Fire Emblem Shadows is not only a poor Fire Emblem game, but also a game that isn’t very fun. The strategic possibilities during matches are reduced to a minimum, and even the investigative component, meant to uncover the team’s traitor, fails to trigger engaging dynamics.

Hotel Barcelona is unfortunately a big disappointment. Technically, it needs improvement, the plot and characters have nothing to say to us, and there is never that madness or strangeness that one would expect from Swery and Suda51. The gameplay is banal and gets in its own way with poor design choices or choices that cancel each other out, resulting in a linear roguelite that can be completed in 5 hours.

Simply one of the worst games ever made, in all of his glory.

MindsEye is a lesson for present and future game designers on everything not to do in a videogame: this game and it's making need to be studied tu understand how so many things can go wrong in one place.

Tron: Catalyst is, ultimately, this: a beautiful promise poorly fulfilled. Leave it in the metaverse.

Synduality Echo of Ada is a recipe for what not to do with a live service game: pay to win mechanics, artificial barriers and story content locked behind hours of grind.

Quotation forthcoming.

The PC version of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth adopts some bizarre solutions regarding the graphics settings and certain options are still missing, but in terms of performance the game already appears very well optimized and potentially scalable on different types of configurations...Of course, beyond the purely technical aspects there is the great substance of an adventure that will certainly be able to involve you for dozens and dozens of hours, thanks to an almost always brilliant narrative section, an even more exciting hybrid combat system and the charm of an open world full of things to do and see.

The Spirit of the Samurai is a project born from an aesthetic idea: creating a stop motion action game. However, this vision failed to translate into enjoyable gameplay, plagued by control issues, a combat system that never truly shines, and forgettable platforming sections.

Flint: Treasure of Oblivion is riddled with issues, particularly in its fundamental gameplay aspects.

Quotation forthcoming.

Squirrel with a Gun is a flawed game with some fun jokes and an abysmal gameplay.

Lightyear Frontier is a solid game already in Early Access, but still poor in content. A dozen hours or so are enough to get to the 'finale', but the problem is that the gameplay loop repeats itself too linearly, with no surprises or variations on the theme. It remains an enjoyable game for a few hours and absolutely succeeds in its intention of not being stressful, but those who are experts in the genre will find it too limited and may want to wait for a few more updates before approaching it. [Early Access Review Score = 65]

The Walking Dead: Destinies is a real disaster. Graphics, level design, combat system, game physics, it's hard to find anything that works as it should. The possibility of changing the story from that of the TV series is interesting, but this is not enough to recommend it to even the most die-hard fan of the brand.

It's unclear if Fntastic genuinely attempted to bring their dreams to life, paying the price for their inexperience, or if the project was conceived from the beginning as an asset flip. The game is simply terrible being poor in every of its aspects, although we can't deny that The Day Before, as many games released on Steam in early access, had an hidden potential. Unfortunately, we will never see it realized. [Early Access Score = 2/10]

All things considered, it's better to pretend that this game doesn't exist and go back to considering Fade to Black the official sequel to the first Flashback.

Gargoyles Remastered was a chance to improve on a game that was more beautiful to look at than to play through. Instead it's still beautiful to look at and even worse to play through.

Space Cats Tactics is clearly a project of a passionate person, but one who was unable to provide a sufficient product. The Kickstarter page shows how there were many other ideas that would perhaps have made the game a little deeper and more interesting, but the funds did not come through. The end result is a dull strategy game at the best of times and at the mercy of the randomness of enemy AI at the worst of times. Add in a few technical problems, an ignorable storyline, and an amateurish graphical presentation at various junctures, and we have on our hands a game that we just cannot recommend even to the biggest fan of the genre.

If it weren't for the combat system and all the other systems connected to it, Testament could have been interesting. It's a pity that fighting is the core of the experience (it will occupy more than 80% of the gameplay time), so you'll understand that we're not talking about a secondary issue that can be overlooked. However, resources don't seem to be lacking, in the sense that if it were modulated differently, it could have been an excellent independent title. It just needed to aim lower, avoiding getting entangled in trying to imitate models that are simply too advanced for it.

Mars First Logistics is a game with a clear idea and puts it across very well. It is designed for those who like to create, for those who are patient and don't mind a low paced adventure. It is never too complex and never too easy, although it is certainly not extremely varied either since you "only" have to lift and move from start to finish. Its Early Access nature also promises to expand an already adequate content package. [Early Access Score = 85]

Bum Simulator is a poorly executed and highly repetitive game that doesn't know what it wants to be. It feels like an accumulation of different elements added just for the sake of quantity, losing almost immediately all its potential and resulting in a mundane pursuit of patterns that one cannot afford to look at. Let it go.

