Reviews
Deep reviews built on 20+ hours of playtime. Bias-free analysis to help you decide what to play — and what to skip.
Crimson Desert
After seven years of development and one of gaming's most protracted reveal cycles, Crimson Desert arrives as something rarer than a polished masterpiece: a genuinely ambitious Frankenstein's monster of ideas, many of them brilliant, some of them broken, all of them interesting. Pearl Abyss has made a game unlike anything else this year — for better and for worse.
Resident Evil Requiem
Released on the eve of the Resident Evil franchise's 30th anniversary, Requiem delivers a sequel worthy of the occasion. Capcom has achieved something long thought impossible: a mainline entry that successfully bridges the claustrophobic first-person horror of RE7 with the kinetic precision of the modern remakes, without compromising either.
Nioh 3
Six years after Nioh 2, Team Ninja returns with a sequel that applies the lessons of the studio's entire post-Nioh output — Wo Long, Rise of the Ronin, Stranger of Paradise — into one comprehensive, extraordinary package. Nioh 3 is the best game in the series, and among the finest Soulslike experiences ever made.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
Hideo Kojima doubles down on everything that divided players about the original — and creates something more fully realised, more emotionally complete and more technically spectacular in the process.
DOOM: The Dark Ages
id Software's prequel to the 2016 reboot takes the Doom Slayer back to his origins — and in doing so, takes the franchise somewhere it has never been. Slower, weightier and more cinematic than its predecessors, The Dark Ages is a bold reinvention that doesn't quite match Eternal's mechanical peaks but earns its own identity with conviction.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
A French indie studio of around thirty people has made one of the greatest RPGs ever built. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 fuses the visual ambition of a Final Fantasy, the combat inventiveness of a Mario RPG, and a narrative so quietly devastating it lingers for days after the credits roll.
Assassin's Creed Shadows
After years of fan demands and a famously troubled development, Assassin's Creed Shadows lands in feudal Japan with a stunning open world, two genuinely distinct protagonists, and the best combat the series has ever produced. That the story barely keeps pace is the franchise's oldest and most persistent disappointment.
Split Fiction
Josef Fares and Hazelight Studios have now done the impossible twice: built a co-op game that changes genre every twenty minutes and makes every shift feel completely mastered. Split Fiction isn't just the best co-op game available — it's a sustained argument that collaborative play produces emotional experiences that no single-player game can replicate.
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II is not a game that will accommodate you. It demands patience, system mastery and a willingness to meet it entirely on its terms. For players who do, it delivers one of the most immersive, historically authentic and emotionally satisfying RPG experiences in recent memory.
Frostpunk 2
Thirty years after the apocalyptic blizzard of the first game, 11 bit studios trades the intimate drama of a captain's rule for something far more unsettling: the chaos of democracy. Frostpunk 2 is bigger, colder and more politically vicious than its predecessor — and it earns every brutal moment.
Black Myth: Wukong
Game Science's debut title isn't just the most significant Chinese game ever made — it's one of the finest action RPGs in recent memory, a 40-hour masterwork rooted in the mythology of Journey to the West.
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
Shadow of the Erdtree is not merely a DLC — it is a full creative statement that stands among FromSoftware's finest work. At 25-40 hours of content, it is larger and more inventive than most full-priced releases.
Hades II (Early Access)
Even in Early Access, Hades II makes a compelling case for being the greatest roguelike ever made. Supergiant has done what seemed impossible — improve on a masterpiece.
Baldur's Gate 3
Larian Studios didn't just make the best RPG in years — they fundamentally raised the bar for the entire genre and, arguably, for story-driven games as a whole.