Some scuff-marks aside, A Hat in Time is a creative, playful, and polished tribute to a genre that doesn't get nearly enough love on PC.
Simple, satisfying, vertical and easy to binge on, like a tube of Pringles. Hyakki Castle feels like a generic alternative. It'll fill the gap for a while, but once you pop, stopping might be easier than you'd hope.
In the end Iconoclasts wasn't quite what I expected, but I greatly enjoyed my time with it, and would recommend it to any platformer fan.
Household Games clearly have vision and creativity on their side, as well as some very skilled artists and musicians. All they need is to exercise a little restraint on whatever they work on next.
Wizard of Legend is a good, if lopsided game. The moment-to-moment combat is highly flexible and seldom anything less than satisfying, especially in co-op. It's just a pity that while your arsenal of spells and artifacts is massive enough to be remixed a thousand ways, the maps, bosses and enemy types only fit together in a handful of configurations.
There's maybe a third of a good game in here, weighed down by a mountain of big and ambitious ideas, none of them given the time and attention they needed to really function.
As it stands now, Mothergunship has a lot of likeable elements that sometimes mesh into an excellent whole, but just as often bump awkwardly against each other.
This heartfelt, engaging reprise of a classic falls just shy of greatness due to a lack of fresh ideas and endurance.
What it lacks in charm, Temtem makes up for with mechanical depth and involved multiplayer.
A game that pushes VR's boundaries. Strange, playful and committed to creativity, but intense if you're new to VR.
Tense, haunting and beautiful. Inventory shenanigans aside, one of the best survival horror games yet.
Cozy, meandering fun for One Piece fans, but swabbies should set sail from other ports.
Old-school Yakuza for better or worse, but still a good point of entry for newcomers.
An exciting concept begging for structural refinements and more meat on its robot bones.
A small but satisfying strategy puzzler that comes, does its job and leaves without fuss.
Beautiful, polished and painfully hollow. Ravenlok's bones are immaculate, but lack meat or connective tissue.
A graphically gorgeous descendant of Myst, paradoxically limited by its own ambitions.
For all its many flaws, LOTR: Gollum is an oft-beautiful and oddly endearing adventure.
There's a few bolts that could be tightened up here and there, but Jagged Alliance is back in business.
On par with its (excellent) predecessors, Shadow Gambit trades some focused design for deeply compelling piratical freedom.