A great cozy yet creepy puzzle adventure packed with dozens of little mysteries to solve.

The game's enormous potential is squandered by bad playbalancing. [Jan 2004, p.82]

Adds a chatty, entertaining social angle to the addictive stable of PopCap-type games that otherwise lead to loneliness, depression, and suicide instead of glory on the lawless oceans. [Aug 2005, p.76]

Battle Chasers: Nightwar is a gorgeous, challenging RPG that’s light on story but big on tactically satisfying battles.

Not too shabby, for a console port. [Oct 2008, p.64]

Ultimately, the developer of "Commandos" has created an amalgam of the two styles, the result of which I will dub a stroke of near-brilliance. But not near enough. [May 2003, p.90]

A great remaster of a beloved, if now very old school, FPS that is handled with great care and attention.

A hearty improvement on Sniper Elite 3 that embraces freeform play, gets better in co-op, and most importantly lets us shoot things from very far away.

While it lasts, Mutant Year Zero is a tense, absorbing and atmospheric new member of the XCOM family. I suppose wanting more of it is a good problem to have.

An undersea soulslike that's cute and compelling, though weirdly crass.

That Dragon, Cancer tells a valuable story despite its uneven delivery.

It's not a vast improvement over the original, but it's just as fun. [Dec 2000, p.168]

In its maiden campaign, there are glimmers of hope for future greatness, but this rookie offering is sufficiently weak in enough areas to keep it lagging behind 3DO's "High Heat" series. [July 2003, p.74]

Condemned maintains an atmosphere of danger and suspense for a respectably long time, but unlike distinguished games that leap beyond the cliches of their genres(such as "Indigo Prophecy), it doesn't do quite enough to elevate itself into the realm of true greatness. [Jun 2006, p.50]

An excellent horror game burdened with action pretensions – but it still delivers a fraught, polished experience.

Strider is a liberating, free-form action platformer studded with frustrating callbacks to an arcade era better left behind.

Satisfying arcade skate-'em-up that's fun from the off, and promises many hours on the hard path to mastery.

A technically excellent educational game, but dry for all but maths enthusiasts.

More good Hitman, although the repetition of style and presentation is taking the shine off the experience.

The dangers of the abyss are well worth facing for Zubmariner’s bounty of fantastic stories and strange adventures.

Funny, philosophical, and deeply, deeply weird, there’s nothing else quite like Everything on PC.

Imaginative, beautiful, and utterly strange, but you’ll need to really love the story to endure its idiosyncratic combat.

Extreme sports made accessible to the point of basic. It's got a tin ear but a big heart.

A revolutionary tale told with memorable characters, excellent combat, and surprisingly forthright politics.

This ghost story is stretched a little thin, but still well worth exploring.

Both genuinely original and a smart physics puzzler, but aggravating in places, Mushroom 11 falls a few inches short of a classic.

Messy, varied and inadvertently hilarious: A Way Out is an unusual but uneven tandem ride.

A flawed but fascinating hybrid, Remnant: From the Ashes is a looter-shooter charged with potential.