A standard musou experience, graced by an impressive narrative universe that makes it unmissable for the fans... and rather boring for anyone else.

Twelve more games, and a frankly better selection than the first one, for all the people who want to explore the remote past of videogames.

While not innovating or twisting the original formula, Ys IX Monstrum Nox is revealed, however, an action-jrpg full of events and extremely rewarding. The psychological introspection of the protagonists, the action valuable and the general pace, lend the side to very few defects. The usual Japanese immobility in technical terms and the heavy linearity are undoubtedly heavy for those who expected an evolution from the excellent Lacrimosa of Dana. Nevertheless, even if weakened by an aspect entirely comparable to a title for PS3 and some drops of tone in the narrative, Ys IX Monstrum Nox remains a valuable game, absolutely indicated to fans of the series and enough circumscribed and autonomous to be played as a stand-alone episode.

On its own, Red Dragon is a great game. But it just doesn't do much to progress the series. Still, we are talking about the most realistic, tactically deep and visually gorgeous RTT on the market.

Rich in content and with an excellent artistic direction, Samurai Warriors 5 is aimed at a specific group of fans, but does not disdain to tickle the newbies.

A nice and easy arcade game coming from the mobile world. It's all about speed and good reflexes.

There are a lot of good and fresh ideas in King of Thieves, but they all are kinda devalued by the lockpick system, that clip the songs to Zeptolab’s game.

A really cool racing game, graced by a rock solid framerate and accurate controls.

If you a have a friend to play with, this is a great collection of games. If they were all at the same level it could have been a must buy.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 is not realistic like ARMA III, but if you're looking for a first-person shooter with a tactical soul and an open-world setting, you’ll be satisfied.

Mario Strikers Battle League Football can be one of the most frantic and exhilarating games on Switch, but it also suffers from its lackluster AI and it really needs more communication tools for its online modes.

ChatGPT implementations takes a passable game and makes it very, very good. Read on to see if this is enough to beat the likes of Stellaris or Endless Space 2.

A fun racing game filled with lots of different game modes. Too bad the graphics engine feels outdated.

A delicate and well designed infinite jumper, graced by beautiful visuals and precise controls.

This isn't probably the Final Fantasy you were expecting, nevertheless it's one worth your time. it is far from being a perfect game, mainly because of a terrible second half, but it succeeds where other Final Fantasy have failed: bringing the saga into the modern era.

Strange Brigade is a visceral, frantic and ultimately funny third person shooter. Nothing more, nothing less.

A remake of the original MediEvil with something more. Perfect for the fans, good enough for the newcomers.

Soul Hackers 2 it's a good game with some annoying issues. At it's core, Atlus new sci-fi JRPG it's an high-stakes 35/40 hours adventure with a charismatic and well written cast of characters, a protagonist - Ringo - which is both fun and interesting, and an enjoyable combat system. However, as a dungeon crawler, the game gets repetitive fairly quickly, and doesn't do enough to keep the player's attention high throught it's entire duration. Nonetheless, Soul Hackers 2 it's enjoyable experience, easy to recommend to all the fans of the Megami Tensei franchise, and a great starting point for a new series.

A good remaster for one of the most appreciated 3D chapters of the franchise.

The score is given on trust, because at the moment you might not get into an online match even after several attempts, not to mention other bugs and graphic glitches. An upcoming patch should resolve most of the problems, but right now the bugs are still there and the single player is really weak. Multiplayer, instead, is the usual blast and the new modes, new maps and 64 players in Conquest mode are simply great.

Team Sonic Racing is a game full of content, enjoyable to play and with a very well-structured co-op mode. Nevertheless, the title suffers on the medium/long duration, with a design of the tracks not always delighted and the readability of the action sometimes compromised by some aesthetic choices. Team Sonic Racing, therefore, while giving peaks of unquestionable fun, is devoid of that leap, that spark of play that can make the difference.

Even on PC Joe Dever’s Lone Wolf is a fun and well crafted game, a real tribute to an ancient way to tell a fantasy story. It’s not able on PC to replicate the authentic gamebook’s experience as it does on tablet, but it’s still worth your time.

The Missing is a good puzzle platformer, with inspiring atmosphere. The puzzles are good, sometimes a bit too brainy.

