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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…
Following up a game as lauded as Disco Elysium would be an unenviable task for any developer, but especially one as fractured as ZA/UM. With many of the key creative minds behind the detective RPG separated from the studio following an ugly, and very public, legal dispute, it’s…
Pathway is a workmanlike XCOM-lite whose breezy tone stumbles into some tired tropes.
My Time at Portia feels like it has a bounty of offerings, but there's not as much to the world as first appears.
An ambitious narrative adventure that mixes fun lore with fiddly mechanics.
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain makes a few much-needed tweaks to the old formula, but it's still just another bug hunt.
Weedcraft Inc eschews an opportunity to consider weed’s place in the zeitgeist for a jaded look at stoners, hipsters, and stereotypes.
Zanki Zero's strange blend of roguelike exploration, survival gameplay, and sci-fi character drama is truly unique, but lousy combat and a rough beginning stretch keep it from greatness.
As a spiritual successor to Burnout 3: Takedown, Dangerous Driving bottles up some of that Criterion magic, but these moments are fleeting and too many issues pile up to make it little more than a pretender.
Tropico 6 builds on strong foundations, honing detail and offering expansive new sandboxes in which to craft your ideal island nation.
Fantastic world design, exciting combat, and a seemingly unending sense of meaningful progression make it easy to get completely rapt by The Division 2.
The World Next Door has fairly stereotypical characters, but it delivers some enjoyably frantic puzzle battles in the second half of its campaign.
With Take Us Back, Telltale's Walking Dead meets its true ending with the grace it deserves.
Operencia means "far, far away" in Hungarian, so it’s no wonder this looks like nothing you've ever seen before.
Delightful and imaginative, Yoshi's Crafted World rewards your curiosity with the little things.
From Software takes its unique brand of challenging gameplay to the stealth-action genre, and delivers something unforgettable.
Baba is You is a clever, challenging indie puzzle game that often confounds, though not always in satisfying ways.