The colorful world of Splatoon is back with a sequel that neither disappoints nor surprises, while continuing to be irresistible.

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

Destroy All Humans! 2 Reprobed is exactly what we expected it to be. A totally crazy action shooter title that follows in the footsteps of the remake of two years ago. A few has changed, something has been optimized and there remains the madness and the story of a saga that has been able to mark a generation and which still maintains its user base, welcoming even some new fans.

SD Gundam Battle Alliance is a fun little game with an intriguing battle system and tons of fanservice.

Quotation forthcoming.

The Smash Bros formula finds an addictive application on the LEGO world, and the use of mini figures as customizable fighters is clever, but LEGO Brawls is far from the depth and richness of Nintendo's title gameplay.

https://multiplayer.it/recensioni/gerda-a-flame-in-winter-recensione.html Gerda A Flame in Winter is an interesting and well-written graphic adventure that takes us to one of the lesser-known and lesser-treated World War II fronts in the video game market. Its only limitations are basic animations and a not particularly long running time, but these are elements that may go by the wayside given the overall quality of the narrative and the variety of situations we will encounter.

A mix between Animal Crossing and Pokémon finally arrives on PC, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One.

Tinykin is a platformer suitable for everyone. It entertains with its cheerfulness and simplicity, has a good pace, and immerses us in a small world characterized by a pleasant style. There is never a real flicker that makes it unique and the difficulty level is very low, but if you are a fan of 3D platformers full of collectibles Tinykin will be able to give you five or six hours of healthy entertainment.

Pac-Man returns in its first 3D platformer, with a very faithful remake of the original one.

The Last of Us Part 1 goes far beyond the sterile debate about the price and the real nature of this remake. The work done by Naughty Dog is majestic and involves every single aspect of the game: from the combat to the artificial intelligence, passing through the enemies and every single menu and interface on the screen. And as if this were not enough, the new technical aspect is stunning, reaching peaks, especially for what concerns the faces and the facial animations, which still today we do not find in other videogame productions.

Lost in Play is a good adventure with a great style and whimsical, sometimes dreamlike and always humorous tone. It is quite short and not so challenging, but it's surely an experience to be remembered.

It is no longer a nostalgia operation: this is a modern, depth, accessible, captivating, fun, creative, joyful management game in every aspect. Awesome.

Expectations were high for the new F1 management game, but they were only partially met. F1 Manager 2022 is a good starting point to work on (the developer has acquired a four-year license), but still decidedly immature in content, especially as regards the more strictly managerial part.

Immortality is a masterpiece capable of involving and upsetting the player in more than one moment. It is a strong video game, full of surprises and interesting themes, capable of overturning at the right moment to drag you into a successful positive spiral of research and discovery, which brings the brain and emotions into play. It is also one of the works that best manages to play with the filmed sequences, transforming the player into an editor / investigator through a simple and natural interface, very comfortable both using a mouse and keyboard, and with a controller. The conclusion is: what are you still doing here?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is aimed at a potentially huge audience, given the extraordinary success of the Ninja Turtles in the early 90s, but it inevitably remains a product that only nostalgics will truly appreciate.

Survivor!.io is an undoubtedly interesting single stick shooter, with lots of enemies and upgrades to unlock, but it's also a bit too hard since the very first stage and the many microtransactions suggest it can quickly become a pay-to-win experience.

Mothmen 1986 is short and not very intense. It tries to open some questions, but who cares about the answers?

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a quality life-sim role-playing game with plenty of events, endings, and adventures to enjoy. Visually enchanting and musically inspired and varied, the journey devised by Northway Games is an adventure that enthralls. The only unsurprising element is the card game, great for breaking up the pace but less profound than we would have hoped.

Dusk Diver 2 is a solid game that excels in nothing: it follows every path already explored by other games, adding some mediocre values to the sum. Not bad, but neither remarkable.

Jetpack Joyride 2 is no longer endless nor ruthless: this new episode in the blockbuster series takes the original formula and delivers a different experience.

Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation is a little gem, capable of taking the player to a deliciously recreated Japanese little town in the countryside. Despite some minor flaws, a happy and timeless adventure awaits Shin-chan.

An extremely valid experiment that has the potential to change the fighting game landscape with its approach to monetization and updates. Hard to say if it will have the necessary staying power, but, as of now, it's certainly a deserved success.

Saints Row returns with an unambitious, but certainly fun reboot. The claims are few and the results reflect this aspect. It does not stand out in any aspect, but it could satisfy the hunger for free roaming for those players who still enjoy playing GTA back twenty years.

