
Leap Year
Daniel Linssen
Leap Year weaponizes fragility — a fall of more than a few pixels kills you — and turns that single rule into one of the smartest knowledge-based metr...

Haste: Broken Worlds
Landfall
Landfall has built the best pure-movement game since *Neon White* — a downhill sprint through the apocalypse where flow state is the whole point. It's...

Absolum
Dotemu, Guard Crush Games, Supamonks
Absolum takes the pixel-perfect brawling of *Streets of Rage 4* and welds it to *Dead Cells*-style roguelite structure — the result is the most mechan...

Mr. Sun's Hatbox
Kenny Sun
A roguelite that treats slapstick disaster as a design principle, *Mr. Sun's Hatbox* is one of the most inventive physics sandboxes on Steam and Switc...

Squirrel with a Gun
Dee Dee Creations LLC
A physics-comedy sandbox that mines one absurd joke — a pistol-packing squirrel — for far more mileage than it has any right to. It's short, occasiona...

Freedom Planet 2
GalaxyTrail
GalaxyTrail took a fan-game's DNA and forged one of the finest momentum-platformers in a decade — a generous, gorgeous, occasionally overlong love let...

Grimvalor
Direlight Oy
Grimvalor is a razor-sharp action platformer that treats your phone like a real gaming console—demanding precision, rewarding mastery, and refusing to...

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Eidos-Montréal
Eidos-Montréal made a smart, funny, genuinely heartfelt single-player adventure that respects your time and your wallet—then watched it get buried by ...

Overcooked! 2
Ghost Town Games Ltd., Team17
A ruthless, riotous co-op cooking sim that turns your living room into a shouting match — and that's the highest praise I can give it. Overcooked! 2 f...

Mass Effect Legendary Edition
BioWare
A meticulous, respectful remaster that drags one of gaming's greatest sci-fi sagas into 4K without breaking what made it sing. The EA launcher and a f...

Batman: Arkham City
Rocksteady Studios
Fifteen years on, Rocksteady's open-world Gotham remains the gold standard for what a licensed game can be — a brawler with real teeth, a stealth sand...

Titanfall 2
Respawn Entertainment
Titanfall 2 pairs the most exhilarating movement in the genre with a campaign that outclasses games ten times its budget. It was buried at launch by c...

Brütal Legend
Double Fine Productions
Tim Schafer's love letter to heavy metal is one of gaming's most gorgeous, funny, and singular worlds—hamstrung by a genre-swap gamble that trades its...

Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Ninja Theory
The most technically staggering game you can run on a PC right now, and one of the most cautiously interactive. Hellblade II is a masterpiece of craft...

Ghostwire: Tokyo
Tango Gameworks
Ghostwire: Tokyo is one of the most gorgeous, atmospheric open worlds you'll ever wander — and one of the most mechanically repetitive. It's a mood pi...

A Plague Tale: Requiem
Asobo Studio
Asobo Studio's follow-up to *Innocence* is a gorgeous, gut-punching piece of interactive theater that reaches for greatness and mostly gets there — he...

Forza Horizon 5
Playground Games
A promising entry.

Death Road to Canada
Rocketcat Games, Madgarden
A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

Tomb of the Mask
Playgendary Limited
A ruthlessly efficient arcade climber that turns a single swipe into a compulsion loop few mobile games can match. On Switch it's a small classic; on ...

Broforce
Free Lives
Broforce is a gleeful, self-aware ode to '80s action cinema built on the best destructible sandbox this side of a Michael Bay set — a chaotic, co-op-f...