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PC, PS5 and Xbox game reviews in 2025-2026: complete and honest critiques, no inflated scores. We play to the end and tell you everything.

Hand of Fate: Hordes slips deckbuilding into the auto-shooter, and that's what saves it from drowning
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Hand of Fate: Hordes slips deckbuilding into the auto-shooter, and that's what saves it from drowning

Another Vampire Survivors-style bullet-heaven? Yes, but this one forges your build with cards. Hand of Fate: Hordes brings deckbuilding strategy to a genre going in circles.

Alexandrosse
7 min
Lifted is a puzzle-platformer by a former Disney ride designer, and you feel it in every scene
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Lifted is a puzzle-platformer by a former Disney ride designer, and you feel it in every scene

A magic elevator, a slacker dragged along against his will and a 2.5D adventure full of staging. Lifted bets on its creator's sense of spectacle, and the bet mostly pays off.

Alexandrosse
6 min
Nightmare Frontier is a turn-based extraction shooter, and that exact twist is what won us over
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Nightmare Frontier is a turn-based extraction shooter, and that exact twist is what won us over

Tired of snappy FPS extractions? Nightmare Frontier makes extraction out of XCOM, mixed with Slay the Spire, in a nightmarish 1900s. It genuinely changes things, and we love it.

Alexandrosse
7 min
OFFBEAT is a music tycoon that hides a real production tool, and the song you compose can end up on Spotify
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OFFBEAT is a music tycoon that hides a real production tool, and the song you compose can end up on Spotify

Compose with a singing garden gnome and a paper shredder, then export the track as a real audio file. OFFBEAT is a zany tycoon that's secretly a serious music tool.

Alexandrosse
6 min
Pebble for a Queen isn't a feast for the eyes, but its incremental mechanic is a delicious trap
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Pebble for a Queen isn't a feast for the eyes, but its incremental mechanic is a delicious trap

Smash everything to grow, grow to smash everything, and pour your gains into endless skill trees. Pebble for a Queen is ugly but clever, and that's what counts here.

Alexandrosse
6 min
Tears of Metal is a Scottish Dynasty Warriors in co-op, and we waited for it eagerly without being let down
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Tears of Metal is a Scottish Dynasty Warriors in co-op, and we waited for it eagerly without being let down

Mow down hordes with four players and a Scottish battalion, in a snappy, generous hack-and-slash roguelike. Tears of Metal kept every promise of its demo, and it keeps them still.

Alexandrosse
7 min
Birds of War turns the pigeon into a war machine, and it's as dumb as it is fun for twenty minutes
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Birds of War turns the pigeon into a war machine, and it's as dumb as it is fun for twenty minutes

Steal eggs beak-first in 3v3v3, with a pigeon-drone and a shoebill tank. Birds of War is free, chaotic and likeable, but its content fits in a rather empty nest.

Alexandrosse
6 min
Dewdrop Dynasty is a snappy metroidvania that pulls out guns, and it has more personality than flaws
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Dewdrop Dynasty is a snappy metroidvania that pulls out guns, and it has more personality than flaws

Run, dash, crawl, gun down giant bosses and find your way home. Dewdrop Dynasty is a fast, charming metroidvania that makes up for its familiarity with real character.

Alexandrosse
6 min
Dive or Die: Children of Rain was one of our most anticipated games, and it's the gem we hoped for
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Dive or Die: Children of Rain was one of our most anticipated games, and it's the gem we hoped for

Dive into a Lovecraftian abyss, manage your oxygen and recover idols before the black rain drowns the world. We waited for it eagerly, and Dive or Die keeps its promise.

Alexandrosse
8 min