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For 6,585 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 Journey
Lowest review score: 10 Make it indie!
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,345 out of 6585
  2. Mixed: 2,099 out of 6585
  3. Negative: 141 out of 6585
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    • 77 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Still Wakes the Deep
    Still Wakes the Deep is an entertaining game from start to finish, without any filler, and audiovisually very good, which takes us to an original setting to tell us a more than well-known story. Taking into account that as a walking simulator or narrative adventure it relies completely on what it tells, we believe that the story is not strong enough to support all the weight, and relies too much on an ending that we found very good to be able to justify its existence. This does not mean that we had a great time, and we enjoyed the almost six hours that it lasted, especially thanks to a very successful ending that knows how to close to leave a very good taste in our mouths.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Swarm Grinder
    Swarm Grinder offers a compelling roguelite experience set on an alien planet, featuring intense combat and resource management against hordes of varied enemies. Despite its engaging gameplay loop and substantial updates post early access, its visual presentation feels underwhelming compared to genre peers.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance
    Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance has surprised us with its ambition. It is a gigantic revision that practically duplicates the contents of the base game and improves it in many different ways to make this role-playing adventure a much more polished and rounded experience that will delight both those who already enjoyed it in its day and those who are dare to discover it now for the first time. If you like the genre and you want a challenging, deep work, with a unique level design, with a fascinating art direction, with a luxury soundtrack and with a combat system full of possibilities, don't hesitate and give it a try.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    V Rising
    V Rising blends survival, exploration, and action RPG elements in a vampire-themed world where gameplay mechanics shine despite a narrative that feels secondary. It excels in its engaging combat system and deep crafting mechanics, while offering both solo and cooperative gameplay options, although it lacks narrative depth and has limited decorative choices.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    F1 24
    F1 24 delivers enjoyable arcade-style driving mechanics with improved car handling and noticeable tire wear effects, yet disappoints with AI aggression and the absence of accidents during races. Despite technical upgrades and a robust Career mode, its annual release cycle results in less content and lingering issues like long loading times.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Hauntii
    Hauntii blends twin-stick shooter gameplay with exploration and puzzles, offering a serene yet engaging experience. Positives include its unique possession mechanic and stunning artistic direction, while drawbacks lie in predictable star locations. Overall, it's a relaxing adventure with a standout visual and audio design.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pampas & Selene - The Maze of Demons
    An unabashed homage to the MSX classic Knightmare 2, Pampas & Selene revitalizes the metroidvania genre with enjoyable combat-focused gameplay, seamless character swapping, and a robust local and online cooperative mode, although its initial controls may feel somewhat clunky.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Capes
    Tactical strategy meets RPG elements in Capes, a game that leans heavily on superhero tropes to build its own world. While it excels in tactical combat and synergy between heroes, its lack of mission variety and limited hero customization hold it back from true greatness.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Isles of Sea and Sky
    Isles of Sea and Sky presents a charmingly nostalgic 8-bit graphical style reminiscent of classic Zelda games, featuring intricate Sokoban-style puzzles spread across various islands. While its artistic presentation and puzzle complexity are highlights, the game suffers from occasional frustration due to unclear progression requirements and cumbersome navigation.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Mullet MadJack
    Hammer95's debut FPS blends the intensity of Dennaton Games with Ghostrunner's agility, offering a cyberpunk future filled with satire and fast-paced action, though wall-running can be imprecise.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    System Shock
    Nightdive Studios revitalized the iconic System Shock, maintaining its classic charm with updated visuals and gameplay refinements. It faithfully blends old-school simplicity with modern lighting effects and detailed enemy models. Despite some menu navigation challenges on consoles, the game offers a solid 60 FPS experience. The latest updates enhance the final battle mechanics and introduce a playable female hacker, reinforcing its legacy as a foundational immersive sim.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
    Simogo, a small Swedish studio known for innovation, follows up on their success with Sayonara Wild Hearts with Lorelei and the Laser Eyes, a captivating puzzle adventure set in a mysterious hotel. Despite occasional frustrating puzzles and cumbersome interface, its artistic brilliance and complex, varied challenges make it a standout in the puzzle genre.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut
