Arcade/Platform, Combat
Tekken 7

A T-rated beat-’em-up with more demonic story weirdness than you may want to fight through.

Action/Adventure
Injustice 2

The second Injustice title features good guys gone bad and scrappy supers going toe-to-toe with them—all wrapped in an arcade …

Horror/Suspense, Puzzle
Little Nightmares

This cartoonish horror game has people talking, but it’s the kind of story that could easily leave many a nightmare …

Action/Adventure, Puzzle
Pinstripe

This compelling indie game blends appealing art and gaming mechanics into an unexpected cautionary abstraction.

Role-Playing, Strategy
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia

This remake of a game from the ’90s is rich in old strategy and tactics, but it has a few …

Puzzle
The Sexy Brutale

This creative indie game offers intrigue and fun, but there’s something murky in its murder Brutale.

Action/Adventure, Role-Playing, Shooter
Horizon Zero Dawn

This open-world adventure offers up lots of arrow-slinging, robot-riding and post-apocalyptic soul-searching.

Combat, Strategy
Halo Wars 2

The second Halo Wars contest delivers real-time strategy thrills without all the famous franchise’s goopy, gory, first-person shooter spills.

Action/Adventure
Gravity Rush 2

This colorful and creative game nevertheless loses its footing from time to time.

Sim
Stardew Valley

There’s a lot to enjoy in this engaging farm simulation game. Perhaps, too much.

Action/Adventure, Puzzle
The Last Guardian

Here’s a boy-and-his-dog tale with an out-of-this-world pooch and an out-there fantasy twist.

Arcade/Platform, Shooter
Battlezone

The new age of virtual gaming begins with a virtual tank contest from long, long ago.

Action/Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter
ReCore

There’s definitely a lot of trigger pulling in the mix here, but ReCore is as much about exploring, jumping and …

Puzzle
The Turing Test

The Turing Test offers a collection of increasingly difficult puzzles and a deep space mystery in a man-versus-machine contest.

Action/Adventure, Puzzle
Alone With You

This ’80s-like throwback proves that games don’t need to be messy or pulse-pounding to keep us engaged.