A beautiful medieval adventure that uses real history and interesting characters to tell a compelling story.

Impressive ogre battles and challenging, hectic missions, but I just wish there was a bit more to Extinction.

The problem with this is that death, rather than some looming, ominous, ever-present threat, becomes little more than a minor inconvenience. And sometimes, when you’re stuck on a puzzle, it can be annoying too. Minit has no real stakes, which cheapens the timer system and makes it feel somewhat arbitrary.

The wonderful chaos of the open world and your choice of how to tackle it is occasionally stifled by bad boss fights and worse boss speeches.

A superb water park for four friends to splash around in, but progression is sluggish and there are too few surprises beneath the waves.

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

Octahedron gets more mileage than you'd think out of the ability to summon platforms beneath your feet.

Northgard is a surprising, elegant RTS that's laden with a very dull story.

Without Evermore, Ni No Kuni 2 would have been good. Because of it, it's one of the best JRPGs on PC.

Surviving Mars is a lot of hard work, but managing a burgeoning colony never stops being compelling.

KSP's sandbox gets bigger by focusing on what makes it a great PC game: flexibility, freedom, and random explosions.

Offers a fantastic road trip, even if it's not a particularly in-depth RPG.

Vermintide 2's combat and level design are so feverishly fun that I'll put up with its bad matchmaking and RPG progression if it means chopping more ratmen in half.

An excellent beat-em-up with tons of wit and great combat, Full Metal Furies belongs on any couch co-op playlist.

Joyful and surprising, even when you're cracking open an anthropomorphised egg.

Even stranger than its premise and scarier than it looks, The Station is a short ride to a great ending.

There are beautiful and tragic scenes, songs, and passages to find in WTWTLW's journey, but they're spread far too thin.

A well-formed slice of noir mystery, beautifully presented. Some writing issues aside, A Case of Distrust is well worth your time.

Has flickers of brilliance, but the painfully slow and gruelling survival simulation routinely snuffs them out.

Exacting, agonising, challenging, and intensely rewarding, Into the Breach delivers in the tiniest package the most perfectly formed tactics around.

A cool idea with a well-realised theme, but this game would've benefitted from longer in Early Access.

With Definitive Editions of the later installments on the horizon, Age of Empires is once again poised to be overshadowed. If you have an overwhelming sense of nostalgia about the birth of the series, this does an excellent job of preserving it while making it considerably more palatable, but for a trip down memory lane, it sure is expensive.

Rust is a malicious experience rife with betrayal, cruelty and greed. That can make it both frustrating and sublime in equal doses.

A flimsy remake of a flawed 16-bit favourite that exacerbates all the original’s problems while failing to recapture its strengths.

A decent port of a great Final Fantasy with one of the cleverest combat systems in RPGs.

With a local co-op buddy Aegis Defenders becomes a fun mix of genres, but when playing solo it can be an exercise in frustration.

Kingdom Come is a mess of bugs, and there’s the constant feeling that independent developer Warhorse is biting off more than it can chew. But there’s a charm to its scrappiness, and it does enough interesting stuff that I’m willing to tolerate the creaky framework struggling to prop everything up. It’s one of the most satisfying, rewarding role-playing experiences I’ve enjoyed on PC for a while, but the inconsistent performance and the game’s tendency to completely break does test my patience from time to time.

Flat writing and a confused plot fail to deliver on some promising ideas.