    The PC adaptation of Ghost of Tsushima by Nixxes delivers a phenomenal graphical fidelity and solid performance across a wide range of systems, maintaining the game's fantastic samurai adventure and meticulously designed open world. The interface is clean, simple, and effective, with crossplay functionality for multiplayer gaming between PC and PlayStation platforms.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Animal Well
    Animal Well captivates players with its intricate puzzle-solving and exploration, drawing inspiration from titles like Fez and Tunic. Despite repetitive puzzle mechanics, its deep and enchanting world, coupled with its satisfying controls and clever design decisions, make it a magical and engaging experience, appealing to fans of puzzle games and metroidvanias alike.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Political Machine 2024
    The Political Machine 2024 offers a humorous take on the serious subject of politics, allowing players to choose from caricatured versions of real-life candidates and engage in a strategic race for the presidency. Despite its deep gameplay and accurate portrayal of political trends, the game suffers from a chaotic interface and lacks a dynamic tutorial, making it less accessible for newcomers.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 76 Critic Score
    MotoGP 24
    While MotoGP 24 improves on gameplay and remains a solid choice for motorcycle racing fans, it lacks significant updates compared to MotoGP 23 and shows minimal graphical and audio advancements, leading to a sense of it being more of an incremental update than a substantial upgrade for regular players.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
    The Thousand-Year Door is a beautiful remake of one of the best Mario RPGs. It isn’t particularly ambitious beyond its new graphics and a couple of nice surprises, but if you haven’t played the original or simply fancy rediscovering this GameCube classic, it is a fantastic choice for Switch players.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
    Hellblade 2 reaches new heights in audiovisual quality while developing Senua’s story. Even if it isn’t revolutionary, it improves on many aspects of its predecessor to deliver a spectacular adventure beautifully paced.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Jack Holmes : Master of Puppets
    The indie horror game, Jack Holmes: Master of Puppets, adds a personal touch to the Resident Evil formula by incorporating a unique amusement park setting with a mix of traditional exploration and varied mini-games. While its macabre atmosphere and diverse gameplay are strengths, the game suffers from some technical issues and lackluster combat mechanics, but overall delivers an unexpectedly enjoyable and entertaining horror experience.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Heading Out
    In Heading Out, the journey matters more than the destination. It combines narrative adventure, driving arcade, and management elements with a unique art style. While it lacks depth in its driving gameplay compared to other arcade racers, it complements the narrative experience well, offering moral choices and a roguelite-like structure.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Baladins
    Baladins offers a simple yet complex mechanic where players must satisfy the consuming dragon Colobra by completing missions within a six-week time limit, showcasing colorful visuals reminiscent of Paper Mario. While enjoyable for newcomers, it lacks decision variety and suffers occasional technical issues, yet remains a recommended choice for quick narrative entertainment, especially for those fluent in English.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Crow Country
    Inspired by classic survival horror games like the early Resident Evil titles, Crow Country offers exploration, puzzles, and optional combat set in a creepy amusement park, with its standout feature being the ability to freely explore the 3D-rendered environments in real-time. Although it relies heavily on notes for storytelling, its well-designed puzzles and authentic gameplay mechanics make it a must-play for fans of classic survival horror.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Harold Halibut
    Slow Bros.' game combines charming claymation and meticulous craftsmanship with a bold, yet potentially divisive gameplay approach that reflects its protagonist's mundane life and emphasizes narrative over action. Despite losing its focus and reducing interactivity over time, its captivating characters and thought-provoking themes create an unforgettable audiovisual experience for some, while others may find it tedious.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Homeworld 3
    The game offers engaging space battles with complex formations and strategic depth, yet suffers from a predictable narrative, unimpressive cinematics, and reactive AI. The campaign missions are varied and enjoyable, but the multiplayer content is lacking, and the game requires performance optimization.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Footgun: Underground
    Footgun: Underground offers an interesting blend of football and roguelike elements with enjoyable boss battles, yet its repetitive level design and limited enemy variety hinder its overall potential, making it feel static and predictable quickly.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Little Kitty, Big City
    Little Kitty, Big City offers a delightful, charming adventure with sandbox elements and a cute protagonist, marred only by technical issues and repetitive dialogue, making it an enjoyable and refreshing open-world experience.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Surmount
    This climbing roguelike features procedurally generated levels and creative challenges that leverage physics for a fun and engaging experience, despite its unintuitive controls and occasional frustrating bugs. The whimsical visual style and humorous design add charm, but the game is more suited for solo play rather than cooperative sessions.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    SAND LAND
