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Marathon is a tense and demanding extraction shooter where Bungie’s excellent gunplay and strong sci-fi identity shine, especially on PS5. Its harsh progression and steep learning curve make it difficult to recommend to everyone, but Season 2 adds meaningful improvements, new content and better onboarding that push the game in the right direction.

Hollowbody understands what makes classic survival horror compelling, blending psychological horror, exploration, and old-school mechanics. However, technical issues, weak melee combat, and an uneven level of polish ultimately prevent its strong ideas from reaching their full potential.

World of Tanks: HEAT successfully reimagines Wargaming’s classic tank warfare as a faster, more accessible tactical vehicle shooter. Its Agents, abilities and objective-based modes give the formula a welcome hero-shooter edge, although its long-term appeal will depend on balance, progression and post-launch support.

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is TT Games’ most ambitious LEGO title yet. Its blend of classic LEGO humor with Arkham-inspired combat and exploration works surprisingly well, backed by a massive Gotham City packed with fan service and references to Batman’s history. While some side activities become repetitive and minor technical issues remain, this is easily one of the best Batman games recently, and arguably the best LEGO game ever made by TT Games.

007 First Light introduces us to a young, inexperienced James Bond while staying true to the essence of the film franchise. The story is gripping, the soundtrack is pure epic, and although it can feel quite linear and as if you’re being “led by the hand” the whole time, overall it’s an outstanding game that keeps you glued to the screen, eager to find out what happens next.

An engaging steampunk colony sim that turns a moving train into a complex survival ecosystem. Weak spots hold it back, but the core gameplay hooks you fast.

Supermassive Games leaves haunted houses and slashers behind to embrace cosmic horror in Directive 8020, a deep-space adventure heavily inspired by Alien and The Thing. The result is the studio's smartest branching narrative to date and its most beautiful production, held back only by repetitive stealth sequences and a few rough technical edges.

Forza Horizon 6 takes the Horizon formula to its most ambitious point yet. Japan is a perfect fit for the series, delivering a far more varied, vertical, and character-rich map than previous entries. Playground Games doesn’t reinvent the franchise, but it successfully addresses several of its most noticeable shortcomings with a better-structured progression system, a more engaging open world, and stunning audiovisual presentation.

Lord of Hatred is Diablo IV’s most ambitious expansion yet, expanding Sanctuary with meaningful new content, stronger progression systems, and deeper customization. While its endgame still has limitations, it delivers the most refined version of Diablo IV so far.

Pragmata is Capcom's new IP that has impressed us with next-generation graphics and a science fiction story that is as cryptic as it is intriguing, centered around AI. It's one of those titles that grabs you from the very beginning and you can't stop playing.