
Assassin’s Creed successfully returns to the stealthy style that launched the series.

Assassin’s Creed successfully returns to the stealthy style that launched the series.

WrestleQuest’s love for wrestling catapults its creative and beautiful landscapes and strong characters into the main event, but isn’t enough to elevate its bloated level design or competent-but-repetitive combat out of the mid card.

The breath of Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons burns hot thanks to clever tag combat and a big roster of diverse characters, but it doesn’t burn very long as you hit some poorly executed platforming, uninspired roguelike elements, and a shallow end game.

Light on content, but it already does a decent job of pitting a large group of marines against alien bugs.

Stray Blade tries and fails to free the Soulslike from gloomy settings and opaque storytelling, falling short of both its own ambitions and the genre’s standards.

A promising roguelike that's grounded by obtuse systems, frustrating loot, and lots of bugs.

Though the Showcase mode isn’t as super as its subject, John Cena, the sharp focus on refinement instead of reinvention helps keep WWE 2K23 as the gold standard of wrestling sims.

River City Girls 2 beefs up its decades-old beat-'em-up formula with RPG elements, witty humor, and dense combat options.

A competent RPG in a world full of video game references.

A competent action game with a bland setting and tedious level design.

Thymesia's aggressive combat can be enjoyable, but it's an otherwise forgettable adventure.

As it stands now, Achilles: Legends Untold is an undercooked and fairly broken romp through ancient Greece, with underwhelming combat and a world that's full of pretty things to look at but with little to do in it.

Fights in Tight Spaces recreates that action movie feeling of stylishly dismantling a room full of goons.

Clid the Snail is a twin-stick shooter that's radula-deep in mediocrity. The slimy graphics and sluggish combat keep its decent story and characters from thriving outside of its shell.

The Siege of Paris doesn’t feel like an essential addition when Valhalla already has Mjolonir’s weight in nearly identical content.