PLAY! Zine's Scores

  • Games
For 1,365 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 55% higher than the average critic
  • 8% same as the average critic
  • 37% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.6 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Cyberpunk 2077
Lowest review score: 10 Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
Score distribution:
1365 game reviews
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    If Kirby series could lay an egg, and you made an omelette with it, it would be Whipseey - a short breakfast that could use at least a bit more salt. It is an extremely tiny platformer with a few cheap deaths hidden around a corner, but still en enjoyable retro gaming hour for any fan of the old school.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Aside from its pretty graphics and realistic physics, there's not much that Dangerous Golf has to offer. The sheer chaos gets repetitive after a while and with no complexity in the gameplay department, this is a game that gets too dull too fast.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    In case you want to "get your hands dirty" and working on virtual farms is your kind of fun, it is clear that this game is the right choice for you. However if you are a newcomer to the series, the game will overwhelm you with the amount of details and hard to understand terminology.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    If it didn't say "Assassin's Creed" on the tin, we wouldn't be completely sure what we've played. Nor were Ubisoft sure where were they heading with this series.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The quality and your enjoyment of the game varies greatly during its running time, as Shadwen occasionally offers moments of gameplay brilliance while most of the time it just falls flat. If you do manage to endure it, you do get rewarded, but it is too high of a demand when playing the game feels more like a chore.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Star Wars: Episode I: Jedi Power Battles didn’t need a remaster, but it did deserve preservation. Unfortunately, aside from slightly enhanced graphics, little has changed or improved. The controls feel jankier than ever, and the same frustrations from years ago remain intact. That said, it might still shine as a co-op drinking game, taking a shot every time you're knocked down by a blaster shot. Or maybe not, someone could get poisoned.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Redfall is a major disappointment from a well-established studio that brought us the hit Dishonored. While I expected an immersive sim that would build on the phenomenal foundations of their previous games, I got a cookie-cutter looter shooter with an empty world, a non-existent story and very little fun. With the steep price attached to this title, I would not recommend it even with a fat discount.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is a disappointing mess, unworthy of a once great and unique racing franchise. It has great potential to become a fun driving game, but with its nonfunctional online-only campaign, lack of content and cars, and completely outdated visuals, it is really hard to recommend to anyone.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Building Have Feelings Too! is a game where charming looks, good presentation and the humoristic story is in a constant fight with average gameplay that doesn’t allow it to become something great.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    In front of us we now have first Dakar rally game in 15 years, and since we waited so long for it, we have mixed feelings and thoughts about it. Yes, we are grateful that somebody took it upon themselves to develop a game based on the most famous and grueling rally in the world, and we can see the effort that went into it, and small things that show the uniqueness of the rally, but on the other hand, it`s hard for a smaller company to make a great game for a rally of this scale, and it is really visible.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    South Park: Snow Day! Is a decent attempt at ‘’mixing things up’’, changing genres and stepping into a 3D plane, but it falls somewhat short of reaching that milestone of excellence. With its shallow gameplay and repetitive and poorly balanced combat, Snow Day!’s only saving grace is its 4-player co-op. It’s great for South Park fans, too.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Mechanicaly identical to Space Marine, Eternal Crusade feels like it should've stayed in the early access stage for a while. It will take a lot of fixing and a hefty price drop until we could recommend this side of the grimdark 40K universe.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Realpolitiks by Jujubee is a good concept that went astray at some point and lots of features in game could have been executed better. Constant pop-up windows with choices are annoying and repetitive, warfare is horrible and overall game is too simple and content lacking.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rogue Corps is an insult to the cult franchise. It downgrades and splatters the mud all over the once very fun and extremely hard run ’n’ gun gameplay, with its repetitive levels, enemies and irritating overheat mechanics.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Fallout 76 represents a big disappointment and the lowest point of the series so far. Riddled with bugs, repetitive and dull gameplay, nonexistent story and outdated graphics, it fails as a both multiplayer and singleplayer experience for fans and newcomers alike.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A shameful ending to a beloved series.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The new TMNT is a repetitive slog that is nowhere near the greatness of original comic nor cartoons and it's a real shame that Platinum Games let such an unpolished game out of their door.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A rather rough and rudimentary strategy game.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Shiny could've been a good game that would leave its mark in the platforming genre. It could've stood toe to toe with Meat boy, Mario and even Portal. It could have, but it doesn't.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Dynasty Warriors 9: Empires brought some novelty to the table, but it overall ended up being a big, soulless disappointment.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Big expectations and even bigger disappointment.