Action/Adventure, Sim
Tacoma

This microgravity mystery has some involving gameplay, but it also floats off in unexpectedly intimate directions.

Sim, Strategy
Aven Colony

This engaging building simulation game transports some of the genre’s familiar facets into a tense-but-satisfying sci-fi setting.

Shooter, Strategy
Fortnite

This buzz-generating hybrid is one part Minecraft, one part shooter. That last aspect is the one parents will need to …

Horror/Suspense, Shooter
Get Even

Get Even is an ambitious, genre-blurring title that tries to offer a moral, but stains its intended message with M-rated …

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, Puzzle
RiME

This laid-back environmental puzzle game is as thoughtful as it is lovely to look at.

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 …

Puzzle
The Sexy Brutale

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

Action/Adventure, Shooter
Mass Effect: Andromeda

Known for their sci-fi romance options, this Mass Effect series entry sends its nooky into another dimension.

Action/Adventure, Shooter
Ghost Recon: Wildlands

The shooter mechanics continue to improve. But that doesn’t mean the shooter mess gets any better.

Action/Adventure
LEGO Worlds

LEGO Worlds might be described as Minecraft on a sugar high, with zombies, dinosaurs and digital donuts to boot.

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, Shooter
Sniper Elite 4

The latest Sniper Elite entry shatters and bursts enemy bodies with even more graphic “glee.”

Combat
For Honor

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