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Perhaps because he’s so cute and marketable, Yoshi’s adventures have been designed for a younger and younger audience for the last several years. 2006’s Yoshi’s Island DS was not out-of-step with the difficulty of a mainline Mario game, but since then, the challenge of mainline…
Anno 1800 is a beautiful and comprehensive yet strangely cold Industrial Age city builder.
Objects in Space comes in the guise of a mid-'90s adventure game, but it is an sharp callback with plenty of its own magic to bring to the table.
DMC5 proves the series can still be brilliant and imaginative without compromising its longest-held traditions.
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove is an endearing throwback whose charms and frustrations both feel unmistakably like products of 1991.
The beautiful visuals, fun battle arenas, and easy-to-grasp fighting gameplay of Dead or Alive 6 make for a brawler that packs a punch.
Ape Out prioritizes style over substance, but it's weird and interesting enough to justify a play.
One of the best modern twin-stick shooters is now (slightly) better than ever.
The Occupation is a smart, story-driven stealth adventure, the sort of game that gets under your skin in ways you didn't even realize.
Set within the modest confines of a Taiwanese apartment in the 1980s, Devotion paints a terrifying picture of family life with nuanced storytelling and an insidious atmosphere.
Trials Rising expands the engrossing and challenging gameplay from its past entries, but it also fails to address some of their issues.
Eastshade is a rare first-person open world game about doing nice things and bringing communities together, a genuinely feelgood and gorgeous experience.
Respawn hammers out a lot of the dents in battle royale, and its addition of some of the best ideas in shooters gives a new shine to the genre.
With embellished diplomatic options and climate change bringing new strategic choices, Gathering Storm is a whole new way to play Civ VI.
BioWare's Anthem has good ideas, but most of those ideas don't end up working well together.
Barebones though it may be, Tetris 99 delivers a consistently thrilling taste of competitive Tetris.
Crackdown 3's campaign is short on new ideas, while Wrecking Zone fails to fully utilize its destruction tech.