Fate/Samurai Remnant is a great muse with hack and slash elements. It has a compelling story, a frantic combat system and a beautiful art style. If the genre is among your favorites, it's going to be a feudal Japan themed blast.

NBA 2K24 is two games in one: it's a basketball manual full of love and a video game full of microtransactions. But you only notice the latter when you try to win in the City playground, the rest of the game is a solid experience and the best basketball game yet.

RoboDunk is a gorgeous game with ingenious mechanics and infinite deployability: one of the best indie titles of the year.

It is clearly a simplification of the classic structure of the Capcom series, but Monster Hunter Now is not without depth and manages to be engaging even if the concept of the game is now somewhat derivative.

Payday 3 brings back and updates the formula that made Starbreeze's heist game famous, although not always making the right choices. The decision to sell it at a budget price and the inclusion in the Xbox Game Pass catalog from day one inevitably affected the amount of content available at launch, which was lower than expected, while the progression system must be fixed as soon as possible. However, there is no doubt that the experience works well, although it's still very much tied to the past, and will probably express its full potential in the coming months.

DotAGE is the classic game that, if you give it a chance, captivates you for hours on end without letting you slip away. Seemingly simple and minimalist, it becomes increasingly intricate and engaging as you progress, surprising you on multiple occasions.

Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps and Beans 2 is a worthy sequel to its predecessor, with many interesting new features.

F-Zero 99 currently represents the most richly crafted offering to emerge from the wave of nostalgia-driven endeavors on Nintendo Switch Online. Without deviating from the original formula, the company has chosen to set it against an immensely entertaining backdrop that nods to battle royale dynamics, creating a fast-paced and immediately addictive experience. On one hand, it serves as the perfect hook to introduce newcomers to the essence of the series, and any longtime fan should definitely give it a chance; on the other hand, experiences of this kind have been known to fade prematurely without a trace. The hope is that it will prove to be a small yet enjoyable interlude, paving the way for the series' grand return, perhaps alongside the Grande N's new console.

Gunbrella is a nice game: an action platformer with personality, stylish pixel art graphics, a surprising story and a pretty solid gameplay that puts combat first.

Nour: Play With Your Food turns out to be a far more superficial culinary adventure than we expected. Beyond the interactions with food in and of itself - often limited to simply raining ingredients unendingly on deliciously decorated tables - the product of Terrifying Jellyfish has not got much else to offer. Once you see the levels and the dishes inserted in them, you do not feel any desire to return to peep to discover the small situations hidden by the developers (the burning ramen is just an example). It’s a shame, because a gaming take on the complex theme of food would be very much needed.

Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles is a competent compilation of old school JRPGs that still feel extravagant and fun, but some updated feature or the inclusion of the first game in the series would have done wonders to the package.

Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster brings back from the past two competent JRPGs which had a limited run and were going to be forgotten for good.

After the disappointing Disgaea 6, the new installment in the popular NIS franchise is a return to form.

EA Sports FC 24 marks the beginning of a new era for the most successful football game on the market, but not even such a significant occasion motivated EA Sports to renew its football game with substantial innovations. The game's still a FIFA, it features the classic wide range of offline and online activities and got better animations and ball physics, but after so many years, it's no longer enough.

Phantom Liberty is an expansion that perfectly embodies all the expertise and ability of CD Projekt to literally expand its games. Just as Hearts of Stone and Blood & Wine did for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, in the exact same way, Phantom Liberty achieves this within Cyberpunk 2077. This is also aided by a 2.0 patch that thoroughly revamps the base game. The atmospheres, tone, and supporting characters are of the highest level and mark a departure, even in style, from what we have seen in the past. Meanwhile, the gameplay, albeit enriched and renewed, is exactly what the Polish development team got us used to 3 years ago and with various free upgrades. If you loved CP2077, regardless of its many flaws, you should not miss this expansion. If, on the other hand, you are among its detractors, nothing concrete changes and therefore you can continue to vociferously point out its deficiencies and problems.

