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1000xRESIST
The most structurally ambitious story in games this decade, told almost entirely in rooms with people talking.
Scored 9.0 out of ten
Against the Storm
A city builder with a roguelike's spine, and the first one in years that respects your evening.
Scored 8.8 out of ten
Alan Wake 2
A game about writing that is genuinely about writing, and the only survival horror where the boldest sequence is a musical.
Scored 8.9 out of ten
Animal Well
A metroidvania where every item is a tool and none of them are a weapon.
Scored 8.7 out of ten
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
FromSoftware makes a game about building the right tool, not about being the better player.
Scored 8.7 out of ten
Astro Bot
A platformer with no filler, no upgrade tree, and no interest in taking more of your time than it needs.
Scored 9.1 out of ten
Balatro
A poker roguelike that understands the difference between a good hand and a good decision.
Scored 8.8 out of ten
Baldur's Gate 3
The rare enormous game where the size is not the point — the reactivity is.
Scored 9.4 out of ten
Black Myth: Wukong
Spectacular boss design carried by a world that keeps forgetting to be a world.
Scored 7.7 out of ten
Cities: Skylines II
A far more ambitious simulation than its predecessor, shipped roughly a year before it worked.
Scored 4.6 out of ten
Cocoon
Seven hours, one mechanic, no wasted minute — the most precisely built puzzle game in years.
Scored 8.3 out of ten
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
Twenty-five hours that finally deliver the game the marketing promised four years too late.
Scored 8.9 out of ten
Dave the Diver
An enormously charming game that keeps bolting on systems until the good one is buried.
Scored 7.5 out of ten
Destiny 2: The Final Shape
A ten-year story landing better than it had any right to, attached to a game that still cannot explain itself.
Scored 7.6 out of ten
Dragon's Dogma 2
A brilliant, hostile game that is entirely uninterested in whether you are enjoying yourself.
Scored 7.4 out of ten
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
An expansion the size of a full game, built almost entirely for the people who already finished the last one.
Scored 9.1 out of ten
Frostpunk 2
The sequel trades the survival horror of a single furnace for the slower cruelty of politics.
Scored 7.8 out of ten
Hades II
More of everything, held together by writing that still has no real competition in the genre.
Scored 8.6 out of ten
Helldivers 2
The best cooperative shooter in years, and a case study in how quickly a live game can lose the room.
Scored 8.5 out of ten
Hollow Knight: Silksongstill playing
Fourteen hours in, and it is already asking more of me than the first game did at forty.
Not scored yet
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
A first-person adventure that understands the character is a scholar who punches, not a soldier who reads.
Scored 8.4 out of ten
Lies of P
A soulslike that stops imitating around hour twelve and starts arguing.
Scored 7.9 out of ten
Manor Lords
The most beautiful medieval town builder ever made, and about sixty percent of a game.
Scored 6.9 out of ten
Marvel Rivals
A hero shooter that understood the assignment was fun before it was fair.
Scored 7.9 out of ten
Metaphor: ReFantazio
The Persona team leaves high school and finds something angrier to say.
Scored 9.0 out of ten
Pentiment
A murder mystery where the point is not who did it but what your accusation costs the town.
Scored 8.6 out of ten
Resident Evil 4
The remake nobody thought was necessary, and the rare one that argues with the original instead of tracing it.
Scored 9.2 out of ten
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
A hostile, atmospheric, deeply compromised game that no other studio would have finished at all.
Scored 7.2 out of ten
Satisfactory
A factory builder that solved the one problem the genre could not: standing inside the machine.
Scored 9.0 out of ten
Sifu
A fighting game disguised as a beat-em-up, where dying makes you old and old makes you fragile.
Scored 8.4 out of ten
Silent Hill 2
A remake that understood the assignment everywhere except the fog.
Scored 8.3 out of ten
Skull and Bones
Eleven years of development produced a ship you can upgrade and almost nothing to do with it.
Scored 3.9 out of ten
Star Wars Outlaws
A gorgeous, weightless open world with a good scoundrel trapped inside it.
Scored 6.2 out of ten
Starfield
A thousand planets, and the best hours are all spent in four cities.
Scored 6.4 out of ten
Stellar Blade
A combat system good enough to deserve a better game around it.
Scored 6.7 out of ten
Tekken 8
The most welcoming fighting game ever made, wrapped around monetisation that keeps testing the goodwill.
Scored 8.0 out of ten
The Callisto Protocol
Dead Space's creator remade Dead Space and forgot what the good parts were for.
Scored 5.1 out of ten
The Finals
The only shooter where the map is a resource you spend, and the only one that has convinced me destruction matters.
Scored 8.2 out of ten
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
A sequel that hands you a physics engine and trusts you not to need permission.
Scored 9.0 out of ten
Vampire Survivors
Two euros of code that redirected an entire genre, and it still holds up on a bus.
Scored 8.1 out of ten
XDefiant
A competent arcade shooter that arrived with nothing to say and no reason to stay.
Scored 4.8 out of ten