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In my first game of Dead Cells, I died after about four minutes. In my most recent one, I lasted almost an hour. The…

The Banner Saga 3 is the final entry in a Kickstarted trilogy of strategy games. It’s the culmination of four years of…

The first time I ever played a WarioWare game, I was drunk.

I went into Chasm searching for something that would knock me on my ass. What I found was entertaining, but nothing…

Eight people gather in a tavern, swapping stories and preparing for adventure. It’s not clear why they’re traveling…

In Hollow Knight, looks can be deceiving. A sad little lamplit town may hide the entrance to a beautiful buried…

In the mid-nineties, at the approach of the millennium, the creators of Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest combined their…

Toward the end of my time with pirate RPG Pillars of Eternity II, one of my crew members, foul-mouthed furball Serafen,…

When Dark Souls released in 2011, it helped solidify a new genre of action RPG. Since then, players have held onto the…

The PS4’s latest blockbuster moviegame Detroit: Become Human is like something my Alexa would come up with, were I to…

Hyrule Warriors came out for the Nintendo Wii U in 2014. It came out for the Nintendo 3DS in 2016. In 2018, Nintendo…

Someone is a spy and you need to take them out. There’s only thirty seconds left for them to bug the ambassador and…

The first question you might have about Labo is: what’s so special about a box of cardboard and some mini-games? And…

There’s a telling scene very early on in the new God of War, in the denouement of an exhausting battle sequence that…

Yakuza 6 is a game of firsts. It’s also a game of lasts.

Playing Sea of Thieves feels a bit like working in a theater before the set has been completely built. There’s plenty…

A Way Out merges narrative games with couch co-op, and the result is a smart and emotional experience so good that it…

I’ve spent a long time trekking across Far Cry 5’s fictional Hope County, Montana fighting the members of an…

It can be difficult, as a jaded adult, to appreciate a great fairy tale—one where the hero always wins and naivety is a…