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I could wear out my keyboard slapping arrow keys to the beat and jamming in my seat to Rift of the NecroDancer’s excellent soundtrack, fervently chasing down a perfect run of a song for hours.

Drew Hancock’s Companion is a funny and clever thriller, carefully balancing dark moments of violence and unsetting reveals with a disarming sense of humor.

The Stone of Madness has some excellent art and great moments of sneaking around. But what should have been a fairly replayable and interesting prison break ends up buckling under the weight of its technical problems.

When Eternal Strands is good, it’s very good, thanks to exciting boss fights that iterate upon Shadow of Colossus’s gigantic encounters better than just about any of the other games that have used it as inspiration.

Sniper Elite: Resistance is a modest retread for the Sniper Elite series, rather than an exaggerated goose step forward.

Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap's roguelite spin on the action-tower defense series works pretty well.

At its early access launch, Hyper Light Breaker is a sloppy roguelite that makes poor use of the Hyper Light world I adore.

Aloft is a promising blend of a survival crafting game and cozy sensibilities with a memorable airborne setting, but it misses the mark in quite a few other places as of its early access launch.

Somehow, Donkey Kong Country Returns returned (again), but Nintendo’s third full release of this 2010 Wii platformer is almost as fresh and fun today as it was 15 years ago.

If Dynasty Warriors: Origins is meant to be a new beginning, it’s one that gets off to a masterful start.