LEGO Horizon Adventures is a nice retelling of Aloy's adventure, featuring some excellent graphics: the best ever for a LEGO video game. Despite a pretty linear structure that tends to be repetitive, the game delivers a surprisingly solid gameplay but unfortunately the campaign is a bit too short.

Another great work by Digital Eclipse, who will be loved by all the Tetris fans.

The Rise of the Golden Idol is the direct sequel to Color Grey Games' remarkable investigative video game, a title capable of evolving every situation and mechanic encountered in its predecessor. After ensuring that the writing maintained a very high standard, the developers have enhanced almost every aspect of the point-and-click gameplay, offering an impressive variety of situations and making the solution to each investigation feel like a hard-won victory. While the artistic and sound elements have also evolved toward excellence, the slightly weaker characterization and overall impact of the narrative have kept it just a few steps away from masterpiece status.

Frontier improves its theme park simulator to make it one of the most fun around.

Death Note Killer Within is a social deduction game that tries to bring the compelling confrontation between Kira and L in competitive matches that certainly have multiple facets and undoubted strategic potential. Unfortunately, on a technical and artistic level the game is pretty ugly and has so many critical issues even in terms of interface that you'll really have to be a fan of the genre to appreciate it.

Ys X: Nordics offers a fantasy world to explore, and several original ideas.

Pokémon TCG Pocket is a fresh and fast way to dive into the world of Pokémon collectible cards. On one hand, it simplifies and speeds up battles, sacrificing some strategy; on the other, it highlights the collectible aspect and the beauty of the illustrations, which have recently enhanced the latest paper expansions. The result is a game best enjoyed in small doses, to avoid getting too caught up in the numerous, albeit not overwhelming, microtransactions. It will be interesting to see how Pocket and Live evolve in the coming months, but for now, it’s an enjoyable digression from the original experience.

With its original game systems, Metal Slugs Tactics works very well and is the Metal Slug that you don't expect.

The Smurfs return with a highly polished and fun 3D platformer, suitable for adults and children.

After more than a decade, the generation-defining classic Red Dead Redemption arrives on PC, but the landing is not the nice one you'd expect after such a long time. It brings new life to the pictorial world created by Rockstar Games, but an incoherent stability and the price wall makes it hard to justify the purchase.

Quotation forthcoming.

Quotation forthcoming.

Out of nowhere a small ant comes and overturns the entire gaming industry, showing that knowing one's limit and enduring in creating something unique and true to its nature can be much more rewarding than following the law of the market. Empire of the Ants is a feast for the senses and arguably one of the best games of the year. A masterclass on how to bring videogames to the next level.

Mario and Luigi: Brothership is an excellent entry in the RPG franchise. It's beautifully crafted, colorful and lively, but also fun and carefully balanced around an interactive combat system.

Slitterhead is a significant waste. Many of the concepts underlying the game are brilliant and demonstrate how Toyama remains a creative mind capable of experimenting and crafting unconventional titles. However, it's evident that, deprived of the resources he once had and forced to start anew with a fresh team, he has not been able to adequately bring his initial vision to life. In our opinion, Bokeh Game Studio's debut work is still passable thanks to its originality and some well-executed aspects, but it’s a pity it amounts to nothing more than that.

While We Wait Here creates a diner-sized limbo that is intriguing, unsettling, and that we would very much have liked to appreciate all the way through, but which left us somewhat disappointed by a narrative component that was more predictable than we expected.

Quotation forthcoming.

Quotation forthcoming.

Treyarch had a full four years to develop its new Call of Duty, and, with no surprise, it's the best in recent years. The studio had time to refine a movement system that will likely redefine the series' standards going forward. They've paired a fast-paced, fun multiplayer with an outstanding campaign, and Zombie is as close to the golden days of Black Ops as it gets. And yet, it's available with a Game Pass subscription. For us, that's a pretty good deal.

Alaloth: Champions of The Four Kingdoms is a well thought out mix of retro graphics and narrative with modern isometric and souls like combat, something veterans of Baldur's Gate will love.

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered pushes the concept of a remaster to the limit to deliver us the best possible version of the adventure developed by Guerrilla Games. Powered by the technologies of the spectacular sequel, Forbidden West, the game is substantially enriched visually, in atmosphere and even in narrative, confirming itself still as an extremely solid, enjoyable and engaging action RPG.

Arsene Lupin - Once a Thief is a product not too far from Blazing Griffin's investigative predecessors, only smaller and more simplified. While it will not displease superfans of Blazing Griffin's works, it will struggle to impress even the die-hards and will leave those who were already not too impressed with Poirot's adventures totally indifferent.

Which way is Starfield heading? So far, it’s stayed put, and for the hardcore fans maybe that’s good enough, at least this time around…

Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition is the revised and corrected version for current generation consoles, with 4K and 60 FPS.

Life is Strange: Double Exposure follows Max's adventures, ten years after the first chapter, in an incredibly compelling narrative.

BioWare's new epic is an enormous, layered, sprawling, often overwhelming mix of various elements that desperately tries to offer a wealth of content, aiming to appeal to every RPG lover, yet in doing so, fails to truly excel in any particular area. We want one thing to be clear, though: in the end, the experience is enjoyable, definitely exceeding the expectations we had formed from months of announcements and trailers, but there's really nothing that can captivate the player and elevate the game to the level of the genre's heavyweights. And that's a real shame, because the dedication of the development team shines through in many aspects, like the structural depth, level design, ensemble dialogues, and even a combat system that, ultimately, is fun — but not quite enough. More than ever, this was a case where it would have been better to cut back, trim down, and streamline further, to offer a more focused and well-defined experience.

Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of the Seven is undoubtedly one of the strangest and most fascinating unknown JRPGs of its era. The non-linear narrative keeps it fresh, while the other aspects are absolutely average. What unfortunately doesn't help is the plethora of flat characters that the title offers. Still, there's plenty to play, discover, explore, and we can't help but recommend this remake to anyone looking for a little piece of hidden history in the genre, those exponents you didn't know existed but who, in their own way, still have some nice ideas to convey.

Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered reintroduces a cult game in pure Suda51 style, with its merits and flaws. The remastering work appears a bit listless, sometimes uncertain but above all lacking in attention that aims to file down the many edges of the original game, which was already a bit rough and has obviously not improved with time.