Dorfromantik offers a relaxing and artistic experience that can be turned into a strategic challenge where every move must be calculated to the millimeter. Each player can choose how to approach the experience. The gameplay exhausts its novelties quickly, but Toukana Interactive's game should not be calculated in hours needed to complete it, so much as in stress relief.

Badland Party still has sparks of the old magic: even if it's something like a more of the same and its innovations are not so meaningful, there's always space for this well-crafted gameplay.

Procedurality and Lovecraft are two words that we never expected to come to life together, yet the three guys from Carry Castle did.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt is a pleasant and interesting battle royale, with some original ideas (classes, powers, civilians to bite) and an extremely dynamic gameplay.

Eiyuden Chronicle: Rising is better than we expected but a rough combat system and the sheer repetitiveness of the gameplay loop make for a half baked appetizer while waiting for the first course Hundred Heroes will be.

This War of Mine: Final Cut closes an important path for 11 bit studios and does so at the most appropriate time, when it's really important to raise awareness of what war really means for ordinary people. From this point of view, the game still does its job very well and the three extra stories add further narrative depth to the package, which however remains designed for mouse and therefore turns out to be rather cumbersome when playing with a controller.

Yoku's Island Express proves that platforms, and even metroidvanias, can find new ways adding unusual elements to the gameplay with strange and unique mix of characteristics. In this case, the strange blend of platform, adventure and flipper results in an amazing design.

Salt and Sacrifice is a game that blends several genres, but ultimately fails to make the best of any of them. It won't satisfy fans of the first game and probably not even those looking for something different.

There's still magic in the Mana series, and a spark of this is visible also in a mobile gacha RPG like Echoes of Mana. Its characterization and atmosphere are the driving force of this game, that otherwise, gameplay-wise, brings absolutely nothing new to the table.

King Arthur: Knight's Tale is an excellent strategic role-playing game, with many winning features, such as the setting and the combat system, which fortunately the flaws, while present, fail to nullify. Of course, we would have liked a few more interactions in the exploration phases, as well as a more balanced management of progression, but you can't have it all.

Trek to Yomi is a good game. He wisely mixes action combat and exploration. Too bad for some ingenuity that often makes it not very user friendly and which all seem to derive more from inexperience than from lack of time. If you are a lover of Japanese folklore and culture you will still have something to eat.

Warhammer 40,000: Chaos Gate - Daemonhunters is definitely a title recommended to all those who appreciate the revived formula from the XCOM series reboot of Firaxis, despite having a more rigid campaign structure.

An absolutely brilliant roguelite that takes the gameplay loop from the original game and utterly perfects it, taking notes from some of the best indie games around. A must have for any fan of the genre.

The technical problems that surround Loot River are undeniable. Yet, it is fascinating how we keep thinking about getting back in those flooded corridors as soon as possible. Facing a game that forces you to restart your run because the boss got stuck between platforms and now is, somehow, invincible, one would think that that game will be soon uninstalled. Yet, perfection is overvalued nowadays. We prefer those who dare.

Bakery Simulator is a simple game, even too simple. The gameplay loop is quick, but limited by trivial mini-games and as you continue through the game you find yourself playing less and less, with many steps automated by the machinery you purchase. The progression is fast, but linear and the content is exhausted within a few hours and even before you get to the "final" you find yourself deeply bored. Add to that a few technical, visual and textual problems and you've got a game that even die-hard fans of job simulators and baking won't find much to enjoy.

Ultra Age, if considered as the sum of its parts, is a mediocre game. Limited graphics, forgettable storyline, support systems with little impact or poorly managed, limited longevity and poor replayability: there is much that does not impress, but in the midst of all this we find a pleasant combat system that can give a few hours of fun if you want an action game not too technical.

Nintendo Switch Sports is really fun, with good motion controls, and it can entertain anyone, from the beginners to the hardcore gamers. Anyway, if you don't have someone to play it in multiplayer offline, it isn't deep enough to last long. More contents and - maybe - sports will be added in the future.

Moonshot takes a classic formula and enriches it with tons of contents and variables, all with an enjoyable aesthetic. In the end it's nothing new, but presented in a pleasing - although repetitive - way.

Kaiju Wars is a strategy game with a strong personality and a traditional but captivating gameplay, with some tower defense elements and a balance that in some cases seems perhaps too ruthless.

We felt like real entrepreneurs, those who sacrifice everything for the well-being of their company, even their private life, and we began to reflect on reality, asking ourselves where we are located in the food chain and if, in the end, we are on the side of those who mince, or on the side of those who are minced. The fact that in the meantime we continued to turn the handle of the meat grinder without giving it much attention was a pleasantly revealing response.

Galactic Civilizations 4 is a good strategy game made by someone who knows how to handle the genre. Too bad that in some cases he has fallen victim to his own ambitions.

