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Game reviews
Scored GamePlayer verdicts out of 10, written in Australia. We play the game, then we tell you if it is worth your weekend.
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Image credit: © Sony Interactive Entertainment / Sucker Punch Productions
Ghost of Yotei Review: Atsu’s Revenge Is Sharper Than Jin’s Honour
Sucker Punch swapped Jin’s honour lecture for a colder hunt. Ezo is the reason to stay. The middle act is the reason the score is not a 9.
5 Sept 2026 · 6 min read
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Image credit: © Nintendo
Metroid Prime 4 Review: Beyond Is Prime When It Leaves the Desert
Retro remembered how to build a room. Then it asked Samus to farm a desert so the motorcycle would have a job.
5 Sept 2026 · 4 min read
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Image credit: © Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, and Creatures Inc.
Pokémon Legends Z-A Review: Lumiose Finally Makes Pokémon Feel Like a City
Game Freak shrank the map to one city and accidentally remembered how to make a Pokémon game you finish on purpose.
5 Sept 2026 · 5 min read
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Image credit: © Sandfall Interactive / Kepler Interactive
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review — Grief, Paint, and Perfect Parries
Sandfall's debut plays like a studio that has been alive for twenty years. It has not. That is the scandal.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
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Image credit: © Sony Interactive Entertainment / Kojima Productions
Death Stranding 2 Review: Kojima Walks Australia, Then Asks You To Connect It
The sequel is still a walking sim with a blockbuster budget — funnier, meaner, and uncomfortably close to home.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
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Image credit: © Nintendo
Donkey Kong Bananza Review: Smash First, Ask the Island Later
Nintendo rebuilds Donkey Kong as a demolition sandbox — joyful, loud, and occasionally too proud of the dirt.
4 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
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Image credit: © Nintendo
Mario Kart World Review: Nintendo's Biggest Kart, Not Its Tightest
A connected map and knockout races make this the most ambitious Kart yet — with a few seams Nintendo usually irons out.
4 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
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Image credit: © Capcom Co., Ltd.
Monster Hunter Wilds Review: Capcom Sands the Edges — and Some of the Teeth
The hunts feel better than they ever have. The walls you used to climb are lower. That is both the pitch and the complaint.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
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Image credit: © Team Cherry Pty Ltd
Silksong Review (2026): Pharloom Punishes, Then Pays Off
Team Cherry's sequel is denser, meaner, and more generous than Hallownest — if you can survive the first dozen deaths.
4 Sept 2026 · 3 min read
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Image credit: © Electronic Arts Inc. / Hazelight Studios AB
Split Fiction Review: Two Players, One Reckless Imagination
Hazelight's latest co-op adventure is a genre blender that only works if you trust the person on the other stick.
7 Mar 2025 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © Valve Corporation
Dota 2 Review: The Infinite War
Valve's MOBA is still the most demanding free-to-play game on PC. We tried to explain it without starting a flame war. We failed, politely.
16 Apr 2024 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © LocalThunk / Playstack Ltd.
Balatro Review: The Poker Night That Ate the Year
A deckbuilder that makes Texas Hold'em look like a tutorial. One more ante. Then we sleep. Then we lied.
21 Feb 2024 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © Sabotage Studio
Sea of Stars Review: A SNES Dream That Knows It Is One
Sabotage's turn-based adventure is gorgeous, musical, and just self-aware enough to avoid pastiche.
1 Sept 2023 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © Larian Studios and Wizards of the Coast LLC
Baldur's Gate 3 Review: The RPG Benchmark
Larian shipped a role-playing game so dense it made the rest of the genre look unfinished. Honour Mode optional. Shame not included.
14 Aug 2023 · 2 min read
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Image credit: © FromSoftware, Inc. / Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.
Elden Ring Review: Become Elden Lord
FromSoftware opened the gate and somehow kept the mystery. The Lands Between is the decade's defining adventure.
2 Mar 2022 · 2 min read
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Image credit: © Bethesda Softworks LLC / ZeniMax Media Inc.
Skyrim Anniversary Review: Still the Elder Scrolls
Fifteen years on, Tamriel is still where we go when a new RPG misses. The bugs are folklore. The mountains still work.
19 Nov 2021 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © Bird Studio / Shueisha / Toei Animation and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc.
Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot Review — Be a Superseyan
A love letter to the Saiyan saga that plays like an interactive recap tape. Fans will feast. Everyone else will wonder why the fishing is here.
3 Feb 2020 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © No Brakes Games / Curve Games
Human: Fall Flat Review
Ragdoll physics, co-op chaos, and the kind of laughter that makes the neighbours knock. A party game that accidentally became a platform.
22 Jan 2020 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © Edmund McMillen and Nicalis, Inc.
The Binding of Isaac Review: Explore the Gruesome World
Edmund McMillen's basement roguelike is still one of the meanest, funniest, and most replayable games on PC. We went back into the tears.
18 Nov 2019 · 2 min read
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Image credit: © Team17 Digital Ltd. / Ghost Town Games
Overcooked 2 Review: Be the World's Best Chef
Ghost Town Games plated a sequel that is louder, faster, and still the most honest friendship test on consoles.
9 Sept 2019 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © OrangePixel
Heroes of Loot Review: Exciting Dungeon Crawler for Mobile
A bite-sized Gauntlet riff that understands the phone in your pocket. Not deep, but it respects a ten-minute session.
4 Aug 2019 · 1 min read
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Image credit: © Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.
StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void Review
The trilogy closer that proved the RTS campaign could still be cinema — and that the ladder would outlive the retail box.
20 Nov 2015 · 1 min read