NightCry controls are a mess, its graphics are outdated and the tension is broken by the monster spawn points. Remember the good old Clock Towers and forget this game.

There's little to be saved in Emoji Kart Racer: its very genre is somehow enjoyable, but the game does almost nothing right, in its uninspiring and bland design, further flawed by lack of modes.

ALTAIR BREAKER is a real disaster. From the level design and graphics to the difficulty level and online multiplayer, there is virtually nothing about this game that borders on sufficiency.

ONI: Road to be the Mightiest Oni has some good ideas at its core, but is not capable of bringing them forth in a constructive manner, being marred by repetitiveness in every aspect of its design. Even if Kisejima has a modest extension, KENEI DESIGN and SHUEISHA GAMES haven’t been able to build a lively and convincing setting, using abused tools, like invisible walls, to put on rails an experience that results underwhelming overall.

Ultimately, Wanted: Dead appears to be a frankly negligible game, which has the narrative side as its only reason of interest. Too bad, because when we started it for the first time we really hoped to find ourselves in front of a modern emulator of Ninja Gaiden, but as we played we ended up only wishing more and more intensely to get to the end as soon as possible to be able to use the uninstall function and forget it.

Trenches had all the potential to be scary and sobering with its setting and the structure of its gameplay but its developer failed almost everywhere it was possible to fail.

Colossal Cave reminded us of those fathers who, having found their old toy in the attic, repair it and clean it up and then give it to their children, who don't want to play with it.

When everything clicks, Gungrave GORE shows a bit of potential, due to the solidity and over the top coolness of the original formula. Unfortunately this happens rarely, due to some horrible level and encounter design, and unreliable game mechanics. Truly a missed occasion.

The Walking Dead seems an unusual inspiration for an idle RPG with gacha elements, but somehow it works. It's just an AFK Arena clone in its core mechanics, but its connection with the original comics, narrative and graphic-wise, can make it a good choice for the die hard TWD fan. Although it easily gets boring over time. [Provisional Score = 64]

Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising is a serious candidate for the worst game of the year.

Disney Dreamlight Valley is a life simulator with sandbox mechanics completely based on the Disney kingdoms. [Early Access Score = 80]

To be clear: the vote is on the work done with the Enhanced Edition, not on Blade Runner itself, which remains an excellent adventure, full of interesting ideas.

Lila's Sky Ark is a tiny, little game overflooded with problems. Narratively is not effective nor interesting, visually is bland and confusing. But the gameplay is the biggest flaw that affects this project by Monolith of Minds. It simply isn't entertaining to play nor engaging in any of its mechanics. Everything about this game feels stiff, chaotic and loose. In the end, the only thing that Lila's Sky Ark left us was just pure frustration.

Postal 4 doesn't disappoint expectations: those looking for gratuitous violence, vulgarity and bad taste satire will find bread for their teeth. Results that are obtained using the winning basis of the second episode, structured in five levels for as many days of the week: a little more originality would not have hurt. Unfortunately, the technical problems are too obvious to overshadow: poor optimization, graphics bordering on indecent and numerous bugs still make it look like an embryonic title, despite three years of development. Or maybe this was precisely the intention of the developers?

Sometimes devs must think more about players than themselves if they want to make a good game.

A bad conversion for a bad title.

With Capcom Arcade Stadium, thirty titles from the past are back, and in a truly unmissable package.

Cut the Rope Remastered is a great addition to the Apple Arcade line-up, a game that reinterprets the challenges of the classic episodes of the famous ZeptoLab series and therefore offers us a fun campaign, although a little short.

Mayhem in Single Valley is a botched adventure, lacking in playful ideas and too dense with narrative nonsense that is never hilarious or exciting.

Of Bird and Cage has only one problem: it is terribly done. Leave the poor Gitta alone with her misery.

Katana Kata is not a good souls-like, at least on the Nintendo Switch.

Super Seducer 3: The Final Seduction is a joke no one finds funny anymore.

Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and PS4 Pro is simply a mess.

Remothered: Broken Porcelain is simply broken. Do you a favor and don't waste your money on it.

The need to have a console and a kart for each of the players makes the multiplayer experience expensive and exclusive, and we really wonder how many will have the opportunity to share it with a friend or another family member. From this point of view, the ability to pass the console and take turns in Timed mode is just a meager sop.

Too unpolished to be really enjoyable.

TMNT: Mutant Madness is a very simple gacha game with an almost completely automated gameplay that becomes repetitive very soon.

Fast & Furious Crossroads is an arcade racing game characterized by a plot perfectly in line with the movies of the series and a nice cast of actors, but everything else is disappointing.

Skater XL is little more than a technical demo, a draft game with a control system with good potential.

One-Punch Man: Road to Hero 2.0 represents in many ways what is wrong with gacha games on mobile.

