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JANUARY 2020 JANUARY 2021 49 49 Celebrating the best in PC gaming from a year like no other BEST VR GAME p51 BEST ACTION p52 BES ...

Steven Messner: Final Fantasy XIV is the most consistently excellent MMO I’ve ever played. I started back in 2013, with the rela ...

HALF-LIFE: ALYX Chris Livingston: Whatever tech wizardry Valve did under the hood, it allowed me to play Half-Life: Alyx for ses ...

2016 Awards THE GAME OF THE YEAR HADES Rachel Watts: As someone who has zero patience for dying in games, Hades has made me a ro ...

James Davenport: I could fill a bathtub with the palm sweat Doom Eternal milked from me this year. It is easily the most intense ...

Evan Lahti:Olde Spelunky, our 2013 GOTY, was a clever proc-gen platformer that along with other roguelikes helped usher in the e ...

VALORANT Evan Lahti: Despite decades of developers borrowing and improving on each others’ ideas, it’s surprising that we still ...

2016 Awards THE GAME OF THE YEAR CRUSADER KINGS III Fraser Brown: Crusader Kings III is this year’s best strategy game, but it’s ...

Wes Fenlon: It’s impossible to play Monster Train without Ozzy Osbourne singing Crazy Train in your head. And honestly, that’s e ...

Rich Stanton:The first thing my team of crack spook-hunters look at in a Phasmophobia mission is whether the ghost responds to e ...

DEATH STRANDING James Davenport: Death Stranding is a hypnotic exercise in dramatic serenity. For 90 percent of my 100-plus hour ...

REVIEW HOW WE REVIEW We review each game on its own merits, and try to match it to a reviewer who’s a passionate expert in the f ...

LUKE KEMP Specialist in Hawking his wares. Currently playing The Falconeer, The Pathless This month Diligently covered all this ...

What really stands out to me, though, is how much better Valhalla is at telling an engaging story that twists and turns accordin ...

The female version of Eivor is, again, the better choice. Raiding is fun a few times, but feels too shallow. The game is also ab ...

This ability lets you punch a man to death. The lighting effects create plenty of breathtaking moments. A Christian statue? Bett ...

the Templar order – the villains of the Assassin’s Creed mythos. These cutscenes are relatively few and far between, and ultimat ...

Ichiban starts out as a low-level yakuza in Kamurocho, the Tokyo red light district that serves as the main setting for most of ...

Grumpy, booze-loving cop Adachi is the party’s tank. It’s nice playing as someone a bit cheerier than Kiryu. This is the wildest ...

The problem, is that recently Dirt Rally and its sequel came along. Lovely, strait-laced Dirt Rally. It was so brilliant it remi ...