Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD review – the ghost of the 3DS Nintendo has taken to remastering old 3DS games for the Switch but while Luigi’s ghostly adventure is a lot of fun the asking price is high.
Super Monkey Ball Banana Rumble review – apes in a sphere Sega make a new attempt to revive the Monkey Ball franchise on Nintendo Switch, with over 100 all new stages and five new multiplayer modes.
Dicefolk review – playing both sides Pokémon meets Slay The Spire in this inventive new indie game that forces you to play as both your team and your opponent.
Shin Megami Tensei 5: Vengeance review – reincarnation of Persona The latest entry in the franchise that spawned Persona goes multiformat, with significant improvements to the graphics, story, and gameplay.
DarkStar One Nintendo Switch Edition review – Starfield 2006 An obscure space trading game from the Xbox 360 era is inexplicably remastered for the Switch but does it have anything to teach Bethesda?
Star Wars: Hunters review – quicker, easier, more seductive Overwatch with Star Wars characters sounds like a licence to print money and Hunters may well do so given how many microtransactions it has.
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami review – murder most fowl He may be only a duck but Eugene McQuacklin is the star of the best noir detective thriller since L.A. Noire.
This Nintendo character is now canonically trans – and I couldn’t be happier Queer people exist, and they should exist in video games.
Hauntii review – monochrome possession Twin-stick shooting combines with the ability to possess everything from trees to street lamps, in this enjoyably peculiar new indie game.
Paper Trail review – origami overload The week’s second paper-folding themed video game is a charming new indie puzzler with some very clear ideas about folding virtual paper.
Wizardry: Proving Grounds Of The Mad Overlord PS5 review – ground zero for RPGs GameCentral reviews the most influential video game you’ve never heard of and the predecessor to everything from Final Fantasy to Fallout.
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door Switch review – back to the crease A forgotten classic finally gets another chance to shine, with an excellent remake of Nintendo’s best role-playing game.
Braid, Anniversary Edition review – time to rewind One of the most important indie games of all time returns with a remaster that adds more than a dozen new levels and revamped visuals.
Lorelei And The Laser Eyes review – the world’s weirdest puzzle game The creators of Sayonara Wild Hearts and Year Walk return with what is possibly their strangest, and most entertaining, game so far.
Little Kitty, Big City review – the cat’s meow After the success of Stray, a new indie cat simulator has appeared, with a more cartoonish style and a suitably laidback attitude.
Animal Well review – indie game of the year It might seem like the world doesn’t need another 2D indie Metroidvania but Animal Well will have you think again, about a great many things.
Another Crab’s Treasure review – the Dark Souls of kids’ games For once a new Soulslike tries to do something different, with a clever new spin on the genre that mixes in platforming and cartoon logic.
Lunar Lander Beyond review – fly me to the Moon The latest Atari reboot tries to reimagine the ancient Lunar Lander as a modern, narrative led game about dystopian space corporations.