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Reviews

If you have Netflix, try this open-world game immediately

Laya’s Horizon brings the Alto’s Adventure vibe into 3D

By Chris Plante

Reviews

This medieval murder mystery is worth it for the nuns’ chemistry

It’s historical fiction with an almost entirely female cast

By Maddy Myers

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective gives new life to a Nintendo DS cult classic

By Jay Castello July 1

AEW: Fight Forever recaptures the attitude of golden-age wrestling games

By Hector Diaz June 30

Management sim Dave the Diver shouldn’t work as well as it does

By Jeffrey Parkin June 29

Battlebit Remastered is the second coming of Battlefield: Bad Company

By Patrick Gill June 28

Amnesia: The Bunker marks an evolution for one of the best horror series

By Diego Nicolás Argüello June 16

Super Mega Baseball 4 is a towering monument to the joy of the sport

By Marc Normandin June 8

Lacuna is the rare chill 2-player board game that requires almost no teaching at all

By Charlie Hall June 6

The Roundup: No Way Out is the latest showcase for the world’s hardest-hitting action star

By Pete Volk June 4

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse goes bigger, bolder, and more ambitious

By Tasha Robinson, Joshua Rivera, and 4 more May 31

Street Fighter 6 is the ultimate fighting game toolbox

By Axel Bosso May 30

The System Shock remake does something remarkable

By Gita Jackson May 29

Humanity’s solutions are more triumphant than its puzzles

By Jacob Geller May 21

Votes for Women, one of the year’s best board games, belongs in a museum

By Charlie Hall May 17

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom changes the conversation

By Mike Mahardy May 11

Metal Gear Solid 5 mashes up with Spelunky for one of 2023’s most rewarding roguelikes

By Steven Nguyen Scaife April 30

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 says goodbye to a Marvel that may not exist anymore

By Joshua Rivera April 28

Rusted Moss is Hollow Knight with a bungee cord

By Russ Frushtick April 27

Evil Dead Rise is a movie for sickos by sickos

By Rafael Motamayor April 21

Advance Wars’ slick reboot makes 20 years of trouble melt away

By Michael McWhertor April 19

The Pope’s Exorcist teases 199 sequels and I would watch every single one of them

By Austen Goslin April 18

The Mageseeker lets you beat up League of Legends’ oppressive elite

By Cass Marshall April 15

Total War: Warhammer 3’s Chaos Dwarfs turned me into Succession’s Roy family

By Mike Mahardy April 12

How to Blow Up a Pipeline: A perfect blend of radical politics and heist-movie thrills

By Pete Volk April 7

Dredge invents and perfects the fishing-horror genre

By Nicole Carpenter April 5

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is way better than it needed to be

By Grayson Morley April 3

Fist of the Condor: part Bruce Lee, part Rambo, part Sergio Leone, all Marko Zaror

By Pete Volk April 3

MLB The Show 23 will make every baseball fan fall in love with the game again

By Owen S. Good March 29

Tchia stands on the shoulders of Zelda — then leaps off

By Nicole Carpenter March 20

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is everything a D&D fan could want

By Rafael Motamayor March 11

Is Patch Quest a roguelike, Metroidvania, bullet hell, or Pokémon-like? Yes

By Johnny Yu March 11

Dead Cells’ Return to Castlevania DLC is joyous roguelike fan service

By Russ Frushtick March 6

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty brings Sekiro’s combat to a mesmerizing new world

By Khee Hoon Chan March 2