
Under Par Golf Architect: the spreadsheet simulator in disguise
Some games make you dream. Others make you want to open Excel. Under Par Golf Architect clearly belongs to the second category.
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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.

Some games make you dream. Others make you want to open Excel. Under Par Golf Architect clearly belongs to the second category.

Jules Verne, the Nautilus, Atlantis, a fantasy world born from the imagination of an author who died in 1905. Gametopia turned all of that into a pixel art point-and-click. And it's exactly as good as it sounds.

Rarely has an RPG given such a strong impression of being both highly accomplished in its intentions and still fragile in its execution. That tension is precisely what makes the game fascinating, and frustrating.

With Super Mario Bros. Wonder, Nintendo pulls off something we'd almost stopped expecting: giving a genuine sense of surprise to a 2D formula decades old. And the most impressive part is that it works almost from start to finish.