Great monsters, stunning locations and a quality mystery makes this one of Supermassive's best.

Weird, good natured, and pretty funny with it, The Good Life stands apart, like most SWERY games.

Back 4 Blood is an exceptional FPS that sets a new standard for co-op zombie murderfests.

In PR terms, it's the world's costliest public beta. There's a lithe control system in the wreckage, but it'll take many updates to dig it out.

Wonderful and distasteful all at once, it entertains and fails in turns, like Frank Worthington. But I loved watching Frankie.

Worth playing for the atmosphere even though its pace and plot are uneven.

A smart, peculiar city builder that ends in a gruelling uphill battle against a rival city.

An atmospheric world with deep, absorbing puzzles, Bonfire Peaks is thoughtful and charming—but without establishing its tricks, it risks leaving less fluent puzzlers behind.

Yara is super lush and wonderful to explore, but the story and main villain are predictable.

With its well executed timeloop concept, Lemnis Gate could be the sleeper shooter of 2021.

Jett: Far From Shore has some epic highs but fiddly ship controls and unanswered questions weigh this space adventure down.

A winning but wayward chimera of survival game, surrealism and storybook adventure.

Beneath the beautiful new look and smart innovations, this is the same Diablo 2 that came out in 2000.

Medieval dynasty is a fun, relaxing survival RPG, even if it's not always exciting.

Sable's lonely, heartfelt journey of self-discovery will sit with me for a lifetime.

This modern remake of the classic puzzle game doesn't stop it from feeling out of date.

Looks better than it plays, but it's got a good heart.

An eye-popping musical adventure that will leave you with a serious case of galaxy brain.

Gamedec is half of a good RPG and falls far short of its tantalising premise.

A long game of choose-your-own-chosen-one with high highs to balance the lows.

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.

Hell Let Loose is a fun and accessible introduction to milsims, but I miss the complexity.

Visually gorgeous and emotionally raw, True Colors is an incredible continuation of the Life is Strange series.

A battle royale game that's fun to play in a loose, aggressive style, with melee combat that's trickier than it may first appear.

A pleasant toy for building your own idyllic seaside getaways.

A fun and flexible swarm shooter that’s a little too reliant on being played alongside friends.

But all that nice environment design is wasted by far too much wandering about, talking to people, and collecting trash to sell at vendors. Your character moves with a kind of halfhearted jog, too slow to cover ground, jerky, and unable to traverse any kind of obstacle. Meanwhile you can jump on your horse, which is much faster but handles like a stick of butter in narrow areas. It's all just kind of… slow and tedious to progress. Environments seem large simply for the sake of size. Much like the game's entire aesthetic, it's not really clear why things look the way they do.

Improved platforming underpins a glorious return to one of gaming's most inventive and empathic universes.