Action/Adventure, Puzzle, Role-Playing
Ever Oasis

This may seem like a simple building game at first blush. But there’s a whole lot more in the mix …

Sports
Arms

Lots of creative and colorful beat-’em-up battles with nothing below the belt. Sounds like a Nintendo night at the fights.

Arcade/Platform, Combat
Tekken 7

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

Sim, Strategy
Star Trek: Bridge Crew

Terrific virtual fun awaits gamers in the digital final frontier. But some annoying Tribbles potentially lurk there, too.

Action/Adventure, Puzzle
RiME

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

Action/Adventure, Shooter, Virtual Reality
Farpoint

Farpoint is garnering praise for being one of the better examples of a VR shooter. But is that a good …

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, 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.

Action/Adventure
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Link’s latest adventure gets restaged in a world that’s much bigger and open-ended. So what else has changed?