Hektor's level design mind games are cool, but its 90 minutes of jump scares would be better spent on so many other horror games.

If you've never played an Oddworld, this is the best place to start. [Apr 2015, p.56]

Beautiful, well-written, and with an exciting finish, this is a strong start for Inquisition DLC.

A deep, rich, and wonderfully written RPG that lives up to the towering legacy of the games that inspired it.

A worthy upgrade to one of the best strategy games ever, featuring the best space battles in the business.

The excellently revised camera system and eerie villain makes Five Nights at Freddy’s 3 one of the better scare-fests out there.

A hard campaign (if you play on the hardest mode) and breakneck multiplayer are a good time, if often infuriating.

I love the new snowy setting, and there are some fun moments here, but ultimately Valley of the Yetis plays it too safe.

A great looking game, but its beauty is only skin deep.

Starships isn’t terrible, but it isn’t the polished product you’d expect from a studio with Firaxis’ history. Comparing it to its full-scale PC competitors, like Endless Space and GalCiv is cruel, as it’s sub-par in every single regard: unbalanced, repetitive, badly explained, rather ugly, with a dreadful mobile phone UI, and buggy as hell. Even judged against Firaxis’ other mobile games, Civ: Rev and Ace Patrol, this is small and crude.

Challenging and gorgeous, Ori is a classic platforming genre modernized and done strikingly well. Use a controller and save often.

The imperative to cash in on Black Flag is transparent, but as it turns out a location swap works wonders for igniting the hooded pirate in you again.

Restrictive design decisions sap the energy from a series that revels in it, and technical issues deal the killing blow.

A handful of flaws, but this fun and addictive city-builder still climbs high.

LA Cops has some cool ideas, but the frustratingly shoddy execution works completely at odds with the experience the game is trying to create.

A so-so start to this new series. The multiple character stuff is interesting, but weak shooting and bland environments let it down.

A solid, if thin puzzle game, with not quite as much to say as it thinks it has.

Beautiful and creative, but controls and design issues often drag it from challenging to frustrating.

There’s a lot to parse, but understanding the nuances of Frozen Cortex reveals a deep strategic experience that stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Frozen.

A fun, unconventional RPG with interesting new ideas that aren’t entirely overshadowed by its repetitive nature and stale combat.

A refreshingly asymmetrical FPS with terrific competitive depth, but the thrill of the hunt eventually begins to wane.

A barbarous twist on Rome II, with a handful of fixes.

Wonderful writing resting on top of infirm foundations. Almost a classic, Sunless Sea falls a few leagues short of its final destination.

Life is Strange elegantly meshes time-travelling with nostalgia-riddled teen drama, producing a sympathetic debut.

Phallic imagery and sore wrists don’t stop this from being uniquely charming. Definitely worth a few quid and a few hours of your time.

A great game, unimpressively updated. Get the bigger, cheaper version instead.

Gravity Ghost hits the notes of big-budget platformers on a smaller scale; its story fumbles along the way, but it's short and sweet.

Despite a clunky story and technical performance, there's a lot of fun to be found in dashing and dodging through a zombie-filled city.