Linear
9 games reviewed, ranked by score.
The Message from Deep Space
First contact you solve yourself, worth the geometry grind
Rubinite
Boss rush that shines, then hides its ending behind no-hit runs
Crushed In Time
Inventive pull-and-stretch puzzles, dulled by guesswork and stray QTEs
nophenia
A quiet dream to wander, if the stutter lets you
Return to Monkey Island
Guybrush Returns Sharp, The Ending Doesn't Land
Hell Maiden
Gorgeous descent into Hell, tripped by run-ending crashes
Fortune Mill
Rooms that fund each other, until NG+ scaling and crashes intrude
The Book of Unwritten Tales 2
Gorgeous, funny adventure undone by soft-locks and a cliffhanger
FINAL FANTASY XIII
Paradigm-switching brilliance locked behind twenty hours of hallway