    While Sand Land offers an entertaining universe and characters true to Akira Toriyama's original work, the new content falls short. The game features interesting ideas like vehicle customization but suffers from underdeveloped mechanics, monotonous travel, and simple combat, ultimately making the gameplay experience feel disjointed and less engaging than reading the original story.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Saviorless
    This game features stunning hand-drawn art and a compelling, unconventional narrative, but suffers from a lack of clear structure that loses player interest. While the unique artistic direction and intriguing story elements stand out, the frustrating gameplay mechanics and poorly paced difficulty spikes hinder the overall experience.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 83 Critic Score
    INDIKA
    Odd Meter's Indika offers a unique, narrative-driven experience set in 19th-century Russia, focusing on a young nun's mission. Despite its lack of surprising gameplay, the game excels in story, atmosphere, and artistic execution, with impressive graphics and voice acting, though it could benefit from better optimization and more innovative mechanics.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Endless Ocean Luminous
    Endless Ocean Luminous offers a relaxing, beautiful underwater exploration experience, ideal for short sessions with no specific goals in mind. Despite its monotonous structure and lack of variety in procedural elements, its online multiplayer mode enhances the gameplay, making it more enjoyable by promoting cooperation.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    SaGa Emerald Beyond
    While the game offers enjoyable, deep, and varied combat mechanics, the story and character development take a backseat, and the exploration elements are simplistic, affecting the overall immersion. The artistic design and soundtrack are commendable, but the lack of dynamic maps and versatile animations, combined with the absence of a Spanish translation, may detract from the experience for some players.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Sea of Thieves
    The excellent PS5 adaptation of Sea of Thieves maintains its charm and extensive content, despite occasional bugs. It’s a great multiplayer adventure with cross-play, enhanced by DualSense features, but it requires long-term dedication and social interaction to fully enjoy.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Another Crab's Treasure
    The game combines the creativity of its improvisation mechanics and challenging soulslike combat in a humorous underwater world, though it sometimes lacks enemy design refinement. Its accessibility options enhance playability and the artistic design is rich in detail, making the overall experience engaging and unique.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Stellar Blade
    Stellar Blade is a game that ambitiously attempts various elements, but not all of them hit the mark equally. Its shining moments come in the form of exhilarating combat, action-packed levels, and epic boss battles. However, its narrative delivery, open-world segments, and secondary missions falter, leaving some ideas underdeveloped, such as underutilized platforming mechanics and a neglected equipment system. Despite its flaws, it ultimately offers an enjoyable, diverse, and entertaining adventure, especially for those seeking straightforward action. While it falls short of its full potential, Stellar Blade remains a title worth considering for its fun factor alone.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Outward: Definitive Edition
    Outward: Definitive Edition on Nintendo Switch maintains the depth of the original RPG with survival mechanics, offering freedom to explore and engage in various quests. However, visual sacrifices are noticeable, affecting textures and overall graphical fidelity, making it a less immersive experience compared to other platforms. Despite its flaws, it remains a compelling option for RPG enthusiasts on the Switch.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Turbo Kid
    Turbo Kid blends nostalgia with fresh mechanics in this outstanding metroidvania, offering a post-apocalyptic world filled with engaging challenges and memorable characters. Its synthwave soundtrack and diverse gameplay, including bike riding and intense combat, make it a standout experience. However, its old-school save system may frustrate some players, but overall, Turbo Kid delivers a compelling adventure that captures the essence of the cult film it's based on.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Tales of Kenzera: ZAU
    Tales of Kenzera: ZAU offers a potent narrative journey through grief and African mythology within a metroidvania framework. While the story and atmosphere shine, the gameplay lacks depth, with simplistic platforming and combat mechanics, ultimately delivering an experience more focused on storytelling than gameplay challenge.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    TopSpin 2K25
    TopSpin 2K25 delivers top-notch gameplay, featuring fast-paced, thrilling matches and a solid roster of current and classic tennis players. While it excels in gameplay, its lackluster visuals and presentation hold it back. However, with continued support and updates promised by 2K and Hangar 13, there's potential for this to become a yearly or biennial franchise offering a more polished experience.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
    Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes successfully pays homage to classic JRPGs with its deep storytelling and engaging combat, reminiscent of Suikoden. While its retro-inspired graphics charm, technical issues and lack of optimization somewhat tarnish the experience, it remains a must-play for fans of the genre.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Ready, Steady, Ship!
