The game entices you with its beauty before hooking you with its effects and finally landing you with its enormous gameplay depth. [Sept 2008, p.66]

An all-time great deckbuilder gets a sequel worth risking God’s wrath for.

A beautifully designed, tough, and cheerful roguelike that rewards perseverance with a singular feeling of finesse.

Tactical Breach Wizards review: Excellent turn-based tactical combat wrapped up in a joyful, tightly-written story.

Clever innovations and a generous economy make Legends of Runeterra easy to love. [Open Beta review score = 85]

Sins of a Solar Empire bucks the current RTS trends of break-neck speed and small-scale battles, and allows strategy gamers to think big and control an entire war in real time. [Apr 2008, p.58]

Hand-down the best of the MechWarrior series. [Feb 2001, p.52]

More focused and polished than the original, it's a game to get for any fan of the FPS genre looking for something a bit different.

Still, while this inaugural episode may not be the essential FPS that "Half-Life 2" is, I can't imagine any shooter fan who'd want to miss it. [Aug 2006, p.34]

Low-key, effective storytelling and a hyperfocus on puzzles. The Swapper exemplifies the adage that less is more.

Baba is You manages to take the familiar idea of nudging blocks and solving puzzles in a fresh direction. Brilliant.

Like if an immersive sim got caught in a teleporter accident with Uncharted. Some aspects of The Great Circle are weaker than others, but it joins Batman Arkham and Goldeneye in the god tier of licensed games.

The most impressive aspect of the game is the engine itself. [Holiday 2002, p.86]

Stylish, succinct and spiritual, Year Walk coins its own genre: the fright of passage.

Immortality is Sam Barlow’s best, most thought-provoking game yet, and a barnstorming debut for Half Mermaid.

You'll watch as much as you play, but Max's story of non-redemption is as fun as his theatrical slow motion headshots. [Sept 2012, p.62]

A single-screen platform brawler that’s about as good as the genre has ever been—in versus or wave-survival mode.

Hollow Knight is a new classic, with a dense and detailed world full of secrets to discover.

Undoubtedly an excellent game, with its strengths far outweighing its weaknesses. My central frustration, though, is that it doesn’t allow you to play a deliberate, defense-oriented, puck-control style of NHL hockey.

A great game for those who loved the hack-and-slash parts of "Baldur's Gate." [Oct 2000, p.110]

After some missteps, it's Battlefield back to focusing on what it does best. [Holiday 2012, p.73]

A fresh new style and smoothed out lines make OlliOlli World an unmissable skate 'em up.

A thoughtful response to Dishonored that makes for an entertaining stealth shooter in its own right, but it's the multiplayer invasions that make Deathloop sing.

Blow does it again. Exquisitely layered puzzles populate a world that will keep you guessing.

First-time game developer TimeGate Studios has a winner on its hands. [June 2001, p.82]

It temporarily wrests the verisimilitude crown away from "Call of Duty" and - amazingly - revives Normandy's "dead horse." [May 2005, p.56]

The story is lacking, but great environments, a new class, and more freedom—partially from the free patch—make for a better Diablo III.

Not the most advanced F1 sim on the market, but it's the most immersive and enjoyable. [Nov 2000, p.143]