John Schutt
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Thymesia is one of the best Souls-likes to enter the genre in years and is worth your time, attention, and occasional rage moment.
Outriders: Worldslayer is an admirable attempt to breathe new life into a solid but flawed experience. It succeeds mostly in making the problems more apparent.
Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak is a worthy successor to the base game and improves on it in almost every way.
Salt and Sacrifice is a labor of love, one that will scratch any Souls veteran's itch for more mysterious worlds to explore, even if it doesn't succeed at everything.
Elden Ring
Almost nothing compares to Elden Ring in quality and depth. This is a game everyone should try at least once if only to get lost in the Lands Between.
Solar Ash is a complete package, with stellar gameplay, a well-told story, and a realized world ripe for exploring.
Battlefield 2042 wants so many things that it succeeds at almost none of them. There's a good game buried beneath it all, but you'll wade through a lot of sludge to get there.
Grime
GRIME takes influence from more genres than most games and succeeds at combining them into a cohesive whole. It's well worth your time.
Eldest Souls
A demanding pixel art Souls-like beautifully rendered and artfully crafted, Eldest Souls is not without issues, but it's worth your time for its bosses, art, and world.
Returnal is a tightly designed roguelike with some of the best gameplay the genre can provide, and it's the first game since Demon's Souls to provide a reason to own a PS5.
Outriders is a good looter-shooter at times that has some moments of greatness buried beneath a generic, if well-realized, sci-fi veneer.
Breathedge isn't a perfect space survival game and is sometimes aggravating, but there's plenty to enjoy, and few recent games can be so relaxing.
