Combat
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4

No story mode and a Fortnite-like multiplayer options change the CoD landscape … and not for the better.

Combat, Puzzle, Strategy
Into the Breach

Mix chess with futuristic mech battles against marauding monsters and you’ve got the gist of things with this PC title.

Arcade/Platform, Combat
Kirby Battle Royale

Kirby fans will likely love the little pink puffball’s latest minigame-filled contest.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Horror/Suspense, Shooter
Call of Duty: WWII

The latest Call of Duty installment marches bloodily back to the battles where the franchise began.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Role-Playing
Middle-earth: Shadow of War

This ferocious, M-rated sequel may be set in the milieu of Lord of the Rings. But it’s a lot more …

Combat, Puzzle, Shooter, Strategy
Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle

Mario is back. But this time it’s in a strategic, turn-based—gulp—shooter. How worried should we be?

Action/Adventure, Combat
Hellblade: Senua’s Sarifice

What would it take for a video game to depict psychotic madness? Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice answers that dark question.

Arcade/Platform, Combat
Tekken 7

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

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.

Combat
For Honor

For Honor delivers bloody, hack-and-slash action paired with an extremely deep fighting system and bellowing combatants.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare

If you think battling robots in space will be less messy for human combatants, think again.

Combat, Shooter
Battlefield 1

This intense, graphic depiction of World War I features equal measures of visceral combat and anti-war sentiment.

Action/Adventure, Combat, Shooter
Gears of War 4

Is this next-gen Gears of War title a kinder, gentler version of its graphically gory predecessors? Gears action without Gears …

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.

Combat, Shooter
Overwatch

Since this is a shooter, it’s only smart to wonder just how messy all of Overwatch’s first-person pull-a-trigger play gets.