More a novelty than your next roguelike obsession, but it has enough creativity and left-field ideas to be well worth experiencing—especially if you're still pining for the lost potential of Spore.

Titanium Court is a brilliantly singular roguelite with a surplus of style, but you're going to need to love match-three to want to stick around.

There are moments of fun, especially towards the end, but too often I just wanted to ram a garlic-flavoured stake through Vampire Crawlers repetitive, grindy heart.

An immaculately presented arcade racer with a thousand good ideas, but the twin-stick drifting wasn’t one of them.

Monster Hunter Stories 3 delivers deep build crafting and battle systems, but they're wasted on a war story that's barely there.

A casual timewaster for people who are into the Witcher enough to get the references, but not married to the idea every Witcher game has to be a big RPG.

Reanimal doesn't meaningfully develop Tarsier's approach to gameplay in the Little Nightmares games, but it's a grim sight to behold, and a worthwhile horror adventure.

Weak characters kill loftier ambitions, but a brisk pace keeps the combat lively.

An inventive puzzler with rapid-fire gags that'll make you groan as much as guffaw.

Some clever and grisly medical examination systems, but not enough base management and side activities to remain engaging for long.

Hell is Us' rich world and gorgeous design prop up its uninventive structure and simple combat.

Charm and a solid formula go a long way to smoothing over this roguelike deckbuilder's ungroomed edges.

Perhaps the beat-'em-up genre's best ever roster of playable characters, let down by an inconsistent campaign that wears out too fast.

There are some good ideas in Rue Valley's depressioncore time loop, but the execution makes it feel more like a chore than a charm.

A stylish metroidvania with crunchy combat and a delightfully melancholy mood, but some will find it too safe and frictionless.

Bloody good combat carries Ninja Gaiden 4 through its more granular and extraneous "modern" additions.

The combo of roguelikes and gambling should probably be more addictive than this.

Little Nightmares 3 adds a welcome online cooperative mode and some freshly bizarre environments, but the series' formula is becoming a little staid.

A more gritty survival horror experience than Stay Human, but Techland's new first-person parkour game still stumbles a bit.

The scariest part of Cronos: The New Dawn is probably the frustrating combat, and while it boasts a selection of surprisingly cool puzzles, they're not enough to save the experience.

Wildgate is a fresh combination of a ship battler and an FPS that is a better concept than it is a game.

Story aside, this would be one of Destiny 2's more forgettable campaigns. But thanks to its wide-ranging overhauls, it's become memorable for all the wrong reasons.

Great cooking and foraging systems, but not a lot else to keep you busy.

Killing Floor 3 is fun, quick to pick up, and builds on what worked for its predecessors. And while there'll always be a place for gory multiplayer shooters, they are a dime a dozen, and this one doesn't do a lot to stand out from the rest.

The Drifter is a gorgeous and moody point 'n' click adventure with impeccable art, but its pulp leanings undermine its best qualities.

A good Metroidvania trapped in the shadow of too many better ones.

Raidou Remastered isn't the best Shin Megami Tensei game on PC, but its live-action take on a familiar turn-based combat system is as fun as it is fascinating.

Splitgate 2 is a fine F2P time-waster, but its portals don't add much to the genre and its shooting is nothing special.