Joe Chivers
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While not particularly revolutionary, there's a lot to like about Anno 117. If you get your teeth into the game's complexity, you'll find yourself investing a lot of time into spreading Roman ways across your islands and growing your settlements from tiny villages to grand cities.
Despite small nitpicks such as recycled events and an at-times rough user interface, Europa Universalis 5 is a fantastic grand strategy game. Extremely complex but well worth the effort it takes to learn, this game feels like developer Paradox has learned the lessons of the last 15 years of its games.
A strong park builder whose charm is generally enough to make you see past its issues. Jurassic World Evolution 3 could have been even better without the busywork and bugs, which hold it back just enough to stop it from being an instant classic.
Dune: Awakening is a game that Dune fans will find rapturous but that has a lot of small annoyances that mar it for players who aren't as engaged in the franchise. A solid but not world changing adaptation of a legendary sci-fi series.
Skin Deep is a genuinely stellar immersive sim, replete with chaos and countless combat options to fend off space pirates. Always funny, never dull, and full of felicitous felines, annoying bugs and an irritating save system don't spoil what is one of this year's must-play indie games.
Bionic Bay, from Psychoflow Studio and Mureena Oy, resembles something of a cross between Limbo and Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee. Let me explain. You must traverse huge levels, using acrobatic skills to overcome spinning blades, deadly drops, and weighty obstacles. At least, you’ll try to. You’ll die a lot playing Bionic Bay, it’s a game that is very happy to let you die, die, and die again. Thankfully, you aren’t entirely reliant on your character’s impressive acrobatics, instead, you...
Despite these flaws and the low player count, Deathsprint 66 is genuinely a fun time when you enter a flow state and the systems can sing. It somehow manages to balance both the feel of Mario Kart and its dystopian “Running Man” setting with aplomb. If you’re happy to join a small community of clone jockeys, you’ll have a good time. Just let us play badly next time, please.