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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
Battlefield 6
The series remembers what it is for, three games too late but convincingly.
Scored 8.3 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
Blue Prince
A puzzle game where the puzzle is the building, and the building is different every day.
Scored 9.1 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
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
A first game from a thirty-person studio that outwrites almost everything its budget was measured against.
Scored 9.3 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
Doom: The Dark Ages
id trades the sky for the ground and asks whether you can stand still and win.
Scored 8.2 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
Fear The Timeloopstill playing
A fifteen-minute countdown that turns out to be a health bar, in a hospital built entirely around the choices you make while dying.
Not scored yet
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
Kalanoro
A platformer where the party you recruit is a band, and the tour bus between stages ends up mattering more than the stages themselves.
Scored 7.7 out of ten
Keep Driving
A good ending arrived about forty minutes before we were ready for one, and that's less a flaw than the entire point of a road trip you don't get to plan.
Scored 8.1 out of ten
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
The sequel keeps everything that made the first game difficult and finally explains itself.
Scored 8.8 out of ten
Lawn Mowing Simulator 2
Cutting grass still feels as good as the demo promised; running the business built around it is where eleven hours started to drag.
Scored 6.4 out of ten
Lies of P
A soulslike that stops imitating around hour twelve and starts arguing.
Scored 7.9 out of ten
Lou's Lagoonstill playing
Eight hours of flying between islands, and the question is whether the mystery underneath ever asks anything of me.
Not scored yet
Mall: Tidy Up Together
3,682 items to shelve, no deadline, no fail state — the sorting loop works, the camera does not always let you see it.
Scored 5.8 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
Model Kit Shop Simulatorstill playing
A shop sim that measures success in matched paint-and-kit baskets rather than raw till totals, four hours into a system that clearly has more gears than it's shown yet.
Not scored yet
Monster Hunter Wilds
The most accessible the series has ever been, and the shallowest its endgame has been in a decade.
Scored 8.0 out of ten
No More Room in Hell 2
The best tension here isn't the zombies, it's the moment an infected teammate has to choose between dying for partial credits or extracting for none at all.
Scored 7.5 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
Quern - Undying Thoughtsstill playing
The crystals behave the same way in every room, which turns five hours of puzzles into one long argument instead of forty short ones.
Not scored yet
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
Silent Hill f
The series leaves the town and finds that the fog was never the point.
Scored 8.5 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
Split Fiction
Hazelight throws away every mechanic it teaches, over and over, for fourteen hours.
Scored 8.9 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
Sunken Realms
109 hand-built rooms get shuffled every descent, but the camp between runs is doing more to hold this together than the dungeon itself.
Scored 7.6 out of ten
Tattoo Shop Simulator
Freehand-drawing a tattoo design that a customer actually wears is the one idea here that couldn't have come from any other shop sim.
Scored 6.2 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 Alters
A base builder where every worker is a version of you who resents the life you chose.
Scored 8.4 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
The Sinking City 2
Frogwares stops making a detective game with monsters in it and makes a horror game that happens to have a detective.
Scored 8.3 out of ten
Two Point Museum
The best of the three, because for once the joke and the simulation want the same thing.
Scored 8.1 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