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As well as GamesRadar+, Abbie has contributed to PC Gamer, Edge, and several dearly departed games magazines currently enjoying their new lives in Print Heaven. When she’s not boring people to tears with her endless ranting about how Tetris 99 is better than Tetris Effect, she’s losing thousands of hours to roguelike deckbuilders when she should be writing.

Latest articles by Abbie Stone

Key art for Mortal Shell 2 showing a hooded figure with an axe on a bloody, textured background

Mortal Shell 2 review: "The best Soulslike I've played since Elden Ring, feeling like a metal album cover come to life"

By Abbie Stone Published 17 August 26

Review This speedy sequel speeds up action and stuffs secrets and ideas in every corner of its beautiful open world.

Review

Artwork of the Mistfall Hunter character classes standing against a sandy, gold background

Mistfall Hunter is more Dark Souls than Arc Raiders – an extraction action RPG that could use more ideas of its own

By Abbie Stone Published 3 August 26

Now Playing Mistfall Hunter's mix of Soulslike and Extraction can be delightfully devilish, even if I'd like to see more originality

Now Playing

The Doom Slayer rips out a demon's heart in Doom The Dark Ages - Revelations

Doom: The Dark Ages' DLC is a true FPS triumph, and its developers deserve better

By Abbie Stone Published 17 July 26

Now Playing Now Playing | Revelations is an essential, and sadly also bittersweet, swansong for The Ages

Now Playing

A close-up crop of Butch telling the player to get out of his face in in Gothic 1 Remake

Gothic 1 Remake review: "A beautiful remake of a true original, but too much jank made the cut too"

By Abbie Stone Last updated 8 June 26

Review

A crop of the Windrose key art showing two pirates in front of a montage of ships, posing with guns

Windrose is a pretty good karaoke cover of Assassin's Creed: Black Flag with a survival twist

By Abbie Stone Published 20 April 26

Now Playing Now Playing | Windrose's pirate survival is slow but rewarding, even if I'm now mortal enemies with a dodo

Now Playing

A vampire characters holds an almost angelic-looking monster figure as they go in for the finishing blow atop a mound of weapons, a haloed sun above them against a ruined city backdrop, in the key art for Code Vein 2 - cropped for the thumbnail to be closer to the two figures

Code Vein 2 review: "This vampire take on Elden Ring almost works, but the dungeons themselves lack bite"

By Abbie Stone Published 26 January 26

Review

A close-up of Wolverine in his iconic yellow and black X-Men costume, grimacing as he raises his claws close to this chest - cropped from the game's key art with the GamesRadar+ Big in 2026 frame

With Wolverine set to elevate superhero gaming in 2026, here's the four features I want the most, and four I'm desperate to avoid

By Abbie Stone Published 11 January 26

Opinion Big in 2026 | Logan could star in my game of 2026, as long as Insomniac Games can stick the superhero landing

Opinion

A character in Ontos' key art sits in a chair that merges purple, floral, biological design with high-tech cables - their face is blurred with multiple expressions showing inner turmoil while their eyes are closed - with the GamesRadar+ Big in 2026 frame

Soma successor Ontos is "like Shadow of the Colossus" says its creative director: The moon-set horror is "built around the looming excitement and dread of what the next big Experiment will be like"

By Abbie Stone Published 8 January 26

Exclusive Big in 2026 | Frictional Games' Thomas Grip takes me through one of my most anticipated (and most terrified of) games of 2026

Exclusive

Key art for Sleep Awake showing Katja using an eye serum with stark red lighting

Sleep Awake review: "An all-timer horror premise is let down by tired stealth that I feel like I'm sleepwalking through"

By Abbie Stone Published 2 December 25

Review

Key art for Saros showing Soltari Enforcer Arjun Devraj holding a gun with is eye glowing, in front of a larger figure with many arms, with the GamesRadar+ frame for PS5: Five Year Anniversary

Saros throws anything that slowed Returnal down out the door, meaning it'll be tough for other games to keep pace with my most anticipated PS5 game of 2026

By Abbie Stone Published 19 November 25

Opinion Opinion | I'm all-in on this fast-paced roguelike shooter

Opinion

Key art for The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered showing Ellie looking determine with a gun, and a smaller image of Abbie superimposed on top - all with a ruined Seattle behind them - with the PS5 five year anniversary GamesRadar+ frame along the side

