An online first-person shooter with heavy RPG elements set in a space opera universe. Level up by shooting enemies and completing quests, collect loot and ammo drops, and raise your reputation with various factions to buy unique and powerful items. There are three character classes to choose from and each has their own skill tree that allows for a certain amount of role specialization, but every class is viable for solo play as well. There are a variety of types of missions - story missions and procedurally-generated “patrol” missions can be played solo or in groups, while “strike” and “raid” missions require groups.

A gorgeous 2D-platformer with Metroidvania and bullet hell elements. While many powers you gain over the course of the game are related to combat or traversal, you also get the ability to switch between blue and red. The environment has platforms, hazards, and enemies of both colors. You have to be the right color to ride a platform, avoid damage from a hazard, or deal damage to an enemy - which can mean rapid Ikaruga-like switching as the bullet hell ramps up.

A fairly simple first-person grid-based dungeon-crawler. You always have one of three partner characters with you, each with different strengths for the game’s active but streamlined combat. Press one button to do a single-target attack (which the archer excels at), press another button to attack all enemies (which the whipper excels at), and another button to block enemy attacks - do it with perfect timing and execute the QTE that follows to unleash a super attack (which the spellcaster excels at). It’s simple to get the hang of, but with just enough depth to keep it engaging through the brief combat encounters - watching the enemy animations to block at the right time, watching your own attack meter recharge to attack at the right time, and attacking in the right way depending on the enemy party.

A rhythm game tribute to the long-running Final Fantasy series. There are songs and characters from essentially every game in the franchise (and some from other Square Enix titles through DLC). Songs are grouped into a few different kinds of levels depending on the nature of the music - battle music has you fighting a series of monsters, event music plays over cutscenes, and field music has you journeying through the game world. It’s all layered on top of an RPG system where you build a party of four, level them up, and equip items and abilities.

A spiritual successor to Fahrenheit that carries forward its strengths and fixes most of its flaws. You play as a handful of characters investigating a serial abductor and killer of children with time running out for the latest victim. As before, controls are nontraditional and designed to immerse the player in the game’s world and the characters’ emotions, and the player’s actions result in bends and branches in the game’s story.

A genre-defying supernatural thriller that has you playing as a handful of characters investigating a murder mystery from different sides. Controls are nontraditional and designed to immerse the player in the game’s world and the characters’ emotions, and the player’s actions result in bends and branches in the game’s story.

A building game based on LEGO and featuring powerful tools that allow you to build brick by brick, quickly plan buildings by dragging paths for the walls, copy and paste arbitrarily large or complex objects or structures, and recolor or shape the terrain as desired. It’s an impressive foundation but unfortunately it isn’t put to good use.