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First-Person Shooter8.0

id Software Shipped a DLC So Big It Plays Like a Sequel, the Same Week Its Owner Cut the Studio in Half

An expansion this generous almost makes you forget it launched the same week Microsoft gutted the people who made it.

Roguelike4.5

A Play to Earn Mobile Game Where Dinosaurs Fight the AI Apocalypse, Which Is Either Genius or a Very On the Nose Metaphor

A perfectly decent one-handed roguelike wearing a blockchain like a lead backpack.

Action7.5

Devil May Cry 5: Devil Hunter Edition

A complete edition that is quietly incomplete, but it still runs at a smooth 60 and out-styles most of 2026.

Sports / Fighting8.4

EA Sports UFC 6

EA finally threw a clean combo: the best MMA game ever made, with the cosmetic price tag still hanging off its shorts.

Turn-Based Strategy7.0

R-Type Tactics I・II Cosmos

The sequel the West waited sixteen years for, and it still refuses to explain how to actually play it.

Management / Tycoon7.5

Copa City

A genuinely fresh football tycoon where you run the buses and the toilets, not the team, sabotaged only by menus that need a stadium map of their own.

Management / Tycoon6.0

Copa City

Finally a football game where the most stressful moment is the parking situation, not the penalty shootout.

Sports / Fighting7.4

EA Sports UFC 6

Three years of waiting and EA still wants you to pay extra to finish downloading the game.

Co-op Extraction Puzzle-Platformer6.8

Frog Sqwad

A five-dollar frog that croaks more than it leaps, but somehow you'll love it anyway.

2D Roguelite Beat 'em Up7.8

Lost Castle 2

Two years, six roadmap phases, and 700,000 suckers who paid before it was finished, and honestly? It was almost worth the wait.

Co-op Action8.2

Unrailed 2: Back on Track

The friendship shredder graduated from early access, which means the bugs are gone and now the only thing breaking in your living room is the people.

Co-op Action Sandbox6.8

Starseeker: Astroneer Expeditions

A cozy space sandbox that wants you to make friends and explore the cosmos, then locked the cosmos behind a login server that took the day off on launch.

Cooperative Action Roguelike7.8

33 Immortals

Dante's Inferno got a 33-player raid makeover and somehow that sentence is not a cry for help.

Arcade Sports8.4

NBA The Run

The first licensed arcade hoops game in 19 years, built by EA refugees who looked at the 2K monopoly, the microtransaction casino, and the dead NBA Street franchise and said fine, we will just do it ourselves.

Cozy Survival Crafting6.8

Solarpunk

Another unit rolls off the cozy survival conveyor belt, this one with windmills, and the windmills are honestly the best part.

Open-World Action RPG6.5

Gothic 1 Remake

A remake so faithful to 2001 it kept the atmosphere, the ambition, and every single rough edge that made you ragequit back then.

Action RPG7.4

Gothic Remake

A 25 year old prison colony rebuilt brick by brick, including the bugs, because Alkimia apparently filed the jank under cultural heritage.

Puzzle Adventure7.9

The 7th Guest Remake

A 33-year-old haunted house gets a facelift so good you can finally see how thin its script always was.

Simulation6.4

House Flipper Remastered Collection

A fresh coat of paint on a house you already own, sold back to you at full price, and somehow it still feels like home.

Action RPG8.0

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (Nintendo Switch 2)

A genuinely impressive port of a game you have already been asked to buy at least three times.

Action RPG8.4

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

One of the best RPGs of the decade finally escapes the PlayStation, as long as you do not touch the Xbox performance mode.

Sports / Arcade Football7.3

eFootball Kick Off!

Konami finally remembered how to make football fun, they just had to leave their own flagship behind to do it.

Action-Adventure8.5

Mina the Hollower

A six year Game Boy Color throwback just became the highest rated game of 2026 by out Nintendo-ing Nintendo.

Action-Adventure8.7

Mina the Hollower

The Shovel Knight studio finally dug up something new, and it slaps, as long as you forgive the three year wait and the difficulty that wants you dead.

Action-Adventure8.0

007 First Light

The best reviewed game IO has ever made and the best Bond story in years, still living in the long shadow of a 1997 shooter.

Simulation7.0

Life Below

A quietly absorbing ecosystem sim that earns its melancholy without ever pretending the ocean is going to thank you.

Action / Adventure7.5

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

TT Games has been making LEGO Batman games since 2008. This one is the best LEGO Batman game since 2014, which is high praise wearing a slightly worried face.

Narrative / Simulation8.0

Wax Heads

Wax Heads is a cozy game about running a struggling record store that knows the difference between cozy and lazy. It is the most quietly excellent indie release of the spring.

