It stands apart from its contemporaries for relying heavily on audio over visual cues.
Strikers is still a well-earned vacation for our heroes, an emphatic, energetic punctuation mark to a much larger experience.
Bowser’s Fury finds Nintendo again pushing the envelope of Super Mario Bros. in exciting directions.
The game sustains an ominous atmosphere as it channels recognizable childhood fears.
The gameplay throughout isn’t freighted with moral urgency, which is disappointing given the game’s eco-terrorist themes.
Nuclear Jenga, anyone?
The Medium is at its best whenever the player gets to lives up to the game’s title.
Hitman 3, for better and worse, splits the difference between player freedom and focused storytelling.
To criticize Cyberpunk 2077 for being hypocritical and conservative feels almost beside the point.
The blandness of the gameplay might have been somewhat forgivable if the game’s narrative didn’t suffer from an identity crisis.
Mørkredd is dazzling for the way it effectively puts you at war with yourself.
When reality plunged us into chaos this year, so many of the best interactive experiences offered us respite.
Along with being one of the most gentle and soothing games of the year, Haven is also gaming at its most compassionate.
It’s an addictive, delightfully rowdy experience in spite of the creaky, decrypt gameplay and engine.
The game is fairly dedicated to correcting many of the worst creative decisions made across the lifespan of the Assassin’s Creed series.
The Pathless ultimately buries anything it might have to say in a stupefying level of cliché.
Even the PS5’s most grandiose examples of a remake still pay more tribute to the past than they provide a window to the future.
Tetris Effect is one of the best VR titles on the market, so without the feature Connected feels, well, disconnected.
In the end, Melody of Memory is very much a fans-only affair.
The game noticeably stumbles as it attempts to more overtly address the darkness beneath its concept.
Carto gets a lot of brain-bending mileage from its central mechanic.