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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
Balatro
A poker roguelike that understands the difference between a good hand and a good decision.
Scored 8.8 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
Silent Hill 2
A remake that understood the assignment everywhere except the fog.
Scored 8.3 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
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
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
Tekken 8
The most welcoming fighting game ever made, wrapped around monetisation that keeps testing the goodwill.
Scored 8.0 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
Animal Well
A metroidvania where every item is a tool and none of them are a weapon.
Scored 8.7 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
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
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
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
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