A peculiar experience that’s personal, sincere, and full of questions to unpack, though it asks them far too bluntly.

A beautiful adventure with heart, humour, and satisfying hacking puzzles you can enjoy even if you don’t know anything about coding.

The fact that this is basically a one-person project only makes it more impressive, from the excellent use of simple graphics to convey emotion, to the fantastic lo-fi soundtrack. It may or may not be the best RPG you play this year, but it’s certainly going to be one of the most worthwhile—as memorable as anything in, say, The Witcher 3, and every bit as worthy.

Still the best football game you can buy for your rig, but FIFA 16 feels unambitious.

World of Warships is Wargaming’s finest vehicle combat game, but its free-to-play model is getting prohibitively expensive.

Provides nice visuals, new buildings, and some fun options for crafting and managing your city.

Blood Bowl 2 is the flashiest iteration of the game so far, but its dice rolls are frustrating, and its amble ruleset isn't introduced well to newcomers.

A punishing take on the Rogue-inspired genre, Bedlam is weird and colorful and stressful.

A worthy end to Dragon Age: Inquisition. A lengthy quest with a satisfying pay-off makes up for some unimaginative encounters.

A masterpiece of audio and visual design, SOMA is atmospheric, cerebral, and occasionally frustrating.

An exercise in heavenly multitasking that’s exhilarating alone but better with a friend.

Brilliant writing and puzzle design make this first expansion a success, although it's a little familiar in places. [Nov 2015, p.72]

Charming and accessible, but this is a game to play with the sound off while you're watching TV. [Nov 2015, p.62]

A cute chess set for 40K fans and an unusual twist on the classic game, but skip the campaign.

An excellent stab at a traditional point-and-click, but with classic problems holding it back.

Satisfying car combat and a beautiful wasteland mostly make up for repetitive melee combat and lackluster story.

AI flaws and a limp campaign let down an otherwise-accomplished RTS revival.

Type-0 certainly gets real-time combat right, but this port of an RPG that began on handheld is otherwise not much fun to play on PC.

The best Shadowrun to date, but the series is starting to go grey.

More of the same, but with an increased focus on combat and dungeons. If that appeals, The White March may be worth a visit.

Casual and silly yet still tense and exciting. It's a shame there's no online multiplayer.

Too brief and inconsequential to live up to expectations. One for Dragon Age lore obsessives and ardent completionists.

Satisfyingly freeform missions and rich systems to play with, set in one of the prettiest cyberpunk cities on PC.

A solid survival horror experience unfortunately plagued by bugs and control issues.

A vibrant presentation doesn’t save Sentris from a lack of depth or direction.

Fun, not-too-hard stealth puzzles that look great, wrapped up in a humdrum story with a boring protagonist.

Over quickly and hardly exhilarating, but illuminating in a way games rarely bother to be.

The pleasure of creative block-building meets the satisfaction of puzzle-solving. [Oct 2015, p.66]