With Mario Party: Star Rush the classic and static mechanics of the series finally changes (for the better!). Overall, it's a decent party game, and it's fun to play by yourself, too. Its weak points are a lack of minigames, which make the main mode boring after few hours, and some slow loading times.

Faithful to the Worms tradition, the new Team 17 title, with its bizarre new weapons and vehicles, manages to be a fun experience even if the crafting mechanics aren't the most user friendly out there.

Chronos: Before the Ashes is a minimalist, imperfect title with a basic spartan aesthetic and a slow pace. Despite this, it is able to give back a vivid sense of discovery and each new ravine or weapon, or power gives us another reason not to detach ourselves from it. The same scenic installation, initially disappointing, fits perfectly with the world hovering between enchantment and technology. A longevity not exactly excellent for the genre and the budget nature that emerges in almost every context of the production, the wings of Gunfire Games, which makes flight worthy of note, but does not go too far.

Definitely different from other dispersive and soulless open world experiences, Tchia is a tropical adventure that pays homage to the culture and territorial beauties of New Caledonia. However, this scaled-down version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has its shortcomings, including technical stability issues and a not-so-great story longevity. In any case, Tchia remains a fun game that knows how to make players fall in love with the unique culture of the Kanak people.

Even thought there are some serious balancing issues and you don’t have nothing to do than tap on your phone’s display, Tap Titans is an engaging and clever clicker game, and you probably end up to feel a little ashamed for the time you will spend on it.

Biomutant definitely has its charms: its post-apocalyptic open world is filled with lush environments and the combat encounters are entertaining, making for a fun game experience, albeit one that is sometimes a bit repetitive.

We sure don't have the new Monster Hunter, but Freedom Wars is a good game to keep an eye on. If the premises and the narrative structure of the game had to be maintained at early hours levels, we'd be talking about a true masterpiece. Good game, anyway.

Who wouldn't want to save space cows from evil insects? Celleste is a fun and easy to handle puzzle game.

A good, solid game based on World Championship license of motocross. A good experience for those who like this sport.

Etrian Odyssey V is a remarkable return to the origins of the saga: a complete, finished, and extremely long-lasting game. Developers have blunted many of the gameplay elements, setting aside each side activity and minimizing narration. The reversal of the medal of this operation is in the mighty sense of having already seen it assaulting old-time fans.

Under Night In-Birth Exe Night: Late[st] is a fighting game based on a solid gameplay and able to offer a great challenge. Despite the fact that it provides a good support to newcomers, the game only offers its best if you can fully master the intense and excited rhythms of the combat system. 2D graphic and the typical Japanese character design are an added value or a minor flaw, depending on your taste. In any case, we're facing a carefully, crafted game, which certainly deserves a chance if you're a fan of the genre.

Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization is a good JRPG. It's made with diligence, dedicated to anime fans from which it's drawn, but also suitable for simple lovers of the genre.

At times dark and at times wonderfully sweet, it is prone towards being sometimes vexing but that shouldn’t stop you from following the Marquis de Hotto down his rabbit hole.

If you're a Gabriel Knight fan you shouldn't miss Moebius. It's not perfect, it would have benefited a lot from a bigger budget, but all the Jane Jensen mojo is still there.

Rainbow Six Extraction is a good PvE shooter that works very well when played with friends and offers great gunplay. It is also true that the overall balance is not optimal and the difficulty rate is sometimes too high, but if you are a fan of Rainbow Six: Siege then you will be able to gloss over these negatives.

With Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers Omega Force has made an enjoyable shift to a turn based strategic formula, even if its gameplay could have been much deeper.

A good tie-in of the original anime series, Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet is a solid JRPG, a bit repetitive and with the difficulty not well balanced.

Fear Effect Sedna brings back from the past the core elements of the series, with a nice story that manages to drag the player into it.

NBA Live 18 has the main merit of overcoming the predecessor both in gameplay and controls, but it still lacks something to make it a top level title.

We Are OFK is an intriguing visual novel, which in its best moments knows how to suck the player into the emotional vortex of the story, while following the birth of a group that is virtual, but strangely realistic.

Shenmue is still a niche game, now as it was then. It's the primordial soup of the modern games for gameplay and storytelling, but it still has the charm and magic of yore, delivered with high-level art direction.

Some new social features and a crisper 1080p look enhance this PS4 reincarnation of Dead Nation without changing the original, proven twin-stick shooter formula.

Colorful and fun, Cat Quest is a simple action-RPG with a great heart. And lots of cats.