MotoGP 22 introduces the excellent NINE Season 2009, a narrative-based story mode finally able to characterize the game, and delivers an even more simulative gameplay that requires a certain commitment by the players.

Ganryu 2 is a good game that looks at the past without pretending to surpass it.

Crimesight is a sort of multi-player chess game. The presentation is nice, the soundtrack catchy, and the ideas behind the gameplay work. This is not a game of deduction, mind you, so much as it is a game of strategy. It is easy to approach but becoming a real detective will take several hours. Its main problem is that the contents are meager and in a few hours you've seen everything it has to offer. If you have a group of friends, however, it might be more interesting in the long run.

MLB The Show 2022 is one of the best sport simulations out there. Unfortunately, Sony San Diego is frozen in its classic scheme and its experience isn't easily accessible to new fans of the franchise.

Neptunia x Senran Kagura: Ninja Wars is a shallow action game which will appeal to the most visceral fans of these franchises.

Zombie Army 4: Dead War brings to Nintendo Switch some new features, introducing different playable characters, upgrades, special abilities and wider locations. The gyro controls are a welcome extra, but from a technical standpoint the game really struggles.

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.

Gear.Club Stradale is a visually stunning racer, packed with a very pleasant simcade-style driving model if you play using a controller. Unfortunately the game looks like a freemium focused on grinding rather than a premium title designed for Apple Arcade, there is no real career mode or multiplayer, while touch and tilt controls fail to deliver.

Revita is a truly inspired and interesting roguelike, characterized by a very pleasant pixel art and a valuable soundtrack. However, what really stands out about this game is the focus on the peculiar balance between upgrades and health, and also the many enemies and different bosses you'll encounter during each run.

Winter Ember is a game with nice ideas, but it is blocked by many small problems. The control system is always awkward, especially with the controller, and the combat system should be completely overhauled. The storyline is enjoyable and will push many to make it through to the finale, helped by a well-crafted area design, but limited by a too-close view.

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?

After many months, eFootball 2022 is still an empty shell. The package is more refined, the gameplay is solid, but it has very limited options both in and out of the field.

Total War: Medieval 2 is undoubtedly a classic and is still able to offer an interesting experience, full of depth and facets. However the game is unplayable on smartphones due to the too small screen and turns out to be pleasant on tablets only, especially if you play it with a mouse and a keyboard.

Slipstream is a nice homage to the Out Run series: almost perfect to play in portability on Nintendo Switch, wearing a pair of headphones to fully enjoy its captivating soundtrack.

Many of the games in Taito Milestones can be quite interesting, in terms of historical and nostalgic values, but as a collection, this pack is a little too bare-bones.

Coromon is a title full of interesting ideas. Its classic and celebratory setting of the genre it belongs to, hides a substrate of originality that makes the title a valid experience for all fans. The Coromons do not exude charm and peculiarities on all sides, but the set of secondary missions, narrative and team building possibilities greatly increase the overall value of the work.

Quotation forthcoming.

The House of the Dead Remake is back, but it seems that the old charm has been lost.

Patrick's Parabox is brilliant, there's no other way to say it. It starts with a small idea and expands it again and again, mixing each new insight with the previous one to create larger and larger and more interesting puzzles. It offers lots of content, administered quickly to the player, with lots of optional levels, allowing the more experienced to test themselves and those who struggle a bit more to advance by completing only the easier sections.

Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition is a good remaster of a very divisive JRPG, but perhaps it would have been better playing Chrono Trigger again instead of the Radical Dreamers visual novel.

Fun, charming and well built, Moss: Book 2 is an example on how a specialized VR development team should work in bringing a fairytale to virtual reality.

Forgive Me Father is not a bad game and knows how to give good moments, which will surely be appreciated by fans of the genre to which it belongs, that of vintage first-person shooters. Too bad that the many ingenuities of the development team are evident, which failed to avoid some design shortcuts or the use of some not-so-exceptional gimmicks to put the player in difficulty. All in all, you might tolerate them, but they certainly keep them from excelling.

Thanks to a great story and characters, this port of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim for Nintendo Switch is a great one that will surely boost sales of this Japanese jewel.

Terrorbane is a brilliant video game in which bugs help the player to complete his mission.

TT Games has really delivered its best LEGO game to date. A few technical nuisances notwithstanding, the sheer amount of collectibles and gameplay dynamics make LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga a brilliant entry in the long loved franchise.

The Kaito Files delivers a pleasant and engaging adventure, which fans of the SEGA series should certainly play even just for its narrative implications. However, the expansion only uses the Kamurocho map and it's pretty short for the price asked.

Ikai is a travel in medieval Japan that tries to emulate the horror of Amnesia. It is the celebration of a passion, more than an interesting point of view on the world it would like to represent.

