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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…
Shantae’s back with old-school charm and a shiny new coat of paint.
Space Hulk: Deathwing has great atmosphere and attitude, but is ultimately undone by its frustrating gameplay.
Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a real-time tactical stealth game with gorgeous levels and clever mechanics.
Steep is an enjoyable open-world game that excels in exploration but suffers from finicky controls and repetitive challenges.
Underneath the mayhem of Killing Floor 2 lies exciting wave-based combat and a rewarding progression system.
Sword Art Online is built on high-stakes drama and a compelling premise--Hollow Realization delivers on neither.
Silence is a gorgeous point-and-click adventure that usually manages to make up for its lack of challenging puzzles with powerful imagery and emotion.
Catastrophes finally come to Cities: Skylines in the Natural Disasters add-on.
Planet Coaster is an exemplary amusement park management simulation with fantastic construction tools and a wealth of high-quality user-created content.
Dead Rising's core combat remains simplistic, but the expanded open world, compelling central mystery, and added combo weapons refresh the formula enough for some light, bloody fun.
The Last Guardian's peerless animation and character development bring a fascinating relationship between boy and beast to life.
A smart take on surveillance and a focus on player choice makes Orwell exciting, engaging, and discomforting.
Final Fantasy XV's world is filled with natural splendor and harrowing dungeons that far outlive the shallow story about a prince and his cliched bodyguards.
Watch Dogs 2 offers loads of entertainment in a playground-like rendition of San Francisco that rises above the first game's soggy, downtrodden atmosphere.
This 2016 take on Hitman is a brilliant game. Expansive level design and nearly unlimited replay value courtesy of so many routes to your assassinations (and so many methods with which to carry them out) make the experience almost completely different each and every time you play.