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Ammossum: the best idea of the year, on a train that does not always start
Your railcars are your health and your skills at the same time. Assuming the game gets past the loading screen.
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7 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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Deskrawl: 34,000 people are playing a Diablo wedged at the bottom of their screen
Five euros, a strip of ARPG along the bottom of your desktop, and a Steam market where you resell your minions. The success is real, so is the wall.
Alexandrosse
8 min
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Endless Rails: eight hours of fun for five euros, and that is perfectly fine
The train on the mouse, the drones on the keyboard, thirty-second rides. A small game that knows exactly how long it lasts.
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6 min
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Minecraft Dungeons II: a loot game that is frightened of its own numbers
The open world is a genuinely good idea. The currency caps, the single enchant per item and the percentage-only stats, much less so.
Alexandrosse
11 min
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Nivalis Nights: the most beautiful city of the year runs at twenty frames per second
The Cloudpunk team delivers a sumptuous city, a noodle stand, and performance nobody can explain.
Alexandrosse
10 min
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ShipCrafter: the physics are impeccable, the editor is a punishment
Real buoyancy, calculated ballistics, armour pierced by angle. And an editor where recolouring a block takes three clicks too many.
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8 min
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Songs of Glimmerwick: the magic school where nobody shouts at you for skipping class
A flute, a songbook, a university garden. The Eastshade team delivers the tenderest game of the autumn.
Alexandrosse
9 min
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Archipeo: thousands of islands, ships running a shuttle service, and me not sleeping
A procedural Anno where haulage is the real game. Every badly assigned freighter takes its revenge forty minutes later.
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8 min
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Card Conquest: one resource for defence and attack, and the whole game is in that
Towers, troops, a single pool for both. Every coin spent on defence is a coin you will not be sending the other way.
Alexandrosse
7 min