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Emina Zulić

2 reviews

Latest: Saros

AltCharMay 12, 2026Score 80

“An unforgiving alien planet, brutal bullet-hell combat, and a mystery slowly eating away at reality - Housemarque came back with another game full of chaotic combat and eerie atmosphere that demands your full attention.”

-2.4

Amanda Tien

29 reviews

Latest: inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories

The Punished BacklogMay 12, 2026Score 55

“As an ASMR experience in shelving, inKONBINI works great. However, because it has the ambitions of narrative but fails its characters, it can’t hope to compete with narrative-driven shop games that weave story into the fundamental gameplay. inKONBINI is a peaceful enough game to simply be a chill vibe simulator, but it is also not interesting enough to be a shop sim. Fans of Japanese convenience shops will find something to love with inKONBINI, but for everyone else, there are many more titles (such as last year’s Tiny Bookshop or this month’s Wax Heads) that will better scratch the itch for a cozy store simulator.”

-0.1

Meg Pelliccio

58 reviews

Latest: inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories

TheGamerMay 12, 2026Score 80

“InKonbini: One Store. Many Stories offers a short but very sweet slice-of-life game that makes you value the quiet moments and fleeting conversations you have with strangers. Much like our favourite convenience store snacks, it offers plenty of flavour in a bite-sized chunk that keeps our appetite satiated until the next eye-catching game comes along.”

-3.0

Daniele Madau

3 reviews

Latest: NITRO GEN OMEGA

UagnaMay 12, 2026Score 75

“NITRO GEN OMEGA is a testament to DESTINYbit’s talent and boldness. The Italian studio sets aside traditional formulas to deliver a “handcrafted,” brutal, and magnetic tactical RPG. Although the narrative never quite takes off and some of the management routines between battles can feel repetitive, the beating heart of the game is a polished gem. It’s a technically sophisticated and deep experience that rewards precise planning and crew synergy, offering one of the most original takes on the mecha genre.”

-5.0

Colby Windham

5 reviews

Latest: Mixtape

Smash JumpMay 12, 2026Score 90

“Mixtape is an excellent experience. While I'd normally just say it is a great game, it proved to be more than that. It captures feelings and the experience of life in ways that an ordinary game just does not come close to meeting.”

+4.2

Marco Bortoluzzi

89 reviews

Latest: NITRO GEN OMEGA

The Games MachineMay 12, 2026Score 70

“Based on a simple premise, Nitro Gen Omega's combat is genuinely very entertaining and well thought out, and the fun animations are a nice added value. Unfortunately, grindy progession, a barebones open world, unexciting characters, and a perplexing system for switching mechas end up dragging the entire game down.”

+6.6

Sami-Jo Perruzza

23 reviews

Latest: Dead as Disco

A Gaming NetworkMay 12, 2026Score 85

“Dead as Disco already feels like a game that knows exactly who it is. The vibe is excellent, the combat feels good, and when everything locks together on beat, it gives that exact satisfied feeling rhythm game fans chase. It is not a walk in the park, though, and that difficulty actually works in its favor because it makes the victories feel earned. Even in Early Access, this is the kind of game I’d keep coming back to because the style, music, and gameplay loop all hit the right note. With so much more on the developer timeline, I am DOWN for some more disco.”

-0.6

Alessandro Preziosi

24 reviews

Latest: Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

Everyeye.itMay 12, 2026Score 75

“Ultimately, Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes is compelling because it understands the part of the series that truly needed to be transformed into a game: the struggle of holding together a fleeing community.”

+6.0

Lucas Moura

411 reviews

Latest: Two Point Museum: Arty-Facts

Hu3brMay 12, 2026Score 100

“Bursting with creativity, complexity and new enticing mechanics, “Arty-Facts” is a must-have for any “Two Point Museum” fan, and a fantastic showcase of Two Points Studios flexibility and seemingly endless pit of amazing ideas. Easily the best DLC the team put out by a good margin.”

