IGN

• PC
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector beats the pants off of other recent 40K tactical games, making a run at skirmish wargame greatness. While it's limited in places and the interface can struggle, the tactical combat is well worth the time it takes to learn and the Momentum system rewards your strategic prowess with more capacity to dish out pain. From the diverse campaign missions to the straightforward skirmishes, I not only recommend Battlesector, but hope that it does well enough to warrant the addition of many new factions in DLC and expansions.

• PC
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

The magic of Wildermyth is that it loves stories so much that it builds its entire structure, from graphical style to prose to combat to campaign structure, around its characters becoming legends. It then cements those ideas in place with a Legacy system that turns those legendary characters into stories again, weaving design and storytelling together throughout. Wildermyth gives the impression of being charmingly ramshackle, but surprisingly flexible and tight under the hood, which all adds up to a truly special experience.

• PC
• 7 / 10
• États-Unis

Roguebook’s positional gameplay makes for a really fun combat puzzle, but the downside of the two hero system is that player strategy feels less focused than the best the genre has to offer. I enjoyed trying to combine hero abilities in unexpected ways, but the bespoke hero mechanics often weren’t compelling enough to really elevate that. Even so, Roguebook is an entertaining new take on the deck-builder genre, and its new ideas and lovingly realised world make it well worth a look.

• PC
• PS4
• 6 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS4
• PS5
• XONE
• XSX/S
• PC
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

• SWITCH
• PC
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS5
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• XONE
• XSX/S
• PS4
• PS5
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

• SWITCH
• 6 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS5
• PC
• PS4
• XONE
• XSX/S
• 4 / 10
• États-Unis

I badly wanted Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance to be an awesome co-op version of the pencil-and-paper tabletop RPGs I’ve loved for decades, but it just isn’t. It’s a bland, boring trek through repetitive encounters that’s filled with bugs and annoying design choices, and though it allows you to play alone you absolutely should not do that because it’s an imbalanced nightmare. I can praise its faithful look and feel, which captures much of what makes Forgotten Realms a great setting, but there’s very little else to recommend about this unpolished mess of a hack-and-slash RPG.

• PC
• PS4
• SWITCH
• 7 / 10
• États-Unis

• XONE
• XSX/S
• PC
• PS5
• PS4
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS4
• XONE
• PC
• 6 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• SWITCH
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• PS5
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• SWITCH
• 8 / 10
• États-Unis

I don't think I've ever enjoyed learning as much as I did during my time with Game Builder Garage. Game Builder Garage is a powerful game design tool overflowing with charm and personality. Anyone with a little patience and desire to learn can start creating games with its robust system of Nodons. No coding knowledge is required, but you'll learn concepts like evaluations and conditional statements without even realizing it. I do wish it allowed you to look under the hood and see the actual code, but not being able to see all those lines of boring text don't detract at all from the fun of making games. The tremendous variety of Nodons available make it possible to pull off some really complex stuff and I'm really looking forward to seeing what creations the Game Builder Garage community cooks up.

• MAC
• PC
• PS4
• PS5
• 9 / 10
• États-Unis

• PC
• SWITCH
• XONE
• PS4
• 5 / 10
• États-Unis

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground is a disappointingly mediocre tactical game. The bits of quality game design and pretty graphics that make up the core of it are overwhelmingly obscured by a frustrating single-player and multiplayer grind, then layered over by a thick paste of bugs, inconsistent rules, and an overall lack of content. Underwhelming to say the least.