Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate manages to not only be a fantastic action roguelike, but also an excellent vignette of what makes these characters so special to millions of people worldwide.

Equal parts absurd, unhinged, hilarious, and somewhat touching, Date Everything! delivers a unique experience that you won’t want to miss. 

Children of Morta manages to tell an emotionally resonant story, perhaps in spite of its simplicity, relying on the power of family to drive things home.

Rise of Industry 2 is an unexpected sequel that captures the ambition of industrial expansionism — though it occasionally bends under the weight of that same goal.

Japanese Rural Life Adventure is the perfect blend of peaceful atmosphere and engaging content .

Blades of Fire is certainly doing things well enough to be enjoyable on some level, but is bloated in all the wrong ways.

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a breathtakingly beautiful examination of death, grief, loss, and love.

Stray is a lovely platforming adventure game that sees you playing as a cat in a somewhat dark, but ultimately hopeful world.

Dawn of Ages is a vapid, highly-monetized auto-battler with little in the way of creativity. A medieval strategy game with base-building aspects that never amount to more than busywork.

The journey on the HLV Herald was a perilous one, fraught with danger and mystery. And while the journey loses a bit of the wind in its sails by the end, it was still one worth making.

Despite not being wholly original by design, Kaya’s Prophecy succeeds in marrying the two disparate ideas of card battler and village management.

Creative level design lends itself to navigating through inventive use of your abilities, but failure is punishing in all the wrong ways.

Pyre remains a poignant piece nearly a decade later. Perhaps especially so, now. 

IXION may be what each person makes of it, but I’m not positive it ever coalesces into something greater than the sum of its parts.

Masterful use of space, color, and the video game medium itself have concocted a beautiful blend of storytelling and puzzle solving.

While Sonokuni doesn’t break barriers or have the most moving story, the visual style and music create a memorable experience.

Nif Nif doesn’t do enough to stand out from the pack for adults, but might just be what you need to introduce the genre to younger audiences

Monster Hunter Wilds is an exhilarating and worthy addition to the Monster Hunter franchise.

Judgment is a must-play for fans of detective stories and action games alike.

Avowed is a game full of exploration, wonder, intrigue, and laughs.