Spirits of Xanadu promises lots of cool things, but never delivers. The concept is original, and the hallucinations are quite frightening, but in the end, it’s just an unfinished game with shoddy combat mechanics and a weak narrative.

Just like Re;Birth 1, Sisters Generation is a solid port of a budget JRPG that lacks in variety.

Despite its original concept, Monstrum will probably bore you to death.

A well-balanced mix of arcade and text adventure, funny jokes, stylish graphics and sleek game design elevate 60 Seconds above all other post-apocalyptic survival games. I wish there were more objects and storyline twists, but even with this amount you will get enough random combinations to last you a few days.

Fighting games live and die by their controls, and Kings of Kung Fu has the single worst imaginable malady — input lag.

No Arcade mode, no Survival, and you can’t even fight with a friend on the same screen, like it was in the original Karate Master… All you can do here is learn all the special moves, complete your training, defeat all the masters and forget about this game forever.

Bladestorm: Nightmare has lots of concepts that could have made it a very special game. Unfortunately, most of them don’t work, and some are even useless.

This Colonial Conquest is just a mangled version of the original game that was released exactly 30 years ago.

I don’t understand why CDF Ghostship exists at all. It is pretty much a carbon copy of Ghostship: Aftermath sans the dreadful feeling of desperation.

There is a long laundry list of what’s wrong with Axis Football 2015: no injuries, teleporting players during kick-offs… And instead of struggling, players simply hug each other and just stand there.

They should have released Dream Runners as a DLC for Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams. On its own, it is a bare-bones multiplayer-only game without a semblance of story or even a tutorial.

Ugly locations, absurd puzzles, feeble attempts at horror, and a lame ‘quiz’ at the end of each case… I was expecting a moving story, but I got only two short boring stories instead. Incorporating a new technology in a video game is a great idea. But you have to make a decent game first.

If you’re willing to put up with its cartoony characters, Super Mega Baseball is the best baseball game for PC in a long while.

Gunnheim is almost a torture to play because of its awful combat mechanics.

Gridberd is closer to being a game than the atrocious Lex Mortis, but it’s still a piece of utter trash.

At some point, the mere thought about going back to those accursed labyrinths fills you with dread, and you want to never play Bloodlust again.

This NBA 2K is surely rife for nitpicking. Annoying update notifications, clunky menus, AI blunders, Spike Lee’s unnecessary meddling with the well-oiled machine of MyCareer, a rough Gauntlet mode, and traditional connectivity problems. But still, even with all that, NBA 2K16 is like a complex, mesmerizing painting.

Lame attempts at jokes destroy any semblance of atmosphere, while monsters are just dumb and annoying, and not scary at all.

This unnecessarily drawn out, dull revenge story will bore you to death before it reaches its predictable ending — even if you have been longing for a pirate adventure.

By shuffling off the burden of mundanities on AI, the developers created a near-perfect generator of puzzles, but made quite a few mistakes on the technical side of things.

Frozen State can be a lot of fun at times. Where else can you plod through a heavy snowstorm in a ruined Siberian town while drinking porto to warm yourself up? Just don't expect too much fun here.

Well-written text briefings between missions is the only saving grace of this otherwise boring, stuffy game.

If you a fan of the original Space Rangers, please avoid Space Rangers: Quest like the plague. This little ugly Frankenstein monster tugs at your nostalgia strings non-stop, but the more familiar parts you recognize in its body, the worse you feel.

An unpretentious niche RTS designed only for those who crave that "old school" multiplayer.

This is basically the original Legends of Eisenwald with less content and at a lower price. It has only one "sandbox" map (plus the tutorial scenario), a couple of basic fractions, and minuscule amount of new gameplay elements all wrapped in a mildly interesting plot.

If you hated Age of Decadence mainly because of its graphics, then you can safely skip Dungeon Rats. But if you enjoyed AoD's combat and you still crave for me, this spin-off will sate your appetite.

It's a smart game. It's also unforgiving and unaffectionate. Inversus is so clean-cut and direct that it rewards nothing but skill. Compare it to other party games like TowerFall, BlazeRush, Nidhogg, and you will see that they thrive on chaos and uncertainty, and turn them into their main source of fun.

An overly difficult, monotonous shooter married with an equally primitive endless runner.

Shadows of Kurgansk also features a handful of character stats, hallucinations and even angling, none of which are a reason to touch this game.

On one hand, Drive on Moscow has good enemy AI, lots of variation in just one scenario, and online multiplayer populated with players. On the other hand, it's a pity that the studio decided to milk the concept as much as it can.

