Dawn of War 3 has overly dominant elites, and a merely serviceable campaign, but it captures the power of mass battles well.

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

A beautiful but short-lived expedition that left me wanting more of its best ideas.

Some solid puzzles can’t rescue what is an otherwise terrible adventure game.

An okay platformer but a deeply imaginative horror game, Little Nightmares is worth playing for its array of disturbing imagery.

Stealth and pursuit haven’t changed much in Outlast 2, but it excels as a beautiful, brutal journey through extreme spiritual anxieties.

A cinematic, high-octane, but short-lived adventure, lovingly remastered for a new generation.

A blissfully fluid action game with a compelling twist, let down occasionally by tedious encounters.

Smart without being overbearing, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games continues to set the bar for its genre.

Guardians of the Galaxy's story may eventually get someplace interesting, but it's a poor fit for Telltale's simple quick time events and stiff dialogue sequences.

Updates are planned, but this needs too much work under the hood to be worth your time or money. [May 2017, p.89]

There's a good story here, but it's marred by carelessness. [May 2017, p.89]

A great port of what is still one of the best action games around. Bayonetta is the essential hack-'n-slash.

The Signal From Tölva is easily Big Robot's best game yet: a lean, intelligent sci-fi shooter with a watchmaker’s eye for detail that knows its strengths and plays to them beautifully.

Paradox’s biggest expansion yet brings Stellaris closer to its original promise with a stellar rework of internal politics and new endgame goals.

Don’t let some clunky inventories scare you off from this excellent strategy RPG.

A decent revival of the N64-era 3D platformer, but with all the flaws that carries, as well as some new ones of its own.

At times the difficulty and dreary landscapes are enough, but overall The Ringed City was one hell of a soft note for Dark Souls to go out on. As a surface level thematic experience, the finale is a fitting way to end the series, leaving the faintest glimmer of hope amidst all the ash. I had fun descending through a visual collage of the series’ history—it's much more interesting than Ashes of Ariandel—and I can appreciate the symbolic significance of its ending, but this is Dark Souls design at its most uninspired.

A quality adventure game with challenging puzzles, oddball characters, and an intriguing, mystery-laden plot.

Few will see the more remote corners of Rain World’s relentlessly dire stretch, but those who do are unlikely to forget the experience.

Mainlining is mostly a success. Even though many cases are simple to solve, how to solve them remains satisfying throughout [April 2017, p.91]

As a free-to-play game it's reasonably generous. [April 2017, p.91]

A quirky, overly saccharine life sim that quickly descends into a dispassionate grind. [April 2017, p.90]

A competent shooter, but lifeless. You could spend many hours mastering Desync, but it does nothing to earn your time.

A beautiful, melancholy action RPG that’s effortlessly stylish and utterly unpredictable.

Boasts some beautiful, convincing countryside to hunt in, but the glacial pace will challenge the limits of most people’s patience.

Marred by inconsistency and in need of a polish pass, this vast new sci-fi frontier nonetheless rewards dedicated exploration.

A deep, and potentially rewarding alternative to Hearthstone that suffers from underwhelming art design and desperately needs an injection of players to grow the scene.