Action/Adventure, Arcade/Platform, Puzzle, Shooter
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens

There’s a certain familiarity to what you do in a LEGO franchise game. And that’s just hunky-dory.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Homefront: The Revolution

It’s a toss-up which is worse in this blood-drenched first-person shooter: its content or its quality.

Action/Adventure, Arcade/Platform, Puzzle
Kirby: Planet Robobot

Kirby’s latest adventure sticks him in a massive mech suit, but keeps him just as pink and charming.

Action/Adventure, Arcade/Platform
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst

Mirror’s Edge Catalyst walks a T-rated tightrope between acrobatic gameplay and content parents of younger players may wish the game …

Action/Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

This franchise finale is a bit more weighty than some of its predecessors. But its messy bits still have quite …

Action/Adventure, Puzzle, Role-Playing
The Aetherlight: Chronicles of the Resistance

This game mixes biblical allegory with steampunk RPG thwacking—teaching spiritual truth without letting anyone know they’re in Sunday school.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Horror/Suspense, Role-Playing
Dark Souls III

The Dark Souls games are excruciating in their difficulty, and their content is dank and demonic. That’s exactly what the …

Action/Adventure, Arcade/Platform, Puzzle, Shooter
Ratchet & Clank

This being the age of high-def reboots and resurrections, the furry Lombax and his stoic robo-sidekick decided to get in …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Quantum Break

Even with all the time travel, there’s simply no skipping past the bad stuff to get to the good.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter, Strategy
Hitman

It makes it worse that 47 is just so OK-cool about all the life-leeching lessons he’s teaching.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Role-Playing, Shooter
The Division

Loot is good here. Loot is power. And, of course, like many MMOs that have come before, loot can equal …

Action/Adventure, Combat
Far Cry Primal

This is still solidly a franchise game, living in its own primal world that’s most likely pretty far away from …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Role-Playing, Strategy
Fire Emblem Fates

Fire Emblem Fates is a game that’s been expanded and broken up into three different parts … with three separate …

Action/Adventure, Puzzle, Shooter
LEGO Marvel Avengers

There’s more mass destruction on display here than in, say, a Batman LEGO game of yesteryear. But at least the …

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Just Cause 3

The latest entry in the Just Cause franchise is a lot like Grand Theft Auto … only with tanks, grenades …