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.

One of the main changes that Imperium brings to the Eador formula is expanded battlefields allowing 12v12 fights as opposed to 8v8 in the original game. In theory, they should offer additional tactical options to players, but all they do is just prolong those leisurely battles even more.

Don't expect to see something in the vein of Patrician 4 or Space Rangers in a Middle-Eastern setting. The developers of Caravan cut, simplified and sterilized pretty much everything that made those games fun.

A fun, sad, scary and charming adventure that opens so many doors. It borrows a little too much from Sunless Sea, though, and the train management system is a boring chore.

It's a doppelganger of Banished - the same ideas, but with less polish and oversimplified.

After spending a dozen of hours with Pixel Privateers, I realized that its true kinsman is Cookie Clicker because they both boil down to the same idea: you repeat the same few actions ad nauseum in order to increase pointless numbers.

There is no universal formula, a sure-fire method that allows you to instantly master any character, and this is why Central Fiction is so fun to play.

In Killers and Thieves, the night is dark and full of boring texts, crappy quests and copy/pasted content. Now that’s what I call true terrors.

Awful placement of respawn points, guns that suck all the joy when you use them, dumb AI… and a loooong laundry list of bugs.

This is a typical “expansion pack” with new missions, familiar faces and zero changes to gameplay. Still, just as they were in the original game, the missions are massive and well-designed.

The most frustrating thing about this game is that it was made by the creators of Panzer Corps and Warhammer 40,000: Armageddon. They’re not newcomers to this genre, but Check Your 6 looks and plays as if it’s their first attempt at a turn-based wargame.

After a rushed release of AO Tennis in Australia, Big Ant Studio had six months to fix the game‘s numerous fatal flaws for the international version, but even with patches, it’s still not fun to play.

Tennis World Tour will have a slight chance of surviving on your PC’s hard drive only if you have someone to play it with. But even then it will be just a constant reminder of the early 2000s when tennis lawns were greener and tennis sims got higher scores in our reviews.

Sometimes Forget Battalion is a blast to play, but right after the battle you realize that this game is just a pale imitation of the long-forgotten RTS blockbusters.

Cliched story and characters are the worst offenders in Thief of Thieves. The developers managed to nail down a comic book look, but what’s the point in it if everyone is ugly as hell and cannot utter even a single interesting line?

It’s a no-frills adventure with a simple story, pleasant graphics and a load of vexing trivial mistakes in its design.

The Executioner plays like a dark comedy, but something tells me the developers did not have this in mind at all…

Even though Black Mist is pretty much bug-free, it feels and plays like a raw prototype that somehow was released as a commercial game.

Aftermath marks the passing of the MK X/11 era and cleans the stage for the next game in the series. Good multiplayer, robust framerate, deep tutorial, exciting story and gameplay… MK 12 will have to aim very high to clear that bar.

Panzer Dragoon has simplistic core gameplay and disappointing low-budget visuals to elicit interest in this remake.

Even a year’s worth of updates and DLC failed to turn Phoenix Point into “the definitive version of the acclaimed strategy game”, as its Steam description suggests. This game has a plethora of features and systems, but they drown in an endless sea of monotony.

ICBM is not made for long gameplay sessions, but planning sneaky nuclear strikes is a thrilling way to while away a few evenings.

Even if you’re a huge fan of real-time tactics, don’t waste your time on this one.

The Artful Escape is an art installation where you for some reason have to press buttons. It's pretty to look at, but not that entertaining.

With all its delicious insanity, Golden Light works better as a viewing, rather than playing experience. It does have a style and a smattering of bold ideas, but the core of its gameplay is searching for keys in similar-looking hallways, with bad gunplay, weak stealth mechanics and poor resource management.

Deadly Dozen Reloaded gives you the same bad experience as the original game did back in 2001.

This is a small, ingenuous and surprisingly enjoyable game.

Front Mission 1st: Remake is an interesting museum piece, but not a fun video game.

Gobliiins 5 is a strange game from a forgotten era. An experienced adventure lover will hardly regret a few evenings spent on it.

Colony Ship is a true spiritual successor to The Age of Decadence.

Turok Remastered for PS5 and Xbox Series is undoubtedly the best version of this artifact from 1997. Still, Nightdive Studios could have worked more carefully on the graphics, for example.

Limited Run Games generally releases the laziest new editions of classic games compared to Aspyr or Nightdive, but this time it’s even worse than usual.