Red Matter 2 is the new technical standard in VR game development on Meta Quest 2. Puzzles are engaging and never frustrating, dialogues are well acted; very much welcome the addition of action phases. Too bad about the movement system, on which there are some problems.

Kirby’s Dream Buffet racing part is really fun, and the game has good controls and engine. Even the graphics, and the courses full of food, are really nice. Sadly, it has not have enough content or sections to keep your interest in the long term.

The best kayaking simulation around, but far from the best it could be.

Cursed to Golf will make you sweat, bewitching you with its pixel art, surrounding you with its irony and then annihilating you with its lack of permissiveness. If you want to try to dominate the cursed fields of the Purgatory of Golf, arm yourself with patience and time, if instead you think that your life has already given you excessive stress then maybe you should not look at the original interpretation of Chuhai Labs of the noble sport.

The main problems of Midnight Fight Express are essentially two, namely that the goodness of the game system ends up being penalized by some design choices, which ruin some moments of the experience, and that the combat system in some situations does not seem to withstand the title ambitions.

Soul Hackers 2 is a solid JRPG with much less character than it looks.

The We Are OFK team packs a story capable of catalyzing players' empathy and making them reflect on contemporary anxieties, our permanent connection to technological devices, and the need to open our hearts and find understanding from others.

Timothy and the Tower of Mu is a 2D hardcore action-platform game with old style gameplay. The art work is excellent, but there are issues with difficulty management and platforming mechanics that aren't always smooth.

Rollerdrome is a good experiment by Roll7. It's technical, challenging and it has lots of style. A bit more variety and polished controls would have been great.

Thymesia falls into that bracket of indie souls-like games that fail to fully convince. It knows how to entertain and, fortunately, the combat system has its own distinct identity, more original than many other experiments released in recent years. At the same time it is a game with few areas, few enemy types, and a difficulty level that should be slightly refined. The visual presentation is also far from refined. Fans of the genre might give it a chance, without too much of a rush.

Few games can be intuitive and addictive like Bomberman, and its core gameplay is still intact and enjoyable, but this Amazing Bomberman is not the best interpretation of the classic.

Overall we liked Cult of the Lamb very much, despite having found some critical issues on the side of representation, in particular that of the management systems of the sect.

Marvel's Spider-Man is a spectacular and engaging action game, characterized by a perhaps derivative but solid and fun gameplay, an excellent rendering of web swinging, wonderful graphics and many characters and surprises. However, right now the PC version is not as well optimized as we hoped it would be.

Digimon Survive brings back the digital monsters, in a curious hybrid between visual novel and turn-based combat system.

Hard West 2 is a very solid and challenging turn-based strategy game, characterized by a beautiful story and some interesting adventure elements. That said, the difficulty level can be too hard, forcing you to proceed through a thousand trials and errors.

Quotation forthcoming.

Hindsight is not your average narrative adventure. From the visuals, resembling the incompleteness of personal memories and rememberings, to the sound, vibrating during the whole story with perfectly cadence rhythm, everything here feels methodically thought through. And that is not something you see everyday in the contemporary video game industry.

Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent manages to bring a classical JRPG into the gacha realm with a convincing solution, between story and character management. Its combat system remains deep and strategic, although the distortions of this mobile genre comes into play after a while.

HEROish offers a pleasant mix of mechanics, putting together a MOBA-like structure with three different campaigns and a strategic gameplay based on upgradeable cards and characters.

South of the Circle is as good a game today as it was years ago. The PC version improves the graphics slightly and is perfectly playable even without the use of the touch screen or "the mobile approach." It can be played in small bites or as a movie to be completed in one or two evenings. If you do not have access to Apple Arcade and have yet to try State of Play's narrative adventure, you now have no excuse. Avoid it only if you can't stand limited gameplay or if you want every single choice to have a huge impact on the scenes and plot.

Sufficient presentation, good story and some weird twist make Yurukill an experience worth its time for graphic novel fans. For all the others, its structure and boring shoot-em-up sections are not worth your time.

We're getting used to it, but Capcom deserves our praise once more: Sunbreak is an exceptional expansion that brilliantly tackles most of what was criticized by the community in the base game. We loved every minute of it.

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 starts slow and shy but then bursts into one of the finest JRPG experiences we ever had the pleasure to enjoy.

Subway Surfers Tag is an immediate and fun action game, which takes the characters and style of one of the most successful endless runners ever to put them to a different context, halfway between a skate park and a shooter.

