A competent (mostly) rail-shooter with nice graphics and very simple gameplay.

Sacred Citadel is a modern and compelling brawler, that ultimately turns up to be one of the most faithful game in its genre. SouthEnd managed to capture part of the magic of the good ol' Golden Axe, but there's some problem that keeps the game away from a must-buy status.

An interesting visual novel with a bunch of plot twists and forgettable action sequences.

Contrast has a couple of very nice ideas and a lot of style, but it feels underdeveloped and it doesn't live up to the expectations it sets up with its first few minutes. It deserves a chance if you like the setup and its mood, but don't expect too much from it.

A good platform-RPG, through its difficulty needs some balancing. Perfect for the fans of the series.

Yu-Gi-Oh! RUSH DUEL: Dawn of Battle Royale !! is a game prisoner of its nature, if you love dueling and you are not afraid to grind matches after matches then it's the game for you, bearing in mind, however, that variety is not at home in the Konami game and that the single player mode offers a very limited challenge and a plot suited to a very young audience. The Rush Duel make their promising debut here, representing an alternative to the main mechanics of Duel Monster, which have become undeniably complicated for a novice to approach. We hope this title can represent a fresh start for Konami, a return to more ambitious video games for the franchise in the future. The potential is there, we hope there's also the desire to make the most of it.

Beyond Contact isn't the most fresh survival game you can find and, while it's not bad, it's not that good either.

Slitterhead is an action horror game that collapses under its loop—both in terms of narrative and gameplay—and doesn't shine as much as it could have.

Blackpowder Games' debut is a thrilling experience, which sometimes is able to scare the player. With its creepy atmosphere, you won't get bored, but the concept sometimes is clumsy and recurring. Even with its flaws, it's a delightful horror game.

WWE 2K15 on new-gen consoles is like a Raw talent with an already high definition who needs a harder workout to increase his muscle mass, wrestler roster and MyCareer contents.

There is still something to be refined here and there and originality is not really the best around, but the mix of action and tactics work, the RPG elements are not bad and the semi open-world approach has its advantages.

Crossfire: Legion may not be a terrible game but it's not a good one either. Its single-player campaign is entirely forgettable, the three factions are about as generic as they come and gameplay wise it's a bit basic, lacking the depth of other (better) strategy games. Blackbird Interactive has shown better in the past but sadly they didn't seem to be as inspired with this project.

Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious is a great spot for the movie and a good way to play with Forza Horizon 2 again.

A simple and fun "motorcycle platform" game with decent graphics and functional controls.

Boulder Jack is a fun enough endless runner, definitely not the best of the pack but good enough to worth the download and give you some cool runs.

A known series makes its comeback to the scenes with a game which is, overall, funny, engaging and explosive in its own craziness. Too bad that there are too many bugs.

Portal meets The Cube in a fun, smart and well designed puzzle game. Graphics are not that good, though, and if you're not into replayability it's a bit on the short side.

Engaging, fast and frenetic, Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker feels good in its attempt to recreate the action of both manga and anime, despite minor issues here and there.

An ambitious and brave survival horror that suffers of technical limits, as well as of an asynchronous gameplay that goes too far in favor of Jason.

An interesting take on what could be a Shadowrun MMORPG, but with the lack of endgame content and PVP the game loses much of its appeal.

There’s nothing really new or worth playing in this first premium DLC of Shadow of Mordor, and the few interesting mechanics are poorly developed.

Where once there were plants and zombies there are now trolls and vikings, but the type of fun remains unchanged. Trolls vs Vikings is a good game, but a touch of extra personality would have been appreciated.

The Crew is a social coast to coast trip in a brilliant, virtual version of the USA. Perhaps it is a little bit too arcade-ish and not as beautiful as other recent racing games, but it drives over its flaws.

Ouch! The remastered PaRappa is not the one you remember from the PSX heyday. Serious lag issues and a primitive game system irreparably harm the game.

Broken Roads has an engaging post-apocalyptic setting that, while a bit familiar, manages to still retain its own identity thanks to its Australian flair, it also has some interesting gameplay ideas and some engaging choices that allow you to impact the world around you. The game is not without flaws though: combat is clunky and unbalanced, the early phases are far too linear and, perhaps more importantly for a game focused on narrative, its characters often fail to leave a strong impression and its narrative never quite reaches the incredible heights of games like Disco Elysium or Pentiment.

