Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Alpha Protocol (2010)Alpha Protocol (2010) 7.5/10 on IGDBReleased 27 May 2010An espionage RPG where a rushed reply, an ally's opinion or the order of missions can echo through later encounters is a wonderful proposition. The shooting is a much rougher companion to those conversations, with character statistics complicating what looks like an ordinary action game. Choose the…0
  2. 2Pathologic 2 (2019)Pathologic 2 (2019) 8.5/10 on IGDBReleased 23 May 2019The plague-stricken town makes competing obligations feel painfully real: time spent finding food is time unavailable to another person. At the standard difficulty, that same pressure can drown interesting encounters in shopping, exhaustion and repeated attempts. Detailed difficulty settings let…0
  3. 3Rain World (2017)Rain World (2017) 7.6/10 on IGDBReleased 28 Mar 2017The creatures seem to have lives beyond your arrival, making a ruined industrial world feel like a functioning ecosystem. Unexplained rules, abrupt deaths and lost progress can make learning that ecosystem exhausting. The current Remix options provide useful ways to reduce friction, so check them…0
  4. 4Remember Me (2013)Remember Me (2013) 7.3/10 on IGDBReleased 3 Jun 2013Rewinding and altering someone's remembered experience is an excellent way to make identity into a puzzle. The frustration is how little of the campaign uses that idea: much more time goes into corridor traversal and repeated fights. The 2013 game is worth choosing for its memory-remix scenes and…0
  5. 5Murdered: Soul Suspect (2014)Murdered: Soul Suspect (2014) 6.6/10 on IGDBReleased 3 Jun 2014Investigating your own murder as a ghost opens up appealing possibilities: pass through parts of the living world, listen in and help other trapped souls. The clue selection is more constrained than that freedom suggests, and the demon stealth encounters interrupt the detective rhythm. Choose it…0
  6. 6Brütal Legend (2009)Brütal Legend (2009) 7.3/10 on IGDBReleased 13 Oct 2009A heavy-metal landscape turns album-cover excess into a place to drive around, with guitar solos that actually do things. Then stage battles ask you to fight and command an army at once, and those overlapping controls can feel awkward. The genre mixture is the appeal as well as the compromise. It…0
  7. 7Spore (2008)Spore (2008) 7.3/10 on IGDBReleased 4 Sept 2008Making an implausible creature and watching it animate remains a delightful creative toy. Carrying life across five stages promises a breadth that the individual systems cannot all match, especially if you want each stage to have the depth of a dedicated strategy game. The base game can be played…0
  8. 8From Dust (2011)From Dust (2011) 7.5/10 on IGDBReleased 27 Jul 2011Moving a scoop of earth or lava can reshape an island, redirect a flood and rescue a settlement. The fluid simulation is wonderfully tactile, but villagers choose their own routes, leaving you to coax them across terrain while danger approaches. That indirect control can make a sensible plan…0
  9. 9The Last Guardian (2016)The Last Guardian (2016) 8.2/10 on IGDBReleased 6 Dec 2016Trico's weight, attention and vulnerability make the relationship with the boy feel unusually physical. Waiting for a response, repeating instructions and wrestling with the camera can also leave you uncertain whether a plan is wrong or simply has not registered yet. Its rewards are strongest for…0
  10. 10Shadow of the Colossus (2018)Shadow of the Colossus (2018) 8.4/10 on IGDBReleased 6 Feb 2018The 2018 remake makes each giant both a creature and a climbing puzzle, with long quiet rides framing the encounters. Clinging to a moving body can still involve awkward positioning and a camera that obstructs the view you want. Choose it for the scale, solitude and uneasy intimacy of the battles,…0