Hearthstone Mercenaries is a quick and clever take on a card game RPG
The card game’s new mode is now live
Life is Strange: True Colors’ Wavelengths DLC is an essential part of the franchise
The focus returns to Steph’s story
Sephonie feels like a secret skateboarding game
The platforming in Sephonie is a satisfying challenge
Crusader Kings 3, coming to PS5 and Xbox in March, plays surprisingly well on...
Paradox Interactive squeezes its complex strategy RPG onto a game pad
Final Fantasy 14 nails the most important part of starting a new MMO
Final Fantasy 14 instantly makes new players shout ‘I need that’ at their monitor
Nebulous: Fleet Command captures the immensity of The Expanse’s space battles
We got fast movers on the board!
Nintendo Switch Sports feels like a real Wii Sports 2
The simplicity of Wii Sports gets serious depth in a robust Switch sequel
We’ve seen Marvel’s Avengers’ first raid and Spider-Man in action
Let’s take a look at the webhead
Fortnite’s new Impostors mode can’t escape Among Us’ shadow
But maybe a good game isn’t the point
Inscryption’s Kaycee’s Mod is the cherry on top of 2021’s best game
Kaycee’s Mod is available now
Grid Legends gets back on track with an intriguing story mode
Good camera work — racing as well as cutscenes — supports a respectable AI challenge
Ghostwire: Tokyo feels like a game defined by its perspective
Everything in service of the first-person view
Norco’s mind-map mechanic is a great narrative tool in a stellar sci-fi adventure
Penny for your thoughts
MechWarrior 5 DLC rolls back the punishing grind, but the AI is still useless
The game is still best played in multiplayer
Midnight Ghost Hunt’s first big update adds a terrifying doll factory
Better balance, more chaos, and haunted dolls with knives
Windjammers 2 breaks the Neo Geo cycle
Dotemu’s follow-up strikes a fine balance
Rune Factory 5 tries to be the next big farming simulator, but it stumbles
In trying to do too much, it loses its charm
Replaying Hades on PS5 awakened my inner fishing god
Supergiant’s roguelike adventure feels much improved on a new platform
New World impressions: not quite new, not quite a world
Amazon doesn’t quite capture the magic of an MMO
Behold this city builder starring super-intelligent beavers
In Timberborn, "beavers either work or die"
Shredder’s Revenge brings the TMNT beat-’em-up into the modern age
Tribute Games doesn’t try to reinvent the wheel, but the wheel is more fun now
Ghost of Tsushima’s upgraded camera helps, but is it really necessary?
Target locking answers a key fan frustration, but a rank newcomer finds the old camera just fine
Marvel’s Avengers’ Black Panther is as indestructible as you’d want
Black Panther absorbs attacks
Last Call, a game about domestic abuse, is both devastating and healing
An autobiographical game told in poems
Astroneer’s Switch port is great for exploration, less so for base-building
Exploration still gives you plenty to do