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Freelance Writer

I'm a freelance games journalist who covers a bit of everything from reviews to features, and also writes gaming news for NME. I'm a regular contributor in print magazines, including Edge, Play, and Retro Gamer. Japanese games are one of my biggest passions and I'll always somehow find time to fit in a 60+ hour JRPG. While I cover games from all platforms, I'm very much a Switch lover, though also at heart a Sega shill. Favourite games include Bloodborne, Persona 5, Resident Evil 4, Ico, and Breath of the Wild.

Latest articles by Alan Wen

Leda strums a guitar in Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave review: "Deep tactical battles and a compelling narrative make this an ambitious epic"

By Alan Wen Published 16 September 26

Review Builds on Three House's multi-path structure, becoming grander and more ambitious

Review

Blade sheathes his katana in Marvel Tokon

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls review: "A stunning comeback for superhero fighters, essential for Marvel and genre fans"

By Alan Wen Published 12 August 26

Review Every match feels like it could be ripped fresh from the pages of a comic

Review

The player raises their fist as it glows blue in Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

10 best Monster Hunter games of all-time, ranked

By Alan Wen Last updated 13 March 26

Best List With Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflections now out, we carve up the best Monster games in the franchise you can play right now

Best List

Monster Hunter Stories 3 review: "This Pokemon-like JRPG evolves to almost match the highs of the main series' hunts"

By Alan Wen Published 9 March 26

Review

Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls could be the comeback Marvel fighters have been waiting for, thanks to an anime makeover

By Alan Wen Published 27 January 26

Preview Big in 2026 | How Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls matches start from 2v2 into an epic 4v4 showdown between iconic superheroes and supervillains

Preview

Aaron Wei battles a bug monster in Trails Beyond the Horizon, cropped for a closer view of the action

Trails Beyond the Horizon review: "This JRPG's thrilling real-time and turn-based hybrid combat is finely balanced"

By Alan Wen Published 8 January 26

Review

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Review

Best games of 2025 list featuring The last of us part 2's Joel

From Minecraft to The Last of Us Season 2, the best gaming adaptations of 2025 weren't lacking in variety

By Alan Wen Published 20 December 25

Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | The best gaming adaptations from 2025 to stream and catch on the big screen

Year in Review

The 5 best remakes of 2025 that revived the classics for a new generation

By Alan Wen Published 13 December 25

Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | The best remakes of 2025 focused on modernizing rather than totally overhauling the original blueprints

Year in Review

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle expansion Order of Giants screenshot with GamesRadar+ Best of 2025 badge in upper right

From Indiana Jones to Still Wakes the Deep, the best expansions of 2025 gave us new reasons to return to our favorites

By Alan Wen Published 10 December 25

Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | This best expansions of 2025 provide new stories and challenges that make replaying old games feel fresh

Year in Review

From Skate to 2XKO, why wait when you can already play the best early access games of 2025

By Alan Wen Published 6 December 25

Year in Review Year in Review 2025 | The year's best early access games are already fun and fueled with potential

Year in Review

Art from Octopath Traveler 0 showing Alexia walking down some steps and examining statues

Octopath Traveler 0 review: "The strongest entry in this retro-styled JRPG series yet, I love the greater focus on tactical battles"

By Alan Wen Published 3 December 25

Review

Key art for Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet showing bounty hunter Jordan A. Mun with a cyber sword in front of a crumbling planet, with a GamesRadar+ frame that reads 'PS5: Five Year Anniversary'

I don't care if Intergalactic blasts past 2026, a new Naughty Dog cinematic action-adventure is reason enough to be excited

By Alan Wen Published 18 November 25

Opinion Opinion | Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet could be a post-The Last of Us Naughty Dog's return to its brighter blockbuster era

Opinion

Wind flows as Miyamoto Musashi battles enemies near a shrine in Yakuza: Kenzan

Yakuza Kenzan remains a Japan exclusive, but Like a Dragon fans like me shouldn't skip this historical adventure for the ages

By Alan Wen Published 24 August 25

Opinion Feature | Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan! remains a must-have PS3 import, even all these years on

Opinion

Mecha Break review: "This mech battler makes up for lacking customization with a varied roster that lets me live out my Evangelion fantasy"

By Alan Wen Published 7 July 25

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5 Comments

Review

MindsEye review: "An uninspired and forgettable sci-fi action adventure that feels like a Netflix movie you watch while on your phone"

By Alan Wen Published 13 June 25

Review

The key art for the full release of Deltarune

Deltarune review: "This Undertale successor is an unapologetically weird RPG epic, where each chapter is a new canvas that doesn't have to conform to any rigid rules, style, or logic"

By Alan Wen Published 11 June 25

Review

Sciel, Marielle, Gustave, Lune, and Monoco approach the Paintress in the Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 key art, cropped for our thumbnail

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 review: "An old-school feeling JRPG as dynamic as Persona but with parry-filled battles as hard-won as Sekiro"

By Alan Wen Published 23 April 25

Review

Clive looks to the horizon in Final Fantasy 16

10 Games like Final Fantasy to play today if you love JRPGs and unforgettable stories

By Malindy Hetfeld Last updated 11 February 25

Features From Chrono Trigger to Metaphor: ReFantazio, these are the best games like Final Fantasy to play today

Features

10 Games like Zelda that are full of exploration and adventure

By Joe Donnelly Last updated 10 February 25

Best List After Breath of the Wild, try playing these best games like Zelda for more adventuring fun

Best List

A sword fight in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 review: "Even if some friction can lead to frustration, its realization of medieval life remains utterly absorbing"

By Alan Wen Published 3 February 25

Review

A feathered enemy in Wuchang: Fallen Feathers reaches out to grab... us!?

With Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Chinese studio Leenzee aims to soar to the heights of its field

By Alan Wen Published 27 January 25

Features Interview | Set in the Ming Dynasty, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers brings a unique feathery twist to soulslike action RPGs

Features

Screenshots of extraction shooter Arc Raiders

"With Arc Raiders, we wanted to lean into some of the contemporary conversations around robots and AI": Embark Studios talk creating an extraction shooter with bite

By Alan Wen Published 23 January 25

Big in 2025 Big in 2025 | Starting from scratch in a post-post apocalypse overtaken by killing machines – how Arc Raiders combines our timely anxiety of robots and AI with '80s nostalgia for a new kind of extraction shooter

Big in 2025

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a bigger, better historical medieval RPG that could do for the Czech Republic what The Witcher has done for Poland

By Alan Wen Published 10 January 25

Big in 2025 | After its predecessor took you from peasant to knight, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2's realistic medieval RPG begins by bringing you back to earth in beggar's garb

RPGs

Mara Forest walks in front of the Crow Country ticket booth in a piece of key art that retains the game's rounded low-poly visual style, but smashes together other elements of the theme park - such as a crow statue, gore puddles, dead trees, and explosive barrels - together in a way that isn't true of the actual space in-game, but conveys what to expect therein, with the GamesRadar+ Big Preview Horror Special 2025 badge branding

Indie devs discuss why low-poly works so well for horror: "I actually think those limitations encourage weird, unique compromises"

By Alan Wen Published 30 December 24

Features Feature | The indie developers of Back In 1995, Fear The Spotlight, and Crow Country on channelling PS1-era aesthetics in horror games to create the perfect combination of nostalgia and dread

Features

Year in review: Aerith and Tifa stand side-by-side in Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth

From Dragon Age: The Veilguard to Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, here's the best RPGs of 2024

By Alan Wen Published 16 December 24

Best List Year in Review | The new golden age has some royal welcomes and returns – here’s the must-play RPGs of the year

Best List

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