveling system for the Knights would have been nice, but as it stands I enjoyed my time with Knight Squad 2.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Biomutant
    Riddled with repetition, Biomutant is as grand in ambition as it is bland in execution. Where it shines in character creation and choice, it fumbles in its narrative and empty morality system. Where building your powers, weapons, and toys is great, finding all the parts to do so is simply a chore. Odd to say, but in this case, less might have been more, but what is here is fun. Just not as fun as it could have been.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    SnowRunner
    An excellent and very welcome port of an already great and addictive game that stands out among other games in the genre.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Godstrike
    Godstrike will test your patience and your abilities with a controller. When at its best, this game is fully creative, fun, and all around a good time, but not one game is perfect, and this game will show its cracks from time to time.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Invisible Hand
    The Invisible Hand is a deceptively absurd take on the corporate circus that is Wall Street day trading. It’s at its best when it lets the player wreak havoc however they please, but in trying to juggle both stock market shenanigans and its satirical story, it fumbles on both fronts.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    The Sims 4: Courtyard Oasis Kit
    The team did an outstanding job with the Courtyard Oasis Kit, and for such a low price I think it’s a no-brainer. Any Sims 4 building enthusiast needs this in their arsenal! The nods at Moroccan architecture are well done, and I’d love to see more cultural Kits like this in the future! The good news is, I really enjoyed trying to build this outdoor oasis, and want to take a deeper dive on my own builds.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Rain on Your Parade
    Rain on Your Parade has made me feel emotions for a cloud that I have not felt... well, ever! With a charming aesthetic, entertaining pop culture humor, and a wacky premise, you should play this game if you want to spend a weekend ruining a bunch of people's lives with water.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne HD Remaster
    Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster is a fantastic game at its core, but does little to justify the HD Remaster part of its title. The visuals are improved greatly and being able to choose between Raidou and Dante is nice, but there are few improvements the base game desperately needed like better dungeon design.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Days Gone
    Days Gone is the perfect PlayStation game to make its way to PC. It was already a beautiful game, but held back by the PS4 and PS4 Pro. On PC, Days Gone gets it’s chance to flourish, running at uncapped frame rates, high resolutions, and touting an FOV slider. While it is missing some cool next-gen upgrades like ray tracing and DLSS, Days Gone runs nearly flawlessly on PC, and serves as a testament to Bend’s tradecraft. Even if you’ve already played the game on PS4 or PS4 Pro, it’s worth jumping back into the shoes of Deacon St John on PC to massacre a freaker horde at the highest level of performance possible.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Resident Evil Village
    All and all, Resident Evil Village is more than playable on Google Stadia, even with the drawbacks. When your experience is dependent on internet connection speeds, you can’t really complain about not getting every bell and whistle a console loaded with your game would have. Village is both convenient and competent on Stadia, and while yes, the frame rate and resolution drops can be disappointing, playing on the go is a nice benefit, even if I’m not sure it’s a worthy compromise.
    • 86 Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Mass Effect Legendary Edition
    So the saying goes, you can’t step into the same river twice, but Mass Effect Legendary Edition is certainly going to make one hell of an attempt at it.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Assassin's Creed Valhalla: Wrath of the Druids
    Wrath of the Druids is simply more Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, both for good and ill. For a paid expansion, it doesn’t add much new or interesting and the main quest doesn’t have much to deal with Druids. Still, more Valhalla is more Valhalla and it’s enjoyable for what it is.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Resident Evil Village
    Having multiple Lords to hunt and take down, each with their own unique territory and play style, greatly helps Village stand out from previous entries. Bringing back a merchant, giving hunting and fishing options, an upgraded inventory system, allowing the story to go absolutely off the rails, and switching the gameplay to be more action focused, even though I understand that may upset some players, all combined to help Village stand out from previous entries while still feeling unique. Upon completion I immediately spent my CP and hopped back into the campaign, the greatest compliment I can give any game. Village may very well be my new favorite entry in the series.
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