A conservative expansion for a game that needed to change. The game is visually appealing, but underneath we still find problems with the GlassBox engine and the simulation.

A puzzle game like many others, that falls victim of a messy PC port. It's got a lot of levels, but there are many better alternatives out there.

Dynasty Warriors 9 Empire is a strategic rather bland, with fights in musou style just passable. The result is still a decent game, though clearly aimed only at fans of the genre.

Signal Ops tries something unusual, showing a different point of view, but the strategy-game and the first person shooter components don't seem to get along. Due to the clumsy interface, the game's pace is slow and uninspired: a pity, considering atmosphere and setting.

A bad port and a gameplay that wasn't that great even on Xbox One.

Its structure lacks of frills and it may appear to simple, but J-Stars Victory VS. + is a joy to play and can count on an excellent roster of fighters.

Thanks to the charming personality and the insane amount of humour, you'll really, really want to love Deadpool. Yet this will feel like a huge wasted opportunity, with the greatness of the main character crushed underneath the inconsistency of the gameplay and the low-budget feel.

Fun and spectacular, Payday 3 marks a decent return of the Payday gang by offering refined gameplay and several new features that are also quite interesting. However, the various positive aspects, such as the possibility of swapping hostages and completing most robberies silently, are contrasted by a small number of missions and a progression system that is too slow.

It's not a revolution but it's still the best you can get if you want a Formula 1 videogame.

Riptide remains "more of the same" of Dead Island and innovations are very few and not well-aimed. But if you liked the previous adventure in Banoi, and you can withstand the horrible respawning system, you'll have fun in Palanai too.

Scathe has everything you can expect from a DOOM/DOOM Eternal emulator, but it has several structural flaws that make it a hellish FPS in which you shoot well but you don't have much fun.

A step back that betrays the good gameplay of the series and the excellent achievements of the 2015 reboot.

A decent remake of a great classic. Outcast: Second Contact could have been more ambitious, but it's a good opportunity for new players to love the world and the exploration of Adelpha.

Don't get fooled by its cuteness: Evoland is a bad game, unable to fulfill its promises. Behind a bunch of jokes, there's an old, ugly, clumsy role-playing game, unable to bring any justice to its source materials.

White Night has a very effective atmosphere, a unique visual style and some good horror moments, although it suffers from an awful saving system and too simple puzzles.

A good beat'em up, with all the characters you need, even if they seem all the same one at times. Extreme Butoden got some really good and exhilarating moments, but the lack of the online game is a real shame.

Blightbound is a decent multiplayer dungeon crawler, which expresses its full potential only if you have a group of friends to play with.

Game & Wario is the worst WarioWare game ever. A predictable and sometimes irksome experience that found itself overthrown by the freshness and style of Nintendoland. Only a couple of minigames prove to be funny to some extent.

Despite the clear efforts and a few undeniable merits (most of all the facial scan tech), Kinect Sports Rivals fails right where it should have shone: the use of the new Kinect doesn't seem that groundbreaking at all, and the title is by no means a point of no return in motion controlled gaming. With shallow gameplay and the overall lack of fun, the result can't be that exciting.

A nice shooter, dragged down by the usual freemium business model.

A very unique experience, that you should avoid if you're looking for a “traditional” adventure game. But it's really well made, emotionally strong and extremely good in communicating its messages.

Devil May Cry HD Collection is quite the same HD Collection we've already seen on PS3 and Xbox 360, with just 1080p instead of 720p (and without any support for PS4 Pro and Xbox One X - you get 4K resolution only on PC). Game menus and many cut-scenes are in SD and 4:3, hard to believe in 2018. But sadly true.

Drag x Drive surprises with its concept and controls, but disappoints in content, variety, and design. A missed opportunity that only works well when played online with friends with similar skill.

A good tower defense game, quiet fun and a little different from the usual to enjoy especially in multiplayer.

A game that was born just six month ago as a portable adaptation of the original Arkham gameplay mechanics comes back on home consoles and PC in the form of a cheap Deluxe Edition. A commercial short circuit with no added value that should not be encouraged.