    Fun and engaging in cooperative play, Ready, Steady, Ship! offers good ideas and entertaining moments, but its mission design and occasional bugs detract from the overall experience.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Children of the Sun
    Children of the Sun offers a unique "puzzle shooter" experience where players control a character seeking revenge against a cult, using strategic shooting mechanics to clear levels with a single bullet. While it provides an enjoyable and innovative gameplay loop, it suffers from pacing issues and ends abruptly, leaving players wanting more.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Biomorph
    Biomorph offers a visually appealing aesthetic with strong character design, but its narrative falls flat and its soundtrack lacks originality. Despite solid gameplay mechanics, including an interesting enemy transformation feature, the game struggles with repetitive level design and contradictory gameplay elements. Biomorph may appeal to hardcore fans of the metroidvania genre, but it fails to fully capitalize on its potential.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Chasing the Unseen
    Chasing the Unseen promises an aesthetic and philosophical journey but falls short due to confusing gameplay mechanics and underdeveloped symbolism. Despite its visually stunning fractal-inspired world and towering monsters, the gameplay fails to deliver a cohesive experience, leaving players frustrated and the intended message unclear. While the game's organic development shows potential, it ultimately struggles to fulfill its ambitious vision.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Terra Memoria
    Terra Memoria blends JRPG turn-based gameplay with farming simulation elements, featuring a visually stunning pixel art style mixed with 3D backgrounds. While combat is enjoyable and easy to grasp, simulation aspects lack depth and significance in gameplay.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 62 Critic Score
    Broken Roads
    Broken Roads offers a rich post-apocalyptic world with complex characters and philosophical debates, reminiscent of Wasteland and Disco Elysium. However, it suffers from unfulfilled ambitions and lacks depth in gameplay mechanics. Despite memorable moments and intriguing moral choices, it's hindered by simplistic combat and repetitive missions. Overall, it's a flawed but engaging experience for those willing to overlook its shortcomings.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 73 Critic Score
    Millennia
    Millennia delivers a classic 4X strategy experience reminiscent of Civilization, featuring engaging gameplay and innovative ideas such as alternative Eras and city management improvements. However, it falls short due to its cumbersome interface and unbalanced difficulty, which hinder its potential for greatness. Despite its flaws, Millennia offers addictive gameplay and promises future improvements through patches or sequels.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 86 Critic Score
    Withering Rooms
    Withering Rooms blends elements from classic survival horror games like Clock Tower and modern roguelikes, offering a tense experience where death resets progress but rearranges the mansion's rooms, providing a fresh challenge each time. Despite technical limitations and lack of Spanish text, its mix of combat, puzzles, and atmosphere delivers a compelling horror adventure.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    The Outlast Trials
    The Outlast Trials introduces cooperative multiplayer to the horror franchise, offering tense and gruesome scenarios where teamwork is essential to survive, despite some repetitive gameplay. Its deliberate visual design and atmospheric sound create a chilling experience perfect for multiplayer sessions.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Pepper Grinder
    Pepper Grinder delivers a fluid and enjoyable 2D platforming experience with its unique drilling mechanic, although it lacks cohesion and confidence in its main gameplay mechanic. The game's constant introduction of new ideas sometimes overshadows its core mechanic, resulting in a somewhat disjointed experience. Despite this, it offers fun and challenging gameplay with a charming visual and sound design.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    The Thaumaturge
    The Thaumaturge excels in narrative depth, character development, and atmosphere, offering a captivating experience despite its gameplay limitations. While its investigative mechanics feel lacking and combat could be more diverse, its compelling story, well-crafted characters, and impactful decision-making make it a standout adventure with a unique setting.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Open Roads
    Open Roads offers a heartfelt, human story set in our world, focusing on the journey of a teenage girl and her mother as they unravel family mysteries. Despite its engaging narrative and top-notch voice acting, the game feels dated in gameplay design, lacking the innovation of similar titles like Gone Home and Tacoma. The exploration of emotions and relationships is its strength, but its gameplay mechanics and visual presentation fall short of expectations.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 67 Critic Score
    Princess Peach: Showtime!
