PLAY! Zine's Scores

  • Games
For 1,364 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 Returnal
Lowest review score: 10 Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV
Score distribution:
1364 game reviews
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    • 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.
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    • 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.
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    • 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.
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    • 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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    • 65 Critic Score
    The Park is a short, well written psychological horror that has a few unfortunate mechanics and cheap jump scares, but delivers quite a punch with the story's strong sides. It may not be the peak of the genre, but for an hour or two of the length it offers, it should keep you intrigued and entertained enough.
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    • 35 Critic Score
    Touring Karts in VR is a nightmare. Hit detection issues, dizzy turning and overall janky performance, make this a much more pleasant experience with the PSVR headset off of your head. Which kills the entire point of this being a VR game, but at least delivers a... Slow-paced, boring and uninventive experience, where only a few points hit the mark, and the rest is just not worth your while. Better luck next time, VR racing games.
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    • 45 Critic Score
    A tower defence game that tired, but ultimately failed. It is unfinished and hopefully, we will see a better game with updates in the future.
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    • 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.
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    • 90 Critic Score
    Search for hidden objects through time, hide them yourself later. It is a short but immensely fun and relaxing game.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    A solid contender for the title of the best new age arena style shooter. Weird concept with little balls running around, shooting at eachother, but other than that, solid fun, good weapons, nice mechanics and free to play.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    Most appealing aspect of Spinch is its incredible psychedelic platforming. Platformer full of colors and incredible colors with a really interesting style. If you prefer visuals over gameplay, you should not look over Spinch.
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    • 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.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    Mysterious trilogy is a great intro to the Atelier world because not only does it get rid of the time limit but also gives you a more personal story and interesting characters to meet. The DX version that’s been ported also comes with a plethora of additional content that is worth exploring and getting the whole pack together.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Reknum Cheri Dreamland is an action platformer with a couple of quality elements that are simply sedated by the rest of the game. Nothing motivates the player in this poor man’s Cuphead wannabe title, so all that is good about it simply serves as a reason to torture yourself some more by playing it. Not all is bad, but seeking quality is hardly worth all the trouble.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    The Definitive Edition is an attempt at a quick cash grab while there is still some love for the franchise. The limiting two-player couch co-op, the lower resolution visuals and no new features are not something to fault the Switch console for, but at least you get all of the DLCs.
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    • 90 Critic Score
    Grindstone is an awesome arcade puzzler in match-3 style. Its cartoonish visuals with refreshing gameplay are more than enough to make it a must play for every fan of arcade games.
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    • 90 Critic Score
    Son of a Witch looks like a cute little game, but it quickly starts to show its true, challenging form. Great game with deep gameplay mechanics, optional multiplayer, and a lot of replay value.
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    • 80 Critic Score
    If you are into combining genres that include point and click adventures and card based RPG titles, yet are undeniably in love with dark and strange Slavic folklore, look no further. Black Book is a game you should not miss for the world. In any other scenario, you should at least give it a chance. It surely is not your everyday game.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Guild of Darksteel has a couple of interesting ideas and a strong atmosphere, but it falls short when it comes to combat. Not to mention the promises it seems to silently made to the player and then fails to deliver. Repetitiveness, cryptic systems and mechanics prevent this game from truly shining. Ultimately, Darksteel remains to be a little bit too dark.
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    • 70 Critic Score
    As a cooperative horde shooter with friends it’s a great and fun time. If you are a fan and want to enjoy it with friends it’s a good buy. But if you are looking for the horror element of Aliens there is not much and most of it is rather repetitive and gets tedious.
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    • 50 Critic Score
    The idea is there, it's decent, but it boils down to random connecting of clues just to get some further insight. Another thing that slows down the enjoyment is the very bland characters and plots.
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    • 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.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Another good retro Resident Evil style horror survivor game that is plagued with a plentitude of issues, bugs, and baffling design choices. Maybe after a few patches and feature modifications, Them and Us may become a truly great game.
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    • 90 Critic Score
    Rogue Tower is a great minimalistic game combining roguelike and tower defence mechanics. This game provides you with countless hours of playtime, or at least until you develop the ultimate strategy for defence. Procedural generation helps in this regard, which is why Rogue Tower has a very high replay value.

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