Game Reviews7.5/10
Getting Lost Is the Point: Atomfall Builds Its Windscale Mystery on Trusting the Player
A quarantined zone, no map, no guide — a wanderer must piece together dread and mystery amid a desolate atomic ruin.
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Category: Game Reviews
Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Khazan Proves a Soulslike Can Skip the Filler and Still Hit an 8.4
A disgraced warrior fights back with stance-shifting blades and hard bosses in this tale of ruin and rank restored.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Ninja Gaiden 4 Review: Two Fighting Styles, One Sharp Blade
A tale of two heroes, two styles of combat, and a punishment that rewards the patient reader of small, sharp cues.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Fourteen jobs, one cozy island, and an 8.5 — Fantasy Life i makes time theft feel earned
A mysterious girl, a stolen hour, and a world of many lives — a tale worth the telling, scored highest among its kin.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Borderlands 4 Review: Sharper Gunplay and Strong Co-op Carry a Familiar Formula to 8.4
A vault hunter returns to a realm of guns and phantasms, where the chase for treasure and dominion holds a stern, deathless fascination.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Naoe and Yasuke Carry a Feudal Japan Epic That Overstays Its Welcome
A tale of feudal Japan, where the phantom and the warrior tread separate paths through a kingdom vast and strange, scored eight of ten.
Game Reviews8.6/10
Nioh 3 Opens Up Its World Without Softening the Fights That Define It
A grim chronicle of William's wandering blade and a shadow-bound successor, set upon a wider, demon-haunted realm of feudal Japan.
Game Reviews7.9/10
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Earns a 7.9 as Ship Combat Steers the Series Toward Open Water
A one-eyed fighter takes to the sea in a piratical turn for the Like a Dragon series, wherein ship and street combat both find favor.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor Proves the Co-op Mining Shooter Holds Up When You Dig Alone
A lone miner descends into ever-deeper caverns, waging solitary war upon swarms that never cease their onward tide of horror.
Game Reviews8.9/10
Resident Evil Requiem Review: Careful Design and Steady Fear Earn an 8.9
A grim mansion of dread, resource and dire combat — Requiem earns its score through patience, terror, and steady grip upon the player.