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For 919 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 45% higher than the average critic
  • 15% same as the average critic
  • 40% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 75
Highest review score: 100 Raiders of the North Sea
Lowest review score: 20 Session: Skate Sim
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 571 out of 919
  2. Mixed: 281 out of 919
  3. Negative: 67 out of 919
921 game reviews
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    • 40 Critic Score
    Russian Front
    In a complex genre where games like Unity of Command and Battle of the Bulge are like precision-engineered Gothic cathedrals, Russian Front comes across like a Las Vegas one-hour wedding chapel. It seems to have the basic form and function of an operational war game down, but it’s missing the nuance and subtlety of a truly good one.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Sentinels of the Multiverse
    With the digital version, the bookkeeping is automatic and the game is so much quicker than its cardboard counterpart that, if you’re in a no-win situation, it’s easy to just reset and start again. All of that combines to make digital Sentinels the ideal way to play Sentinels.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Nexionode
    In the world of home electronics, I’ve never been interested enough in apex experiences to bother with 3D, but puzzles are dearer enough to me that I’m quite glad to have played those final levels.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Battle Academy 2: Eastern Front
    Outside of these control niggles, Battle Academy 2 makes a strong case for itself. A solid AI showcase to bolster and balance the online experience, though you’re likely to never be too long without an asynchronous foe given the cross-play antics and established community.
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    • 40 Critic Score
    The Magnificent Pixel Dynasty
    The Magnificent Pixel Dynasty isn’t a case where more is better, or even a case where more is unobtrusive—rather, these half-baked mechanics that have been bolted onto the same construction toy as All Glory to the Pixel King! only serve to detract from the core experience that lays at the heart of both games.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Battle Worlds: Kronos
    Battle Worlds: Kronos is a fine, if somewhat unremarkable strategy title that does justice to the lineage. It doesn’t rock the boat, but might not do enough to float one, either.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Fighting Fantasy: Caverns of the Snow Witch
    Playing Caverns of the Snow Witch feels, for the most part, like stumbling around half-blind in a blizzard. But it’s one hell of a blizzard.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Wars and Battles - Turn-based Strategy Wargames
    It’s not (yet) as big of a sandbox as Panzer Corps or as lavishly detailed as a Shenandoah offering, but Wars and Battles is a top-notch wargame of rare quality.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Stalag 17 Game
    Stalag’s problem is that it feels like it learnt too well the lesson that catch-up mechanisms need to be weak in order to allow the advantage of skill to matter. That’s true, but in a game with some randomness and a relatively low skill ceiling, advantages often come from luck.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    BattleLore: Command
    BattleLore: Command can take its place in the pantheon of must-have board games for iOS or Android. It has the feel of a wargame or miniatures game, but is far more accessible and easy to learn.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Papers, Please
    This game is the best example I can give of the importance of games as a medium of art: Papers, Please is precision-engineered to encourage you to feel empathy. There’s few films (or works of literature, or musical compositions) that slip you into the shoes of a man in an impossible situation as adroitly as Papers, Please does.
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    • 60 Critic Score
    Frontline : The Longest Day
    It is a competent entry-level affair that nary puts a foot wrong. But in a world of Panzer Corps, Wars & Battles, Commander, and myriad other all-singing, all-dancing mil-sims, Frontline: The Longest Day doesn’t exactly pull a Fred Astaire. This is a bog-standard wargame.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    Pair Solitaire
    Only for a player who can only tolerate simulated standard cards and no opponents would this seem ideal, and it pains me to imagine there are many such people.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 40 Critic Score
    The Witcher Adventure Game
    If this was a 20-30 minute game, maybe, but clocking in at over 2 hours and not being able to save is a death sentence. Knowing that the odds are stacked against finishing a game doesn’t give me much incentive to start one.
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