Despite its imperfections, Alwa’s Awakening is an enjoyable experience. The retro art style, rich colors, and music accompany gameplay that is quaint, yet engaging.

Thumper makes a huge initial impression, and is a great effort for the two man team of Drool; they obviously put a lot of love and thought into creating a unique and evocative experience.

It’s a lovely, surprisingly captivating experience that does more than enough to overcome its shortcomings.

CI Games has a long track record of rather mediocre games and unfortunately this entry does not break the mold.

The variety in playstyle, the masterfully crafted atmosphere and level design elevate Prey but it never quite reaches escape velocity, and remains pleasantly in orbit.

It is a great modern take on the platformer genre, but the bright colors and quirky music quickly dull after a couple hours when you find the game has little else to offer.

The rich, vibrant world, excellent artistic elements, and novel environmental interactions make it worth playing.

If you enjoy action games, weird stories, or titles that play with your expectations, you owe it to yourself to play Nier: Automata.

theHunter: Call of the Wild is a bad hunting game, and it doesn’t have anything else going for it.

It won’t hold your hand, it will punch you in the face repeatedly, and you’ll be grateful for it.