+3.4

Adrian Burrows

220 reviews

Latest: Underling Uprising

TheSixthAxisMay 12, 2026Score 60Pre-release Review

“Underling Uprising is an exuberant old-school beat 'em up throwback that absolutely nails the Saturday-morning-cartoon vibe, delivering a gloriously daft roster of player characters to boot. With a few friends sat on the same sofa, it's the kind of loud, colourful, coin-op-like chaos that I have loved ever since playing Captain Commando in my local arcade. It's just a shame that the input lag and framerate issues undermine much of what Dummy Dojo have achieved elsewhere. Still, provided there's some solid post-launch polish, this has all the potential to be a cracking co-op party brawler.”

-11.2

Marcello Paolillo

90 reviews

Latest: Mixtape

SpaziogamesMay 12, 2026Score 77

“Mixtape knows what it wants to be and succeeds with enough frequency to make it recommendable. Beethoven & Dinosaur constructs a small but sincere work, where the music doesn't accompany the story but generates it. The character development is honest, the visual design is coherent and successful, and the '90s vibe never slips into the wax museum of cheap nostalgia.”

+5.5

Rob Kershaw

217 reviews

Latest: Will: Follow The Light

Jump Dash RollMay 12, 2026Score 50

“A strikingly moody adventure that knows exactly what it wants to feel like, but never fully works as either a game or a story in the way it needs to.”

-7.4

Вадим Съедин

9 reviews

Latest: Call of the Elder Gods

GameMAGMay 11, 2026Score 70Pre-release Review

“Call of the Elder Gods is a perfectly worthy sequel to Call of the Sea, in which the authors shifted the focus toward varied and moderately challenging puzzles. The story also turned out to be quite engaging, though for some reason the authors didn't quite polish a number of their ideas, which somewhat mars the overall impression.”

-6.4

Laura Speller

11 reviews

Latest: Mixtape

KeenGamerMay 11, 2026Score 80

“As a narrative adventure game, Mixtape manages to establish its own identity compared to other games in the same genre, avoiding it being a simple copycat. It succeeds in clearly laying out what interactions end a scene, while allowing for freedom in exploration.”

+1.2

Dan Stapleton

140 reviews

Latest: Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

IGNMay 11, 2026Score 80

“Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes tests how well you hold up under pressure by forcing you to play a game of whack-a-mole against endless waves of Cylon attacks, political crises, and ethical dilemmas.”

+4.9

Shannon P. Drake

96 reviews

Latest: Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes

MonsterVineMay 11, 2026Score 80

“There’s solid gameplay, but it’s a grind to find anything encouraging when everything is going wrong all the time, which does fit the IP and experience. And life in general, I suppose. So say we all.”

+1.1

Roland Ingram

93 reviews

Latest: inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories

Nintendo LifeMay 11, 2026Score 60

“inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories has modest ambitions but mostly achieves them: it tells a small number of unchallenging short stories, set in a 1993 Japanese retail context. Its atmosphere carries it a surprisingly long way, but not far enough to overcome how thin the experience actually is.If you're excited by narutomaki, hanko ink refills and passing business cards with both hands, then consider proceeding to the cash register. If not, you may just want to leave without buying anything.”

-8.5

Victor Hugo Carreta

21 reviews

Latest: Zombie Rollerz: The Last Ship

Nintendo BlastMay 11, 2026Score 80

“Zombie Rollerz: The Last Ship perfectly understands its premise: to offer fast, over-the-top, and unpretentious fun. Even without reinventing the genre, the game manages to stand out thanks to its mix of frenetic action, simple controls, and a great sense of humor. The technical limitations of the Nintendo Switch version and the visual repetition prevent the experience from reaching an even higher level, but this doesn't detract from the brilliance of genuinely fun gameplay. For those looking for an accessible, chaotic, and personality-filled roguelike, it's worth embarking on this zombie destruction machine—especially if the idea of running over the undead for hours sounds like a good pastime.”

+2.9

Mikhail Madnani

217 reviews

Latest: Wax Heads

Nintendo InsiderMay 11, 2026Score 90

“Wax Heads is one of my favorite narrative-driven puzzle games in years.”

+1.3

M. Hasan

3 reviews

Latest: Causal Loop

GamesCreedMay 11, 2026Score 74

“Causal Loop genuinely feels like it is trying something different. And honestly, how often does a puzzle game leave players wondering whether they solved the puzzle… or became part of it?”

-16.1