    Princess Peach: Showtime! aims to introduce young players to gaming with its friendly, accessible, and varied gameplay, featuring different genres. However, it suffers from oversimplification, diluting the experience, especially evident in its lack of depth and overly basic mechanics. Despite this, it offers enjoyable moments, particularly in levels like Peach Thief, with a well-paced rhythm, collectibles, varied gameplay, fantastic presentation, and an excellent soundtrack. It falls short of fully utilizing its mechanics, resulting in a game that could have been much better, but still serves as a good entry point for younger gamers.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered
    The Legend of Legacy HD Remastered offers a faithful remaster of the original adventure, enhancing visuals and performance while maintaining its timeless aesthetic. Despite some graphical discrepancies and intrusive combat interface, the game delivers improved resolution and music quality, making it a worthwhile experience for fans seeking to revisit this classic JRPG.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 58 Critic Score
    Beat the Beats VR
    Combining music and boxing, Beat the Beats for PlayStation VR2 offers enjoyable rhythmic punching gameplay, but falls short due to a lackluster song selection with incomplete versions, limited replay value, and missed opportunities to engage players in improving their performance. Despite solid gameplay mechanics, it fails to match up to similar VR music games, ultimately feeling underwhelming.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 94 Critic Score
    Horizon Forbidden West: Complete Edition
    Nixxes has done a fantastic job adapting Horizon Forbidden West to PC, offering exceptional performance and optimization, with stunning graphics at 4K and FPS ranging from 85 to 108 on high-end systems, while even lower-end systems like the ROG Ally can handle the game at 720p with FSR 2.2, showcasing excellent adaptation across various setups.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    South Park: Snow Day!
    Blending action, roguelike elements, and online cooperative play, South Park: Snow Day offers frenetic fun, but its lack of narrative depth and gameplay variety leaves it feeling like a missed opportunity to fully capture the essence of the beloved series. While the solid gameplay mechanics provide enjoyable moments, especially in multiplayer, the game ultimately falls short in delivering a truly memorable experience.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Hi-Fi Rush
    The unexpected gem from Tango Gameworks, Hi-Fi Rush, hits PlayStation 5 with its addictive gameplay, delightful presentation, and plenty of humor. Its rhythmic combat system, though initially challenging, adds depth and excitement to battles, while the incorporation of DualSense features enhances immersion without being intrusive. Despite some minor platforming sections, it remains a standout title, solidifying Tango Gameworks' departure from horror into more light-hearted adventures.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Rise of the Ronin
    Set in mid-19th century Japan, Rise of the Ronin offers an intriguing historical backdrop with solid combat mechanics and engaging side missions. However, its open-world design feels uninspired, lacking meaningful exploration and offering repetitive optional activities. Nevertheless, the game shines in its intense and satisfying combat system, which provides a thrilling samurai experience despite its shortcomings in world-building.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 91 Critic Score
    Dragon's Dogma 2
    Blending intricate RPG elements with captivating action, Dragon’s Dogma 2 offers a vast open world ripe for exploration and brimming with freedom. Its dynamic mission system seamlessly integrates main and side quests, inviting players to craft their own narrative. Despite occasional performance hiccups and a somewhat limited bestiary, the game delivers unforgettable combat encounters against colossal foes, enhanced by robust character customization and an asynchronous multiplayer feature. While visual imperfections persist, the game’s remarkable sound design and immersive atmosphere elevate the overall experience, making Dragon’s Dogma 2 a truly exhilarating adventure.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    Alone in the Dark
    Alone in the Dark returns with a solid atmosphere and engaging story, but falls short in gameplay execution, particularly in puzzles and combat. Despite its commendable presentation and character design, the repetitive puzzles and unsatisfactory combat mechanics hinder the overall experience. It's a game with potential, but ultimately struggles to deliver on its promises, leaving fans hoping for future updates to address its shortcomings.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 84 Critic Score
    Solium Infernum
    Solium Infernum offers a refreshing take on turn-based strategy, prioritizing geopolitical decisions over battles. Despite its initial complexity, it becomes relatively easy to grasp after a few turns. The asynchronous multiplayer feature allows for engaging matches even with time-constrained friends. While not a technical marvel, the game boasts solid graphics and an outstanding soundtrack, although a clearer interface would be appreciated.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 55 Critic Score
