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 Pony Island
Lowest review score: 10 Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
Score distribution:
1365 game reviews
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An interesting dystopian setting, combination of stealth and RPG games, with a rich environment waiting for you to explore it.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    This is still the good old Street Fighter, where the bouts are decided in the blink of an eye, flashy and difficult to master. It's not the most expansive fighting game content-wise, but Capcom will be adding free content throughout the year, making SFV a "gaming service" and without the need to release several different editions which would only segregate the audience. Street Fighter V has a very bright future.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Blade & Soul is a complete MMO package. The combat is excellent, it has a deep crafting system and highly developed PvE and PvP that are constantly being expanded. If you grew tired of the same old MMO formula, give this gem a try.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you have even a tiny bit of interest in this subject, you won't go wrong with buying Farming Simulator 17. And, admit it, it was about time to send that old FarmVille down the drain.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A sequel that improves upon nearly everything, providing tremendous amounts of fun for a not so tremendous price. 
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    If you loved what Stranger Things did with 80s, you will love this game. Retro text adventures are a hard thing to sell to modern generations, but this game knows how to do it.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It might not become the next eSports craze, but Fractured Space does manage to provide a zen experience that is so often absent from the multiplayer games.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The game that is borderline uncomfortable to play or even look at, Devil Daggers is a hellish nightmare in which its inhabitants and sounds will keep haunting you, but you’ll keep returning to it, trying to stay there for just a moment longer.
    • 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.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A prime example of "Easy to learn, hard to master" kind of a game, with hard, but extremely rewarding and challenging gameplay mechanics.
    • 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.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Torment excels at great narrative and storytelling, colorful characters and integrative quest lines. Wonderful and weird world of Numenera will soak you in for dozens of hours, but weak fight mechanics will definitely turn off some hardcore RPG players.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    RE: Village is a mixture of almost all previous Resident Evil elements, making the most of both survival horror and puzzle intensity, but with the primary stage being left for the more action-like nature of Resident Evil 4. It has some great story moments, sprinkled with a few lacklustre characters that are still overshadowed by its most notable characteristic – most detailed environment to date.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    How do you make a great aRPG? Just take everything fans love about the genre, gather core developers from Iron Lore Entertainment, take a pinch of Diablo and a hefty amount of Lovecraft, Barker and King. This is how you'll get Grim Dawn, a must-have game for every true dungeon-crawl fan.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Full Metal Rumble upgrades the Tiny Metal formula, making it an even deadlier time consumer than it ever was. It offers a great training for the mind while being entertaining at the same time. It is an echo of the Advance Wars legacy that delivers anything a fan would want, and so much more.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tokyo Dark Remembrance is a really interesting dark indie game that mixes point-and-click with visual novel story telling. Its rather casual approach will easily grab even new players. And its only faults come in the form of it being too short.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Wreckfest remains one of the best demolition racing games of the newer generation, made with love, grit and grind. It has a bit of a bland map design and a few tweaks here and there could make the career mode much more interesting, but at the same the time it is one of the most fun racing experiences, especially in multiplayer and with an excellent PS5 upgrade.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Bleeding Edge brings refreshments to the hero-shooter genre, with complex gameplay, variability in play-styles and crazy characters. Unfortunately, the content offered here is not much, and Ninja Theory should work on this aspect in the future.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite a slightly shallow and at times boring campaign, Eternal Lords expansion hits the spot in skirmish mode, where it matters the most. With more playable races, and more strategic options to choose from, this makes for a good expansion for an already great main game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Amount of work put in this game is incredible. It was hard to imagine that one game with combine classic FPS mechanics with supernatural abilities, but here we are. Bright Memory is a short but sweet experience, more of a demo than a game, but it will probably be compensated with the next planed game.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    It might not be the most original idea ever, but it is a solid twin-stick brawler with familiar elements from card games. And we just can't stop playing it.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A digital board game that puts you in a role of one of greedy, corrupted gremlins that fight each other over power and money. With intelligent design, amazing artwork and easy to grasp rules, this is a game worth buying. If only it wasn't lacking local multiplayer.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Great and fun homage to the retro shooters from the 90s
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Set in a dystopian post-apocalyptic world, Shardlight is another great point & click adventure game from Wadjet Eye that might not have the greatest graphics, but tells a grounded story of scary, but possible future of mankind.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Beautifully animated musical puzzle platformer made to make you feel good. Game full of heart, music, and colours.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    MW2 Campaign Remastered is everything you can expect from a remaster of one of the best CoD campaigns and FPS campaigns in general. It looks better, it feels better, even with its occasional audio issues. Still, it is a bit short, and unless you are a true fan or just nostalgic about those days you played it, it is hard to recommend to anyone else, due to its lack of multiplayer and lack of longevity.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Gorgeous and joyful adventure, a game that makes that warm, fuzzy feeling while you're playing it, Samorost 3 takes you on a surreal intergalactic voyage full to the brim with outlandish landscapes and characters.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Of many mainstream superheroes, Batman is among the darkest and most mature, which is the tone TellTale absolutely managed to hit. This is a great start to a potentially amazing season, with familiar gameplay but palpable atmosphere.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rad
    RAD brings us back to the 80s and 90s of the future, where the mutation is still good and it grants you the most insane powers that you can imagine. Can you utilize them to bring the power back to the people who already suffered the apocalypse twice? It's up to you to never surrender, in this imaginative and weird roguelike that is clearly not fine, but double the fine! Or just play it while waiting for Psychonauts 2, that should work fine as well.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    A must-play for fans of the Deponia series and adventure game fans in general. The latest in the Deponia series is as witty and gorgeous as its predecessors, but just on the verge of stretching the series too thin.

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