
Squanch Games' sci-fi shooter is a yammering mess of mediocrity.

Squanch Games' sci-fi shooter is a yammering mess of mediocrity.

Ixion elegantly balances the dynamic play of a colony simulation with a grand, meticulously directed sci-fi narrative. Its perilous journey through a cold and dangerous universe is vivid and engrossing, although its complex routines occasionally obstruct its storytelling ambitions.

"As Darktide's levels aren't grouped into acts, it's much harder for Fatshark to tell coherent stories across them"

An extraordinarily detailed economy and range of interlinking systems make Victoria 3 a grand strategy to rival some of Paradox's best.

There's a decent space sim buried within Dual Universe, but you'll need to do a lot of digging to find it.

Every retro shooter straddles the line between classic and modern design, whether it's a new game built in an old engin…

A tough yet rewarding turn-based tactics game with a supernatural twist on the western theme.

Crossfire: Legion is so keen to be the next Starcraft that it skips right past much of what made Starcraft great in the first place.

Like a fleet of Allied landing craft storming the beaches of Normandy, Sniper Elite 5 has blown me away. I spent most o…

Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong offers an impressively flexible story, but that can't save it from its mediocre writing and scattershot game design.

A competent universe simulator, although you may need a babelfish in your ear to understand it.

Smilegate's blend of ARPG and MMO is a (mostly) successful experiment.