Attacking settlements, especially your own, is good fun, but there’s hours of chores to complete before you can really become a raider.

A fun, serviceable update to the 4X legend that brings little memorable to the genre aside from its personality.

A masterful distillation of classic action-platforming gameplay, doling out tension and elation in equal measure.

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

A superb remix of Grow Home that gives BUD a bigger sandbox to play in, at the expense of some challenge.

A beautiful, smartly designed game set in a gorgeous futuristic city, but with a story that doesn’t quite do it justice.

Relaxing exploration and some lovely scenery coupled with repetitive systems, frustrating menus, and a lack of real discovery.

This Is The Police looks and sounds gorgeous, but becomes dull and repetitive after the first couple of hours.

A fresh, fearsome realisation of a classic Warhammer race that revitalises the core game.

Gorgeous and invigorating, Abzû flounders a bit with a hamfisted story, but there’s still nothing quite like it on the PC.

Realm of Shadows indicates that it might tell an interesting Batman story, but takes time to get there and suffers from Telltale’s tired design and engine limitations.

One of the most fun and challenging local co-op games ever made, but the single-player experience is less thrilling, making the lack of online play disappointing.

A charming space sandbox that will keep you busy and entertained for hours.

No polish or refinement, just lots of giant ants and plenty of ways to kill them. Ridiculously fun at its best, which it frequently is.

A few technical issues aside, Quadrilateral Cowboy is a clever puzzle game bursting with personality.

Not as unique as you’d perhaps expect given the premise, but still a very stylish, characterful and funny adventure.

Lovely Planet Arcade is a fast, challenging deconstruction of old school FPS design that can be frustrating, but makes up for it with heaps of charm.

A beautiful JRPG that captures the spirit of the genre's early hits while playing things a tad too safely.

The setting is great, but weak combat and limited choices stop this RPG from going anywhere fun.

Ghoulish creature design and fun combat are weakened by long boring stretches, clueless AI, and snickering obscurity.

It looks incredible and controls beautifully, but Inside’s best ideas are spread too thin.

A stylish mix of bullet hell and deft swordplay, Furi is only held back by rare bugs and poorly designed difficulty spikes.

An average action game saved by a charming sense of humour and an intoxicating sense of fun.

Beyond a fairly daunting control and difficulty curve, Brigador is a gorgeous top-down shooter with a remarkable level of strategy.

Mighty No. 9’s dash mechanic is a lot of fun, but bad art, imprecise hitboxes, and awful level design make the experience extremely frustrating.

Fascinating, but not in a good way. It's rare for a major publisher to release something that, for a significant part of its short length, feels so bad. Yes, the bike sections are standard fare for the series. RedLynx is good at making Trials levels, and has made a handful of them here. But their quality only serves to highlight how bad the other levels are. This is the worst Trials game. It's also the worst Blood Dragon. Neither series comes out of this partnership looking good.

What Valhalla is trying to do is interesting, but playing it is boring. The dialogue drags, the main bartending mechanic is tedious and the day-in, day-out repetition becomes frustrating quite early on.

A warmly affectionate remake of a browser classic, with enough new pieces to justify its existence.