SteamWorld Quest's accessible take on card-based combat is undermined by an uneven difficulty curve that frustrates more than it encourages.
Smart refinements to a deep and exciting fighting system, along with an entertaining story mode, make MK11 great despite some missteps with its persistent content.
Katana Zero's excellent writing, stylish and thoughtful combat, and gorgeous artwork make its unsatisfyingly short journey well worth taking.
Cuphead is an artistic tour de force and a brutal side-scrolling action game that pushes you to become a better player.
Overloop's Falcon Age is a compelling action-adventure game and highly original, deeply satisfying falconry simulator, making it a feather in the cap for PlayStation VR.
Pathway is a workmanlike XCOM-lite whose breezy tone stumbles into some tired tropes.
An ambitious narrative adventure that mixes fun lore with fiddly mechanics.
My Time at Portia feels like it has a bounty of offerings, but there's not as much to the world as first appears.
Hellblade is a spellbinding and sympathetic game about loss and redemption.
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain makes a few much-needed tweaks to the old formula, but it's still just another bug hunt.
Despite its limitations, inventive use of the Switch and Joy-Cons pave the way for a novel VR experience that's more about creativity.
As a spiritual successor to Burnout 3: Takedown, Dangerous Driving bottles up some of that Criterion magic, but these moments are fleeting and too many issues pile up to make ...
Weedcraft Inc eschews an opportunity to consider weed’s place in the zeitgeist for a jaded look at stoners, hipsters, and stereotypes.
Zanki Zero's strange blend of roguelike exploration, survival gameplay, and sci-fi character drama is truly unique, but lousy combat and a rough beginning stretch keep it from greatness.
PS4's MLB The Show 19 continues the series' upward trajectory with significant improvements to fielding and plenty of enjoyable new modes.
Tropico 6 builds on strong foundations, honing detail and offering expansive new sandboxes in which to craft your ideal island nation.
Fantastic world design, exciting combat, and a seemingly unending sense of meaningful progression make it easy to get completely rapt by The Division 2.
The World Next Door has fairly stereotypical characters, but it delivers some enjoyably frantic puzzle battles in the second half of its campaign.
Operencia means "far, far away" in Hungarian, so it’s no wonder this looks like nothing you've ever seen before.
From Software takes its unique brand of challenging gameplay to the stealth-action genre, and delivers something unforgettable.
With Take Us Back, Telltale's Walking Dead meets its true ending with the grace it deserves.
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