XEL is a passion project from the Tiny Road team, to be sure. It reprises the basic features of Zelda-like games, but it struggles to give character to the game, which feels clunky and often too slow. Then add up the graphical and performance problems, and what remains is a title that we struggle to recommend even to fans of the genre.

Forza Horizon 5: Hot Wheels offers a thrilling racing experience, thanks to its tracks full of stunts and dangerous loops. The cars inspired by the famous toy brand aren't a lot, but each of them is an amazing replica of its smallest version.

It's clearly just a Fall Guys clone, but it fits in the free spaces left by the Mediatonic game, offering its entertaining gameplay on mobile and Steam.

Endling is a pure gem, one that is hard to find in the gaming industry. It does not only confront a delicate and deeply topical theme with grace and respect, but it also delivers a quintessential adventure, both ludically and visually. Basically, it is one of those experiences that you don't want to miss.

Live A Live is an excellent HD-2D remake on its own but it often feels out of time.

There is a line, an imaginary line that crosses the process of creation. The aim of the creator is to stop right on that boundary. Stopping too soon would mean a lack of faith in the project; too late, an excess of confidence. Eyes in the Dark was so close to stopping on that line, but it has indeed overshot it, even if not that much. This doesn't mean that the work of the Under The Stairs team isn't worth a dime. The complete opposite. Their aim has to be adjusted, but the track is the right one.

If you are looking for a truly fun game that can keep you busy for two or three evenings, especially in the company of a friend, you will probably find it in Escape Academy.

Retrogaming is back in charge with a new, very rich bundle prepared by Capcom.

Stray is a small pearl, an adventure that delivers truly suggestive sequences and a fascinating story, which rests on the solid foundations of a very well written lore. Of course, just like a stray cat the game happens to get scared for every little jolt, so the team created a comfortable bubble giving up to fully express its potential.

Frozenheim may not be the new shining star of the city builder genre, but surely is capable of standing still in a highly saturated market.

The first book of As Dusk Falls is compelling, fast and breathtaking, while the second loses all the pace that the story had built up to that point. A great wasted opportunity, for an interactive drama with a lot of good ideas.

Phobia - St. Dinfna Hotel is an excellent survival horror, clearly influenced by Resident Evil and Outlast.

Havsala: Into the Soul Palace is a simple investigative puzzle game that delivers a really good philosophic and narrative experience, despite being a little too short with no playability after the first run.

MADiSON is a good horror title, especially thanks to its never banal puzzles, which recall those of classic graphic adventures, rather than Amnesia titles.

Relaxing, fun and with that pinch of madness that should never be missing, Powerwash Simulator is one of those surprise video games you never expected to love.

To ensure the sufficiency of the title of Torus Games there is the game system that remains well-grounded in concepts and sufficiently malleable to let you play. All the rest, however, is a series of stumbles and falls of style that find very little explanation. Not only an unjustifiable lack of content, but above all a little attention to detail that displaces those who are in front of it.

Klonoa returns from the past and re-proposes the two titles of the series in a more than dignified remaster.

Quotation forthcoming.

Gwent: Rogue Mage is the perfect example of how to reinvent yourself in an effective way. The playing card strategy game from the Witcher saga, even after all this time and variations, is still capable of holding on. A bit of variety in situations and encounters would not have damaged the experience, but the overall result is a well crafted experiment.

Crowns and Pawns Kingdom of Deceit is a great graphic adventure. It has such a classic setting that it is almost tender, but proudly shows its nature.

Arcadegeddon is a third-person shooter with a great gunplay, and even if it's designed for a 4 players co-op, without a gripping storyline, struggles to really engage its players.

eFootball 2022 doesn't bring the improvements we hoped to see on iOS and Android, to say the least. The game feels slow, unresponsive and cumbersome with both control layouts.

With plenty of new content and many connections with the movie, Dominion Biosyn Expansion is a good addition to Jurassic World Evolution 2, although it doesn't bring anything totally new to the formula.

The Elder Scrolls Online High Isle introduces lots of new content, a new trial and a great card game, but with a community in dire need of new endgame content, it might not be enough.

Outriders Worldslayer is the expansion we all expected. It does not upset the cards on the table, it adds a bunch of campaign hours, an important amount of new loot and even a deeper lore and rpg section.

Air Twister delivers a pretty bizarre experience: the game is a spiritual sequel to Space Harrier with challenging gameplay and some interesting roguelike elements, but also cumbersome touch controls and a rock opera soundtrack that feels out of place most of the time.

