« Most sci-fi locales in video games are prosaic, but this game's titular spaceport is a truly alien place, and the game is worth buying just to wander its alleys and meet its residents. »

« Deep Rock Galactic combimes the mining of Minecraft and the co-op horde combat of Left 4 Dead while foreground a sense of worker solidarity and comradery. The least toxic online game in ages. »

« The walking simulator reimagined as a game of survival and infrastructure building, Death Stranding has a messy narrative but is never short of ambition or symbolic resonance. »

« TABS is simultaneously a throwback to the software toys of the '90s multimedia era and a brave new take on real-time strategy, with directl control stripped out in favor of sandbox hijinks. »

« One if the first true detective video games, the forces you to use deductive reasoning and intuition to unravel a complex mystery, rather than just picking dialog options. Makes you feel brilliant. »

« A work about waiting and longing that couldn't exist in any other medium, The Longing among the most distinctive art and sound design I’ve ever played. »

« A brilliant combination of, and ode to, classic point-and-click adventures and puzzle platformers; meta-humor is easy to do badly, but Lair of the Clockwork God knocks it out of the park. »

« An unusually narrative-oriented cooperative adventure, focusing on the play and discovery of childhood, the awesomeness of bikes, and the power of punk. Accessible for all ages and experience levels. »

« A celebration of banality, Infra focuses on the hidden infrastructure that undergirds modern life, using it as a platform for solid environmental puzzles and a strange sort of beauty. »

« The rare game that casts you as a scientist, this uses oceanography and biological sciences as the background for a novel, hard SF story. Interface and controls make this distinct from a visual novel. »