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
    • 76 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Imperator: Rome is another showmanship of Paradox’s greed that is manifested through their DLC politics. In its core, it is a good game with some intuitive ideas that are resolved through a very interesting time period, but it falls short in almost all fields where its mechanics are clearly left unfinished for some DLCs to fulfil them.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The game is for SAO fans primarily, and everyone else not even secondary but way in the back. There is a huge amount of story and dialogue and some times, not enough clunky combat as it is.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    FM26 delivers meaningful tactical upgrades and smoother on-pitch action, but sacrifices too many beloved features in the transition to a new engine, leaving the game feeling promising yet noticeably incomplete.
    • 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.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    If you are into rockets shooting rockets at other rockets, while chaotically flying through an open space avoiding obstacles, look no further. It is a short fun but fun no less. Oh and it has some really nice music! For the price it's asking, it offers a fair deal.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Shallow and empty with nothing to keep you interested.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story offers a great concept of running a hero school, but delivers it in much more humble fashion than it may seem. A simple combat and repetitive gameplay, won't hook you for days. But for what charm it has, Valthirian Arc is something you should at least try out for a little while.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The game might offer some fun moments, but as a whole, it can’t even try to compete with similar titles, such as Portal.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    With its galore of tropes and cliche characters, new Star Ocean can barely satisfy even the biggest fans of the franchise.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Monotone missions and uninventive enemies, combined with bad AI, makes this game more of a chore than enjoyment.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Boring and rushed experience, probably just to promote the new movie.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Since standard WWE 2K21 is not coming out, we got Battleground, a more arcade-y approach to the WWE universe. Sadly Battlegrounds has basically the same problems as previous iterations. Microtransactions, bugs, dull gameplay throw shadow on a good try to refresh the franchise.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    AO Tennis 2 is a blatant rehash of AO International Tennis, posing as a false new game. It improves bits of gameplay and career by a really small margin, but still prevails in its weird and unrealistic gameplay that is neither arcadey nor simulation-based. It never tries to rise above it and just presents basic and lazy short-term tennis experience.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    The Collider 2 is a fun little game that can provide a couple of hours of entertainment, especially if you're a fan of endless runners and high speed, although there are myriad of problems with the execution and the VR implementation could've been better. [VR Tested]
    • 63 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Is there a sin more sinful than taking away the charms of a great game? Implementing an awesome PvP multiplayer into this one would most definitely raise the verdict a notch. But this way... It's only a bleak experience.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    It’s such a shame that underneath this amazing art style we have an average game on all the other key elements.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    “They told me I would get a steak and I got a tuna sandwich. No matter how much I love eating tuna sandwich I want my damned steak.”
    • 62 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Sometimes, Mafia 3 is a glimpse of what could've been an amazing, immersive game. At other times it’s a buggy, unoptimized mess that should've stayed at the drawing board for at least two more years.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Megaton Rainfall is an interesting concept and good idea on a paper, but in reality things are not so great. Mediocre gameplay and solid graphics with story that is rather nonexistent are not worth your time.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 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.
    • 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.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Phoenix Point should be the spiritual successor to the XCOM games, but it only presents itself with some big staggering issues on top of its innovative and fun gameplay ideas. In the current state, it is so poorly balanced and riddled with bugs, its hard to recommend it, while only hope remains that the developers will fix some of these problems in future patches.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A rhythm game with great visuals but too little to back them up. Dodgeball is just a theme here, and the action is simple. Well, at least music and visuals are nice for a single walkthrough and a few local multiplayer matches. Just don't expect too much.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Aside from generic zombie survival theme, Deadline is a watered-down spin-off of its much better predecessor, riddled with bugs and framerate issues that should've been ironed-out during Early Access stage.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    You may see a Minecraft themed racing game, but all I see is the lowest replay value racing game I've ever played. For the length of its fun, the joy is real. But as soon as you lose tracks to discover (and friends to play with), there is next to nothing to look for in this game.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Buried beneath a pile of technical issues, memory leaks, and broken textures, there’s a good Borderlands game struggling to shine through. However, at this point in time, I cannot in good conscience recommend this game. This is a shame since the game is a fun looter shooter at its core, with a pedigree that started this genre but did not innovate enough. Tiny Tina’s spinoff had more ideas and progressed the genre further than the official sequel to the franchise.
    • 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.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    What could potentially be one of the best kart games out there is sadly plagued by a heavy microtransaction system. We say "could“ because even if there were no microtransactions, many other elements would need a lot more polish. This is especially obvious when it comes to a not so great track design and clunky driving. Yet if you are a huge fan of the series and don’t mind spending some additional money on the game you’ve already paid for, give this one a go. There are still things to love in this package.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    The effect is actually plain, as under the hood of pretty visuals lies a not so fun to experience gameplay. There are a number of things one can enjoy here, but for the most part it is a journey that will make you treasure your own commute so much more.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    A shameful ending to a beloved series.

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