Platformer3.5

Bubsy 4D

Bubsy is back. He is in 4D this time. The fourth dimension is, apparently, time, which is the dimension that has not been kind to Bubsy and is not about to start.

Action / Adventure7.0

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle (Switch 2 Port)

MachineGames' Indiana Jones lands on Switch 2 18 months after it landed everywhere else. The port is better than it has any right to be and worse than the developers clearly wanted it to be.

Narrative Adventure7.0

Mixtape

The most divisive three hours in gaming this year, a gorgeous coming-of-age mixtape that critics handed a 10 and players handed a receipt.

Dark City Builder7.4

DarkSwitch

A city builder about managing a medieval settlement that is slowly being corrupted by something in the forest. It is Frostpunk with mushrooms and worse news. It is better than it has any right to be, and nobody is going to play it because the thumbnail looks like every other dark fantasy indie you ignored last year.

Open-World RPG6.8

Starfield (PlayStation 5)

The PS5 version of Starfield arrives two and a half years late, with all the DLC, most of the patches, and the same fundamental problem the original launch had. Which is Starfield. It is still Starfield. PlayStation owners now get to experience the specific disappointment Xbox owners had in 2023, which is at least democratic.

RPG Collection7.2

Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection

Capcom dug up the DS games everyone forgot existed, polished them until they shined, and reminded us that Star Force was always Battle Network's underappreciated younger sibling. The therapy bill for that realization is on you.

Narrative Adventure7.8

Life is Strange: Reunion

Max and Chloe are back, the rewind power works, and Deck Nine finally figured out that what people wanted was the original duo together, not whatever Double Exposure was.

Survival6.4

ICARUS: Console Edition

Dean Hall put a survival game on consoles four years after PC launch, and the biggest survival challenge is the UI.

Twin-Stick Shooter5.5

Damon and Baby

Arc System Works made a twin-stick shooter about a guy and a demon baby, and the checkpoint system is scarier than any of the actual demons.

Life Sim7.0

Disney Dreamlight Valley (Switch 2 Edition)

Disney Dreamlight Valley on Switch 2 is what it should have been on Switch 1: actually playable without the console catching fire.

Open-World Action7.9

Crimson Desert

Pearl Abyss took Black Desert's engine, gave it a story worth caring about, and delivered an open world so beautiful it makes you forget the combat occasionally wants to be three different games at once.

RPG8.4

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

Capcom finally figured out that Monster Hunter's biggest monsters deserve better than being reduced to collectible pets. Twisted Reflection gives them actual character arcs. Yes, the dinosaurs have character arcs now.

Survival Horror7.4

Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake

You rebuilt a 2003 cult classic with such reverence that you preserved the atmosphere, the dread, and unfortunately a couple of the original's most patience-testing habits.

Extraction Shooter5.5

Marathon

Gorgeous gunplay wrapped around a progression system that keeps deleting your reasons to care.

Extraction Shooter7.8

Marathon

Bungie finally remembered they made more than one franchise. And delivered an extraction shooter on Tau Ceti IV that doesn't feel like a Destiny reskin. Almost.

Roguelike Deckbuilder9.1

Slay the Spire 2

Mega Crit took four years, rebuilt every system from scratch, and proved that the best sequel to a perfect game is the same game but deeper. Your free time didn't stand a chance.

Social / Life Sim6.8

Pokemon Pokopia

Nintendo made Animal Crossing with Pokemon and somehow ended up with a game that's less relaxing than either. Pokopia is adorable, shallow, and will sell eleven million copies anyway.

MMORPG Expansion8.1

World of Warcraft: Midnight

Blizzard brought us back to Quel'thalas, gave us player housing, and proved that twenty years in, WoW can still surprise. Even if the bugs sometimes surprise you more.

Survival Horror8.8

Resident Evil Requiem

Capcom gave us two protagonists, two perspectives, and two reasons to sleep with the lights on. Grace Ashcroft's terror and Leon Kennedy's carnage make this the best RE in twenty years.

First-Person RPG7.6

Avowed

Obsidian built a first-person RPG in the Pillars of Eternity universe and delivered exactly what you'd expect. Great writing, solid combat, and a world that's more interesting to read about than to run through.

Survival Horror8.0

Reanimal

The Little Nightmares team made the biggest premiere in their history by doing the one thing they have always been frighteningly good at: making you scared of beautiful things.

Action RPG8.4

Nioh 3

Team Ninja went open-world and somehow didn't lose their soul. Nioh 3 is a samurai soulslike that earns every death and every victory.

JRPG7.8

Dragon Quest VII Reimagined

Square Enix rebuilt Dragon Quest VII from the ground up and proved that a 25-year-old JRPG can still charm. As long as you have the patience of a saint and about eighty hours to spare.

First-Person Action-Adventure8.0

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

MachineGames took the Wolfenstein engine, pointed it at 1937, and made the best Indiana Jones game ever. Which is both a compliment and a reminder of how low that bar was.

