Game Reviews8.6/10
Obsidian’s Space RPG Still Lets You Talk Your Way Past Almost Every Fight
Obsidian's 2019 RPG The Outer Worlds drops you into Halcyon, a colony run by megacorporations. Our review scores it 8.6/10.
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Every game we have scored, from the NES library to current releases.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Kingdom Hearts III Finally Lets Sora Grow Up
Kingdom Hearts III review: the Dark Seeker Saga ends with Formchange, Disney theme park Attractions, Pixar worlds and a war worth the wait. 8.8 of 10.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Apex Legends Review: 8.8/10
Apex Legends launched unannounced in 2019 as a free-to-play squad battle royale. A look at its Legends, classes, Outlands lore, platforms and 8.8/10 score.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order at 7 Years: Respawn’s Best Argument for the License
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order turns 7. Respawn's single-player Soulslike still stands as the best Star Wars game in years, thanks to parries and Cal Kestis.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Slay the Spire Built the Blueprint Its Rivals Still Copy
Slay the Spire review: Mega Crit's deck-building roguelike still defines the genre, from three-energy turns to relics that carry across a run.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Lara Croft’s Survivor trilogy ends in the jungle, eight years on
Shadow of the Tomb Raider ends the Survivor trilogy in the jungle, as Lara Croft races Trinity to Paititi to stop a Mayan apocalypse she triggered.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Sekiro’s combat still has no equal among FromSoftware’s games
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice review: FromSoftware's 2019 shinobi epic trades Dark Souls stats for posture combat, a prosthetic arm, and a Game of the Year win.
Game Reviews8.9/10
Outer Wilds Review: 22 Minutes to Solve a Solar System
Outer Wilds review: Mobius Digital's 22-minute time loop, the Nomai mystery, Echoes of the Eye, and why knowledge beats cutscenes. Score: 8.9/10.
Game Reviews8.3/10
NetherRealm’s fighting mechanics shine, but the grind and microtransactions sour the package
Mortal Kombat 11 review: NetherRealm's sharpest fighter, with Fatal Blows and a benchmark story mode, held back by grinding and microtransactions.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Frostpunk’s volcanic winter is a management game about the cost of keeping people alive
Frostpunk review: a frozen 1886 city-builder where every coal budget is a moral choice, six scenarios deep, from the makers of This War of Mine.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Devil May Cry 5 Puts Three Demon Hunters on One City, and None of Them Fight the Same Way
Devil May Cry 5 review: Capcom's 2019 hit puts Nero, Dante and V in Red Grave City, each with a totally different combat style. 14.24 million sold.
Game Reviews8.5/10
Control: A Brutalist Government Tower, a Shapeshifting Gun, and a Missing Brother
Control review: Remedy's 2019 shooter sends Jesse Faden into the shifting Oldest House with a shapeshifting gun and a missing brother.