State of Decay: Year One Survival Edition is a package full of goodies. The game itself is still one of the best steps towards the dream of a persistent apocalyptic world, but poor graphics and the lack of multiplayer are even worse today than two years ago.

A good sequel of the first Overcooked, with more contents and more fun, thanks to the online mode.

Too fast, too furious: Trackmania Turbo is the same old Trackmania, with its hard challenges and some new multiplayer modes. Sometimes it tries too hard to punish the player... and it succeeds!

A good conversion of an already good game. The motion control leaves much to be desired but otherwise the game plays perfectly.

A nice old-school user with low in longevity and high in challenge. Especially good if you play it side by side with a friend. Excellent pixel-art.

A good remake with some extra. A little bit clumsy in some part, but funny and perfect for SpongeBob fans.

Freedom Cry is a good DLC and lets you play as Adewalé, which is an interesting character. Sadly, all of your progress in this DLC is useless for the main game and its huge open wold.

It’s a gift for the fans of the anime – definitively not suited for those who aren’t – with a well crafted combat system: simple but deep mechanics that can reward players who can read correctly their opponent, even if their execution level is not top class.

Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite offers a very good and funny gameplay, but the game lacks in contents, especially if compared to a lot of other beat'em ups you can play this year.

Gamedec is very much focused on its setting, story and investigation-based gameplay, which are for the most part properly executed.

On the visual side, apart from some minor bugs and the lack of some graphics options that we would have expected, the result has fully convinced us. The Fox Engine is an excellent graphics engine that requires no ultra PC to be enjoyed at its best.

A graphic adventure mixed with role-playing game that has some imperfections but also several good ideas, a beautiful art style and a lot of charm.

A good remaster of a video game that suffers the weight of its age, superior to the original in every respect, but not free from defects.

More Battleheart than Final Fantasy, Angry Birds Epic is a fun experiment with the usual microtransactions issue. But it's an RPG: grinding is inevitable!

Assassin's Creed Mirage offers a gaming experience that all in all works and entertains without much pretension, although it does not allow the series to take any major step forward.

Fun by yourself and with others too, Summerset doesn't add much to the formula but will entertain for all of its thirty hours or so.

The Sexy Brutale is brilliant and intelligent, with its beautiful art style, its witty puzzles and its captivating story, but it's far from perfect, especially on Xbox One, where it has quite a few problems. It has near-zero replayability, but will keep you intrigued for more than seven hours.

A mystical, narrative experience enhanced above all by the dialogues and multiple choices, while it is a little more cryptic in the gameplay.

Storyteller takes the concept of "topos" and extends it greatly, basing the entire gameplay on it, and does so competently by teaching the player about the traits of characters and locations, and giving them the freedom to experiment. I would have liked Storyteller to be more daring with experimentation, giving us the opportunity to play more with its extraordinary concept, but even so, it's an interesting divertissement that will make for a very enjoyable evening. Highly recommended.

Escha and Logy are the two halves of a great entry for this series, and a good JRPG overall. Both combat and alchemy system are fun to play and to explore, while we can not say the same about the plot, too boring and slow.

The Crew: Wild Run solves a lot of the problems of the original game and adds new modes, cars, contents, a better graphic and fun. Although it's still not perfect.

An anomalous metroidvania in the intent as traditional in the realization. The creature's alien and brutal beauty is only partially supported by an equally good world to explore. It remains a fascinating title, made with care, that really lacks that extra flicker to excel.

Yomawari: Midnight Shadows will cause you to scream out of fear multiple times.

Observation has its flaws (mainly in the technical side), but is a great example of how videogames can come up with new ways of telling stories.

A clever endless fighting game that is a rhythm game too. Not perfect but quite fun.

Octopath Traveler II is a small but noticeable gem, just like its predecessor, too bad that it indulges in past flaws without really improving them.

A fun take on Conan the Barbarian. Howard purists might do some strange gestures with their noses, but all the other will be having a blast chopping up monsters in Conan Chop Chop.

Good atmosphere between music and silence. A brief dream about flying and diving.

It's nice to get this classic game on Steam, but it clearly shows its age in terms of graphics and, more than anything, limited artificial intelligence.

A spy story full of demented humor and surreal situations.

