The Spectrum Retreat delivers a solid first person puzzle experience, but in terms of story and atmosphere the game fails to deliver.

Rise of the Triad is back as a faithful tribute and this means that it's funny like the original but it's also old like the original.

Loosely based on products such as Sid Meier Railroad Tycoon and Transport Tycoon, Train Fever is a deep and complex business game, able to give fun to fans of public transport and its history. A too-heavy graphics engine, the lack of tutorial, unusable menu and the pure sandbox nature ruin part of the value of the work.

A decent game, way better than Confrontation, especially for the multiplayer part. Unfortunately the main campaign is short and it's not so thrilling and challenging as it should be. It works, but is so bland and plain such that only the hardcore fans of the franchise can fully appreciate it.

Nier is just a well done average game unable to live up to action rpg's fans expectations. Its combat system can be fun, but the less than stellar story and the plagued graphics don't help in winning this epic battle.

Strength of the Sword 3 delivers a well packed, hardcore action experience for anyone who wants to prove himself.

Quotation forthcoming.

Surgeon Simulator on the iPad is mostly the same crazy, irritating and funny game that was on PC, with 2 more surgeries and a (if possible) worst control scheme.

The twin stick genre is one of the most abused on XBLA, and Alien Breed 2 doesn't do enough to stand from the crowd. A nice game, but far from being an essential purchase.

Bonfire of the Vanities is overall a much better experience than the Battle of Forlì, however is not an essential purchase and misses the level of polish and quality of the main quest.

Gotham Knights offers an open world-based action RPG experience that will drive fans of DC characters crazy, while resting on controversial narrative assumptions: there are two videogame universes at Warner Bros., but in none of them Batman is alive. Once this obstacle has been overcome, the story turns out to be enjoyable and the characters well written, the combat system is a derivative of freeflow focused on the skills and peculiarities of the individual heroes, the cooperative has fun but does not appear essential. There are many enemies and excellent boss fights, within a structure that in terms of activities appears rather traditional but rich in content. Visually, the game is a spectacle but when it moves it staggers, betraying a series of technical choices that to define questionable is little: what a pity.

As a pure game, Underground has its flaws, but it's an engaging and challenging puzzle game, which does a lot to make the gamer happy to play.

Despite a fantastic soundtrack, some mesmerizing art direction and a brave take on your usual love stories, Nights of Azure is unfortunately a quite mediocre action RPG.

Cities: Skylines is still a great game on Nintendo Switch, but it's a version inevitably flawed by technical limits and intricate interface.

Despite a unique setting and a compelling story, Cursed Mountain fails to deliver some good survival horror action. The combat system is pretty good and there are some nice boss battles, but the game is slow, easy and short, with very poor locations, lots of invisible barriers and dull puzzles.

Royal Revolt 2 is a good game, with consistent mechanics and pretty visuals, but some of its new features are not convincing and the freemium part is very limiting.

Total War Battles: Kingdom is one of the most similar title to a classic strategic seen on mobile platform, but also an example of the flaws inherent to some model of business that's strictly mobile.

There are no doubts that Gravity Hook HD is worth every cent you spent. Thanks to its tactile mechanics, online leaderboards and a hit-and-run gameplay, the new game from Adam Atomic is simply perfect on iPhone and iPod Touch, surprisingly better suited on the iDevices than Canabalt. Maybe a few more unlockable stuff would have been really welcomed.

Assassin’s Creed Chronicles: China is an interesting spin-off with a competitive price toward its content. But it lacks also in terms of AI, story and control system, with highs and lows that keep it from being great.

Below is an incredibile and artistic journey, but not a great rogue lite.

Spintires is extreme in every sense. If you love the idea of driving off-road on mud and rocky tracks, it’s your next big-deal.

Felix the Reaper oozes style and charm and its basic ideas around the puzzle design are very interesting, but the overall result is not quite worthy of its aesthetics and concept.

EA Sports FC 24 for Nintendo Switch delivers the exciting concretization of a parity of content and features that owners of the hybrid console had been waiting for literally years, but on the other hand it stands as yet another impossible conversion that makes heavy compromises and sometimes struggles to run.

Fish Out of Water won't be remembered amongst Halfbrick's best efforts: it's just a small cute game with too little content, even for its low price.

Bloodmasque comes with some excellent graphics and sounds, but the action is simplistic and repetitive.

Cloudberry Kingdom is a fun platform game inspired by Super Meat Boy. It's worth its cost.

Sniper Elite III delivers a solid, less linear tactical gameplay than the previous episodes, but still suffers from some shortcomings.

The Town of Light is an intense and dramatic experience, though technically poor.

Outward has two natures: there is the hardcore role-playing game capable to engage the player, but there is also one of the crudest titles of the year.

Gravel is a very special Milestone title. Thanks to a mix of arcade and simulation, it offers hours and hours of fun.

