Gareth’s Top Games of 2022
We take a run through our Digital Editor Gareth’s top choices for the best games of 2022.
We take a run through our Digital Editor Gareth’s top choices for the best games of 2022.
Styx: Master of Shadows, from Cyanide Studio, feels at odds with itself. It’s a stealth game that tries to court two different schools of stealth design: the modern open-ended approach and the classic rigidness of trial and error. For a while, it strikes a fine balance between the two, giving you plenty of room to…
Atlus’ re-release of the first three games in the series through Etrian Odyssey Origins Collection isn’t the ideal compilation for these classic portable RPGs, but it’s the best one that we’re likely to get.
Developer Stoic’s first entry in its three-part turn-based strategy role-playing game epic The Banner Saga is excellent, both as a standalone game and as an introduction to a greater narrative. It’s expansive world and endearing cast craft a compelling stage, tense battles and difficult decisions giving each exchange weight and uncertainty. It’s beautiful and dark;…
fully-fledged rally game that nostalgic racing fans are sure to eat up.
Trek to Yomi fails to rise above its issues with repetitive combat, despite its beautiful presentation that emulates old samurai flicks.
With a new character and a ton of balance tweaks, Under Night In-Birth further solidifies its place as one of the best fighting games around.
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1+2 is the ultimate version of two of the most fun skateboarding games ever.
The saying goes that if you want to steal from someone, you might as well steal from the best. While nobody could ever go as far as saying Shadow of Mordor steals, it certainly borrows the best elements of some of the most fun stealth games around and makes terrific use of them in one…
Rally racing is certainly not for the faint of heart. It’s one of the most dangerous forms of motorsports, for good reason – it’s unpredictable. A good navigator might have a meter long list of information about a certain course but a simple shift in climate is enough to change things completely. Such realism does…