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Homeworld 3
Blackbird Interactive
Homeworld 3 nails the one question of where to place your fleet in true 3D, then declines to build a deep enough strategy layer or a story worth the wait.
Kenji Sato
·rts
·2024
Marvel's Midnight Suns
Firaxis Games
A superb card-driven tactics engine chained to a social sim that keeps checking its watch.
Kenji Sato
·tactical-rpg
·2022
Age of Empires IV
Relic Entertainment
Age of Empires IV asks the right question every match and dresses its thinner launch content in excellent production.
Kenji Sato
·rts
·2021
Total War: Warhammer III
Creative Assembly
A magnificent decision space eventually undermined by an opposition that too often forgets to push back.
Kenji Sato
·rts
·2022
Against the Storm
Eremite Games
A roguelite city builder that turns every settlement into a tense series of timed, opportunity-cost decisions, held back only by a dense interface and a meta-loop that eventually starts to rhyme.
Kenji Sato
·city-builder
·2023
Frostpunk 2
11 bit studios
A survival city builder that traded the fire for the council chamber, and the decision space is colder and larger for it.
Kenji Sato
·city-builder
·2024
Balatro
LocalThunk
A deckbuilding poker roguelike whose exploding scoring engines and endless build expression justify every hour it quietly steals.
Elena Rooke
·deckbuilder
·2024
Hades II
Supergiant Games
An Early Access read on Melinoe, a cast that already sings, and combat that feels wonderful even as the boons wait for balance.
Elena Rooke
·roguelike
·2024
Vampire Survivors
poncle
A minimalist roguelike that turns fifteen minutes of survival into a compulsive avalanche of power, and one of the best-value games I have played in years.
Elena Rooke
·roguelike
·2022
Dave the Diver
Mintrocket
A game that hands you a harpoon and a paring knife and somehow makes both feel like acts of love.
Elena Rooke
·adventure-rpg
·2023
Persona 5 Royal
Atlus
A year in Tokyo that asks you to grow up, fall in love, and steal a few hearts along the way, and it earns nearly every one of its hundred hours.
Elena Rooke
·jrpg
·2022
Metaphor: ReFantazio
Studio Zero
A long, literary JRPG that treats the wish for a fairer world as the bravest thing a person can hold.
Elena Rooke
·jrpg
·2024
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
CD Projekt Red
A spy thriller with a bruised heart, Phantom Liberty is the story Cyberpunk 2077 always wanted to be, provided you already own the game it grows out of.
Elena Rooke
·action-rpg
·2023
Returnal
Housemarque
Housemarque built the tightest third-person bullet hell on the market and then wrapped it in a roguelike that fights you as hard as the aliens do.
Marcus Vane
·roguelike
·2023
Lies of P
Round8 Studio
A punishing puppet soulslike with a parry window so tight it turns your palms into instruments, held back only by a brutal opening stretch.
Marcus Vane
·soulslike
·2023
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
FromSoftware
FromSoftware finally makes a mech feel like a fighter jet with a temper, and the stagger loop is the best thing they have built in years.
Marcus Vane
·character-action
·2023
Helldivers 2
Arrowhead Game Studios
Helldivers 2 has the best boots-on-the-ground shooting feel of its year, dragged back by a rocky launch and live-service friction.
Marcus Vane
·third-person-shooter
·2024
Sifu
Sloclap
Sifu hands you the cleanest kung fu combat in years and dares you to earn it, difficulty spikes and all.
Marcus Vane
·character-action
·2022
Hi-Fi Rush
Tango Gameworks
The best-feeling character action game to come out of nowhere in years, and it earns almost every note.
Marcus Vane
·character-action
·2023
Elden Ring
FromSoftware
FromSoftware built the best-feeling combat of its career and dropped it into a world that never stops testing your reflexes.
Marcus Vane
·soulslike
·2022