Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town gives you overgrown land and a town to grow with it. A 7/10 farm sim where freedom and labor are the same mechanic.
Sonic Frontiers review: Sonic Team's first open world lands on the Starfall Islands with the Cyloop, Titan fights and Cyber Space. Score: 7.2/10.
Madden NFL 22 review: Franchise mode's staff management and scenario engine shine, but glitches and stale modes drag down the Mahomes-Brady cover game.
Need for Speed: The Run sent the series coast-to-coast with 300km of road on Frostbite 2 — the last Black Box racer, and a lost online game.
Skylanders: Giants review — Toys for Bob's 2012 sequel added 40+ figures and eight Giants, but played it safe. A solid 6.9/10 bridge game.
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 review: Yuke's and THQ's tenth entry, with Create-a-Finisher, Inferno match, and a 6.6 score.
Obduction, Cyan Worlds' 2016 spiritual successor to Myst, lands on a bigger canvas but lets its best ideas sit in journals instead of play. Our review.
Hohokum review: the 2014 PlayStation glide through 17 worlds with no score, no timer, and no tutorial — beautiful, strange, and tired by the end.
A review of Fallout Shelter, Bethesda's 2015 free-to-play Vault management sim, scored 6.8/10 for its loop, microtransactions and lack of an ending.
Gal*Gun: Double Peace review: a cupid's misfired arrow doses a student 32 times over, turning his school into pursuers in Inti Creates' 2015 shooter.
Nights of Azure review: Gust's 2015 action RPG with a strong blood-polluted premise, shallow combat and a 6.6/10 critic score.
Aragami review: Lince Works' 2016 stealth game runs on one shadow-teleport idea across thirteen chapters, with a story that reaches past its grasp.
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