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Game Reviews

A clear score, a short verdict and who each game suits.

Review · 9/10

Phantom Blade 0

A martial-arts action RPG whose Sha-Chi combat system genuinely earns its acclaim, paired with a serviceable but safe story that never threatens to steal the spotlight back.

PC · PlayStation · Nov 2, 2026

Review · 8/10

Shift at Midnight

A fresh, tense and funny co-op horror built on suspicion rather than jump scares. The shop-keeping and ID-checking loop is excellent with friends, while the shooting and stealth parts and the limited content keep it from the top tier.

Xbox · PC · Oct 23, 2026

Review · 8/10

Yet Another Zombie Survivors

A confident, content-rich bullet-heaven game whose squad system gives it its own identity; it is more refined than revolutionary, and the progression loop asks for some grinding.

Xbox · PlayStation · PC · Oct 21, 2026

Review · 8/10

Servant of the Lake

A tightly made, darkly funny point-and-click puzzler that turns daily chores into horror, held back mainly by its short length and puzzles that rarely push back hard.

Mobile · PC · Oct 19, 2026

Review · 8/10

Mortal Shell II

A confident, weighty soulslike whose Shell system gives it a real identity and whose combat is more fluid than the original's, held back by grindy resources, some frustrating bosses and a rocky launch state that patches are still smoothing out.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Oct 18, 2026

Review · 7/10

Beast of Reincarnation

A fluid, parry-driven action RPG with a lovely companion and a striking world, held back by a stretched middle, recycled bosses and technical rough edges that players have not forgiven as easily as critics.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Oct 16, 2026

Review · 8/10

TCG Card Shop Simulator

A relaxed, low-pressure shop management game with a highly addictive pack-opening loop and a new playable card game in 1.0, held back mainly by plain visuals and a few manual chores.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Switch · Oct 15, 2026

Review · 9/10

Castlevania: Belmont's Curse

A Castlevania that respects what the series has always done well, and dares to add a genuinely fun whip-grapple system on top of it, even if the map leaves you a little too much on your own sometimes.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Switch · Oct 15, 2026

Review · 8/10

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy

A beautiful, well-paced prequel that swaps the series' sneaking for parry-driven combat and light puzzles; most critics enjoy it, and the main complaints are repetition and a few launch glitches.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Oct 13, 2026

Review · 8/10

DayZ

A zombie survival game carried by community servers and unpredictability — with bugs that genuinely drag the score down.

Xbox · PlayStation · Switch · PC · Oct 12, 2026

Review · 7/10

Halo: Campaign Evolved

A gorgeous, faithful rebuild of a landmark shooter with a standout prequel chapter, dragged down by dated level design, clumsy vehicles and a troubled launch.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Oct 12, 2026

Review · 8/10

Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival

A brutal, unsettling horror experience that captures Hellraiser's dark, twisted feel. Grotesque environments and Pinhead's presence are the highlights, while stiff combat and some overlong boss fights keep it from the genre's best.

Xbox · Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 12, 2026

Review · 9/10

Fields of Mistria

A charming, generous and well-written farming sim that blends Stardew Valley, Rune Factory and Harvest Moon into something with its own personality, with only modest additions in 1.0 and some performance complaints keeping it just short of perfect.

PC · Oct 10, 2026

Review · 9/10

Big Walk

A co-op adventure that builds an entire game out of proximity voice, gestures and a wide-open map, and makes getting lost together the best part of it.

Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 10, 2026

Review · 8/10

Saros

A fast, defensive-minded bullet-hell shooter that turns incoming fire into your own firepower, and a better fit for people who wanted Returnal to be kinder without going soft.

PlayStation · Oct 9, 2026

Review · 8/10

Mixtape

A short, stylish coming-of-age story where licensed songs drive every scene, held back only by how little there is to actually do between the music.

Xbox · Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 9, 2026

Review · 7/10

Marvel's Wolverine

A cinematic and strongly performed Wolverine story with top-tier visuals, held back by combat that stays thin over a roughly 12 to 15 hour campaign and a very guided structure.

PlayStation · Oct 9, 2026

Review · 9/10

Slay the Spire II

A sequel that keeps the original's razor-sharp card-by-card decision making and adds a real reason to come back: new characters, alternate acts and co-op that changes how a deck is built.

PC · Oct 9, 2026

Review · 8/10

007 First Light

A cinematic, well-cast Bond origin story that swaps Hitman's freedom for momentum, and mostly gets that trade right, although its structure asks you to accept a lot of direction.

Xbox · Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 8, 2026

Review · 8/10

Nioh 3

A dense, demanding action RPG whose switchable Samurai and Ninja styles give its combat a second gear, held back by the price of a bigger, looser structure and a build system that asks for homework.