Psychological Horror7.4

Silent Hill f

Konami set Silent Hill in 1960s Japan, nailed the atmosphere so hard it left bruises, and then attached a combat system that makes you wish the monsters would just kill you faster.

Survival Horror7.8

Tormented Souls 2

You kept the fixed cameras, the tank DNA, and the cult villa, and you proved old-school survival horror still has a pulse, even if it never quite escapes the genre's own shadow.

Open-World Action-Adventure8.7

Ghost of Yotei

Sucker Punch moved from Tsushima to Hokkaido, gave us a female mercenary with a wolf companion, and somehow made an open world that doesn't feel like a checklist. In 2025. Witchcraft.

Survival City-Builder8.2

Frostpunk 2

11 bit Studios made a city-builder where the hardest resource to manage isn't coal. It's your own conscience. Welcome to 1916, where democracy is the real final boss.

Looter Shooter6.1

Borderlands 4

Gearbox built a seamless open world on planet Kairos, filled it with thirty billion guns, and still couldn't find a single good joke to put in it.

Survival Horror7.5

Cronos: The New Dawn

You proved you can build your own nightmare from scratch, you just forgot to make it survivable.

Survival Horror6.0

Slitterhead

You invented a brilliant way to body-swap into anyone, then trapped that genius inside the same mission on repeat.

Survival Horror8.3

Fear the Spotlight

A husband-and-wife duo built a PS1-styled haunted high school, Blumhouse signed it, and the result is proof that a small team with a clear story beats a big studio with a big budget and nothing to say.

Survival Horror9.0

Silent Hill 2

You were the studio nobody trusted with this, and you walked out of the fog with a near-flawless remake instead.

Survival Horror6.0

Until Dawn

You charged sixty dollars to repaint a game that still costs twenty next to it on the same store.

Survival Horror8.8

Mouthwashing

Low-poly, narrative-first, set on a doomed cargo ship, and somehow one of 2024's breakout horror hits, you proved that a strong story and a deliberate aesthetic can stare AAA budgets down and win.

Survival Horror7.9

Conscript

You took the genre to the trenches of World War I and proved one person can build a survival horror worth saluting.

Survival Horror7.0

Still Wakes the Deep

You built a gorgeous 1975 oil rig and a haunting Scottish nightmare, then forgot to give me much of anything to actually do on it.

Survival Horror8.0

Crow Country

You resurrected PS1-era survival horror in an abandoned theme park and somehow made the nostalgia feel like a fresh scare.

Survival Horror7.5

The Outlast Trials

You turned the loneliest horror franchise into a group chat, and somehow the screaming got funnier.

Survival Horror9.0

Alan Wake 2

You waited thirteen years to write a sequel, then wrote three games at once and somehow nailed all of them.

Survival Horror8.5

Amnesia: The Bunker

You dropped the sanity meter, handed me a noisy generator, and built the scariest thing in years out of silence.

Survival Horror9.5

Resident Evil 4

You took the game everyone already called perfect and somehow gave the perfectionists a reason to apologize.

Survival Horror9.0

Dead Space

You took a corpse EA left floating in space and reanimated it better than the Necromorphs ever managed.

Survival Horror6.5

The Callisto Protocol

You had the co-creator of Dead Space, a prison moon, and a gorgeous engine, then handed players combat that fights back the wrong way.

Survival Horror8.5

Signalis

You built a PS1-haunted love letter so good the Game Awards pretended it didn't exist.

Survival Horror8.0

Resident Evil Village

You sold twelve million copies of a horror game on the strength of one tall lady, and honestly, respect.

Survival Horror6.0

The Medium

You rendered two worlds at once and forgot to put a good game in either of them.

Survival Horror8.1

Visage

You set out to fill the hole P.T. left behind and you got close enough that people stopped flinching every time someone mentions Silent Hills.

Survival Horror7.5

Resident Evil 3

You built the most thrilling RE remake and then ran out of Raccoon City before I finished my coffee.

Survival Horror9.3

Resident Evil 2

You remade a 1998 classic so well you accidentally set the bar every horror studio now trips over.

Survival Horror7.8

The Evil Within 2

You fixed everything that broke the first game and quietly misplaced some of the terror on the way out.

Survival Horror7.0

Outlast 2

You traded the asylum for an Arizona cult and kept the only weapon Sally respects: a camcorder and the good sense to run.

Survival Horror9.0

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard

You went first-person, found a haunted swamp family, and dragged a franchise that had become a Michael Bay movie back to actual horror.

Survival Horror8.0

SOMA

You wrote a horror game that haunts you with questions about consciousness long after the monsters stopped being scary, which is exactly the problem and exactly the point.

Survival Horror7.0