Mark Delaney's Reviews
Fort Solis places a small but intriguing cast in its off-Earth saga in ways that can be familiar, but it justifies its addition to the subgenre with its own fun twists and philosophical arguments.
Madden continues to improve on the field, but surrounding that attribute with worthwhile modes or features still eludes the franchise.
The adaptation of one of the scariest movies ever made becomes one of the scariest games I've ever played.
Toys For Bob reinvents the bandicoot for a modern multiplayer audience, and the results are impressively deep.
Bloober Team's horror series is reimagined from the ground up, but the foundation still feels shaky.
Frictional Games reinvigorates the series that made it famous with its scariest game in years.
Arkane takes a stab at infusing the genre du jour with its signature style, but the end results are a bloody mess.
Dambuster Studios raises the dead in a vicious sequel long thought doomed.
Scavenger Studio's semi-open-world adventure game is equal parts poetry, memoir, and mindfulness exercise.
Darktide captures the most essential parts of its genre, though it sometimes stumbles when trying to build metagame content on top of that foundation.
Supermassive calls its latest Dark Pictures entry the end of its first season, and it goes out with a bang.
Jumpship's wordless debut comes uniquely structured, but neither the story nor the gameplay do enough to help it carry the torch it's been passed.
Signalis is a nostalgic haunt that knows exactly where it came from but still dares to forge ahead, too.
Gotham Knights takes the Arkham blueprint and reimagines it as a loot-brawler, often feeling similar, but where it's different, it's worse.
Grounded doesn't revolutionize its genre, but it does imbue it with the endearing heart of a child.
NBA 2K23 is a return to form for the usually exceptional series, improving gameplay while imbuing a sincere love for basketball history into new and reimagined modes.
The latest game from Sam Barlow and Half Mermaid builds on what you've come to expect while also subverting its own genre in clever ways.
On the field, Madden 23 is the best the series has been in a long time, but several of the surrounding pieces feel like they're on injured reserve.
Due to its strong script and pitch-perfect performances, Interior Night's debut stands among the very best games of its kind.
This forgettable genre-blender chases several trends but adds nothing of note to any of them.