Game Reviews

In its opening moments — a long, slow zoom in on a sailboat moving through stormy seas — Below comes across as either an extremely bold game, or one that’s a bit too in love with itself. Maybe both are true. Opening a game on a single minute-long shot of nothing

Elder Scrolls Online is aging with grace. Like a fine wine or female sexuality, the game’s peak will be found later in life. For now the game continues to slowly build to crescendo and each addition brings different levels of improvement. Murkmire is the latest, and where it lacks

(In the spirit of the multiplayer crossover, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate will be evaluated by not just one GT critic, but a triumvirate of Smash enthusiasts. This critique will be split across the game’s core pillars, each tackled by a different voice: In order of appearance, Sean Anthony, Elisha

I always feel some amount of fear when I start playing a game that I’m looking forward to from a fledgling developer. Unlike AAA games that come out after huge marketing blitzes and follow relatively predictable patterns, there’s no way of telling how a game from a studio

Plenty of games have either taken inspiration from Diablo or been developed as direct successors to it. Most of them try to mimic its infinitely addictive gameplay, macabre art, and pitch-black tone, but Book of Demons, a dungeon crawler that wears its debt to Diablo on both sleeves, takes a

If there’s one game I regret not buying, it’s the video game adaptation of Scott Pilgrim Vs the World. While a licensed game for the movie (based on the graphic novels), the title was a great homage to the beat-em-up genre, and I’m still super bummed that

In 2016, one of our editors took a look at a small indie game developed by a handful of people at Lienzo. This title, called Hunter’s Legacy, is a 2D platformer metroidvania where you play as Ikki, a kitty with swords and a bow, as you explore a decent

You’ll pretty much know how you feel about Desert Child within the first 10 minutes. Not only because the game is so much about its style, which pervades everything even from its opening minutes, but also because not much changes after that. We recently played a preview build of