While park management and customization aspects are a bit shallow, Jurassic World Evolution 2 has tons of excellent dinosaurs and exciting ways to interact with them.
Shin Megami Tensei V if full of crunchy JRPG goodness despite an underwhelming story.
Age of Empires 4 is an enjoyable RTS throwback that often plays it too safe, but excels when it doesn't.
King's Bounty 2 is a fairly strong tactical RPG that is dragged down by a mediocre plot and a lot of unnecessary jogging.
Humankind takes its own spin on the formula established by Firaxis' Sid Meier's Civilization 4X series, with mixed results.
Tribes of Midgard is a hectic, exciting, Norse-flavored action RPG that is best faced with a shield wall full of friends.
An axe-cellent compromise between hack-and-slash fun and skill-based medieval melee makes Chivalry 2's 64-player medieval brawls a ton of fun.
A leaner but meaner follow-up to one of the best ever open-world survival games.
This remaster makes a grand old game feel less old – but it doesn't make it feel new again.
A fiddly world map and confusing objectives foil the plans of this stylish, gleeful villain simulator.
Stronghold Warlords has a refreshing East Asian setting and satisfying castle building, but it looks and plays like an RTS that was asleep for most of the last decade or two.
Even in early access, Valheim is already a paragon of the survival crafting genre.
This RPG has decent stealth going for it, but its weak story forces you into painfully mediocre combat too often to be worthwhile, wasting the potential of the World of Darkness universe.
A third-person horror game that's elevated by some of the sharpest writing and acting in the genre.
It's dauntingly complex, but offers almost endlessly enjoyable depth for optimizers and survival fans if you take the time to learn its systems.
