Action/Adventure, Combat, Puzzle
Crimson Desert

This new adventure title feels familiar, strange, ambitious, grinding, beautiful, bloody and foul. All at the same time.

Action/Adventure, Horror/Suspense, Puzzle
Resident Evil Requiem

‘Resident Evil Requiem’ offers a new, revealing chapter of the Umbrella Corporation’s bioterrorism story. But its mutated and gory gush …

high on life 2
Action/Adventure, Shooter
High on Life 2

‘High on Life 2’ is crude, messy and foul—and not nearly as funny as it hopes to be.

Action/Adventure, Sim
Cairn

‘Cairn’ is an interesting mountain-climbing game that suffers from its M-rated rocks, pitfalls and stumbles.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

Realistic warfare triggers its bloody carnage in sci-fi, hallucinatory realms in ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops 7.’

Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Shooter
The Outer Worlds 2

‘The Outer Worlds 2’ sports winking color, but the fun is dripping with gooey gunk as well.

ghost of yotei
Action/Adventure, Combat
Ghost of Yōtei

‘Ghost of Yōtei’ presents a stylized view of feudal Japan—featuring cinematic beauty, limb-lopping gore and heartless brutality.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Horror/Suspense
Silent Hill f

‘Silent Hill f’ takes its creepy survival-horror action to a small Japanese town. But its an incredibly complicated, bloody and …

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Action/Adventure, Shooter
Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

This revered shooter returns with updated graphics and controls. But blood spatter and flesh-rending torture are among those graphic “upgrades.”

Action/Adventure, Shooter
Borderlands 4

‘Borderlands 4’ features a new open-world planet to roam. But the blast-your-foes-into-bloody-chunks part stays the same.

Action/Adventure, Role-Playing
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

This French game asks big questions. But depression, suicide and bloody death are part of the game’s fantasy mix as …

Action/Adventure, Puzzle
Time Flies

There are clever puzzles, eye winks and interesting life parallels to be found in this line art-drawn gaming adventure. But …

Action/Adventure, Horror/Suspense
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach

‘Death Stranding 2: On the Beach’ is a complex, curious, dark, difficult, spiritually twisted and grindingly dull M-rated game.

Action/Adventure
The Alters

This creative, provocative survival game pairs a compelling story with foul-mouthed dialogue and occasionally bloody terrain.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Doom: The Dark Ages

If you’ve ever wondered what would change if the ‘Doom’ franchise had a medieval version, the answer is: not much.