A brilliant mix of high skill and low comedy, and the best medieval combat game out there.
Tales from the Borderlands is a big, funny adventure with great characters—worth playing even if you don't like Borderlands.
A great comeback from episode two, A Crooked Mile amplifies the drama—though sometimes in the wrong ways—and confronts Bigby with hard choices and proper detective work.
Challenging and gorgeous, Ori is a classic platforming genre modernized and done strikingly well. Use a controller and save often.
The definitive version of Street Fighter IV, but not the best until its technical problems are solved.
The fantastic Exalt missions, gene mods, and MEC Troopers are an excellent reason to play more XCOM.
A fiery test of awareness, speed and accuracy which upholds the series' devotion to teamwork and authenticity, but doesn't nail the asymmetry of modern era combat.
Sifu will test your patience, but learning how to coolly dismantle a room full of goons with virtual kung fu is worth the pain.
A hearty improvement on Sniper Elite 3 that embraces freeform play, gets better in co-op, and most importantly lets us shoot things from very far away.
A great, merciless speedrunning platformer and twitch shooter with a mediocre presentation.
Even after the free-for-all matches start to feel redundant, the punchy, full-body action in Hover Junkers remains hilarious fun.
Repetitive but fun, a hellish challenge or a relaxing, spectacular gore bath depending on how you approach it.
It's inconsistent and sometimes annoying, but ultimately a charming, challenging, heart-string-pulling fable.
Episode four makes Bigby's struggle more personal, then ends abruptly, transferring the pressure to deliver onto the finale.
Battlefield 2042 makes gutsy changes to a series that needed them and sets a new standard for built-in custom mode support.
A smart, unembellished survival horror adventure which rewards patience and inspires introspection.
A great customizable fighting system and a cooperative spirit fill the empty spaces in a bleak open world.
Disc Room provides hours of high-stress fun for daring adventurers, and a few mysteries to solve.
A hard campaign (if you play on the hardest mode) and breakneck multiplayer are a good time, if often infuriating.
It needs more maps, but right now Friday the 13th is a gory game of hide-and-go-seek that's fun with funny people.