A smart and charming puzzle game that has respect for your time and money.
The Thin Silence felt tedious at first because I was lacking motivation to continue.
An addictive mix of combat and commerce.
Stately, vivid and tragic, this brooding epic finally reaches its climax.
Arcane busywork leaves little room for genuine pleasure in this fascinating and frustrating genre oddity.
Yakuza continues its good run with a fine - if a little lumpy - retread of a modern classic.
Overlook these little niggles and Divinity: Original Sin 2 is the best RPG to make it to consoles since The Witcher 3. It's vast, engaging and surprising. The willingness to accommodate many different types of play may have its drawbacks, but once you've understood the systems and given thought to what kind of hero you want to be, you can sink literally hundreds of hours into your life on Rivellon.
Without the bugs, The Bard's Tale IV is okay at best. With them, it's perhaps best to preserve your nostalgia and play the HD remaster of The Bard's Tale I to III instead.
Sega's marriage between its best-selling series and the cult anime ends up sloppy and half-hearted.
Darksiders' schlocky action makes a welcome return, though it's not enough to shake the feeling you've played this before - and better.
A slightly dated reintroduction to one of Capcom's hack-and-slash greats.
Brimming character and imagination, Wargroove occasionally loses its groove over long-winded core gameplay.
This mashup of animated film stars and Japanese action heroes has new characters to enrol, but beyond exciting theme-park action the connection between worlds feels superficial
The concluding episodes of Telltale games' genre-defining narrative horror story ponder how to preserve humanity in a callous world
A new developer doesn't rock the boat in what's an enjoyable if only gently iterative outing for the construction and management sim.
Just what a visual novel should be—fun characters and the rush of solving mysteries make you eager to keep going.
A frequently gorgeous, sadly generic open-world game that runs out of steam well before its extended play-time is over.
A co-op shooter that's an unashamed throwback to Valve's all-time classic, complete with a few quirks of its own.
A smart sci-fi that isn't without problems, though they're balanced out by an incredible amount of style.
Visually beautiful and emotionally affecting thanks to strong characters, A Plague Tale suffers from missing gameplay variety and tonal inconsistencies.