Comes with several tricks, stages and challenges, but the controls are too cumbersome to be fun. Skateboarding enthusiasts will find in the game a lot of interesting things, while all others should look elsewhere.

A piece of gaming history with some interesting changes in the gameplay, but basically thought for the nostalgic.

Quotation forthcoming.

It's more of a tuning game, considering how shallow, brief and repetitive are the racing sections and the emphasis on upgrading your cars. Unfortunately, you will need lots of real money to do so.

Might & Magic Heroes VII offers well told story and a potentially solid turn based experience but is still unfinished.

The remastered version of Shadow Man will undoubtedly capture the attention of Mike LeRoi fans, forced until now to compromise with archaic controls and resolutions unsuitable for modern systems.

War Hospital has a great concept and good mechanics to implement it but is plagued by poor QA, bugs and frame drops.

Assassin's Creed Pirates is overall a nice, sometimes questionable spin-off for the main series, based on the naval battles and explorations.

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.

The real problem for Codename: Panzers - Cold War is that it was released in the same time period as other strategic blockbusters. Otherwise it is a solid RTS without any innovation worth of note but with an interesting multiplayer mode and a fascinating single player campaign.

This WiiWare version of Phoenix Wright is basically a very lazy porting of the DS version, that stands on his legs just thanks to the quality of the gameplay.

The Sims Medieval: Nobles & Pirates is a robust expansion with a new background, new quests and all the additions you would expect from a good upgrade pack. There's a problem anyway, the price is far too high.

While Primal Carnage doesn't offer a wide range of game modes, playing as both a human or as a dinosaur is a really fun experience. The survival of this game on the market will depend on Lukewarm Media, and on the support that the indie team will bring ahead for its game.

The price is low and the game is good, but The Showdown Effect needs more maps and some balance.

Trial Xtreme 3 is a solid addiction to the trial bike action game genre. The game is fun and the touch controls work very well.

Aside from some stylish visuals, John Woo’s debut on mobile gaming feels like a big disappointment: Bloodstroke is a repetitive and uninspired action game, flawed by some really incoherent design.

Five big new scenarios are enough to make it a valuable product. But it could have been much better with some necessary refinements.

Quotation forthcoming.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIII brings historical authenticity to life with real world locations, figures, and events. The steps towards accessibility, while far from perfect, definitely make this the most user-friendly entry in the series.

Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus arrives on console with a complete and satisfying package.

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

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.

Death Noodle Delivery is the Cyberpunk version of Paperboy with a compelling story to tell and an ending that makes you think about the nature of video games themself.

Minimal, surreal, proud of its own identity but also far removed from the average expectation of a modern-day JRPG of this magnitude, SaGa Emerald Beyond represents a step forward in its own JRPG approach, but also to the side. A very distinct personality and a solid combat system keep it on its feet even in the face of a narrative context that is complex to frame.

Quotation forthcoming.

Piranha Bytes looks back to Gothic saga as it moves into the future with their new IP. ELEX isn't free from defects, among which are a little inspired setting and a rude combat system, but it will meet the expectations of the hardcore historical fan base.

The game is a really competent "My first adventure" sort of game. Its main points are the links to the old adventures of 80s and 90s and the great respect it shows to the cartoon. Unfortunately it is also a really short experience, and the price you have to afford to buy it, at least in Europe, is not justified at all.

To fully enjoy Ar nosurge you have to 1) read an exhaustive summary of its prequel's plot which never came to the West and 2) completely suspend your disbelief. Once you are done, you will find a deep and solid jRPG below multiple levels of fan service and oddities.

Beneath an amazingly intimidating shell, lies an amazingly complex, deep and satisfying strategy game. Few gamers will pass the first, really hard impact, but those few will be engaged and excited, and, eventually, happy.

Gangstar Rio: City of Saints is not just a GTA clone but it represents a work of optimization by Gameloft, with a better control system and a lot of enjoyable missions. Rio de Janeiro is also an original setting and the sandbox-game fans should give it a try.

Watband is an interesting console game with a simple graphical design but with a gameplay deep and very satisfying.

Crash Team Rumble is fun and undeniably based on a good idea, since it tries to translate the classic platforming of Crash Bandicoot into a whole new multiplayer experience, however the absence of other modes and heroes, and mostly a lot of balance issues, deeply affect the outcome of the experiment crafted by Toys for Bob.

Engaging campaign, deep character development and nice addictions to the action RPG genre are enough to make us happy, although Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor - Martyr is far from perfect and has still to face the endgame chaos god.

14000 square kilometers are not enough to make a good game. Fuel tries to overlap its competitors by taking a sand box approach to the genre, but it fails by offering races that are neither challenging nor thrilling set in enormous and boring open spaces.

Code Veronica X was one of the greatest titles in the Resident Evil saga, but the curiosity to know what terrified gamers ten years ago would be the only reason to buy an overpriced game with such an out-of-date gameplay.

