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A year on, I'm playing arguably the worst game of 2023 – and I'm actually enjoying myself

Banishers Ghosts of New Eden turned me into a ghost detective and let me decide what justice really means in a murky world with hints of Vampyr

I watched in horror as the man who helped shape Dragon Age and Mass Effect got chewed up by his own survival game

Silent Hill: The Short Message buries its most novel concept beneath layers of cringe

Persona 3 Reload is my first JRPG and I'm fast-forwarding through all the RPG bits to get to the combat

Love it or loathe it, Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League deserves to be judged for what it is – not what it isn't

I'm playing Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time and it's complicated my feelings about fast travel in open-world games

Our first look at Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 shies away from what makes it a vampire RPG, and that has me concerned

13 years since The Sims Medieval, I'm trying to recreate the glory days with The Sims 4 Castle Estate – or get sent to the stocks for trying

Avowed is a fantasy RPG with open-zone maps, unique local conflicts, and companions to meet – but it's still "the player's story first and foremost"

Avowed takes Skyrim's approach to combat and evolves it, allowing players to "build the character they want to play who fights the way they want to fight"

Star Wars Outlaws tells a tight story across specific locations with "strong, thriving underworlds" – but your reputation could change everything

Especially after Palworld, the death of Blizzard's survival game makes me yearn for a AAA take on PC's most vibrant genre

Harold Halibut is a retro-futuristic narrative adventure game that takes place in the depths of an alien ocean

From its slick Metroidvania and detailed RPG to League of Legends' take on Stardew Valley, the death of Riot's indie game publishing label is a huge wasted opportunity

33 Immortals is an MMO-tinged roguelike built around "cooperation and an easy to pick up raiding experience"

Towerborne is a hack and slash roguelike-meets-lore-driven MMO designed to feel like "playing a side-scrolling animated feature film"