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Plagued with flaws, this game could be at least decent if it only had a grain of charm. Somehow it misses all the elements it needs to have in order to be the game it wants to be, and can only appeal to the hardest of hardcore fantasy lovers out there.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    Rockstar dropped the ball on this remaster. The cars and other moving models look like plastic toys and the cities look like polished excrement. The contrast between the environment and the models is horrible and the list of bugs is long and obnoxious. Quality of life changes are the only redeeming part of this remaster that does no favours for fans or newcomers. Skip it until they either fix it or let the moders do their job.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    A game that strips the concept of turn-based strategy to its bare bones, without an intriguing story, but with a tedious grind that will turn the player away very soon.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Vane is a storm of impressions. A beautiful and intriguing journey through innovation and mystery, plagued with bad camera angles, glitches and low framerate. Yet, it somehow manages to keep your sense of wonder over most of its flaws, and be an amazing and breathtaking, but sadly, a short title.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Devil’s Hunt is one hunt not worth going on in this game. It is shrouded in a myriad of technical, gameplay, and even voice issues. The story is even half-told and it is expected to be finished in a sequel. Avoid for now.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    A really great idea for a horror game, but it simply fails to deliver. Boring gameplay, bad voice acting and a lot more.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    If we take away blood and violence, we’ll be left with an empty shell with rewind mechanics. After first hour it becomes extremely boring and repetitive. Do not play this if you are fan of the movie.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Shallow and empty with nothing to keep you interested.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    The best thing about Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash is the fact it’s one of the very few video games based on the renowned anime franchise. The rest of it is mediocre, dull, stiff and repetitive. A few solid moments in the pile of sad and poor content makes this a hard game to recommend, but an easy one not to.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Supposedly, Bombshell started its life as a Duke Nukem game, yet studio never managed to acquire the license. We're not sure how that game would have turned out, but it probably wouldn't be such an unfinished, bland and painfully unfunny mess as this game.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    All the violence and shock value can’t hide the mediocre game behind it.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    With the news that WWE games will take a new route regarding the development of their games, we were all skeptical about the future result. Sadly, with the game out now, it is much worse.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Short and boring, with a story that is, to put it simply - bad historical fiction.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Well, at least it an RTS. It has that as a plus side, but nothing else.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 30 Critic Score
    It may have a few interesting mechanics up its sleeve, but Babylon’s Fall manages to be one of the least interesting titles we have played as of late. And if you add astoundingly bad visual presentation on top of bland gameplay, you get a mixture that is hard to believe came from such a renowned developer and publisher. Not many will enjoy this one.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Swimmy camera combined with lock on shooting is a recipe for disaster for a game in which you quickly lose all interest. The territory you need to investigate is large, but without a corresponding map, this experience is much less enjoyable.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Serving as an homage to the good old Metal Gear Solid, Spy Drops offers a great retro experience. Unfortunately it suffers from a lot of issues ranging from repetitiveness, poor camera, to very unintuitive controls.
    • 39 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The game has a really interesting world, lore, and story, that could easily get you into playing it. But the gameplay aspects, from a fixed camera, broken combat and save system, a bundle of bugs and boring monsters, drag the game into the ground.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Left Alive is a reason to question the reason. A game to question taste and good will among gamers. It is not a superb title, it's clunky, unpolished and can drive you insane, but there is just that one weird part of it that could make it up to you... It's surprisingly cool, for reasons unknown. If you consider yourself a brave man, give it a go. You just may find something worth your while.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Too many bugs and overall lack of optimization prevents Flashback 2 from being at least a decent new entry and sequel to such a legendary series. Give the game a chance only if you are a die hard fan and you have the patience to suffer through its multiple issues.
    • 34 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    It may be free and as some of its aspects are concerned, fairly fun to play. But on the other hand, eFootball 2022 is plagued with horrible bugs and glitches, graphical monstrosities and outdated physics. As a whole, it is something you may enjoy in a short run. But in this state, if the game is not improved, Konami may change the price from “free” to “paying us back” – it still won't save the poor franchise.
    • 33 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    As if Gollum hasn't had his fair share of suffering, Daedalic Entertainment has decided that we have to share some more with him. Unfortunately, a potentially intriguing angle of storytelling and an ever-interesting world this time falls short in every sense imaginable - crashes that occur more often than you can count, unpolished gameplay, inconsistent voice acting and storytelling... Sadly, there are a few things more precious than your time - the time you could spend elsewhere, not playing a game that has lost its direction and, unfortunately, turned out plain bad.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    This is a 3D puzzle game in which you have to play vignettes in order to reach the puzzles. Creating team dabbled with every type of game genre they could have, and created this Frankengame.
