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For 6,582 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 69% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 24% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Game review score: 77
Highest review score: 100 Red Dead Redemption 2
Lowest review score: 10 Make it indie!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,344 out of 6582
  2. Mixed: 2,097 out of 6582
  3. Negative: 141 out of 6582
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    • 67 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Outbound
    Outbound is a triumph of the "cozy game" genre, transforming the most commonplace survival experiences into an exercise in creativity and tranquility. Its greatest strengths lie in the immense architectural freedom offered by the camper van and its beautiful design—elements that combine to generate a constant sense of satisfaction without ever needing to resort to urgency or punishment. It is a game that truly understands its niche: players seeking a sanctuary title amidst these times of madness, war, and chaos. And while resource management in its single-player mode can occasionally feel a bit tedious, the beauty of its landscapes—along with everything else the game offers as a whole—more than compensates for that extra effort. The work of Square Glade Games serves as an interactive balm—a title that succeeds in making the simple act of watching your solar batteries recharge beneath a vibrant sunset a reward in itself for players eager to embark on a truly special journey through its landscapes.
    • 91 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Mixtape
    It might not be the most complex or spectacular game in the traditional sense, but it's certainly one of the most exciting games we've played recently, and it knows how to translate emotions into a video game . And when a title manages to make a song, a phrase, or a memory worth more than a giant map and a hundred overlapping systems, we can only recommend it.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    MotoGP 26
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes
    Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes delivers a compelling sense of scale and atmosphere that effectively translates the series' horror to virtual reality. The first-person perspective enhances the feeling of vulnerability, yet the experience is severely hampered by its two-hour runtime. Despite its solid foundation, a lack of interactivity and replayability prevents it from reaching its full potential.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Kiln
    Kiln delivers a refreshingly original multiplayer experience where pottery design directly impacts combat strategy and character stats. This creative depth feels rewarding, yet the title suffers from a severe lack of content at launch. Although its core loop is accessible and fun, the limited modes and maps cause the experience to feel repetitive far too quickly.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Invincible VS
    Invincible VS delivers a solid and visceral fighting experience that honors its source material with satisfyingly accessible combat. While the mechanics feel deep and the multiplayer is robust, the title suffers from a severe lack of single-player content. The disappointingly brief story mode and sparse offline features ultimately hold back its full potential.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
    This masterful spin-off translates the franchise's addictive essence into a surprisingly deep card-based dungeon crawler. Its strategic combo system and rewarding progression loop create an incredibly satisfying experience, bolstered by a stellar soundtrack. Although it feels less infinite than its predecessor, its polished mechanics and immense value make it an essential, high-quality experience.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Ys Memoire: Revelations in Celceta
    This action JRPG remains a high-quality adventure that translates well to Switch with smooth performance and addictive combat. However, the lack of new content and modern quality-of-life updates makes it feel like a missed opportunity. It stands as an excellent entry point for newcomers, yet offers almost no incentive for returning veterans to double-dip.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Aphelion
    Aphelion delivers a compelling narrative and immersive atmosphere through its unique dual-protagonist system. It successfully blends high-stakes survival with cinematic platforming, yet suffers from repetitive mechanics and technical unreliability. Although the production values impress, unpolished controls and collision bugs frequently hinder the experience, preventing this ambitious sci-fi journey from reaching its full potential.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Sudden Strike 5
    Sudden Strike 5 delivers an authentic, demanding tactical experience that rewards meticulous planning and historical appreciation. The expansive campaign and unit variety are impressive, yet the rigid enemy AI and a frustrating lack of tutorials create unnecessary friction. This is a solid, punishing evolution of the series' formula despite persistent technical flaws.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Super Meat Boy 3D
    Super Meat Boy 3D captures the ruthless precision of the original while adding a polished visual layer. However, the transition to 3D introduces frustrating perspective issues and a fixed camera that complicates depth perception. Despite uninspired boss battles, the addictive difficulty and extensive replayability sustain a worthwhile, yet ultimately less perfect, platforming experience.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    SAROS
    This frantic roguelite evolves the Housemarque formula into the year's most intense shooter. It delivers an exquisite control scheme and breathtaking bullet-ballet combat, further enriched by a flexible difficulty system and meaningful permanent progression. Although the enemy variety feels slightly limited, the addictive loop and monumental boss encounters cement it as a superior, more accessible successor.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    OPUS: Prism Peak
    This narrative adventure delivers a profoundly emotional journey through a Ghibli-inspired world and soulful storytelling. While photography mechanics provide a unique sense of purpose, the core loop eventually becomes repetitive and suffers from pacing issues. Despite these mechanical shortcomings, the symbolic narrative and breathtaking art design create an unforgettable, melancholic experience.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Scott Pilgrim EX
    Scott Pilgrim EX delivers satisfying beat 'em up combat and a breathtaking pixel art aesthetic. However, its small world map and repetitive exploration hold it back from greatness. Although the soundtrack and character variety excel, the unbalanced progression system and lack of replayability prevent it from reaching the heights of the studio's previous masterclasses.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    REPLACED
