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339 games reviewed
67.5 average score
70 median score
18.7% of games recommended

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For now, the game is just echoes; echoes of The Banner Saga, of India and the Middle-East, and of poorly-written Saturday morning cartoons. But the thing about echoes is that they are always less substantial than the original word: “good enough” comes back to us as “enough.”

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Sep 13, 2016

The most flattering description I can offer Mother Russia Bleeds is that of an enjoyably formulaic brawler, but the ferocity of its execution was refined enough to get lodged in my head.

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Sep 9, 2016

The game’s graceless combat was once tolerable. But as the game progressed, that fact faded into a distant memory. It became a common occurrence to find myself frantically flinging arrows at the speedier robots sprinting my way, while praying that the slower, stronger ones didn’t reach me in time for more tedious hack-and-slashing

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80 / 100 - Obduction
Sep 8, 2016

With Obduction, Cyan has created another game that’s an art of personal journaling. What you know, what you’ve gathered, will save you. The tools seem familiar but it is details that are your weapons. As the otherworldly overlaps the banal, you’re trapped in a labyrinth of places and things.

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65 / 100 - Moon Hunters
Sep 7, 2016

While Moon Hunters may not be the perfect game, it nobly aims for the stars, and for that alone it is memorable.

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80 / 100 - Starbound
Sep 2, 2016

Starbound likes to subvert expectations at every turn. With another player in co-op, Starbound’s combat moves firmly in the direction of ridiculousness, especially as you’re barking orders at each other about the need to avoid, of all things, damned penguins driving huge tanks, as if it were a weird game of Pretend.

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Aug 30, 2016

It's the decisions that bind the experience; enabling The Banner Saga 2 to transcend its videogame construct. You're left with an experience that feels not only alive, but alive with the complexities of the real world.

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70 / 100 - Grow Up!
Aug 26, 2016

Grow Up’s dedication to scalable verticality is all part of the thrill.

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67 / 100 - Bound
Aug 26, 2016

Despite all its flaws, Bound is undoubtedly a celebration of the female form, both physically and spiritually. And, for that, it could be said to be a game better viewed as one to experience rather than to play, and the fact that it tries to encompass so many deep psychological metaphors in the videogame format is an ambition worth praising.

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Aug 24, 2016

For being a cyberpunk ode to the potential promise of transhumanism, the missions around Mankind Divided's central narrative feel terribly familiar.

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Aug 22, 2016

Death Road to Canada tells many small slapstick stories that end the same way.

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65 / 100 - Near Death
Aug 17, 2016

Near Death succeeds in eliciting a sigh of relief at finding a moment to breathe in a place hostile to comfort, and, thankfully, the game’s smart pacing means it does not overstay its welcome. Such tension, after all, is no more sustainable than the station at the game’s center. Ultimately, though, Near Death has nothing to say beyond the struggle to navigate the harshest environment on Earth.

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87 / 100 - No Man's Sky
Aug 15, 2016

As I became more familiar with its systems, as I began to master the repeating frames of its world, they began to fall away. Mastery brought with it an openness that was dizzying in its freedom. I had a ship I liked, enough units to get by, and an inventory that served my purpose. Unshackled from the grind, I suddenly realized I could wander.

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55 / 100 - I Am Setsuna
Aug 10, 2016

At its core, I Am Setsuna plays precisely like a classic JRPG of the Active Time Battle variety, and requires smart, spur-of-the-moment strategy as those games once did.

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35 / 100 - Necropolis
Aug 8, 2016

As it stands there are a few hundred other games I’d crawl through before coming back to this one.

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58 / 100 - Anarcute
Aug 4, 2016

A game about property destruction, cop killing, and corgis, it—needless to say—hasn't found itself with the most tactful launch window in videogame history.

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85 / 100 - Abzu
Aug 2, 2016

Like Journey, Abzû is in some sense a game about archetypes and archetypicality, letting you dwell within and among them as though to remind you of their firm embeddedness at the foundation of other things. And yet, in a significant structural twist, it's about recovering archetypes that no longer seem to have potency, rather than playing through an archetypal sequence—the Journey—that's still going strong.

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Jul 28, 2016

For the ultimate failure of This Is the Police is that it makes everyone culpable but the police.

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Jul 27, 2016

Don’t let Quadrilateral Cowboy slip through your fingers

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Jul 26, 2016

From the room of VHS tapes, to the security footage, to the bat sanctuary, to the theremin performance, to the camera’s final, extended retreat up the rickety helix of a spiral staircase; Act IV confronts us with scenarios that test and limit our perception.

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