    • 19 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    The real horror is where this franchise is heading. Alone in the Dark Illumination is an abomination of a video game that you should avoid.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Great use of a license. Everything we know and love about Zen Pinball games, this time on a Portal table.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This table might not be as hilarious as the movie it was based on, but it offers a good amount of fun for the price.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Dreamy and melancholic visuals and soundtrack of River od Alice are easy to admire, but unfortunately, game is lacking meaningful story and contextuality. Some puzzles are great, but others can be quite frustrating, which can be a stumbling stone for more casual players.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    These are, without a doubt, the best Star Wars pinball tables Zen Studios has created to date, standing toe to toe with their Portal Pinball.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Using the full potential of VR technology, Esper 2 immerses you into its fantasy worlds, offering plethora of intriguing and varied puzzles set in 3D space. If only it lasted longer, it would be our favorite VR game so far.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Entering its third season, Killer Instinct has finally reached PC audience in its best incarnation to date. A fighting game that will please different player profiles, KI is a spectacular game that runs butter-smooth, with great netcode and one of the best tutorials we've ever seen in genre.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Another great set of tables by Zen Studios, a trio of pinballs that's an obvious recommendation to fans of Alien saga. This pack offers dozens of hours of hectic fun even to players who have less interest in the source material, considering these are among the most challenging pinballs the studio has produced to date.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Interesting concept, fun gameplay with huge variety, simple and clear rules are what makes Boss Monster a great game for when you're looking for a head to head card-based experience. Minor bugs and DLC annoyances do bring its score, and enjoyment, down by a notch.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Even with seven-year-old graphics, Shadow Complex looks and runs great, with fluid animations and sprawling levels that any metroidvania game dreams of. This is an essential game for every metroidvania fan.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    An investment in nearly endless amounts of fun, Drawful 2 is a definitive party game for up to 8 players that's so easy to grasp, so everyone can play. Its low price is a perfect reason not to miss this little gem.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    BetaDwarf not only managed to create an addictive base game, but they hit it out of the park with a DLC that properly expands the experience. Settsa might get a nerf at one point, but it's tremendously fun to play.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    By all accounts an average game, Lost Sea doesn't excel neither in its gameplay department, nor visual presentation. It is an entry game for beginners to the action RPG genre, but even they could find a much better experiences elsewhere.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Even though it looks cute and offers fun gameplay, My Night Job fails to offer any longevity and the player will drop it right after the first hour or two.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Run, jump, squash your foes, grab some coins then repeat. A formula so simple, but it still works like a charm. For the entry price, Goblin and Coins is one cute distraction.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hockey is returning to your local PC and is Super Bloody good. Fast paced, atmospheric, a tad violent, and completely retro, Super Blood Hockey will provide you with tons of fun, even if you are not a fan of the sport.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Real Farm is just another farm simulator with some interesting field monitoring mechanics, but it doesn’t differ much from the core formula and other games in the genre.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    If you like Metroidvania games, this one is a must play.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bravium is a hero defense RPG with strong emphasis on resource management and grinding, but surprisingly without microtransactions. Although the game is distributed via Steam, UI is made for mobile devices and lacks flexibility on PC. Best element of this game is that anyone can play it while doing something else and have fun.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Remnants of Naezith is a great game for speedrunners, and also for people who like being angry over a game. All jokes aside, this is a great fast-paced platformer with some great and refreshing elements and nice electro beats. You won’t be sorry.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Still Not Dead is a perfect game if you want to relive the days from the original DOOM era. A really challenging game with brilliant system of curses and blessings, and being chased by Death is a unique experience, if you don’t count real life, of course.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    Really simple yet crazy game with all sorts of funny and amusing mechanics. But its physics can stand in the way of good fun, and cause you to rage. Pewdiepie collaborated in making of this game so expect plenty of memes, and the best part is that community is making amazing new levels to play daily
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    This is a punishing and often not a fair title, but it still offers enough to invite all the challenge seekers out there. Not the greatest of the genre, but still quite enjoyable - if you can take all its ruthless punishments.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    No hints-guessing has never been this fun! Though it's still not all that fun. But it is charming and makes you giggle a bit, so that counts as well! If you have an hour to spare, enter the haunted mansion... if you dare.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Interesting combination of gameplay mechanics and advanced level editor are good, but lack of servers really hurts multiplayer aspect of the game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Clumsily narrated yet strongly delivered tale, told through the eyes of a seeking fox and set in a gorgeous dream-world, The First Tree is an hour long video game you will not forget for some time after beating it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Energy Cycle Edge has a simple yet complex concept that will test your wits to the fullest. That is, if you find it interesting at all. It has no setting and no explanations, which equals to next to no reason to play it.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    This grinding-cooking game truly is a recipe to make you smile. It's simple and full of grinding but warm and positive at the same time. It will truly make you feel good and pass the time like a pro. But don't let it pass too much, life is short you know!
