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.

30XX shows with greater confidence than 20XX to have its own identity, improving upon the elements that were appreciated in its predecessor and attempting to carve an even deeper groove away from Mega Man. The matrix still remains evident, the gameplay is overall very close to the style dictated by Capcom, but at the same time, it offers something unique that will surely please those waiting for a new Mega Man. In this sense, while 20XX excelled in remembering its source of inspiration and almost presented itself as a splendid celebratory object, 30XX tries to assert that it has all the means to cut the umbilical cord, without denying its spirit.

Samba de Amigo: Party-To-Go marks the debut of SEGA's rhythm series on iOS devices with a colorful, fun game basically similar to Dance Party, released simultaneously on Nintendo Switch: the tracklist is the same (slightly richer here), the interface and graphical assets as well, but multiplayer has been removed and the approach to gameplay obviously changes, given the lack of maracas and physical controllers, replaced in this case by the touch screen.

Chants of Sennaar is an original production full of great ideas, artistically valid and solid in its gameplay. Net of some perhaps excessively cryptic sections and a sense of disorientation that can sometimes be quite strong, especially when you are a little away from the base of the Tower, Rundisc has created a work of strongly distinctive features and well characterized, with an important message: the building of language lies on the changing foundations of the human, and access to its depths and its mysteries is essential to tell stories, discover truths, but also manipulate and overwhelm the members of our communities. This underlying ambiguity is Chants of Sennaar's beating heart.

Rune Factory 3 Special is an extremely conservative remaster, with some new features that will surely be appreciated by fans.

Baldur's Gate 3 is a masterpiece and the PS5 port works as great as we could expect from the passionate guys and ladies and Larian. A wonderful port for an incredible experience awaits PS5 owners.

Daymare 1994: Sandcastle varies significantly depending on the control peripheral used: with a controller, combat becomes frustrating to an extreme degree, whereas with a mouse and keyboard, it becomes a non-essential but still functional and enjoyable experience.

Trine 5 A Clockwork Conspiracy is exactly the game we expected. It picks up the formula of the fourth chapter, introduces a few minor innovations and continues on its own path. It is a puzzle-platformer that is fun in solo and cooperative play, lacking in enemy characterization but still relying on the excellent trio of protagonists. Fans will not be disappointed.

Ultimate Draft Soccer tries to come up with a definitive take on the formula that First Touch Games has tried to develop over the years, a "gesture-based soccer" similar to a turn-based strategy game, albeit with very short pauses between actions.