Pro Cycling Manager 2014 surely is what cycling fans want to manage their two-wheeled heroes. But it was published with some technical flaws that Cyanide partially addressed with a late patch, and still doesn't have a good tutorial for newcomers.

Overkill 2 is a nice touch shooter, packed with lots of weapons, missions and enemies. The action is pretty repetitive, but you'd expect it.

An unusual sim that asks player to grow a weed empire.

Warhammer 40,000: Kill Team is a nice twin analog shooter, packed with good graphics, four different units to choose and a lot of weapons and upgrades. What a pity the game has no online multiplayer and only five levels.

Bus Simulator 18 is one of the best bus simulations on the market, but lacks content.

This Wii-Ware puzzle game is a very simple and repetitive game, and his fast and accessible gameplay it's unable to deliver fun for more than half an hour.

City of Gangsters is a good 4X gangster simulator where you'll be able to set your booze empire, but in the long run it may feel too repetitive.

Shenmue 3 is a game that remains true to itself, refusing any attempt to improve a formula that was revolutionary at the time but feels inevitably outdated today.

RIDE 2 is a good game: more rich, complete and optimized of the original chapter.

​Modern Combat Versus is a great showcase, most likely the most visually sophisticated shooter ever seen om mobile, and likewise boasts precise, intuitive touch controls. It is a shame that such a system has not been put in the service of a proper campaign, as experience is confined to competitive multiplayer with a single game mode.​

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is an incredible journey into the visionary mind of Suda51, an indie experience with solid gameplay mechanics and lots of surprises.

Eschalon: Book III is a very classic RPG that starts too slowly. It's a game rich of contents but you have to overcome a big wall to get the gold.

The new Blue Byte's IP in yars is packed with a lot of humor and a decent technical realization, but the mechanics are too cumbersome and frustrating.

Too derivative from previous games, especially the Nintendo DS ones, and too much multiplayer oriented.

Dynasty Warriors Next introduces some minor changes using the touch controls, but the whole experience remains the same everyone knows.

​Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a chaotic and messy brawler which manages to be much more fun than you would like thanks to responsive controls and a huge cast of diverse characters.

In a basic plot, the character of Jimmy with his mix of charisma and ignorance stands out and the presence of new targets boost the replaying of Mafia II. Too bad for the excessive bugs in the artificial intelligence.

State of Mind is, for Daedalic, the biggest production bet.

Bright Memory Infinite is a first step in the right direction but certainly not the premium shooter that many expected, since it's very short but also available at a very low price. The two hours needed to beat the game are a lot of fun, however, and we really hope this is just the beginning for this project.

Code of Princess is flawed by annoying technical and gameplay issues that don't really live up to the Guardian Heroes legacy everyone was hoping for.

Surely this is not what fans hoped from an Uncharted title. Still, it's a surprisingly nice card game, only spoiled by a poor multiplayer experience.

DCUO, as first console-MMORPG, can be considered a good start; it's basically a Hack'n'slash, with an interesting history and RPG elements, but some missions are repetitive and there are a lot of graphic bugs. However, the monthly major updates promised by Sony On Line justify the subscription, especially for DC Fans.

Ministry of Broadcast mix Prince of Persia, George Orwell and the modern pixel art in a good but no perfect way.

SCHiM is a narrative experience with a truly peculiar graphical style, which tries to bring platforming mechanics and puzzle elements to the table to deliver a gameplay that flows nicely but doesn't leave its mark due to its excessive simplicity and linearity.

Beyond an exuberant use of 3D, which certainly creates a pleasant viewing experience (though the developers tend to overdo sometimes), the Nintendo 3DS version of LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars ends up disappointing the expectations. The feeling that this is a title designed exclusively for the younger players is too strong, given the lack of any challenge both for fighting and for puzzles. The game also lacks any kind of multiplayer.

There are many interesting points in Soul Axiom Rebooted, starting from its original environment and narrative background, but also some flaws, that unfortunately come from its puzzle design.

Miitopia is a fun and entertaining JRPG using your Mii.

The Park is far from perfect but an interesting experiment that doesn't rely on cheap scare jumps to bet on a different and intimate kind of fear.

High On Life is an ambitious shooter, supported by a brilliant script that manages to make you laugh from start to finish. Unfortunately, the shooting phases struggle to excel and the game clearly suffers from all the limitations typical of independent development.

Need for Speed: No Limits is a fun arcade racer with gorgeous graphics and lots of races.

Picross S still manages to entertain with the ultra solid nonogram formula, but overall it feels like a lazy project for newcomers that will probably disappoint the old fans of the franchise.

World War Z successfully recreates the most spectacular scenes of the movie. The co-op experience works well but it's a bit short and doesn't add anything fresh to the genre.

Spintires: Mudrunner is aimed for the kind of players who get involved in slow pace game mechanics and extreme simulation.