PLAY! Zine's Scores
- Games
For 1,365 reviews, this publication has graded:
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55% higher than the average critic
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8% same as the average critic
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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: | Pony Island | |
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| Lowest review score: | Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 871 out of 1365
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Mixed: 425 out of 1365
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Negative: 69 out of 1365
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Great use of a license. Everything we know and love about Zen Pinball games, this time on a Portal table.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Jun 29, 2015
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New FIFA installment, does not bring much to the table of the hungry fans. Yet, the new VOLTA mode brings quite enough to justify this year's release. A few upgrades and minor setbacks, make FIFA 20 a football simulation - still worth playing. At least until the next generation, this one will have to suffice.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Oct 16, 2019
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Project CARS delivers on its promise. Slightly Mad Studios made a game that has enough unique elements in a genre where innovation is not something we see often. A must play for any driving game enthusiast.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Jun 29, 2015
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GreedFall is bursting with intrigue, good quest design, and interesting world to support it, but sadly suffers from sluggish controls and lackluster design choices and bugs. It still manages to overshadow most of those flaws with its narrative and present a satisfying experience to the players.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Oct 16, 2019
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Yumia marks a bold new chapter for the Atelier series—not just with its true open-world design, but through a noticeable shift toward classic JRPG mechanics and a step back from the series’ traditional alchemy-focused systems. It also takes a more serious and darker narrative turn, setting it apart from the lighthearted and whimsical tone of previous entries.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted May 7, 2025
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A brilliant return to the golden age of arcade fighting games, this collection brings together eight carefully selected 2D and 3D classics. Beyond the excellent lineup, the collection features a wealth of visual settings, polished presentation, and solid online support with stable netcode. It’s a restoration that shows great respect for the originals. If you’re into retro fighting games and want to play them the right way—this collection is a knockout.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Jun 10, 2025
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Elderand is an excellent mix of Metroidvania and hack 'n' slash gameplay. It feels like a dark fantasy medieval Mega Man with some fresh touches. If you are a genre fan, you will surely have a blast playing it.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Mar 9, 2023
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Surprisingly fun gameplay and some nice humor will stick you to this game for quite some time.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Jun 9, 2017
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Man of Medan is the first entry in what should be a series of horror games based on urban legends in the Dark Pictures Anthology. It combines all the classic elements from choice and consequence adventures and puts them into an uneasy environment, where nobody of the main characters is safe. It has flaws in the terms of camera and exploration features, but it can be a very solid beginning to something new in the horror gaming genre.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Oct 8, 2019
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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.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Oct 16, 2019
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Tchia is a great game to get you acquainted with New Caledonia, but even more to get you relaxed. Charming graphics and some really strong atmospheric moments make this world a joy to explore. The lack of strong story direction may put you off from playing it, but if you are the laid-back kind, it is an experience you surely will remember for a long time.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Apr 7, 2023
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With its striking stop-motion-like visuals, rich folklore-inspired world, and atmospheric soundtrack, South of Midnight offers a unique and memorable journey. A slightly repetitive yet distinctive Southern Gothic action-adventure, it delivers a simple, satisfying, and a hauntingly beautiful exploration experience.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted May 7, 2025
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Putting together the best elements from old classics and newer titles, this is probably one of the best RE's available.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Jun 9, 2017
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Dry Drowning is not a perfect game but successfully presents itself as a typical, but intriguing cyberpunk noir visual novel that will provide you with at least some fun time, despite its cliché tropes and translation issues.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Oct 8, 2019
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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.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Dec 2, 2019
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Whether you're looking for several hours of mystery and drama or just a magnificent world to explore, do yourself a favor and spare a few hours of your time to experience Firewatch.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Mar 7, 2016
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Trials Rising is the latest game in the series, and possibly most fun of them all. The excitement I felt as a kid when I played Kickstart 2 on C64 is there, the fun of previous games in the series is there, great additions in form of customization, level building and welcoming community are there. All in all, Trials Rising is a great game!- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Mar 29, 2019
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Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is a stellar remaster that goes far beyond just visual enhancements, delivering a wealth of gameplay refinements and quality-of-life improvements. It’s an essential experience for longtime fans and a surprisingly welcoming entry point for newcomers to the series.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted May 7, 2025
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Control is one weird, surreal and astonishing experience. While it is lacklustre in some areas of gameplay and possesses some performance issues, it is a prime example in environmental storytelling and clever subtle narrative that encounters some thought-provoking themes.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Oct 8, 2019
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Sweet, but short as cup of an espresso. In the time where it seems that adventures are a dead genre, it's good to see anything that resembles on them. And that's about it. Find the chips bag murderer and don't fall in love with hippo. Madness, but a good one.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Jan 27, 2020
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Like a Dragon: Ishin! is a delightful remake of a Yakuza spin-off that genuinely does the original justice, expanding on the combat and making it even more fun. It offers an exciting murder mystery story and crazy side activities that may be a bit more serious this time (just a tad, though).- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Mar 9, 2023
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3D puzzle game in which you move three instruments trying to form a band. Somewhere along with the storyline you also become a space and movement strategizing guru. I wholeheartedly recommend it to all puzzle loving gamers.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Dec 2, 2019
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An ode to joy. Unravel is a relaxing game that strikes a chord with many of its players. It is a calm, joyous adventure with not so complex puzzles nor gameplay, yet adorable little voyage you'll gladly take.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Mar 7, 2016
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Blades of Fire tortured me physically, but that is my problem. I could not get in grip with the controls, I had trouble with the outline colors, and I could not get my muscle memory to get used to the control scheme. However, if we take all these personal issues away, Blades of Fire is a sleeper hit that will find its audience, even though it was not me.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Jul 7, 2025
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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.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Sep 7, 2016
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Blasphemous is a visceral, morbid, gory metroidvania that has beautiful artwork, design and is coupled with challenging but fair gameplay and platforming. However, the world that enthralled me needed more lore to keep me overwhelmed- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Oct 16, 2019
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Little Big Workshop is a cute little tycoon game that presents more complexity than it initially shows. With its original design and some nice refined crafting systems, it will show you a couple of hours of fun, even with its minor flaws that can spike out to surface from time to time.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Dec 2, 2019
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The game that will make you genuinely uneasy, Layers of Fear uses more subtle scare tactics to induce paranoia into the player, building a heavy atmosphere during its rather short runtime.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Mar 7, 2016
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Automachef is a really fine and simple automatics system puzzler game. Even with its abundance of options and menus, which can be its good and bad thing. It is still a fine game with its price tag and offers hours of problem-solving missions.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Oct 8, 2019
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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.- PLAY! Zine
- Posted Mar 29, 2019
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