The Crew Motorfest marks a change for the series, delivering a smaller but highly appealing open world and improving its driving model in favor of a decidedly more solid and interesting simcade approach. The obvious references to Forza Horizon have a bittersweet taste, as Ivory Tower's racer can't offer the same experience, losing sight of some of the series' defining traits and introducing a controversial progression system.

With Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm managed to surprise us both positively and negatively: from a gameplay perspective, this is clearly the installment with the most potential in the series, as well as one of the most fun overall, and it manages to maintain a certain overall balance despite being far from perfect in terms of balancing. Content-wise, however, the game feels somewhat flat, and the invasion mode in particular seemed rather rushed and repetitive to us. Overall, though, it's a high-quality fighting game, an absolute must-play for any fan of the franchise, and likely to convert even the most skeptical.

Party Animals is probably the most entertaining and funny cooperative brawler out there at the moment, making it easy to forget even its most fierce competitor, Gang Beasts. Yet, little details like a high input lag and a totally useless game camera provided to each player downmies the true scope that this little game could have accomplished.

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is an excellent successor to Jet Set Radio. Artistically stunning, with a wonderful soundtrack, it delivers great fun. Unfortunately, the fighting is terrible and the control system is not as precise as hoped.

Fae Farm is packed with systems and activities, yet oddly enough, it’s a life sim that falls short in delivering “lively” characters.

Synced offers many hours of fun for free in its campaign and PvP modes but there are too many currencies and a gotcha system behind which are locked the best weapons in the game.

Dune: Spice Wars is a very well-made game, but it falls short in not being able to give the proper relevance to all the game modes.

Final Fantasy 7 Ever Crisis is not a missed opportunity due to its gacha game nature, but rather because of the fragmented and anachronistic execution that defines its entire structure. The confusing menus and interfaces in which the experience unfolds place monetization above gameplay, embroidering a passive combat system onto a series of repetitive activities. The extraordinary strength of the original material - beautifully designed, animated, and scored - shines through in the context of the new original stories. However, instead of elevating the overall structure, it ends up making us remember what this production could have been.

The Many Pieces of Mr. Coo is a visually distinctive product with a great character, but this quality is not always accompanied by an equal brilliance in the realization of puzzles and situations shown on screen. In our opinion, Mr. Coo risks, sometimes, to be a mere style exercise, even if the adventure manages to amuse for its short duration and leaves us undoubtedly impressed by the peculiarity of some situations. These are lights and shadows of a distinctly authorial product, which is certainly worth trying while waiting for a - hopefully - more robust and structured sequel.

Lies of P is the surprise you don't expect, a stroke of artistic genius that comes out of nowhere and overwhelms you, while remaining trapped in a golden prison made of seemingly inescapable dogmas for a subgenre, the soulslike one, which is represented in the most traditional way possible, without any structural novelty. There is no doubt that the game takes up FromSoftware's classics, but it does so with incredible competence, and it is really only the lack of really original cues, along with a level design anchored in the past and of varying quality, that keeps the title directed by Cho Ji-Won from earning an even higher rating.

Super Bomberman R 2 is the natural evolution of the franchise, and introduces many new features.

The so-called "idle games" are often despised and by some considered almost not attributable to gaming experiences. If we then combine this nature with that of mobile gaming, Usagi Shima is likely to be heavily underestimated by those who see video games exclusively as PC and console products, overlooking an information as simple as is eloquent: there are about three billion gamers using mobile platforms, almost half of the entire human population. With non-invasive and entirely optional monetization mechanisms - not buying carrots with real money will not affect the pleasantness of the game in any way - and no entrance ticket to start playing, the product packaged by Jesse Yu shines for the beauty of its designs and for the relaxation that is able to ensure every visit to the island. The bunnies are adorable, all different and full of character, and net of some enhanceable aspects we feel we can unreservedly recommend Usagi Shima to those who want to play small gaming sessions in a safe and relaxing world, full of love.

WrestleQuest starts from an excellent idea and a very apt characterization but fails to maintain a good pace of play for its entire duration, running aground on some structural uncertainties.