Microsoft; PC, XboxWith the spin-off series eclipsing Forza's original game, Turn 10 has upped the ante with a return to Motorsport after six years that might even win over some Horizon fans
Fans of the fighting game's cast of lunatics will enjoy this nostalgic reboot, but its combat fundamentals have remained largely unchanged
This spiritual successor to Jet Set Radio has the same stylish look and feel, though with better gameplay for the outlaw street gang
The Great War: Western Front is a bleak, conservative attempt to capture the brutal battles of World War I.
Drag voters to the polls as your physics-defying goat runs for president in the silliest game of the year which can now be savoured in multiplayer madness
Dragonflight isn't the most thrilling expansion in the MMO's lineage, but it's a fresh start, which is a rare thing for a 20-year-old videogame to get.
Dragon Ball: The Breakers is the latest game to cash in on the cat-and-mouse multiplayer boom. Unfortunately, it does so without any of the mechanical depth that makes those games great.
Isonzo is a well-made shooter that welcomes all comers to its gorgeous, mountainous World War I multiplayer battlefields, though a lot of that approachability and familiarity comes at the cost of period authenticity and distinctive gameplay.
Beyond The Wire provides a delightfully hefty incarnation of World War One. Redstone Interactive makes its massive, 100-player servers sing with Arma-quality realism, complete with jolting firearm kickback, brutal melee beatdowns, and a huge number of dynamic character classes that can shift the tide of the battle. All of this takes place on beautiful multiplayer maps that capture the nightmarish truth of early 20th century warfighting.
Evil Dead certainly does not feel unfinished, but it does seem to be a first step towards something larger. Saber has an excellent multiplayer game that aspires to be a juggernaut in the hobby, and I hope players take notice.
If you're not enthusiastic about being on the front lines of Arma development, Arma Reforger's early access version is not ready for you - you're better off with Arma 3 until further notice. But when it cooperates and you have the right crew, this military sim sings.
A promising mystery concept that doesn't quite give players a truly mind-melting temporal puzzle.
Not Tonight 2 does a decent job of adapting Papers, Please to a terminally hateful America, but the premise wears thin with every pit stop.
Wordle is a fantastic, mesmerizing daily puzzle that's bundled to a community offering some of the best vibes on the internet.
Rainbow Six Extraction brings some great new ideas to the venerable first-person shooter as it morphs to a sci-fi co-op game, but it doesn't distinguish itself quite enough to stand out on its own merits.
In early access, The Anacrusis fails to match its distinctive and colorful setting with compelling co-op shooting gameplay. For a game that looks this cool, it gets boring quickly.
GTFO is hard, mean, and exacting in its demands – but there are few co-op shooters that scratch the same itch.
There still isn't any game on the market quite like Farming Simulator, but the series is overdue for a gameplay makeover.
Vanguard's Zombies mode is goofy, gory, and adventurous, but it suffers from a deadly lack of content.
A surprisingly good time when you're not forced to reload your checkpoint after a game-breaking bug.