PC · PlayStation · Oct 8, 2026

Review · 8/10

Pragmata

A shooter that turns puzzle-solving into the weapon and a father-and-daughter bond into the reason to keep going, held back only by how much it leans on one clever idea.

Xbox · Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 8, 2026

Review · 9/10

Esoteric Ebb

A dialogue-first CRPG where inner voices, tabletop dice and reality-shaping magic make every conversation a system, at the price of a wall of text that action fans will bounce off.

PC · Oct 7, 2026

Review · 8/10

Cairn

A climbing game that makes every move a physical decision and every rest a small victory, held back by rough edges and a story that says less than the mountain does.

Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 7, 2026

Review · 9/10

Mina the Hollower

A deliberately old-school action adventure whose burrowing mechanic, boss design and strict Game Boy Color look add up to something far more inventive than its retro surface suggests.

Xbox · PC · Switch · PlayStation · Oct 7, 2026

Review · 9/10

Grand Theft Auto V

A meticulously built crime city and a clever three-way story structure, bundled with a multiplayer mode that has quietly outlived the single-player game it launched with.

Xbox · PlayStation · PC · Oct 6, 2026

Review · 10/10

Red Dead Redemption 2

A dense, unhurried simulation of the closing American frontier that turns Honor, horse care and camp life into the real story, with a protagonist good enough to carry all of it.

PlayStation · PC · Xbox · Oct 5, 2026

Review · 9/10

Monster Train

A vertical, dual-clan spin on the roguelike deckbuilder that turns a familiar formula into something that still has no real copy five years later.

Xbox · Mobile · PC · PlayStation · Switch · Oct 5, 2026

Review · 9/10

God of War

A single-shot camera, a throw-and-recall axe and a relationship between a father and son carry a reinvention that rarely puts a foot wrong for 20-plus hours.

PlayStation · PC · Oct 5, 2026

Review · 9/10

Mass Effect 2

A tightly focused RPG that traded Mass Effect's clunkier inventory for a crew of unforgettable characters and a finale where every choice you made actually matters.

PlayStation · PC · Xbox · Oct 4, 2026

Review · 9/10

Dead Space

A ground-up rebuild that keeps the USG Ishimura's claustrophobia intact while fixing the original's silent protagonist and inconsistent pacing, held back only by a story that occasionally over-explains what used to be left unsaid.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Oct 4, 2026

Review · 8/10

Amnesia: The Bunker

A tense, systemic reinvention of the Amnesia formula that turns fuel management and noise into the real horror, let down only by a monster and a revolver that both lose some bite by the final stretch.

Xbox · PlayStation · PC · Oct 4, 2026

Review · 8/10

Jagged Alliance 3

A confident, deep return to the classic mercenary-squad formula, where the strategic layer around the fights matters as much as the fights themselves, undercut only by an early-game slog and dialogue that leans too hard on jokes.

Xbox · PlayStation · PC · Oct 3, 2026

Review · 10/10

Baldur's Gate III

A three-act RPG built almost entirely from consequences, where the D&D rules, the companions and the environment all conspire to make every table's playthrough different.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Oct 3, 2026

Review · 9/10

Balatro

A tightly focused deckbuilder that finds enormous depth in one simple equation, chips times mult, and rarely wastes a single run getting there.

Xbox · PlayStation · Switch · Mobile · PC · Oct 3, 2026

Review · 9/10

Silent Hill 2

A faithful, expanded rebuild that trades the original's static dread for a heavier, more physical kind of horror, and mostly comes out ahead for it.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Oct 2, 2026

Review · 9/10

Metaphor: ReFantazio

A dense, gorgeous fantasy RPG that reworks Persona's social-link formula into an election campaign, held back only by a calendar that punishes a slow week.

Xbox · PlayStation · Switch · PC · Oct 2, 2026

Review · 9/10

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

A dense, first-person adventure that gets more right about being Indiana Jones than any game before it, held back only by combat that is intentionally, occasionally frustratingly weak.

Xbox · Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 2, 2026

Review · 9/10

Split Fiction

A relentlessly inventive two-player adventure that spends a bigger budget than It Takes Two on variety instead of length, held back only by a story that never quite matches its own gameplay.

Xbox · Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 1, 2026

Review · 9/10

Kingdom Come: Deliverance II

A historical RPG that trades spectacle for consequence, built on a combat and reputation system detailed enough to make a single stolen chicken matter three towns later.

Xbox · Switch · PC · PlayStation · Oct 1, 2026

Review · 8/10

Avowed

A confidently focused first-person RPG that swaps a seamless open world for four dense, handcrafted regions, a genuinely classless build system, and a political story that keeps track of your choices.

Xbox · PC · PlayStation · Oct 1, 2026