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Invokyr: a 1970s board game holding you prisoner, and dice you can only roll once
Six players locked in a house, a Gamemaster who used to be a toy, and hidden dice that work exactly one time.
Alexandrosse
6 min
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Reviews
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.
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Neon Abyss 2: four-player co-op, where only the host unlocks anything
The 1.0 lands today. The game is as twitchy as ever, but one design decision undercuts its entire selling point.
Alexandrosse
9 min
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Order of the Sinking Star: ten years, a thousand puzzles, and four games bought from other people
Jonathan Blow's third game after Braid and The Witness. It took ten years, a home-made language, and ideas he did not invent.
Alexandrosse
13 min
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Silver Pines: a detective, a vanished musician, and a town that opens up as you gear up
Team17 publishes a love letter to classic survival horror. Locked doors, counted resources, and a black hole in the middle.
Alexandrosse
6 min
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Gears of War: E-Day: a new foundation, and a lot of missing rooms
The movement has never been better and Unreal Engine 5 delivers. But Horde lost its 50 waves and there are only six maps.
Alexandrosse
11 min
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Star Wars: Galactic Racer: this is not the sequel to Podracer, it is the sequel to Burnout
Made by Criterion's former boss. We wanted 1999 on the Nintendo 64, we got a roguelite Burnout. And it is very good.
Alexandrosse
12 min
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Toy Shire: the game everyone assumed was abandoned just shipped its 1.0
A year of silence, reviews calling it a dead project, and then a new chapter, a new boss and a rebuilt Endless Mode.
Alexandrosse
8 min
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Cricket Management 26: one person built the Football Manager of cricket
Thirty-nine patches in two months, 64 international sides, facilities to maintain and a match engine that understands swing.
Alexandrosse
12 min
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VoidFall: an enormous talent tree sitting on scenery that is not finished
A hundred and fifty talent nodes, a smart ban system, and rocks that stayed white spheres.
Alexandrosse
7 min