I can't get Fish Sticks out of my head. Not the food, but the stray cat with a squished face and stubby legs that I wrangled into my shack in Edmund McMillen and Tyler Glaiel’s new roguelite strategy game, Mewgenics. The shop, the pub, the dentist; no matter where I go, I…
I was, like so many of my 1990s-born peers, a huge Sims girlie. I spent hundreds of hours as a teen and young adult making people I knew, characters from shows I was obsessing over, or original characters I wanted to experiment with, and diligently following their life paths and…
Exo One is an epic sci-fi journey in which you control a rolling, gliding spaceship, but despite its vast and dramatic vistas, it quickly grows repetitive.
Battlefield 2042 is an FPS that has its fun moments, but is blighted by performance issues. Portal still holds great potential, but even that needs more time.
Compact puzzle game Unpacking tells a lovely story without words, leaves you room for interpretation, and invites you to be playful. It's absolutely lovely.
An unremarkable FPS story set in World War 2. Has moments of spectacle and is largely quite fun, but feels like you're a gun on-rails, hardly a war hero.
Forza Horizon 5 isn't the best racing game ever made, but it is a contender for best driving game. A little overly familiar, but it is refreshingly wholesome.