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Ghostwire: Tokyo Xbox Review: An Almost Seamless Port
Despite its original flaws being present, the quality of this game and its inclusion on Game Pass makes trying it out an easy recommendation.
Meet Your Maker Review: Architectural Sadism And Unbalanced Enjoyment
Meet Your Maker houses a robust building system & interesting mechanics, but it ultimately favors the builders and puts players at a disadvantage.
Ravenbound Review: Decent Combat In An Empty World
Ravenbound should be an addicting roguelike in a dark & active open-world. Instead, its mechanics work against each other & the world suffers for it.
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Preview - Interesting, But Lackluster
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum preview showed the start of an interesting new story in Middle-earth, as well as clunky & unengaging gameplay.
Remnant: From The Ashes Switch Review - A Decent Port For Struggling Hardware
The core of Remnant: From the Ashes is alive & well in this port, but the Switch’s awkward controls & aging hardware struggles to do the game justice.
Wanted: Dead Review: Unfocused, Unrefined, And Unclear
Wanted: Dead is a flashy game with an enticing premise that fails to provide refined gameplay & poorly handles sensitive subject matter.
Tails: The Backbone Preludes Review: Enriching An Avant Garde Masterpiece
Tails: The Backbone Preludes offers four moving stories that expand the world of Backbone and explore the complexities of the human experience.
Superfuse Preview: A Stylish Package That's Confusing & Unengaging
Superfuse is a promising title with interesting ideas, but fails to provide context to its world & guidance through its various, unintuitive systems.
Backfirewall_ Review: Clever Puzzles, Charming Wit, & Moving Story
Backfirewall_ is a surprising title that uses its clever puzzles to tell a story of change, community, and how to work through one’s darkest moments.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Preview: A Fun Yet Hollow First Impression
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty’s first 2 chapters showed off its fun & visceral gameplay but struggled to present an interesting world or balanced mechanics.
Scars Above Preview: A Promising Adventure In Need Of Refinement
Scars Above is a promising sci-fi shooter with an intriguing world & story, but poor gameplay mechanics make it hard to enjoy in its current state.
IXION Review: Survival Lies In The Details
IXION offers a detailed, challenging, & poetic world to survive in. In contrast, it doesn’t offer reliable performance on more affordable hardware.
Railbound Review: Unique Puzzling That's Heart-Warming & Empowering
Railbound presents players with a charming world, a small heart-warming story, & 150 puzzles that are equal parts creative, rewarding, & empowering.
Primal Light Review: A Solid Retro-Platformer Tainted By Unfair Combat
Primal Light is a 2D action-platformer with great level design & art, but absurdly unfair & confusing combat mechanics that overpower those strengths.
The Knight Witch Review: A Charming And Challenging Deck-Building Metroidvania
The Knight Witch is a unique, genre blending adventure filled with charming characters, challenging combat, & occasionally unfair bosses.
Escape Academy: Escape From Anti-Escape Island DLC Review - Funny & Challenging
The Escape from Anti-Escape Island DLC is a phenomenal continuation that introduces a ton of brilliant, though occasionally obtuse puzzles to solve.
Tanuki Sunset Review: Solid Skating, Great Music, and Good Vibes
Tanuki Sunset is a striking, addictive, and relaxing skating game with a phenomenal soundtrack, simple controls, and an aesthetic filled journey.
Signalis Review: A Must-Play Cosmic Horror Experience
Signalis is a survival horror game that tells a masterful, mind-bending cosmic horror tale with solid gameplay, a brutal world, and stunning imagery.
Big Earth Review: Stunning Visuals Muddied By Poor Gameplay
Big Earth puts players in stunning & lifelike recreations of nature but exploring it forces players to navigate poor platforming & physics mechanics.
Cultic Preview: A Phenomenal Classic-Inspired Horror FPS
Cultic is a dark & challenging FPS inspired by the classics. Its gunplay is tight, its world is foreboding, & it’s a ton of fun despite some pitfalls.