Weird West's fascinating universe isn't enough to cover its many flaws. While the sheer chaos of certain situations is fun, the game has clear balancing and structural problems, aggravated by bad AI and other technical problems. A pity, because the potential for an indie pearl was definitely there, and it remains a positive experience even with all its fallacies.

A Musical Story is a mesmerizing audiovisual experience. Even if not completely capable of involving us in its narration, we were constantly struck by the world it is capable not only to create, but also to recall.

Norco is a beautiful adventure: graphically it is presented in excellent pixel art, composed with extreme taste.

Crusader Kings lands on console in great shape and with all the contents, offering the same formula that has already won over millions of PC gamers. Simply a masterpiece.

Expedition Zero offers an interesting setting, but also some extremely dated mechanics, an outdated interface and an abundance of technical flaws that undermine the experience from the very beginning.

CRYSTAR is certainly a fascinating video game. Now it arrives on Nintendo Switch, enriching itself with the portable mode.

ANNO: Mutationem is the classic half-baked cake: excellent in its premises, flawless in some aspects, but weak in others.

Trivial Pursuit Live! 2 is a good game, but only because it is exactly like the first one, just with a "2" at the end. It offers nothing new apart from a more focused personalization system and a partnership with Twitch that allows streamers to play with their community and vice versa. It will certainly amuse newcomers, but Live!'s "veteran" players will just experience a déjà vu.

Tiny Tina's Wonderlands is basically everything that awaits us from the game. Fun, over the top and crazy. What struck us, however, is that it proves to be even a little bit more. Especially where it deviates the path, inserting the overworld with all its facets and adding the double-class on a single character, it almost tries to overtake Borderlands 3. Success and the passage of time will tell us if it was true. What is certain is that the potential and the fun are always there.

Carefully crafted and full of surprises and quirks, Kirby and the forgotten land is easily the best adventure in the series to date.

Ghostwire Tokyo is a good game, with an interesting combat system and a very peculiar atmosphere, enclosed in a bland open world. We would have gladly preferred a smaller/linear map in exchange for more interesting contents and missions. Luckily, cast and main missions won't disappoint those looking for a fun weird story full of phantoms and shinto stuff.

.Hack//G.U. Last Recode arrives on Nintendo Switch with a porting that changes nothing compared to that of almost five years ago, but which equally does not sacrifice anything of the experience. If you are willing to spend a few dollars more for the convenience of portability it could be the right time to spend about seventy hours of good old-fashioned entertainment.

Mini Basketball is an interesting arcade basketball in terms of structure, contents, upgrade system and the inevitable unpacking, but disappointing once you get on the court.

Made "by riders for riders", Shredders could be the Skate of snowboarding games. Its technical and more grounded approach to this sport makes it an original and interesting take.

Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster is the best version all around of a timeless classic.

Young Souls is an adventure that splits its time between brawler and RPG, with the latter part stifled, however, by the game's brevity and lack of balance. If you're interested in co-op play and you're into the more action-heavy side of things, then you might enjoy a good handful of hours with a friend.

Still a great anime fighter, with a brilliant combat system (made better by the latest "arcade" balancing patch). It's a pity it's launching with a delay based netcode, but we don't have to wait much for rollback, and this is a game that definitely deserves a revival.

In short, it was worth it to take on the role of Kate Walker again and greet Benoît Sokal with her.

Monster Energy Supercross - The Official Videogame 5 relies on a series that continues to show the same problems and which therefore makes them more annoying.

Tunic will appeal to all fans of The Legend of Zelda series, even if it lacks a bit of personality.

There's some very good old school gameplay in Infernax, something that doesn't want to just pander us with nostalgia, but to entertain and engage with challenges and simple yet well-thought game design.

If you are a 4x passionate player, you will struggle a little to get into the game, but then you will find yourself kidnapped for months in an exceptional experience in terms of the possibilities offered and general satisfaction.

We finally got to thoroughly test the particular Square Enix experiment in collaboration with Team Ninja. Despite some good ideas, Stranger of Paradise is a mediocre action game, not really inspired and with not in depth mechanics.

Even with its smart gameplay and its complex and fun systems, Phantom Breaker: Omnia can't really compete with some of the best fighting games around, due to the lack of rollback netcode and disappointing lack of modes. Seeing it finally come to the west is still good news, and we hope a decent community will form around the game anyways, but there are better options out there for fighting game fans at the moment.

WWE 2K22 delivers an improved, more refined experience than the previous episodes, while offering a huge roster and excellent graphics for most of the superstars. When it comes to game modes, however, the game feels cumbersome and outdated.

The Witch Queen is a masterful expansion. An almost totally perfect symphony played by an orchestra that seems to have finally found an optimal direction. Destiny 2 fans have something to rejoice, but above all to play, as the approach to Lightfall has just begun and we can't wait to find out what will be hiding in the upcoming seasons.

