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For 577 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 39% higher than the average critic
  • 19% same as the average critic
  • 42% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.1 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 74
Highest review score: 98 Persona 5 Royal
Lowest review score: 26 Demolish & Build Classic
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 298 out of 577
  2. Mixed: 258 out of 577
  3. Negative: 21 out of 577
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    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Unicorn Overlord
    Like many of Vanillaware’s previous efforts, sight, sound, and story effortlessly intermingle in Unicorn Overlord. The result is a role-playing experience poised to fascinate with its well-developer recruitable characters and a battle system that will have you tenaciously tinkering with your troops and envisaging new strategies when you’re not playing. Despite a reliance of Western high-fantasy and a rather conventional lead, Overlord shouldn’t be missed.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story
    Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story details the career of one of gaming’s great auteurs. But it also serves as a reminder of the time when an ambitious teenager could create the next hit, predating the rise of corporate publishing and their boilerplate blockbusters. Sure, many of the games feel dated and are geared toward historians, but Digital Eclipse’s underdog story is engaging. Given the current state of the industry, it’s also essential.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    BORE BLASTERS
    With a reliance on auto-targeting, the Vampire Survivor clones can grow tedious. Bore Blasters mixes things up with twin-stick shooter mechanics, where drilling through the environment is just as imperative as gunning down foes. While in-game inflation becomes irritating, the few first hours, are indeed, a blast.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Timemelters
    Simultaneously being a battlefield strategist and a spell-slinging sorceress on the frontline makes Timemelters feel distinctive. Sure, it’s not perfect and the occasional difficulty spike is poised to put a transitory hex on your enjoyment. But the concept of layering multiple versions of your actions helps make up for any blemishes.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 64 Critic Score
    Ufouria: The Saga 2
    Look past the game’s beguiling ‘arts and crafts’-inspired visuals and Ufouria: The Saga 2 is woefully unmarkable. Exploration, combat, and the game’s dialog are all just adequate, rarely producing the kind of enjoyment delivered by Ufouria 2’s peers. 33 years in the making, Sunsoft’s follow-up is tragically unessential.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
    Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator is a relaxed experience that lets you build your own botanical wonderland. But with restrictions that are as stringent as your average HOA agreement, you’ll undoubtedly have to scale back on some of your ambitions.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions
    With design decisions that keep the battles lithe and a difficulty that’s forgiving, Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions is one of the most accessible grid-based strategy games around. If you don’t have the time to delve into Disgaea or get impatient by the pacing of Fire Emblem, this is a viable alternative.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
    Any fan of turn-based roguelikes should own at least one Shiren the Wanderer title. Sure, there are plenty of nice-looking clones out there, but Spike Chunsoft excels at generating inventory-based predicaments. With lessons gleaned from previous entries, The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island is one of the best places to start if you’ve somehow shunned Shiren.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sympathy Kiss
    With the threat of layoff and the possibility of interoffice romance, Sympathy Kiss is a rather relatable visual novel. Although the protagonist is annoyingly ambiguous, the real stars here are the novel’s bachelors. They’ll assist with your work responsibilities during the day, while offering affection at nights and on weekends.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Slave Zero X
    Remember when action games boasted sizeable sprites and fun, flashy combat? Slave Zero X is a worthwhile attempt to revisit that entrancing era, despite a few forgivable and fixable blemishes at launch.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 74 Critic Score
    Witch's Rhythm Puzzle
    Uncovering these sorceresses in strip Tetris-style matches is the real allure. But given the game’s pixel-art visual style and the simplicity of the falling block placement, the game ends up being nearly as silly as it is sexy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Nie No Hakoniwa - Dollhouse of Offerings
    If you’re seeking a visual novel that pushes into the perimeters of decency, Nie No Hakoniwa - Dollhouse of Offerings won’t disappoint, especially with the optional 18+ patch. But know that developer Chatte Noire’s reflection of sordidness and power imbalance is diluted by the occasional cliché and an ending that lacks closure.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Islands of Insight
    Islands of Insights soars when you’re sprinting and gliding through its sense world, solving different kinds of puzzles every few minutes. But since there’s no truly co-operative puzzles, the game’s online requirement is poised to perplex players.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Shanghai Summer
    While Buaichan’s faults make for an absorbing character study, the game’s localization flaws undermine what could be a compelling adventure. Sure, Shanghai Summer looks great, and the plotline supplies potential. But having to infer what’s meant in most lines of dialog making playing a chore.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Jett Rider - Reduce, reuse and BLAST IT OFF!
    Jett Rider isn't perfect, but it demonstrates that a Metroidvania can be uplifted by the incorporation of a jet pack and a few guns.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    HELLCARD
    Whether you tackle Hellcard’s turn-based confrontations alone or with a pair of online allies, the pursuit of team synergy can be involving. Like many card battlers, you’ll need to upgrade wisely, gleaning every diminutive advantage available before reaching the endgame. Here, persistence proves just as essential as having a prudent policy.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    KONOSUBA: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World! Love for These Clothes of Desire!