Diablo Immortal is an excellent game which raises the bar of mobile action RPGs and will hardly be surpassed. At the same time, however, it comes with some aggressive free-to-play mechanics that on the one hand are not going to bother your progression in the campaign, and on the other hand will limit everything related to looting.

From Ojiro Fumoto comes a strange action platform that seems to overturn Downwell's structure but resulting in a gameplay that works similarly fine, maybe even better, to some extent.

Whoever has loved Cuphead has to play Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course: it's more of the same gameplay, but a beautiful one.

The nostalgia operation is definitely successful with this Capcom Fighting Collection. Thanks to a granite netcode rollback, a very functional practical mode, a range of titles between more and less known and a stable frame rate, we are in front of an excellent product.

A spectacularly excessive fighting game, with one of the craziest rosters in recent memory. This is truly a fun one for any aficionado of the genre, but, considering the way the defensive mechanics work, some powerhouses among the fighters might "break" the balancing a bit too much for our tastes, even if the overall system is more contained than it seems.

Building a mobile RPG with gacha elements on Disney universe (or metaverse) is surely a clever idea and Disney Mirrorverse plays very well in the action sections, but it's still just another gacha game, with the classic predatory monetization and overly complicated progression system.

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.

With the major changes to the sport rules and the beginning of the "new era of Formula 1" we expected more from this game. Despite this, F1 22 is still the best game for Formula 1 enthusiasts.

Sonic Origins undoubtedly stands as the best collection of the SEGA series, thanks to a solid and careful remastering work, which enhances the original charm of the various episodes and the wonderful level design of some scenarios in particular, bringing us back to those summer days with the Mega Drive, a long time ago.

Disgaea 6 is a masterful turn based RPG with a few interesting features that lacks visuals and narrative.

A one-of-a-kind game, a fantasy simulator like no other. However, he deserved a few more ideas to give more variety to the gameplay, and a better storyline.

Back to its roots, Cooking Mama: Cuisine is just a simple cooking simulation, composed of a series of mini-game that could also teach you something about recipes.

Catalyst Black is a brilliant mix between some typical aspects of MOBAs and competitive twin stick shooter mechanics, characterized by (almost) perfect touch controls and a very interesting progression system, which gradually unlocks weapons, objects, resources and content, allowing us to slowly access all the modes the game has to offer.

Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes is a faithful musou reimagining of the beloved strategy RPG with unique twists to the narrative that make it worthwhile to be played by fans and newcomers alike.

Redout 2 is designed for hardcore gamers, who will be able to reach satisfactions thanks to the improvement of physics and the implementation of a control system which, despite being complex, allow to master all the necessary movements. The offer is much richer and has tangible visual improvements, even if some aspects deserve to be refined. All the newbies are warned: Redout 2 is difficult and far from accessible.

Gordian Quest takes the classic deck building mechanics, offering multiple content and different modes. One of its strengths is variety, both in terms of mechanics and in terms of heroes and decks to use. It is not a revolutionary game, but it is for sure a game that can entertain for a long time.

Frogger and the Rumbling Ruins is a clever comeback of an ancient classic, totally revised. Its puzzle structure is simple but quite flawless and can stand for a while, although it tends to be a little repetitive in the long run.

We loved Starship Troopers: Terran Command, despite some limitations in the campaign. It is completely focused on the single player, a rarity these days.

Neon White is a fun, immediate but challenging game with perfect design. The plot is enjoyable and dances between comic and dramatic, always proving interesting.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is passionate tribute to an era that has given so much to the video games imaginary, and the end result is a colorful and fun side-scrolling beat 'em up that gives its absolute best when played with friends.

The Quarry is a good interactive movie. Sadly we were expecting something more playable.

Apex Legends is a complex game to transport to smartphones, yet Respawn Entertainment has succeeded: Apex Legends Mobile it isn't perfect, it remains an interesting and original stand-alone product.

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba - The Hinokami Chronicles for Nintendo Switch is as an extremely faithful tie-in to the original anime, thanks to excellent cel-shaded graphics that gives the best during the cutscenes. The combat system is nice and the Versus mode can count on a few more characters, but the campaign remains a missed opportunity.

Mario Strikers: Battle League Football gloriously mixes football and side-scrolling beat’em up mechanics: it’s fun and deep. The low numbers of modalities and characters, and the uncertainties in the through balls, prevent it from reaching excellence. For sure, with Mario Tennis Aces, it’s the best Mario Sports game of the HD era.