    Blade Prince Academy
    Blade Prince Academy attempts to blend RTS elements with roguelike dynamics, resource management, and innovative features but falls short in execution, resulting in a gameplay experience that struggles to be enjoyable. The game's cluttered mechanics hinder its potential, making it only recommendable for die-hard genre fans.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Reveil
    Reveil, a first-person horror narrative adventure, draws inspiration from Layers of Fear, offering a simple gameplay experience with shifting environments, some clever puzzles, and a compelling twist in the story. Despite its reliance on familiar horror tropes like stealth sequences, it delivers a visually striking experience with solid production values and atmospheric sound design. While it may not be groundbreaking, it provides an enjoyable and affordable option for fans of narrative-driven horror games, with potential for improvement in future installments.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Outcast: A New Beginning
    Outcast: A New Beginning revives the universe of its predecessor with new adventures, offering deep storytelling and engaging gameplay, albeit hindered by outdated mechanics and limited production values.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    The Mobius Machine
    A metroidvania adventure with immersive atmosphere and slow-paced gameplay, The Mobius Machine offers solid action in labyrinthine maps with a variety of enemies and platforming challenges. Despite minor flaws like delayed map acquisition and floaty jump controls, its striking graphics and sound design enhance the otherworldly experience, making it a noteworthy title in the genre.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Bandle Tale: A League of Legends Story
    Colorful, endearing, and detail-rich, Bandle Tale offers a notable artistic aspect. Its humor-infused world and unique mechanics blend farming simulation with RPG elements seamlessly, providing a delightful experience for players regardless of their familiarity with League of Legends lore. However, it could benefit from clearer explanations of skill relationships and more gameplay variety. In summary, Bandle Tale stands out for its charming visuals, humorous narrative, and relaxed gameplay, making it a highly recommended experience.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Critic Score
    Contra: Operation Galuga
    A metroidvania adventure with immersive atmosphere and slow-paced gameplay, The Mobius Machine offers solid action in labyrinthine maps with a variety of enemies and platforming challenges. Despite minor flaws like delayed map acquisition and floaty jump controls, its striking graphics and sound design enhance the otherworldly experience, making it a noteworthy title in the genre.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 77 Critic Score
    Expeditions: A MudRunner Game
    Despite its focus on exploration and strategy, Expeditions: A Mudrunner Game offers a captivating and accessible experience akin to its predecessors, yet its simpler mission design and lack of cooperative play may disappoint fans. However, its beautiful landscapes, solid performance, and extensive content make it a worthwhile adventure.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    As Dusk Falls
    As Dusk Falls delivers an interactive drama with branching narratives, allowing for a deeply engaging experience despite its familiar storyline and simplistic gameplay mechanics. Its inclusive control options and accessible themes make it suitable for a wide audience, but lack of technical improvements or additional content leaves it feeling unchanged from its original release.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 90 Critic Score
    Balatro
    Balatro ingeniously transforms the familiar concept of poker into a fresh and captivating experience, offering a plethora of strategies to explore through its innovative mechanics. Despite its minor flaws, such as occasional unfair boss encounters, the game's depth, accessibility, and addictiveness make it a standout title in the roguelike card game genre.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Unicorn Overlord
    Unicorn Overlord delivers a deeply engaging tactical RPG experience with nods to classics like Ogre Battle and Fire Emblem, boasting a vast world to explore and rewarding strategic gameplay. While the main plot may feel predictable and clichéd, the game excels in its varied battles, intricate formation system, and stunning visual and audio design, making it a must-play for tactical RPG enthusiasts.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    WWE 2K24
    Boasting an extensive roster, varied match types, and immersive modes, WWE 2K24 delivers the most comprehensive wrestling gaming experience in years. Despite some minor gameplay tweaks and inherited bugs, it excels in content, especially with its WrestleMania Showcase and Universe mode, making it a must-have for WWE fans.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Promenade
    Promenade offers a charming and accessible platforming experience, drawing heavily from classic inspirations like Super Mario Odyssey, yet struggles to innovate beyond its references. While its simplistic mechanics are engaging and its progression smooth, it falls short in offering a truly unique identity. Despite its shortcomings, it's a delightful entry point for newcomers to the genre or a pleasant diversion for platforming enthusiasts.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Pacific Drive
