IGN Game Reviews: Recent Episodes
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The old adage “a tale of two halves” really encapsulates the NBA 2K24 experience. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This sequel is a superb puzzle platformer that sticks close to the series’ playbook.
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This orthodox Metroidvania has style, creepy bosses, and a gloriously gross return to Cvstodia.
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There’s a hidden gem buried in this open world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
A less asymmetrical take on the asymmetrical horror genre offers a few entertaining, technically challenged hours of fun.
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Frontier's management sim not only avoids the sophomore slump, it fights for the podium.
Where Remnant: From The Ashes was a strong first draft, this revolutionary sequel is a sterling looter-shooter soulslike manifesto.
This bland, frustrating, and buggy fantasy adventure would have been a bad four-hour game. At 40 hours, it’s hard to bear.
A flexible, challenging, approachable throwback turn-based tactics game in which the only thing that feels truly dated is the humor.
This aquatic adventure RPG is wholesome, wonderfully complex, and delightfully hard to put down.
Outstanding story, characters, and worldbuilding earn the right to depart from what fans expect from Final Fantasy.
Nominally a shooter, System Shock is more about exploring the labyrinth that is the TriOptimum corporation's Citadel space station than any combat that takes place within it. Your Hacker and their military-grade neural implant are responsible for the significantly degraded situation here, having disabled the AI SHODAN's ethical limitations.
Like a low-budget, fan-made sequel to a classic movie, Greyhill Incident eagerly incorporates all the worst parts of the genuine article, neglects all of the best parts, and has nothing original to say of its own.
This hilarious gore-fest is a competent zombie-slaying adventure, but all the creativity has oozed out.
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A monetized nightmare that feels less like Doom and more like Candy Crush Saga with Hell Priests.
Cool ship classes and action-packed combat keep up the pace in this space jockey's looter-shooter.
A promising roguelike that's grounded by obtuse systems, frustrating loot, and lots of bugs.
This barebones platformer manages to be supremely boring despite its SpongeBob-infused charm.
With deep combat and a great city like this, kicking Yakuza teeth out will never get old.
A remarkable, if a bit janky, nation-builder with ocean-deep political and economic systems that suck you in and don't let go.
A decent soulslike with a unique setting that does little else to distinguish itself from the pack.
This endgame-focused expansion doubles down on everything from the base game – in both good ways and bad.
This over-the-top soccer fight is well-tuned, hilarious fun, even though it does very little new.
This asymmetric multiplayer game of cat and mouse is compelling and exhilarating, despite being rough around the edges.
Constantly threatening to be a competent detective RPG, Swansong ends up falling a bit short.
This 2D odyssey absolutely nails the samurai aesthetic in a satisfying but modest adventure.
This raunchy shooter is cringingly juvenile and painful to play in between all the times it’s breaking.
A fierce and flashy cyberpunk beat-em-up with a gorgeous world, but also a script that's a bit rusty.
There’s real tension in waiting to see how the map will change before your turn comes round.
Mini-campaigns and a flexible battle system give us more ways to play Total War with friends than ever.
This game of combat air hockey is tightly balanced, addictive, and will have you screaming at your friends.
Teamwork, coordination, and precision are essential in one of the most tense co-op games out there.
This FPS is a painful, barely functional slog that you shouldn’t even consider playing as a joke.
Nintendo's second entry into its collectible modern Game & Watch line is even better than the first.
Enough crunchy JRPG goodness to earn its place in the pantheon despite an underwhelming story.