Game Reviews8.8/10
Night in the Woods still gets small-town boredom right, nine years on
Mae Borowski returns to a dying coal town in Infinite Fall's 2017 adventure game, a story about friendship, depression, and Possum Springs
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Category: Game Reviews
Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews9.2/10
Ghost of Tsushima Review: Sucker Punch’s Samurai Epic Earns Its 9.2
Ghost of Tsushima review: Sucker Punch's 2020 samurai open-world epic, its stance combat, Kurosawa influence and 9.2 score explained.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Tetris Effect Review: Falling Blocks as a Light Show, and It Works
Tetris Effect review: Monstars and Resonair's musical Tetris earns 8.8/10, with the Zone mechanic, 30 stages, and the definitive PC version.
Game Reviews8.9/10
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle makes first-person archaeology feel like the real adventure
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle review: MachineGames' first-person 1937 adventure through the Vatican, Gizeh and Sukhothai scores 8.9 of 10.
Game Reviews9.2/10
Why The Last of Us Still Works 13 Years Later
The Last of Us review: Naughty Dog's 2013 masterpiece follows Joel and Ellie across a ruined America, and it still cuts deeper than any game since.
Game Reviews9.6/10
Undertale’s mercy system still holds up 11 years later
Undertale review: Toby Fox's solo RPG mixes bullet hell combat with mercy, sold 5 million copies and holds a 9.6 critic score.
Game Reviews8.9/10
Owlboy Review: Nine Years in the Making, and It Shows in the Flying
Owlboy review: D-Pad Studio's nine-year pixel platformer, rated 8.9/10, where Otus flies with an owl cloak and swaps allies to fight pirates.
Game Reviews9.5/10
Sony’s Norse sequel is bigger, louder and less certain of what it wants to say
God of War Ragnarök review: all nine realms, the Draupnir Spear, a playable Atreus, and the father-son story that closes the Norse saga. Score: 9.5/10.
Game Reviews9.1/10
Mass Effect 3 ends a trilogy the way few games dare: by asking the player to pay for every choice they ever made
Mass Effect 3 review: BioWare's 2012 finale sends Shepard to rally a galaxy against the Reapers, where every choice carries a cost and multiplayer matters.
Game Reviews9.3/10
BioShock Infinite at Thirteen: The Shooter That Thought It Was a Novel
BioShock Infinite review: Irrational Games' floating city of Columbia, its Tears, Vigors, and Elizabeth still hold up 13 years later. Score: 9.3/10.
Game Reviews9.4/10
Super Mario 3D World: Nintendo at Its Most Confident
Super Mario 3D World review: Nintendo's Wii U co-op platformer with five playable characters, the Super Bell cat suit, and a 9.4/10 score.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Ori and the Blind Forest still finds something to do with grief besides decorate it
Ori and the Blind Forest: Moon Studios' 2015 Metroidvania classic, its story of Nibel, Soul Links, hand-painted art and orchestral score, reviewed.