    Pacific Drive blends survival, horror, and driving elements effectively, creating a tense and immersive experience. While its meticulous car management system adds depth, it can also make gameplay repetitive at times. Overall, it's a compelling adventure offering a constant sense of tension and survival in hostile environments.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 45 Critic Score
    Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Clash
    The game disappoints with its lack of content and subpar combat mechanics, failing to capture the essence of the anime despite its appealing character roster. Additionally, its online-focused approach limits its longevity, making it a hard sell even for die-hard fans.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 68 Critic Score
    A Void Hope
    A Void Hope presents a dystopian love story with nods to Carpenter and Cronenberg, offering an intriguing premise but failing to fully deliver on its potential. Despite its beautiful pixel art and captivating soundtrack, the gameplay mechanics feel underdeveloped, resulting in missed opportunities for deeper engagement and storytelling. Overall, it's an enjoyable experience with moderate expectations, reminiscent of Hotline Miami's cinematic and abstract qualities, but it leaves a desire for more depth and execution in its gameplay.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes
    Despite its modest production values, Under Night In-Birth II Sys:Celes delivers deep and engaging 2D fighting gameplay, with a diverse roster of characters and robust online features. However, its lack of additional modes and unremarkable presentation may deter some players.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Foamstars
    Foamstars attempts to capture the essence of Splatoon with its colorful design and unique mechanics but falls short due to lackluster execution and an aggressive microtransaction system. While it offers some enjoyable moments, especially in cooperative squad mode, its gameplay loop feels frustrating and its pay-to-win elements detract from the overall experience.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Pentiment
    Available now on Nintendo Switch, it provides an accessible yet profound storytelling experience that evolves over 25 years, offering diverse choices and thought-provoking scenarios. With its captivating narrative and engaging gameplay, Pentiment stands as a must-play title, now reaching a wider audience beyond its initial release.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior
    Quotation forthcoming.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Critic Score
    Skull and Bones
    Skull & Bones offers engaging naval combat and exploration, but falls short in other areas compared to its predecessor, Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag. While it lacks depth in its on-land gameplay and suffers from some unpolished elements, it still provides enjoyable adventures on the high seas with its ship customization and combat mechanics.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    My Time at Sandrock
    In this post-apocalyptic world filled with charm, My Time at Sandrock offers a delightful blend of social simulation, farming management, and crafting, though its intricate crafting systems may deter some players. Despite its humble visuals and somewhat outdated design, it presents a vast and enjoyable adventure, making it one of the genre's finest offerings.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Ultros
    Ultros ingeniously blends roguelike and metroidvania elements, offering a unique progression system centered around cycles. While its combat falls short of being memorable, the game shines with its innovative mechanics, visually stunning design, and around 11 hours of engaging gameplay, making it a must-try for fans of the genre.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Critic Score
    Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
    The second entry in the remake trilogy is so good that it left us wondering: “how are they going to make something better for the final episode?” Narrative, gameplay, content… everything is at the highest level, and it managed to keep us engaged, interested in the story and having fun for more than 100 hours.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Anomaly Agent
    Sleeper hit Anomaly Agent delivers a humorous cyberpunk action platformer experience with polished art design, accessible combat mechanics, and enjoyable synthwave soundtrack, although it suffers from occasional repetitiveness, especially in boss battles.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 65 Critic Score
    Spirit Hunter: Death Mark II
    A visual novel that offers an interesting story with some shocking and grotesque moments, but fails to deliver a satisfying gameplay experience, as it tries to mix RPG and adventure elements that end up being repetitive, boring, and frustrating. The exploration in 2D is more of an obstacle than helpful, and the survival moments are too dependent on luck and trial and error.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
