Game Reviews8.5/10
DOOM Review: id Software’s Reboot Is a Brutally Clean Shooter
DOOM (2016) reboot review: fast Mars demon combat, chainsaw and BFG glory kills, SnapMap, weak multiplayer, Mick Gordon's score. Score: 8.5/10.
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Game Reviews8.2/10
Citizen Sleeper: Dice, Debt, and a Borrowed Body on the Eye
Citizen Sleeper review: dice-driven survival on the Eye, a borrowed robot body, debt to Essen-Arp, and a station that will not save you.
Game Reviews8.3/10
A Plague Tale: Requiem sends Amicia and Hugo de Rune south, and the rats follow.
A Plague Tale: Requiem review: Amicia and Hugo flee south with the rats in Asobo's bigger, meaner sequel, scoring 8.3/10 on PS5, Xbox and PC.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Two Point Campus Wants You to Care About the Students, Not Just the Profits
Two Point Campus swaps patients for students who stay for years. A management sim where the hardest part is not the buildings, it's the students.
Game Reviews7.3/10
OlliOlli World’s levels are built to keep skaters in rhythm, not to punish them
OlliOlli World review: Roll7's 2D skateboarding platformer trades pixel art for hand-drawn Radlandia, adds quarter pipes and branching paths. Score: 7.3/10.
Game Reviews8.8/10
Playing It Takes Two Solo Reveals What the Co-op Design Is Really Doing
It Takes Two forces two players to repair a broken marriage through co-op puzzles, and Hazelight's design makes the cooperation the whole point.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Subnautica: Below Zero Review: Cold, Land and a Mystery With a Human Center
Subnautica: Below Zero review — Robin Ayou hunts the truth about her sister's death on a frozen alien world. 8.2/10 for Unknown Worlds' chilly spin-off.
Game Reviews8.1/10
Life Is Strange: True Colors hands Alex Chen a power that hurts to use
Life is Strange: True Colors gives Alex Chen an empathy power that hurts to use. A review of Deck Nine's 2021 mystery, its story, and its flaws.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Kena: Bridge of Spirits Review: A Considered Action-Adventure
Kena: Bridge of Spirits review — Ember Lab's debut action adventure scores 8.2/10, blending grief-driven storytelling, the Rot, and Balinese gamelan music.
Game Reviews8.4/10
Relic rebuilds the medieval RTS around its own history, five years on
Age of Empires IV review: Relic's return to the Middle Ages scores 8.4/10, refining the Age of Empires II formula without reinventing it.
Game Reviews8.3/10
Unpacking earns its calm
Unpacking turns the mundane chore of putting things away into one of the most quietly affecting puzzle games of its year, and it earns every bit of its calm.
Game Reviews8.2/10
Chivalry 2 Review: 64-Player Medieval Chaos With a Spine
Chivalry 2 review: 64-player medieval sieges, three-attack combat, horseback fighting and friendly fire. Torn Banner's sequel scores 8.2 out of 10.