The Last of Us Part 2 is still bold, bleak, and the best stealth game on PS5

By Abbie Stone Published 19 November 25

Now Playing Now Playing | The Last of Us Part 2 is a true PlayStation 5 must-play thanks to a gritty story and tense encounters that never let up

Now Playing

A woman with swords walks through fire in Where Winds Meet

Where Winds Meet review: "Sekiro-style combat meets seemingly every videogame idea ever in this bloated but fun open-world martial arts adventure"

By Abbie Stone Published 17 November 25

Review

Selene stands in front of lots of cracked space suit helmets much like her own in the key art for Returnal, with the PS5 5 year anniversary tag on the left

I'm still obsessed with one of the PS5's best-kept secrets: Returnal is a twitchy roguelike shooter in a sci-fi nightmare that won't get out of my head

By Abbie Stone Published 16 November 25

Now Playing Now Playing | Returnal's excellent blasting proves that the DualSense is PlayStation 5's greatest feature – there's no shooter on the console I'd recommend more

Now Playing

Grounded 2 review: "I'm already having terrific fun thanks to ant buggies and a massive new park to explore, even if this sequel is slightly safe"

By Abbie Stone Published 29 July 25

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Review

The squad target a strange floating enemy an office environemtn in FBC: Firebreak

FBC: Firebreak review: "A disappointingly bland multiplayer FPS that's missing far too much of what made Control special"

By Abbie Stone Published 17 June 25

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Review

Aran does a jump strike at an enemy charging up an attack in Blades of Fire

Blades of Fire review: "Following up Metroid Dread with a dark fantasy soulslike full of inventive ideas that I find delightfully infectious"

By Abbie Stone Published 20 May 25

Review

Aran holds a huge sword aloft, mouth open in a battle cry in the promotional key art for Blades of Fire used as the header on storefronts

After 3 hours, I'm impressed by how Blades of Fire smelts Dark Souls and Monster Hunter together to forge high-impact action into twisted new shapes

By Abbie Stone Published 27 April 25

Hands-on Hands-on | Three hours with MercurySteam's followup to the superb Metroid Dread – Blades of Fire is a soulslike strengthened in the fires of fun ideas

Hands-on

Climbing up a massive enemy and striking its chest weak point in Eternal Strands

Eternal Strands review: "Flawed but fun behemoth battling"

By Abbie Stone Published 27 January 25

Review

Ghost of Yotei will build on Ghost of Tsushima with guns, a gorgeous change of scenery, and "unexpected dangers"

By Abbie Stone Published 25 January 25

Big In 2025 Big in 2025 | One of PS4's best games gets a hugely ambitious sequel

Big In 2025

South of Midnight's gothic folk tale could be Xbox's ace up the sleeve for 2025

By Abbie Stone Published 19 January 25

Big in 2025 Big in 2025 | Compulsion Games has painted an alluring picture of one of this year's most captivating settings

Big in 2025

The Brotherhood of Steel in Washington DC in Fallout 3

The 10 RPGs that defined Xbox and evolved the genre

By Abbie Stone Published 25 November 24

List Feature | Xbox built a bridge between computer-first RPGs and playing on the couch, redefining the genre in the process – here are the 10 Xbox RPG games that redefined the format for good

List

Metal Slug Tactics artwork showing the whole crew in action

Metal Slug Tactics review: Run and gun energy refreshes the slower-paced genre

By Abbie Stone Published 5 November 24

Review

Crow Country, an atmospheric survival horror set in 1990, is a haunting love letter to PS1-era games

By Abbie Stone Published 11 January 24

Preview Big in 2024 | Crow Country from Tangle Tower developer SFB Games is inspired by the likes of Resident Evil and Silent Hill

Preview

Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door was a hilariously dark joke we didn't expect Nintendo to ever tell again

By Abbie Stone Published 12 November 23

Opinion Opinion | And then it went and told it all over again anyway - this time with a distinctly different tone

Opinion

Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks was a flawed series entry that shined a long-overdue spotlight on its title character

By Abbie Stone Last updated 13 September 22

Features If you're hoping that Zelda gets a more prominent role in Breath of the Wild 2, you really should give this DS gem a try

Features

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