    Aspyr brings back the original adventures of Lara Croft with a respectful remastering that improves the graphics and controls, but also has some flaws and inconsistencies. The gameplay remains faithful to the essence of these classics, with a focus on exploration and puzzles that is rare to find nowadays, despite the outdated shooting mechanics and some quality of life issues in the menus.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Mario vs. Donkey Kong
    A good remake of a somewhat underrated GBA classic of puzzles and platforms that brings interesting novelties. It is still a very fun and well-designed game, with new worlds and modes. The new audiovisual section has suited it very well. It lacks the scoring system of the original and if you only want to reach the credits, it can be short.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 85 Critic Score
    Helldivers 2
    A hilarious and addictive online cooperative shooter that improves the original game with a new perspective, more content, and cross-play. It offers pure and simple fun with friends, a great gameplay and strategic touch, and a good graphical and sound presentation. It could use more variety in enemies, biomes, and missions, but it is one of the best PvE games of the season.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
    Don’t Nod delivers a powerful narrative adventure with complex decisions, a dark and fascinating setting, and a beautiful and complicated love story between two ghost hunters, but the combat and exploration are less polished and more repetitive than they should be, drawing too much from God of War.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Silent Hill: The Short Message
    A free adventure that tries to recover the narrative essence of Silent Hill, with the collaboration of two veterans of the saga: Masahiro Ito and Akira Yamaoka. It has some great moments and ideas, but also some flaws in its design and execution, and it will inevitably be compared to the unforgettable P.T.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 79 Critic Score
    Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League
    Rocksteady delivers a fun and frantic third-person shooter with a great story that shines for its characters, but falls short between the action adventure and the looter shooter. It has a deep and satisfying gameplay once mastered, but a repetitive mission design, disappointing boss fights and a constant interruption typical of this kind of games.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Critic Score
    Granblue Fantasy: Relink
    A fun action RPG that will appeal to fans of hack’n slash games with a PlatinumGames flavor, that convinces with its multiplayer and variety of characters, but falls short in the ambition of its main story.
    • 87 Metascore
    • 87 Critic Score
    Persona 3 Reload
    A great remake that updates the Atlus classic to modern times with a new and stylish audiovisual section and with a multitude of interesting novelties and improvements. It is not the definitive version of this wonderful RPG, but it is the best and most enjoyable one, with an unforgettable story and characters, although the “dungeon crawling” in the Tartarus tower may not connect equally well with everyone.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 78 Critic Score
    Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
    A collection of three brilliant visual novels of investigation and deduction, full of extras and well adapted to modern platforms, that unfortunately lacks Spanish translation.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    Graven
    A game inspired by the classics of the 90s, with a great atmosphere, level design, and exploration, but also with some flaws, such as an uneven combat, some obtuse design choices, and a questionable save system. It is a very old-school experience, for better and for worse, that can captivate and frustrate in equal measure.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 95 Critic Score
    Tekken 8
    Tekken 8 is the most fun Tekken to play, improves the online and the content for a single player. It is the best launch possible to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the saga. It has a great gameplay, a varied and solid roster, a spectacular story mode, and a lot of modes and customization options. It also has some flaws, such as the lack of some classic characters, the uneven quality of the scenarios, or the absence of a Tekken Force mode or similar.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 92 Critic Score
    Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
    A huge adventure, almost infinite in terms of activities, with an improved combat system and a nostalgic look at the almost 20 years that Kiryu has accompanied us. The story is full of epic and emotional moments, but sometimes it loses its pace among so many hours of gameplay. Some graphical details from the past generation and the New Game+ mode not available in all versions are the main drawbacks of this great game.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    THE DESCENT (2024)
    The Descent is a walking simulator of exploration and horror that fails to deliver a satisfying experience due to its simplistic and repetitive gameplay, its poor optimization, and its uninteresting story that is mostly told through notes. The only positive aspects are its good graphics and its tense sound design, but they are not enough to save this disappointing adventure.
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