PlayGround.ru's Scores

  • Games
For 209 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 47% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.6 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 73
Highest review score: 100 GRIS
Lowest review score: 30 Agony
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 15 out of 209
209 game reviews
    • 97 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Red Dead Redemption 2 shows us what modern open world games should look like. It offers a huge Wild West world where you'll want to stay as long as possible.
    • 94 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    God of War has never been so good.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 98 Critic Score
    The best thing about Divinity: Original Sin 2 is that the game amazes you until the very end. Larian Studios has managed to set a new standard for modern CRPGs.
    • 93 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is like The Avengers from the world of fighting games.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    For modern players, Shadow of the Colossus may seem blank and dull, but for those who enjoyed it back in 2005 it will be a great nostalgic journey to the past.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 97 Critic Score
    I spent a week in Raccoon City, fighting for survival, solving puzzles, exploring locations to increase my firepower, and resisting the most powerful threats of this challenging game. Having finished the review, I will again return to the city of darkness and despair.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Monster Hunter: World is a truly unique game where grinding is actually an interesting process.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The new game from the creators of FTL: Faster Than Light gives you the best tactical experience you can imagine.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a merciless game that thirsts after the gamer's blood and inflicts physical pain. You will suffer. You will darn yourself, the game and its developers, but you will not be able to stop playing as Sekiro will become an obsession. But as much as it takes from the player, it returns as much with every victory. If you are willing to commit yourself to torture, you will repeatedly experience the feeling close to catharsis or nirvana plunging your blade in the body of the defeated.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    War of the Chosen is a perfect DLC for an already great game. It gives you answers to many questions and brings many new mechanics, making the game even deeper.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    When one rival put on weight, grew a bushy beard and decided to raise his son in the Northern bewilderness, the other chose a pair of stylish high-heels a couple sizes too small and the third now only appears to smash some oversized ta-tas, Devil May Cry 5 is proving that it is too early to put hack'n slash games out of commission. It's a gorgeous, glorious game of great current interest. A crown jewel from Capcom's most skilled goldsmiths.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    With its huge dialogues and deep character development system, Pillars of Eternity 2 has everything true fans of classic RPGs love so much.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Currently Forza Horizon 4 is the best and the most beautiful arcade racing game on PC.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Subnautica proves that sandbox games don't actually need any kind of multiplayer to be successful.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Dragon Ball FighterZ is an easy to learn and spectacular fighting game. Despite its seeming simplicity, it has a lot of hidden potential for experienced players to uncover.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    An excellent game set in Marvel Universe that unfortunately has some strange mini-games and weak boss fights.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    We wanted more, and we got it. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus may not look as fresh as The New Order was back in 2014, but it's still a perfect old school first-person shooter.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Sundered is another example of a good concept that was poorly realized. During the first five minutes the game is nice, but after that you have to force yourself to play it.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 96 Critic Score
    Cuphead not only sounds and looks perfect, but also brings nostalgia for classic run and gun games and even older cartoons.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    The PC version of Yakuza 0 is a real gift to those who don't want to buy a console for some reason.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Despite having some bugs, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds offers a truly unique and diverse gaming experience.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    If you are tired of big and complicated MOBA games and want something small and fast-paced, try Battlerite.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Despite all its shortcomings, Destiny 2 is an incredible online shooter and a great sequel.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    The final episode turned out to be so good that you can easily forget about the unsuccessful first season.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    SEGA did it best to make Yakuza Kiwami 2 appeal not only to fans of the series, but to everyone.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Valkyria Chronicles 4 is a perfect comeback of the series after a not so good Valkyria Revolution.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The new faction brought by Rise of the Tomb Kings doesn't look like anything else in the game. It offers a unique playstyle, making this DLC one of the best in the series.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Frostpunk gives you an intense and truly dramatic experience. The game is so immersive that you can literally play it all day long.