Rory McIlroy PGA Tour is way above the par: the few good bright sides are not enough to cover its lack of contents and a far-from next gen graphics.

Bon Appétit is the same old, enjoyable, Cooking Mama game. If you have played it before, forget it. If you have a kid or a little brother/sister, Mama can be a funny teacher.

A sci-fi thriller too cryptic with its story and with very little substance on the gameplay side, for an unfortunately unsatisfactory result.

Ryse: Son of Rome is not only a magnificent shell with an inconsistent soul but most of all a colossal wasted opportunity: at the dawn of a new generation, it's sad to see a game so incredibly beautiful to look at, yet at the same time so shallow to play.

Foreclosed is a good action game that mixes different elements of gameplay, with a very intriguing graphic novel style but which does not offer adequate longevity.

1849 isn't really a bad game. It's just a little game, with too little to do and too little to see.

Drawn to Life: Two Realms loses some of the series' most characteristic traits while attempting to gain new ones. The result is a mixed bag, combining interesting levels and an overall pleasant narrative department with many technical flaws, unjustified difficulty spikes and a game that often seems to aim at the wrong target audience.

Payday 2 still is a very solid and funny cooperative shooter even on Switch, despite the lack of some content (heists, masks) you can find in the PC version.

Angry Birds Go! is a racing game dedicated for youngest players, since it does not offer challenge worthy or somehow exciting.

A very old school game (even in its visual style) in which you can fly with some doves like a drunk Dude. It’s impossible not to love it.

Godus is no more and no less than a freemium civilization game, marked by long waits and few interesting ideas, like the lemming-style minigame and the earth-shape feature. It’s very nice to watch, but not so much to play.

Crackdown 3 is an old school game that doesn't do anything to sound fresh and new. Sometimes it's fun, but in the long run it's just out of this timeline.

Mario and Sonic meet again and the result is... kinda boring. While the game presentation is nice and colorful, its mechanics are too shallow.

With a little more attention, Endless Ocean Luminous could have been an interesting video game. However, as it is, it is merely a wasted opportunity: interaction with environments and sea creatures is stripped to the bone, while the direction is not exactly outstanding. It remains a relaxing experience, but it is not enough.

A bright and unpretentious fighting game, who pays the duty for his ambitions of immediacy, finishing up being rather insipid.

How to Survive has some undoubted merits, mainly thanks to the crafting and combat system and the survival component. However, the game is very immature from other points of view, like the variety of enemies and locations, the limited size of the islands, the graphics and the triviality of quests and dialogue.

Metal Gear Survive is a good survival game that need some balancing. An interesting spin-off with is own dignity.

Sing Party is a not-so-interactive karaoke, nothing more and something less than what Sony achieved with SingStar in the last decade. The shallow visuals don’t help either, but the tracklist hosts some pretty decent modern hit and a bunch of oldies-but-goldies.

A very ambitious action-RPG in The Witcher style, which sometimes convinces but in other aspects is still a bit immature.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is not an absolute disaster, but it fails to reach the same levels of the excellent adventures of the Batman: Arkham series. The third-person shooter developed by Rocksteady Studios is certainly fun (especially when played together), dynamic and chaotic, but except for a good but not excellent gameplay it does not have much to offer in terms of overall quality.

Stray Blade attempts to revamp the soulslike formula by focusing on a polished narrative, a close-knit pair of protagonists, a colourful and light game world and a potentially excellent combat-system. Not everything, however, worked as planned.

Skull and Bones proved to have a stable enough structure to stay afloat and not sink as long as the French publisher decides to support one of its most controversial projects ever. With more profound and enveloping gameplay, we would be talking about a worthy rival to Sea of Thieves. Still, Ubisoft Singapore's pirate-based adventure is just a decent video game experience more likely to be appreciated for the management aspect and the considerable amount of playable content.

Chibi-Robo doesn't make a good comeback with Zip Lash. The game has some good ideas... and that's it. Sometimes controls are dull and, despite the first levels actually are fun, in the long run it gets, unfortunately, monotonous.

An adventure with a strong emphasis on narrative, plagued by a far from optimal technical side but more engaging than you might believe.

