
Arms' unique take on fighting can be hard to adjust to, but once you do, it's a surprisingly deep fighter that has you thinking on your feet.

Arms' unique take on fighting can be hard to adjust to, but once you do, it's a surprisingly deep fighter that has you thinking on your feet.

Zombies Chronicles takes a good combination of maps and upgrades them with great attention to detail.

Tumbleseed is a challenging roguelike about literally and figuratively balancing, but some of its many moving parts are off-kilter.

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe makes significant updates to the original that make its racing chaos the definitive version.

Yooka-Laylee delivers on nostalgia but is held back by outdated gameplay and underwhelming levels.

Night in the Woods delivers an evocative take on the early-20s existential crisis with awkward humor and charming characters.

Halo Wars 2 is an RTS game for Halo fans with stripped-down strategy elements and limited lasting appeal.

Though it has a few unsettling, adrenaline-pumping moments, Here They Lie fails to deliver believable psychological horror. It definitely tries — it’s filled with the requisite creepy, gargling monster sounds and reality-bending that can contribute tension to scares — but it doesn’t blend its horror elements well enough to be consistently terrifying. Relying so heavily on overwrought surrealism and a few haunted house-style jumps to create tension rather than fostering any true discomfort (besides nausea) leaves it feeling flat.

The Walking Dead: Michonne's third and final episode over-explains itself, losing its impact along the way.

The story remains bland, but Michonne herself and a few reveals toward the end give the series promise.

Stardew Valley beautifully combines farm simulation with RPG elements to create an intriguing, absorbing rural world.

Michonne steals the episode, though its story is tired and bland.

Oxenfree’s beautiful, haunting story begs to be replayed, but pacing issues limit its appeal.

Musou combat and One Piece’s fantastic spirit are a good combination, but this action game is bogged down by cutscenes.