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The main problem with Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is its underdeveloped main character. The game is good, but it doesn't stand against previous entries to the franchise.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    SoulCalibur VI is trying very hard to be not only a fighting game, but fights are actually the best part of it.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    This game will not become the new Super Meat Boy, but it is an excellent hardcore platformer you will love through hate.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    A true indie gem.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    FIFA 18 literally launches fireworks into the sky. The game is a real football holiday, and this year it's no less bright than before.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Two Point Hospital may not be as great as Theme Hospital was two decades ago, but it still offers a lot of fun.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    A great FPS that offers a lot of content for those who enjoy different kinds of online battles.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice is a morally challenging game that will give you an experience only videogames can provide. The more you play it, the more it plays you.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    An interesting combination of brutality and tenderness.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Improved physics and new animations make this year's FIFA more realistic than ever before.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Assassin's Creed Odyssey is a great game that struggles to become larger than it actually needs to be.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hitman 2 improves everything that was introduced in the previous game. Looks like IO Interactive has found a perfect new recipe for the series.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Project CARS 2 offers more content than its predecessor, but the game's physics have a lot of problems that need to be fixed.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Football Manager 2018 is a nice football simulator that suffers from the lack of competition in the genre.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A unique example of a sports simulator in which you do not always want to win.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    In the end you experience emotional exhaustion, relief and light sadness at the same time. This is normal when you complete any great journey, even if it has happened in a video game.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A courier job in real life is not very diverse or addictive, and it seemed that an attempt to build the entirety of its gameplay on such a routine was doomed to failure from the very beginning. But Hideo Kojima managed to turn not the most interesting occupation in the world into a pretty immersive experience with a caustic satire on a modern society, bogged down on the Internet and obsessed with likes on Instagram. However, Death Stranding is too inconsistent a game to be unconditionally recommended to everyone. The question is whether you can avert your eyes from the many flaws in the gameplay in order to become part of this bold experiment.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    With every new Mortal Kombat release, NetherRealms makes more and more additions into the battle system trying to create another esports discipline. However, in practice, we get the same fighting game, that we had before it. It's just a simple change of the addends. That being said, Mortal Kombat 11 is a high-quality game that can entertain for many hours, if you are not overly sensitive to violence and have a healthy stomach, of course.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Spyro: Reignited Trilogy is a great way to introduce your children to video games from your own childhood.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    The triumphant return of the hot Finnish guys from Remedy Entertainment, after breaking up with Microsoft, was a success. That's how you get revenge on your ex.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Forza Motorsport 7 is a perfectly balanced racing simulator. The game is just great in every aspect.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Warhammer: Vermintide 2 is an extremely intense action game. Surprisingly, it feels linear and diverse at the same time.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Marcus Phoenix is completely old, his Lancer finally rusted. Something needs to be changed, gentlemen. Let's start with new visual effects, complemented by quality developers of all the details - creation of new weapons, completion of fascinating historical and more compelling multi-player and cooperative modes.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The game is interesting to play, but you need to pay extra for this joy.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    At first you don't understand the game at all, then you start to admire it, but in the end it just becomes too boring.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 61 Critic Score
    Unravel Two offers decent cooperative gameplay, but the the game itself is too repetitive, and the difficulty level is way too low.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Reigns: Her Majesty is a solid sequel and one of the most funny games of this year. The game is ridiculously cheap, so you don't need to think twice before picking it up.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Borderlands 3 will be just as fun with friends. All that is needed is that you have to be friends, to be sure that you need a cozy immersion in a rich and vibrant virtual world, the sharing of technologies - incapable enjoyment of loneliness. If “a small fish is better than a big cockroach” - yours favorite speech, this rollicking adventure, unfortunately, has nothing to offer you.
