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A gorgeous, wordless meditation on growing up that turns card-stacking into genuine emotion—but its puzzles are so forgiving they occasionally forget ...

Eidos-Montréal made a smart, funny, genuinely heartfelt single-player adventure that respects your time and your wallet—then watched it get buried by ...

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...

A decade after its Vita debut, Persona 4 Golden remains the gold standard for how to make 80 hours feel like time well spent — a genre-bending JRPG wh...

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...

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 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...

Star Chart remains one of the most approachable augmented-reality planetariums ever built, turning a night sky full of anonymous dots into a legible m...

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...

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 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...

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...

A promising entry.

A savage, hilarious, endlessly replayable roguelike that turns permadeath into a punchline and a punishment in equal measure. Rough edges and brutal R...

Double Fine's crowdfunded passion project is one of the most gorgeous point-and-click adventures ever animated, buoyed by a razor-sharp voice cast and...

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...

A gorgeous, brutally tactical RPG whose enemies actually remember you — Star Renegades pairs one of the smartest combat systems in the genre with a gr...

Kenny Sun took Breakout, Vampire Survivors, and a city-builder, threw them in a blender, and somehow poured out one of the most compulsively replayabl...

Okomotive trades the sci-fi melancholy of *FAR* for windswept mountaintops and a herd of fuzzy companions, delivering a wordless, achingly pretty pilg...

A brainy, unhurried aquarium builder that trades the usual tycoon frenzy for genuine systems mastery — brilliant for 30 hours, a little too polite to ...

Evil Empire took the DNA that made Dead Cells sing and grafted it onto a Persian myth, and the result is one of the most kinetic roguelites on the mar...

Norland is a brutal, brilliant marriage of colony sim and dynastic soap opera that will either enthrall you or exhaust you—and in Early Access, it doe...

Firaxis built a tactical combat system so sharp it belongs in the strategy hall of fame — then wrapped it in a friendship-simulator that alternately d...

*Termina* is one of the most punishing, uncompromising, and genuinely unsettling RPGs ever built in RPG Maker — a masterwork of dread that will either...