GameReviews
Doloc Town Review: Stardew Valley After the Apocalypse
A side-scrolling farming sim set in a dying wasteland, finally out of early access after fifteen months. It is slower, stranger and smarter than the genre's usual comfort food. Score: 8/10.
Mortal Shell 2 Review: The Underdog Grows Fangs
Cold Symmetry's sequel ditches the stamina bar, doubles the shells and builds 60+ dungeons of Lovecraftian misery - a scrappy original grown into one of the genre's best. Score: 8/10
The Sinking City 2 Review: Frogwares Trades Detective Work for Dread
Frogwares turns its Lovecraft series into proper survival horror - drowned 1920s Arkham, real combat, real tension. Some AA jank remains, but the pivot works. Score: 8/10.
Agent 64: Spies Never Die Review: GoldenEye's Ghost Is Alive and Well on PC
One French solo developer spent years rebuilding the GoldenEye formula from scratch - and the 1.0 release proves it was worth the wait. Score: 8/10
Schrödinger's Call Review: The Best Game Nobody Is Talking About
A Japanese visual novel about answering humanity's last phone calls - strange, gentle and quietly devastating. The hidden gem of 2026 so far. Score: 9/10.
Duskfade Review: The PS2 Platformer Revival Done Right
Weird Beluga's clockwork 3D platformer nails traversal, worlds and bosses, even if combat lags behind. A genuine hidden gem of August. Score: 8/10.
Madden NFL 27 Review: The Best Franchise Mode in Years, the Same Old Habits
EA's annual football sim finally fixes the mode that matters - franchise is genuinely great thanks to the new Persona Engine - but Ultimate Team's monetization and launch rough edges keep it grounded. Score: 7/10.
Hell Let Loose: Vietnam Review: The Jungle Doesn't Care About Your K/D
Expression Games' standalone Vietnam sequel keeps the series' brutal, communication-first 100-player warfare and adds helicopters, tunnels and riverboats. Punishing for newcomers, no crossplay at launch - but the tension is unmatched. Score: 8/10.
Akatori Review: Brilliant Movement, Blunt Combat
Contrast Games' 2.5D metroidvania has one of the best traversal systems I've played this year, tied to combat that never grows up. At 14.99 euros it's still an easy recommendation. Score: 7/10
Grain Rot Review: Ten Euros of Beautiful Panic
A two-person Stockholm studio has made the co-op extraction horror game of the summer: you're a spark possessing disposable wooden bodies, and dying is a mechanic, not a game over. Rough in places, brilliant in the moments that count. Score: 8/10
The Mermaid Mask Review: The Best Whodunnit of the Year
SFB Games drops Detective Grimoire into a locked-room murder aboard the world's strangest submarine, and the result is funnier, prettier and sharper than Tangle Tower ever was. It is also far too willing to solve itself for you. Score: 9/10
Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls Review - Brilliant Fighter, Ugly Launch
Arc System Works built one of the best-feeling tag fighters in years, then it got wrapped in a stuttering PC port, a PlayStation account gate and a 69.99 euro price. Score: 7/10.
Beast of Reincarnation Review: Game Freak Finally Bites
Game Freak's first big non-Pokemon swing is a parry-heavy action RPG with gorgeous, mournful atmosphere and a world that can't quite keep up with its combat. Score: 7/10.
Big Walk Review - The Goose Devs Made Me Love My Friends Again
House House follows Untitled Goose Game with a 2-12 player co-op hike built entirely around talking. It is the best twenty dollars your friend group will spend this year - if you have a friend group. Score: 9/10.
Shift at Midnight Review - Papers, Please With Doppelgangers, and It Works
Bun Muen's viral co-op horror puts you behind a 1993 gas station counter, checking IDs to spot doppelgangers among the customers. Brilliant with friends, thin solo - and it costs less than a pizza. Score: 8/10.
Splatoon Raiders Review: Ink, Loot and a Risk That Pays Off
Nintendo's first PvE looter-shooter trades Turf War for eerie islands and extraction tension. The loot loop is familiar, but the execution is superb. Score: 8/10
Halo: Campaign Evolved Review - Gorgeous, but Plays It Safe
Halo Studios rebuilds Combat Evolved from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5: stunning to look at and faithful to a fault, but light on new ideas and missing competitive multiplayer. Score: 8/10.
Palworld 1.0 Review: The Meme Finally Grew Up
Pocketpair's creature-collecting survival hit finally reaches 1.0 with two new regions, 72 fresh Pals and game-changing traversal. It grew up. Score: 8/10
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced Review: Gorgeous, but Too Safe
Ubisoft Singapore's ground-up remake of the 2013 pirate classic is gorgeous and faithful, but plays it too safe - and quietly drops features. Stunning for newcomers, inessential for veterans. Score: 7/10
Gothic 1 Remake Review: A Faithful Return to the Colony
A faithful, gloriously unforgiving remake of a cult classic - janky but full of soul. Score: 8/10