    Yes, KONOSUBA – God’s Blessing on this Wonderful World! Love For These Clothes of Desire! is another one of those isekai with an obscenely long title and a partiality for fan-service. But this visual novel adaptation is a bit better than its peers thanks to a wonderfully dysfunctional cast and top-tier voice performances that augment the playfulness of the script.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Batsugun
    A pixel-perfect, feature-rich port of Toaplan's last shooter for less than eight bucks? Shoot 'em fans should rejoice.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Computer Repair Shop
    Computer Repair Shop’s dystopian setting and subversive humor elevates the game above most generic life-sims. But the pleasures of role-playing as a malware installing, component pilfering, technician doesn’t last long as long as they should. If Cheesecake Dev could give this ‘Geek Squad Gone Bad’ romp a bit more structure and a better endgame, this could become a sleeper hit.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Granblue Fantasy: Relink
    Despite several development complications, Granblue Fantasy: Relink is an exceptionally polished adventure. Marvelously, it’s impressive in areas where its action role-playing peers occasionally falter. CPU controlled teammates behave like humans while combat remains engaging thirty hours on. Best of all, the challenge scales broadly, providing audiences of all skill levels an ideal inroad into Granblue’s breathtaking skyworlds.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Go Mecha Ball
    Unquestionably, Go Mecha Ball action is intense, as you shoot and smash your way across ramps and quarter-pipes. While the inclusion of roguelike power-up attempt to inject some variety, it’s not quite enough to keep this ball rolling for too long.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 69 Critic Score
    Neptunia: Sisters vs. Sisters
    Instead of a confident stride forward, Neptunia: Sisters vs Sisters demonstrates Idea Factory’s franchise taking another peculiar sidestep. The result is an experience that delivers amusing writing, but combat is clumsy and bolstered by overbloated systems. While the spin-off is one of the property’s better digressions, you'll probably yearn for the proficiency Neptunia’s mainline entries deliver.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 57 Critic Score
    Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs The Thrilling Steamy Maze Kiwami
    Sadly, Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs: The Thrilling Steamy Maze Kiwami is neither naughty nor novel enough to recommend. While fans of the manga or anime might be tempted to go dungeoneering with ghosts, ninjas, and cat-girls, the Mystery Dungeon-style gameplay is too derivative.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 93 Critic Score
    Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
    In 2024, a seventy-dollar game with fifteen-dollar New Game+ option should be an accomplished experience. Determinedly, Infinite Wealth is, whether you’re bouncing foes like bowling pins, belting out Baka Mitai like it’s your last, or tackling Animal Crossing and Pokémon-inspired offshoots that are too big to be called mini-games. Then, there’s the duality of Kiryu and Ichiban, who each get fleshed out thoroughly across a protracted playtime.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 72 Critic Score
    Immortal Life
    Emerging from Steam’s Early Access program, Immortal Life still has a multitude of small hitches that need to be ironed out. But if you can overlook things like inelegant controller support, dry localization, and text formatting issues, there’s a lot to appreciate. From an engrossing cooking game to skimming across a pond while balancing on a blade, crop watering and wuxia merge in an inspired way.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 81 Critic Score
    Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
    Living up to its moniker, Moonlit Farewell offers a captivating conclusion to the indie franchise. Building on the foundations of four previous entries, this is a capable coda, with difficulty settings that can accommodate players of almost every skill level.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 26 Critic Score
    Demolish & Build Classic
    Razing buildings with wrecking balls and excavators should be a gaming slam dunk. After all, who doesn’t appreciate the catharsis of digital destruction? But Demolish & Build Classic fumbles on nearly every job, persistently disappointing with glitchy play, vague instructions, and tasks that feel mundane. This feels more like a kitty litter container than a true sandbox.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Guardians of Holme
    With the enemy-punishing sadism of Orcs Must Die! and the adaptability of a collectable card game, Guardians of Holme isn’t your average tower defense game. Instead, a healthy amount of autonomy and a constant drip-feed of rewards give this title an edge over its peers.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Snowman Story
    Odencat’s games habitually convey the wistfulness of a bygone era. With Game Boy Advance-style visuals and a delightfully pensive plotline, Snowman Story sustains this trend. Documenting the trek of a snow man facing his own mortality, this feels like Frosty reimagined by Mamoru Hosoda.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Angel at Dusk
    With visuals comprised of pulpy viscera, bones, and teeth, Angel at Dusk is dark and visually distinctive. When it comes to play, the title five-stage campaign might feel succinct, but it’s bolstered by modes with branching paths and runs where you collect and build overpowered loadouts. Bullet hell aces, you’ll want to set aside some time to enjoy Dusk.
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