The developers of Duke Grabowski want to rekindle their former glory, but, I'm afraid they still have no clue as to why people still love old LucasArts adventures.

For the second year in the row, Activision, like a crafty snake oil peddler, pushes ‘a next-gen Call of Duty’ by replacing developers, locations and characters. Goodbye, German cyber-shepherd, orbital kinetic missiles and a crazy Venezuelan dictator. Hello, exoskeletons, holograms and a corporate megalomaniac played by Kevin Spacey. But the glitzy CG cinematics and sweet PR songs hide the stale 10-year old gameplay formula.

In an attempt to recapture Studio Ghibli’s magic, the creators of Encodya put a lot of effort in amazing visuals, composed excellent music, hired great voiceover actors, and… botched narrative and game design. Without them, Encodya fails on both counts, as a fairytale and a game.

Jake Keane 2 is crude and clumsy, as if the developers did not want to make this game at all, but someone forced them to.

The only tangible addition to this iteration is the boring, half-baked Pro Cyclist mode.

This Jagged Alliance is bad, but not to the point that it incites rage. Play, uninstall and forget. It’s not rage, more like… apathy.

I wonder what horrors await me in Dead Effect 3, and I mean it not in a good way because this game fails as first-person shooter.

Yet again, Rebellion surprised me. I mean, you have to have a very special talent to turn team-based zombie killing into a chore.

A disgustingly average game not worthy of being a Leisure Suit Larry adventure. You have to get drunk if you want to squeeze any fun out of it.

Kyn seems colorful and promising at first, but in reality it’s unbalanced, derivative and downright boring.

It is hardly a spy thriller, but rather a madhouse with disguises and murders, so it’s best to avoid this chapter of Mr. Strogov’s life altogether.

The ending serves as a bridge to a possible 5th installment, but it’s going to be just as bad unless the developers reinvent the series. The "entertain yourself" approach to the open world ran out of steam a long time ago, campaign missions are going downhill fast, and the amount of bugs has skyrocketed.

A soulless Portal copycat built around a cool gameplay mechanic, which would have flourished in a game by Double Fine or Valve. Superliminal has more originality than other copycats (see The Bradwell Conspiracy), but it’s absolutely devoid of substance and leaves you indifferent.

A good original concept turned into a surprisingly boring adventure with a paper-thin plot and simplistic puzzles.

Blood Knights is the kind of game that excels at being annoying rather than entertaining.

Amazing storms is probably the only feature of Jurassic World Evolution worthy of a praise — they are always a joy to behold. The rest of the game is a powerful sedative capable of knocking out a T-Rex.

Whatever its original concept was, Albedo fails as both shooter and adventure.

A potato-based space odyssey with an ever-increasing degree of frustration.

God Mode feels like a free-to-play game that somehow got released without a trace of microtransactions. If you want to kill tons of monsters in co-op, better get Serious Sam 3: BFE.

Neither Omega Force, nor the series were ready to handle so many changes at once. Dynasty Warriors 9 disappoints wherever you look, from performance issues and dumb stealth to ugly cinematics and boring open world.

Even the Halo brand can’t save Spartan Strike with its short linear levels, long boring shootouts with dumb enemies and a silly story.

This updated version of Shadowgate is astonishingly close to the original game, but it is not a merit. The developers were high on nostalgia, and they ended up reanimating a decomposed corpse.

Monopoly with monsters – what can be better than that? Well, turns out, pretty much everything else.

A corny, simplistic zombie shooter, which also doubles as a collection of all the genre clichés.

Global Outbreak is a typical denizen of the mobile realm who wandered into the land of PC. Along the way, it lost microtransactions, got better graphics, new interface, a handful of minor improvements and a subtitle Doomsday Edition. Yet this weird hybrid of X-COM and Alien Shooter is still lame in both legs.

I should also point out unpleasant visuals, crappy voice-over work, horrendous pathfinding and sloppy UI, but it all simply adds injury to the insult, since, first and foremost, JA: Flashback fails as a tactical strategy game.

The Old City: Leviathan is good only for one thing. Leave it running on your computer and go to sleep. Let your friends think that you’re philosophizing all night long.

Boredom, not ghosts, is your worst enemy in Knock-knock.