Need for Speed Heat wakes up the series from the nightmare and it's just like a greatest hits of the most iconic episodes of the franchise. Ghost Games did a great job in terms of gameplay and concepts, but Palm City is bloated of filler events and the progression isn't smooth enough. Anyway, the night races are great and the free tuning is back. If you are driven by Underground and Most Wanted nostalgia, Heat is definitely your game.

A solid tactical game with some pretty good ideas, damaged by repetitive missions and a lack of a meaningful squad and strategy management.

A weird and intriguing adventure which manages to make good use of Kinect and is filled with pure Japanese madness.

Most probably the best Super Smash Bros. clone on the market, a competent 4-player brawler with enough content to keep players engaged. To be avoided if you plan to play it for the single-player modes.

Digimon Survive excels in what's most important in a game of its genre by giving the player a deep and engaging storyline full of unexpected twists. You can almost compare this visual novel to a new chapter of the animated series thanks to a great general design and a well done characterization of its protagonists, both humans and Digimon. This is a game with a strong personality but an average combat system that sometimes ends up damaging the narration's rhythm. Despite this, Digimon Survive is undoubtedly a must have for any fan of the franchise.

Halfway between graphic adventure and walking simulator (but with the plus of VR), Transference is not a game for everyone, but its atmosphere is priceless.

Assassin's Creed Rogue on PC is the same game released last November on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 with the inevitable graphics upgrade. In addition Ubisoft Kiev gives us a stable, smooth and well-optimized version of the game.

Tunic manages to take something (obviously on a smaller scale) from Zelda, Dark Souls and Death's Door, resulting in a challenging and fascinating action-adventure even if it lacks any truly original ideas.

Challenging, good looking, fun and clearly inspired by Snake: if you like this type of games you definitely should try it.

An interesting turn-based fantasy game with nice mechanics and a bit too-long sessions.

Champions of Anteria is a good example of how to combine management phases and action-RPG sections without altering either of the two.

Deus Ex Go begins to show some wrinkles in Go series settings, but nevertheless it remains a good mix of puzzles, challenging strategy and elegant cyber atmosphere.

Steep still has a few drawbacks with controls and balance, but in its way it’s a fascinating and enjoyable experience of extreme sports.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is not an unforgettable open world experience, but it remains a solid, action-adventure that lasts the right amount of time and is graphically spectacular, although with such a brand and with a "fuller" and focused map it could have delivered even more.

Even though Super Mega Baseball 4 is a good game that fans of this sport will surely appreciate, after three years, we would have expected a general step forward that has yet to quite happen. Franchise mode was further improved, and the addition of some baseball legends is still welcome, but some athlete animations still need to be fixed, and the HUD felt too confusing. In short, if you are looking for an excellent alternative to MLB The Show 23, Super Mega Baseball 4 could be a good choice, even if the series developed by San Diego Studio undoubtedly remains the best on the market.

Ghostrunner returns with seven new levels and two bosses with the Project_Hel DLC. As Hel, we can revive the adrenaline of the game, made of katanas, special powers, walljumps and a constant desire to be more and more effective and precise in completing the levels. The experience is cleaner than in the base game, maintains a greater pace, offers more mobility and it's less frustrating. Remains a bit too much try & retry in some sections and the feeling that the game concept could expand in a braver manner as it already happens in Killrun mode, but the DLC is worth the ticket price, especially if you like to improve your times optimizing each path.

Ghostrunner 2 is exactly what you'd expect. It amplifies the strengths of its predecessor with a more intricate ability system and manages a better variety of situations, yet it retains virtually all the flaws in Ghostrunner's flow. Nevertheless, it creates an always entertaining and challenging gameplay experience that you'll appreciate if you're already a fan of the original. It's not for everyone, and it will make you curse a lot as the death counter keeps rising, but its punishing nature is part of the price.

It wasn't hard to do better than WWE 2K20, but 2K22 goes further: it's not flawless, but the new gameplay is quite enjoyable after absorbing the new control scheme.

Galactikitties is a fun, unique and engaging game. It's not amazing, but it's fun while it lasts. And Grumpy Cat is not amused.

A nice and engaging sci-fi graphic adventure. If you're a fan of the genre, you should give it a chance.

Starlink marks a bold and intriguing return for the toys-to-life genre. An engrossing if ultimately flawed space journey.

A JRPG that even those who don't appreciate the genre might like. There are many stereotypes, but the combat system and characters are the pillars of a truly enjoyable game.