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    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ni no Kuni II breaks down many traditional mechanics to become more contemporary, accessible and diverse.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Assassin's Creed Origins is a big game that has a lot of content, but after 10 hours it becomes too repetitive. Still, it's a great return of the series.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition will definitely appeal to fans of the genre.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Lots of gameplay improvements, a variety of maps, deep customization and excellent graphics make Battlefield V a nominee for the best shooter of 2018.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    The new South Park game doesn't give you any real challenge. Sometimes it's funny, but overall, it's just boring.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    We’ve got another outstanding adventure game. It’s not without technical flaws, but delivers a pleasant impression. Perhaps the next game of the studio will become a real gem.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A good strategy with tabletop mechanics which unfortunately lacks some depth.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Northgard can be a good replacement for The Settlers in the absence of a new part of the series.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    NBA 2K18 is an excellent basketball simulator. Still, player's progress is heavily relied on microtransactions, but that's the only real downside.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Gwent is a nice card game, but its final version is totally different from what everyone expected.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Strong and spectacular shooter, landed in the millstone of its own marketing machine.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Having moved the action away from the dark tunnels of Moscow's underground onto a train, going into the unknown and forced to make stops throughout the journey, Metro Exodus' authors created a memorable interactive adventure consisting of happiness from discovering love and grief from irreplacebale loss, hope of better future and despair from understanding the truth. On top of that one might call Exodus a distorting mirror that reveals the most horrible sins of mysterious Russian soul: heresy and servilism.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    The first episode of Life is Strange 2 looks like a walking simulator.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    NHL 19 is no longer a party for a small audience, but a big event for all fans of hockey.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    You can try The Red Strings Club if you are a fan of cyberpunk stories, visual novels and retrowave. Just know that the game has a really slow pace and sometimes can be boring.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The game can be praised for its cute characters, beautiful locations and nice heroic music. However, its campaign is weak, and the AI definitely needs to be improved.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A very atmospheric and unusual journey through dying world, which, unfortunately, has no story at all.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Nemesis system is the best part of Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, but the rest of the game is overwhelmed with pointless grinding.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Brave New World is a trivial episode that still doesn't offer any intrigue.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    It's the best game in the series, but poor technical component and corrupt reward system copied from mobile games separate Trials Rising from true greatness. However, having zero competition Rising is the absolute champion in the digital motorbike trials.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    A atypical puzzle game that offers a real challenge. Try it in coop and you won't be disappointed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The new Call of Duty brings a real nostalgia for classic WWII setting. It has it flaws, but it's one the best Call of Duty games on the market right now.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    The new BattleTech game is a real gift for the fans of MechWarrior and just a good game for the rest.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Detroit: Become Human returns us to the world of Quantic Dream's high-quality interactive drama.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A Way Out is a good adventure game that could be great if it came out a year later.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Unlike previous major DLCs, Norsca didn't bring its own campaign, but its two new factions are an excellent addition to the game.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    A Walk in the Park will be a perfect add-on for those who enjoyed the original game. It brings new enemies and new challenges that totally justify the price you pay for the DLC.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Observer crushes you with its extremely rich, but deliberately disgusting environment. Here cyberpunk means garbage, ruins and dirt, and you will remember this atmosphere for a long time.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth is a must try for those who enjoy good stories. The game's deep characters and the atmosphere of medieval England compensate for its boring puzzles.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Battle Chasers: Nightwar makes you grind a lot, but it's a nice jRPG-style game based on great comic book series. If you like the genre, you will enjoy it.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden is far from being perfect, but it is a great debut game from a small studio.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    The story of Far Cry 5 is too underdeveloped. The game still offers a great sandbox experience, but sometimes it feels too random and empty inside.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The first episode of Life is Strange: Before the Storm tells a decent but ordinary story without any real intrigue.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Battlefleet Gothic Armada 2 is not trying to please everyone, but it will be a great pick for those who love the Warhammer universe.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Bridge Constructor Portal is practically the best game in the series right now.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Before the Storm is just an example of badly written teen fiction. Dull story and unmotivated characters will definitely disappoint many fans of the original Life is Strange.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Cat Quest II is great in its delivery and simplicity that require no further explanation.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    The arcade madness of OnRush quite quickly turns into a boredom simulator.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ancestors Legacy is short on content, but its story missions are diverse, and the skirmish mode can bring you a lot of fun.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    The whole game is just a postcard to commemorate the end of the Great War. It is touching and frustrating at the same time.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The new Tomb Raider shows Lara Croft as an empty character that has nothing inside.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    The fourth episode of The Enemy Within is the perfect culmination of a great season.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Road to the Olympics makes Steep one of the best games that utilizes the Olympic license.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    A good but not perfect start to the new season.

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