    REPLACED delivers a breathtaking cyberpunk spectacle with its stunning pixel-art direction and immersive world-building. However, inconsistent pacing and unresponsive combat occasionally hinder the experience. While it falls short of perfection due to these mechanical hiccups, its evocative atmosphere and compelling narrative make it a must-play for fans of cinematic platformers.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
    This unique life simulator delivers a constant stream of absurd humor through creative Mii interactions and deep customization tools. The new design workshop provides immense creative freedom, yet the experience frequently suffers from repetitive dialogue and shallow minigames. Despite these mechanical cycles, its charming presentation ensures a joyful, if occasionally monotonous, daily routine.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 82 Critic Score
    MOUSE: P.I. For Hire
    Mouse: P.I. For Hire is a stunning achievement that pairs its masterful rubber hose aesthetic with frantic, modern gunplay. While the detective mechanics lack depth and occasional technical crashes mar the experience, the charismatic noir atmosphere and satisfying combat loop deliver a refreshing shooter that transcends its visual gimmick.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Timberborn
    This surprising lumberpunk simulator delivers an addictive city-building experience through its unique verticality and deep water management mechanics. The distinct factions add significant variety to survival strategy, yet a frustrating lack of tutorials for complex systems hinders accessibility. Despite some underdeveloped features like district management, it remains a refreshingly original and polished post-apocalyptic challenge.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    PRAGMATA
    Pragmata proves that there is still room for innovation in the AAA space, providing a unique twist to 3rd person action games while delivering a great adventure with Capcom’s very own DNA.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Legacy of Kain: Ascendance
    Legacy of Kain: Ascendance fails to honor its lineage, delivering a shockingly brief three-hour experience. While the atmospheric music and original voice acting evoke nostalgia, the repetitive 2D combat and simplistic platforming feel dated. Despite an intriguing narrative tone, the controversial lore retcons and inconsistent difficulty result in a mediocre, uninspired revival.
    • tbd Metascore
    • Critic Score
    Forza Horizon 6
    In short, we have no doubt that Forza Horizon 6 is going to be a great game, and it is clear to us that Playground has mastered this formula like few other studios in the industry. However, we also believe that—for such an established franchise—simply playing it safe and switching countries is no longer enough. Japan is a fine choice, the core foundation remains fantastic, and there are some promising details; yet, right now, we need to see far more evidence—and significantly more content—to determine whether we are witnessing a true leap forward for the series or merely another beautiful excursion to the Horizon Festival. [Hands-On Impressions]
    • 78 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    People of Note
    This nostalgic RPG masterfully blends classic turn-based combat with a brilliant musical theme, evoking the golden era of Square Enix. It delivers a charming narrative and striking art style, although sluggish combat pacing and inconsistent puzzle design occasionally hinder the flow. Despite these minor frustrations, the unique mechanical integration creates a refreshing experience for traditional genre fans.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Darwin's Paradox!
    This cinematic platformer offers a charming protagonist and flashes of visual beauty, yet it collapses under rigid stealth and frustrating trial-and-error design. Although the platforming feels natural, the repetitive industrial environments and clunky pacing hinder the experience. It ultimately delivers a mediocre adventure that struggles to distinguish itself within a crowded genre.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Starfield
    Starfield arrives on PS5 as a refined, massive space odyssey. It delivers a quintessential Bethesda experience, bolstered by the transformative Free Lanes update and Terran Armada content. Although outdated engine quirks and frequent loading screens persist, its breathtaking art direction and stellar PS5 Pro performance solidify this as a definitive, hours-long interstellar adventure.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Forgotlings
    It delivers a breathtaking hand-drawn cinematic experience that captivates through its imaginative storytelling and magnificent orchestral score. However, it struggles with repetitive, shallow gameplay mechanics and lingering technical bugs. Despite its visual brilliance and deep philosophical narrative, the simplistic action and lack of mechanical depth prevent it from reaching true greatness.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    MARVEL MaXimum Collection
    Marvel Maximum Collection rescues several classic titles from obscurity, pairing solid emulation with essential quality-of-life features like rewinding and save states. However, the library remains frustratingly inconsistent, balancing iconic arcade hits against mediocre 8 and 16-bit ports. Although it serves as a nostalgic trip, the barebones presentation and limited extras prevent it from being essential.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Tales of Berseria Remastered
    It remains a JRPG gem defined by its mature, dark narrative and frantic combat system. However, this edition feels more like a simple port than a meaningful remaster. While quality-of-life additions and bundled DLC provide value for newcomers, the nearly imperceptible visual upgrades offer little incentive for returning players to revisit this classic.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Seven Deadly Sins: Origin
    This adaptation delivers the best franchise experience yet through a vibrant open world and accessible combat. Although it captures the series' charm, it suffers from overly familiar mechanics and shallow difficulty. Despite its impressive visuals, the inevitable progression hurdles and fierce genre competition hinder its long-term appeal for seasoned players.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Sumerian Six
    Sumerian Six revitalizes the real-time tactical stealth genre with a creative supernatural WWII setting. It delivers deep, satisfying gameplay where freedom and character powers shine. While the console controls are surprisingly fluid, the experience is slightly marred by occasional AI lapses and predictable level sequences. It remains a polished, accessible must-play for strategy fans.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection
    This collection serves as a competent preservation tool, offering impeccable technical customization and quality-of-life additions. While these DS titles represent a period of diminishing returns for the franchise, the polished interface and robust online features make it an essential acquisition for diehard fans despite the lack of local translation.
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