WILL: Follow the Light starts slow but ultimately represents an emotional, cathartic journey thick with sensitive themes, including grief and estrangement. It's not long, but the weight of the heartbreaking story is worth every penny.

Beethoven & Dinosaur's Mixtape is a deeply nostalgic, coming-of-age masterpiece that beautifully captures the emotional weight of three friends facing their last day of high school. Through its inventive gameplay, stop-motion-inspired visuals, and stellar soundtrack, it delivers a profound and unforgettable experience about growing up and the bittersweet nature of goodbyes.

Saros serves as an excellent spiritual successor to Returnal, delivering an intriguing cosmic horror journey combined with an addictive roguelite loop.

MOUSE: P.I. For Hire is a new IP shooter at a bargain price. It boasts a stunning rubber hose art style and bombastic soundtrack that compliments its fun level design and solid gunplay.

Marathon is a tense, addictive extraction shooter that pairs Bungie’s best-in-class gunplay with a rewarding progression loop that keeps you coming back for more. While it’s held back slightly by limited variety, its high-stakes design makes it one of the strongest entries in the genre.

Super Meat Boy 3D is equally addicting and infuriating, resulting in me swearing like a sailor but unable to tear myself away as I watched Super Meat Boy sliced, diced, and suffer repeated deaths as I worked tirelessly to finally overcome each level, but the sensory overload it brings with it can be too much at times.

With satisfying, yet challenging, parry combat, stunning visuals, and flexible skill builds, Solateria shows that there's still room for another standout must-play Metroidvania.

Sixteen years after the original game, Scott Pilgrim EX builds upon what made the first one so great. From challenging and unique boss fights to a fun story that fits in the Scott Pilgrim universe, this is a game that's not only a love-letter to the source material, but does a great job of standing out on its own.

MIO: Memories in Orbit stands out in a crowded field of Metroidvanias with beautiful art direction and an engaging narrative. The rewarding gameplay loop and amount of character upgrades provide plenty of replayability for the first standout indie game of 2026.

World War Z x The Walking Dead is a perfectly decent representation of the show's most iconic locations and characters, and at just $9.99, the hours you get to explore the DLC are more than enough and very entertaining.

I hope this is the moment where Team Ninja is finally acknowledged as not only a driving force in the Soulslike genre, but for its name to be ranked amongst the best. Nioh 3 is an unbelievable game from start to finish and excels in all aspects of game development.

HumanitZ is about as open, free, and brutal as it gets for a post-apocalyptic sandbox. The depth of this title is stunning, and anyone who loves an overwhelming zombie nightmare will probably fall in love with it, just as soon as they get to grips with the at-times complex mechanics. Every time you think you've learned everything about HumanitZ, something else is guaranteed to surprise you.