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Paratopic is a lo-fi horror game that represents golden PS1 era with its style, graphics and ability to complete it in one sitting.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Nice idea, but really poor execution. Overall bad production, gameplay that quickly become boring and DOA multiplayer.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Hide and Seek acts as a prequel to Hello Neighbor, game that got quite popular amongst streamers because of its horror elements, which are absent this time. You play a game of hide and seek between brother and sister, and main goal is to collect objects required for further progression and not get caught. It's a fun game but nothing really new.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Fear the Wolves brings many great ideas on the Battle Royale table, but executes them quite poorly. PvPvE and radioactive zones are a good addition but don't work quite well with low number of players.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    The best thing about this game is its beauty, from the first to the last second of it you simply get to enjoy watching art deco stained glass puzzles with their vibrant colors. It is a gaming equivalent to a day under a blanket with a hot chocolate cup in your hands sifting through book pages on a rainy day.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 35 Critic Score
    Coffence introduces some genuine interesting ideas to the genre but fails to deliver on them, presenting players with flawed and really shortlived package to play with.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Not a Beat Saber with blasters in any way, but still a really simplistic yet enjoyable, rollercoaster-like experience not for the faint of heart. If you are in any way into fast and challenging shooters, do not miss this simple and exciting ride. It can really get you hooked.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Back to parodic RPG basics, fun for all us nerds. Play it on Switch or mobile, not really for PS4 though.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Hell Warders brings a twist to tower defense genre where you can jump in with your unique character and directly fight of the hordes of hell. This game is much more enjoyable when played with friends in co-op, but sadly there are no dedicated servers.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Mango Cart is an unfinished product that is an insult to the game-making industry and presents laziness and cash grab in its full glory.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The unique and beautiful art style of the previous games in the series is raised to the next level in Lorelai. Unfortunately, games fail to capture the same psychologically dark and disturbing atmosphere of the first 2 games, but it's still a great game!
    • tbd Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A gorgeous puzzle solving game with occasional battles. A rare gem in which both kids and grownups can fully immerse themselves with completely different views on the story.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Easy and fun party game. Nothing spectacular but it does not miss the point of fun gaming.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    A unique combination of falling block mechanics and platformer elements that will keep you occupied for quite some time.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Great combat mechanics and immersive story, but sometimes frustrating levels can get really annoying when you can beat them.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This standalone expansion is not worth the asking price, but if you played Martyr and liked it, Prophesy will be a great addition to your 40k library during a Steam sale.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wreckin Ball Is best played with friends or family. The game offers a lot of crazy levels and some impressive physics mechanics.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Vault-Tec won’t save you now! Grab your loved ones, or not, and as many supplies as you can and pray to the gods of RNG that you will live to see the post-apocalyptic future!
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It’s Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes but you’re in Hell, and instead of defusing bombs, you’re exorcising demons. Grab a buddy to play with, make yourself comfortable and decipher the Book of Rituals as you put Satan’s spawn back to its place through seven unique rituals.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Rebel Cops is a really good tactical strategy spinoff of the "This is the Police“ franchise, though it doesn’t add anything new. But, you will get a lot of bang for your buck.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Hack and stab your way around as your mercenary heart finds fit. This is a nice action RPG fitting for Nintendo Switch. It has neatly polished animation and is just fun to play.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Great visual design and detailed progression system, but gameplay can quickly become repetitive and tedious.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    PC community finally got a great game that offers advanced tools for level creation as in the Super Mario Maker franchise. Million to One Hero offers the ability to create your own stories and adventures and include dialogues filled with humor.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Sumo Warrior dancing party sounds like ridiculous fun, unfortunately, Tetsumo party only serves ridiculous boredom.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    3rd Eye offers quite simple gameplay with interesting story and art style with some really serious psychological theme.
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    • 45 Critic Score
    A mobile game disguised as a switch game. Story of a Gladiator has some depth hidden but never shown.
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    • 55 Critic Score
    Seemingly an innocent, cutesy and easygoing game, Woven offers lots of stuff to do, for the younger part of the gaming audience. Yet an eerie feeling may surprise a few of you veteran gamers out there. As the clunky animations and clumsy looking characters, seem almost intentional. Almost as if to promise a surprise in form of an animatronic Freddy, that seeks to catch you off guard.
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    • 75 Critic Score
    There is no school like the old school! This game brings out the nostalgic arcade feels in the best way imaginable. Try every rocket and power up imaginable to be the last rocket flying, or the rocket with most kills on your belt, to be the Nuke King or plain spaceball champion. The universe at your gunpoint! Play it with friends, single-player is not really where it shines the brightest.

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