Too many expectations that the game can't deliver.

A strange mix between realism and arcade that simply doesn’t work.

Speaking Simulator talks only with itself, saying the wrong things.

Rune 2 is an incomplete game and a sad end to the Human Head Studios story.

It's time to flush the toilet.

Although visually impressive and vibrant with colors and fanservice, Kill la Kill: IF is a serviceable arena fighter with a lacking roster, a short campaign and zero depth.

Mirador is an incomplete and not fun game, both because of the high level of difficulty and the lack of responsiveness of the commands, and because of the absolute lack of progression in character development.

Swag and Sorcery tries to take the Punch Club formula to the extreme, but without succeding.

Left Alive is a disaster by all points of view. Worst AI in over a decade and a boring gameplay with awful stealth phases and inconsistent shooting system.

Car Mechanic Simulator on Nintendo Switch cannot be compared to its PC version. It is just a porting from the mobile version, which can be freely downloaded on both Android and iOS.

Vane is an utterly disappointing debut from Friend & Foe: a cryptic adventure that tries to hide behind an evocative graphic style some severe game design issues. A boring, slow, irritating and ultimately forgettable experience.

Cabela’s Hunt is a really simple hunting game, too simple to add something significant to the hunting genre or the Switch library.

Jagged Alliance: Rage! is a mobile game dressed like a PC game. Simply, is not a Jagged Alliance.

The Quiet Man is a disaster. Period.

Apparition is the classic horror game made for let's play and streaming.

From the Ashes is superfluous, a lazy addition without any impact on the gameplay of Kingdom Come: Deliverance.

New Gundam Breaker builds on some awesome ideas one of the worst action games we ever played. Controls feel unresponsive and clunky, therefore playing any combat mission is a chore and the predictable and poorly written story doesn't help at all.

Agony represents everything that a horror videogame should never become.

Wild West Online is a complete mess. Don't buy it.

When someone will develop a game called Milky Boobs, we will review it with pleasure.

Saint Seiya: Cosmo Fantasy rarely works and when it does it becomes an underwhelming and generic gacha game with some pretty visuals and scores.

Too many jump scares and too little narrative make Don’t Knock Twice predictable and boring.

More a reskin of a typical MZ production, Final Fantasy XV: A New Empire is a strategic pay-to-win that actually doesn't do a good service to the brand.

Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator becomes boring after thirty minutes… Surely more than your CPU running it.

Stay! Stay! Democratic People's Republic of Korea! is a visual novel centers on a lot of stereotypes, with predictable dialogues and a banal story. Worst of all, it fails his main goal: to do satire.

Inner Chains is a title that you would expect to find in Early Access, given the many issues that affect it.

What’s Under Your Blanket 2!? is like What’s Under Your Blanket. Period.

Troll and I is full of good ideas, but poorly executed.

Feminazi: The Triggering is the perfect 4Chan son.

John Wick Chronicles is another VR shooter you can complete in less than an hour. After you have spent 20$!

Bloody Boobs is garbage. Don’t buy it.

Quotation forthcoming.

Shadows of Kurgansk offers nothing new in the survival genre.

Post Brutal delivers an outdated, cumbersome action RPG experience.

RollerCoaster Tycoon World is a mess. Buy and play Planet Coaster instead. 

You can hardly call PlayStation VR Worlds a complete game. It is much like a collection of five tech demos, but they are expansive and only one or two of them might be worth your time.

Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade is like a derailed train: it could be a masterpiece, but actually it's only a terrible arena shooter.

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 is better than the first episode and it's still a fun game to play, but the port suffers from several issues.

Want to see what's wrong with movie tie-ins? Play this game. It's a boring, badly written, repetitive and uninspired mess, sold at an high price. Forget about it, and forget about the fact that the name "Ghostbusters" is written on the cover.

Dino Dini's Kick Off Revival is probably one of the worst PS4 games ever. The controls are awful, the bugs are everywhere and you can play only friendly matches and European Championship. Do not buy this game.

Umbrella Corps is a mediocre shooter, with several issues in terms of balance, gameplay and modes.

Dull, trivial and full of questionable design choices and technical problems. Its dark and nonsense humour may be very amusing, but otherwise escape Coffin Dodgers as it was Death itself.

Quotation forthcoming.

Nice graphics aside, Marvel Avengers Academy is an average casual game, with boring mechanics and too many paywalls.

What's under your blanket !? is... What's under your blanket !? is... crap, and nothing more.

Despite the steep price and the change in visuals which won't appeal everybody, Final Fantasy VI is a great JRPG and still one of the best ever made. Too bad this release is flawed by annoying bugs, counterintuitive options and poor coding.

A good Master knows when to ignore the dice for the sake of the game. Cardinal Pixel does not.