Mario Party: The Top 100 is a game made with great diligence. Its party game nature, however, fails to take off and express itself fully, especially if you've played a lot of the mini-games re-proposed. Although it's a sort of mecum vate of the Nintendo saga, the game is very derived and essential, slipping too soon into oblivion.

Saint Seiya: Soldiers' Soul doesn't treat Masami Kurumada's saga fairly. Poor gameplay makes it a kinda tedious game and the graphic is sub-standard for a PlayStation 4 game. All the characters and their special moves are very well designed, though.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition is perfect for those who want to preserve the original game, but has too many elements that have aged badly.

The appeal of the Micro Machines franchise is hindered by the lack of a championship mode and the few cars and tracks available. Everyone who was, after so many years, waiting for a great new game of the saga, will be left disappointed.

A very simple and 'old school' platformer: not enough for the champs of the genres, but suitable for a 10-year old who wants to extend the movie experience. Nice looks and animations, too bad for some unforgivable frame rate problems on PS4.

Gods Will Fall tries to reinterpret the roguelike genre and some ideas show that the theoretical potential to do so is there, but the problem is that the technical structure ruins any good intuition (such as faulty AI). On the Switch, the rough controls also increase frustration.

Unfortunately the flaws found in gameplay (especially for the AI) penalize the final score, but thinking only two years ago about a 7 for an episode of the series was pure science fiction.

A game that tries too hard to be what it's not. A roguelike game trying to be a soulslike. Losing its identity, the result is simply a missed shot, nor good or bad enough to be worth remembering.

There is nothing of Ultima's original spirit in this Quest For Avatar. If you can survive to a (light) pay-to-win economy, network problems and technical issues, you may find a good RPG which can be played alone or with your friends.

An uninspired return, frantic and fun, but lacking the soul and depth that made the original Painkiller a cult game.

Under the fur of Schrödinger’s Cat And The Raiders Of The Lost Quark there's and old game, flawed by an unresponsive control scheme. Like the '90s, “it smells like teen spirits”: but the scent goes away quickly.

Asphalt Overdrive can entertain you for a few minutes, but is too soulless to impress.

Sonic Lost World on 3DS is a double faced beast: interesting and enjoyable at first, frustrating and boring later. Sometimes it's even difficult to understand what's happening on the screen, other times everything works as intended. Nothing less, nothing more.

The Inpatient is perhaps the first big disappointment of 2018, at least for VR enthusiasts. Great graphics and sound, but everything else leaves something to be desired.

Another bland metroidvania game with nothing particularly exciting to offer. There are too many great alternatives to give this one a shot.

Murdered: Soul Suspect discloses an interesting ghostly-noir soul and an original action-adventure detective body, but its investigations are too easy and their dynamics are too shallow to entertain for more than six, seven hours.

Mario Kart Tour is a well done experiment, fun to play and suitable game for players of all ages. The game itself is too expensive compared to the full console game, limited due to the absence of a multiplayer mode. Potentially, you will risk spending more to unlock all the Mario Kart Tour characters than you would spend buying a Nintendo Switch with Mario Kart 8, which should make both players and Nintendo think that the path taken is not the right one.

The truth is pretty simple: PlayStation VR Worlds should have been included for free along with every PlayStation VR unit sold in order to introduce people to the wonders of Virtual Reality. Under those conditions, this decent example of simple and disposable fun would have made a lot more sense (after all, as they say, "you shouldn't look a gift horse in the mouth"). At 39.99€ it becomes harder to recommend this hit & miss compilation.

Entwined is a shallow experiment, with dull mechanics and frustrating controls. Its somewhat luscious visuals simply aren't enough.

Nice setting and premise mostly wasted on a game that would have needed more development time and refinement to fulfill its potential.

A fun FPS coming from the mobile scene that gets a bit too repetitive a bit too early.

Diablo Immortal is a simplified and more accessible version of the series that can still provide hours of mindless fun and entertainment. Sadly, the games suffers in the long run because of all the tedious grinding and the greedy monetization system, making a game experience that starts as very enjoyable much less so as time goes on.

Anthem is an imperfect and evolving game, but if you are looking for a rewarding experience in terms of gunplay, fighting and settings, you will hardly be disappointed.

The updated pricing policies, along with the very good deckbuilding options, make this 2015 edition of the game a worth purchase for Magic The Gathering fans.