It is no longer a nostalgia operation: this is a modern, depth, accessible, captivating, fun, creative, joyful management game in every aspect. Awesome.

Expectations were high for the new F1 management game, but they were only partially met. F1 Manager 2022 is a good starting point to work on (the developer has acquired a four-year license), but still decidedly immature in content, especially as regards the more strictly managerial part.

Immortality is a masterpiece capable of involving and upsetting the player in more than one moment. It is a strong video game, full of surprises and interesting themes, capable of overturning at the right moment to drag you into a successful positive spiral of research and discovery, which brings the brain and emotions into play. It is also one of the works that best manages to play with the filmed sequences, transforming the player into an editor / investigator through a simple and natural interface, very comfortable both using a mouse and keyboard, and with a controller. The conclusion is: what are you still doing here?

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is aimed at a potentially huge audience, given the extraordinary success of the Ninja Turtles in the early 90s, but it inevitably remains a product that only nostalgics will truly appreciate.

Survivor!.io is an undoubtedly interesting single stick shooter, with lots of enemies and upgrades to unlock, but it's also a bit too hard since the very first stage and the many microtransactions suggest it can quickly become a pay-to-win experience.

Mothmen 1986 is short and not very intense. It tries to open some questions, but who cares about the answers?

I Was a Teenage Exocolonist is a quality life-sim role-playing game with plenty of events, endings, and adventures to enjoy. Visually enchanting and musically inspired and varied, the journey devised by Northway Games is an adventure that enthralls. The only unsurprising element is the card game, great for breaking up the pace but less profound than we would have hoped.

Dusk Diver 2 is a solid game that excels in nothing: it follows every path already explored by other games, adding some mediocre values to the sum. Not bad, but neither remarkable.

Jetpack Joyride 2 is no longer endless nor ruthless: this new episode in the blockbuster series takes the original formula and delivers a different experience.

Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation is a little gem, capable of taking the player to a deliciously recreated Japanese little town in the countryside. Despite some minor flaws, a happy and timeless adventure awaits Shin-chan.

An extremely valid experiment that has the potential to change the fighting game landscape with its approach to monetization and updates. Hard to say if it will have the necessary staying power, but, as of now, it's certainly a deserved success.

Saints Row returns with an unambitious, but certainly fun reboot. The claims are few and the results reflect this aspect. It does not stand out in any aspect, but it could satisfy the hunger for free roaming for those players who still enjoy playing GTA back twenty years.

Red Matter 2 is the new technical standard in VR game development on Meta Quest 2. Puzzles are engaging and never frustrating, dialogues are well acted; very much welcome the addition of action phases. Too bad about the movement system, on which there are some problems.

Kirby’s Dream Buffet racing part is really fun, and the game has good controls and engine. Even the graphics, and the courses full of food, are really nice. Sadly, it has not have enough content or sections to keep your interest in the long term.

The best kayaking simulation around, but far from the best it could be.

Cursed to Golf will make you sweat, bewitching you with its pixel art, surrounding you with its irony and then annihilating you with its lack of permissiveness. If you want to try to dominate the cursed fields of the Purgatory of Golf, arm yourself with patience and time, if instead you think that your life has already given you excessive stress then maybe you should not look at the original interpretation of Chuhai Labs of the noble sport.

The main problems of Midnight Fight Express are essentially two, namely that the goodness of the game system ends up being penalized by some design choices, which ruin some moments of the experience, and that the combat system in some situations does not seem to withstand the title ambitions.

Soul Hackers 2 is a solid JRPG with much less character than it looks.

The We Are OFK team packs a story capable of catalyzing players' empathy and making them reflect on contemporary anxieties, our permanent connection to technological devices, and the need to open our hearts and find understanding from others.

Timothy and the Tower of Mu is a 2D hardcore action-platform game with old style gameplay. The art work is excellent, but there are issues with difficulty management and platforming mechanics that aren't always smooth.

Rollerdrome is a good experiment by Roll7. It's technical, challenging and it has lots of style. A bit more variety and polished controls would have been great.

Thymesia falls into that bracket of indie souls-like games that fail to fully convince. It knows how to entertain and, fortunately, the combat system has its own distinct identity, more original than many other experiments released in recent years. At the same time it is a game with few areas, few enemy types, and a difficulty level that should be slightly refined. The visual presentation is also far from refined. Fans of the genre might give it a chance, without too much of a rush.

Few games can be intuitive and addictive like Bomberman, and its core gameplay is still intact and enjoyable, but this Amazing Bomberman is not the best interpretation of the classic.

Overall we liked Cult of the Lamb very much, despite having found some critical issues on the side of representation, in particular that of the management systems of the sect.

Marvel's Spider-Man is a spectacular and engaging action game, characterized by a perhaps derivative but solid and fun gameplay, an excellent rendering of web swinging, wonderful graphics and many characters and surprises. However, right now the PC version is not as well optimized as we hoped it would be.

Digimon Survive brings back the digital monsters, in a curious hybrid between visual novel and turn-based combat system.

Hard West 2 is a very solid and challenging turn-based strategy game, characterized by a beautiful story and some interesting adventure elements. That said, the difficulty level can be too hard, forcing you to proceed through a thousand trials and errors.

Quotation forthcoming.