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Haiku, the Robot is a gorgeous, mechanically confident metroidvania that never quite escapes the shadow of the game it worships. It's an excellent 12-...

Morbidware built a genre out of a pun and — improbably — made it sing. *The Textorcist* is a filthy, funny, mechanically vicious bullet-hell that asks...

One German developer built a first-person Metroidvania that respects your intelligence more than most studio productions respect your time. The combat...

Team Cherry spent seven years building a game that is bigger, faster, and meaner than *Hollow Knight* — and mostly better for it, provided you can sto...

A gloriously dumb, endlessly watchable party royale that turns humiliation into a spectator sport — held back only by a cosmetics store that treats yo...

More than a decade on, Ironhide's fantasy tower defense still sets the standard—tight, funny, and ruthlessly well-designed. If you own a screen and a ...

Rare built a pirate sandbox that runs entirely on player-generated chaos, and after nearly a decade of free updates it's finally the game it always pr...

NetEase built the hero shooter Blizzard forgot to keep building — a fast, generous, gorgeously chaotic Marvel brawler whose seasonal machine is starti...

A sequel that outgrows its predecessor in every measurable way, *Ender Magnolia* is a gorgeous, generous, emotionally literate Metroidvania that trade...

GRIME is one of the most visually audacious Soulslikes ever made, welding grotesque anatomical horror to a parry-and-devour combat loop that feels gen...

Bombservice built a lean, punishing, and gorgeous action-platformer that respects your time and your reflexes in equal measure. It ends before you wan...

Joakim Sandberg spent the better part of a decade building a Metroidvania that fights above its weight class on nearly every front—combat, puzzles, ar...

Hazelight has done it again — **Split Fiction** is a relentlessly inventive two-player adventure that refuses to reuse a good idea when it could inven...

A French debut studio walked into the RPG arena swinging at Persona, Final Fantasy, and Sekiro all at once—and landed the punch. **Clair Obscur: Exped...

Feist is a gorgeous, physics-driven survival platformer where the world does most of the killing—yours and everyone else's. It's short, occasionally m...

The rare party game that turns level design into a blood sport, Ultimate Chicken Horse is a small-studio masterclass in emergent chaos—transcendent wi...

Supergiant took the best roguelike of the last decade and refused to simply photocopy it. Hades II is bigger, thornier, and more ambitious than its pr...

Windblown is the rare Early Access roguelite that already plays like a finished masterpiece—a blistering, combo-driven co-op action game that turns mo...

Sipho is a gorgeously weird creature-construction toy wrapped in a survival game that never quite matches the joy of the workshop. The building is bri...

Neon Abyss buries you in an avalanche of stackable loot until the screen bleeds bullets and the physics give up — thrilling, chaotic, and occasionally...

Windowkill takes the oldest constraint in gaming — the edges of your screen — and turns it into a living, hostile enemy. It's the most inventive twin-...

A gorgeously grotesque post-apocalyptic RPG that channels classic Fallout's "talk or fight your way through anything" freedom into hand-painted pixel ...

Tunche is one of the best-looking beat 'em ups you can buy, a storybook come to life with a killer four-player couch mode—but its roguelite scaffoldin...

A gorgeous, genuinely tense sci-fi mystery that nails atmosphere and dread better than almost anything in its price bracket—held back by puzzles that ...