A return to form for Gran Turismo. After too many years, Polyphony Digital crafted an almost perfect iteration of Gran Turismo, where past and present blend together for an epic journey through the car culture.

Quotation forthcoming.

Babylon's Fall immediately went from a highly anticipated exclusive to a memorable disappointment: a shame, because it had good ideas.

The hybrid nature of Puzzle Quest 3 is still intact in its core gameplay: matching colors, fighting creatures and managing characters and builds is still enjoyable, but the free-to-play structure feels more like a regression than an evolution.

With its zen approach and unique style, Grand Mountain Adventure: Wonderlands is a beautiful immersion on snowy mountains, letting us breathe that atmosphere. As a game it has some flaws, that its price makes it hard to overcome, but this is a peculiar and fascinating experience.

Dawn of Ragnarok carries forward the post-launch support of Assassin's Creed Valhalla in an unprecedented way, with an apparently rich expansion that can be completed pretty quickly by focusing on the main missions. However, there's another thing: by tackling the package as an endgame content you'll be too powerful to give the right space to the new powers.

The Cruel King and the Great Hero is a wonderful adventure suitable for adults and children: a hand-drawn fairy tale.

EDENS ZERO Pocket Galaxy is a really nice tie-in, a full-bodied and ambitious project that incorporates the atmospheres and characters of Hiro Mashima's manga, following the same story through a modular campaign, with separate downloads, which is undoubtedly interesting and doesn't show excessive concessions to the free-to-play nature of the experience, at least in the early hours.

It is a very easy platform game which tells an exciting story setting in a vivid world full of fantastic gimmicks.

Mixing different styles like bullet hell shooter and RPG dungeon crawler is not something entirely new, but My Heroes Dungeon Raid still has a fresh and original tone. Nevertheless, its gameplay is flawed by a structure too based on grinding and some problems with the controls.

Hitman Sniper: The Shadows is a very nice shooter with stealth elements that requires precision, planning, adaptability and speed. Unfortunately, the free-to-play model appears to be a bit limiting and hits you with a paywall after just the first two chapters.

Triangle Strategy is a very good tactical JRPG for newcomers but a few nuisances prevent it from being truly excellent.

Chocobo GP is a well-designed racing game: pleasant to see, fun to play, with an excellent track design and at least two interesting ideas. We refer to the possibility of upgrading the weapons, which increases the strategic component of the race, and to the online elimination mode, which involves 64 players (also accessible through the Lite edition, free). The main limitations lie in the number of tracks (nine, excluding variants of the same) and in the multiplayer from the same system, limited to two users (we imagine for stability problems). In general, we would have wished for greater courage in detaching ourselves from Mario Kart: excluding the innovations already mentioned, every single element is translated from the Nintendo game. Which is richer, more beautiful and deeper in just about every aspect.

Gibbon: Beyond the Trees is a strange and fascinating experience, although a little short and simple as a game. Is commendable how Broken Rules succeeds in telling a deep and poignant story with ecological influences without using words but just with graphics and gameplay elements.

Conan Chop Chop does its duty: you can play it for a big bunch of hours enjoying the gameplay and the combat dynamics. It's not a revolution of the genre or an important evolution but playing it with some friends can be really fun.

Elex II is a classic Piranha Bytes RPG: clumsy, crude, imperfect, but full of virtues that will lead fans to overlook problems.

Shadow Warrior 3 delivers a frantic and spectacular but rather linear experience, which can be beaten quite quickly and doesn't feel special. Those who hoped for an evolution of the mechanics seen in Shadow Warrior 2 will be disappointed, while fans of traditional shooters could appreciate the new adventure of Lo Wang even in its absolute harmlessness.

Wylde Flowers is a life simulator with an edge: a simple and relaxing adventure that you can pull out whenever you have a few minutes to fill, carrying on the activities of Tara and her interactions with the people of Armònia.

Assetto Corsa Competizione on next-gen consoles delivers a great 60 FPS experience in 4K, maintaining its core physics which rules in the sim racing world.

Only apparently simple, Dungeons of Dreadrock is a well-thought game that stems from a smart design, looking at the classics but with a fresh spirit.

Lost Ark is probably the best free-to-play MMO you can play today. It has an addictive combat system and the campaign is extremely long and you can complete that with or without friends. The only problems come with the ending that appears too intricate and difficult to understand completely.

GRID Legends brings more content into its own funny arcade racing mix, but story mode is too linear to be entertaining, even if it's technically valid.

Gust and Koei Tecmo also this year delight us with the continuation of the adventures of Plachta and Sophie, this time lost within a magical realm dominated by dreams.

Martha is Dead is not a surprise, but a confirmation of what LKA had already shown it can do in The Town of Light.