7.5/10
Games3 Oct 2026
End of Abyss: strong dread, and a map that lied
Eleven verdicts average 7.5 across a three-point range, and what reviewers kept hitting was the map. A patch fixed most of it the day after launch.
Reviews
Two kinds of score live here. Where I played the game myself, the number is my own verdict and nobody else's. Everywhere else it is an average of the verdicts published elsewhere, converted to a 1–10 scale and rounded to the nearest half point, and the article lists the outlets it counted and the range they spanned, because a game that splits critics is telling you something a midpoint hides.
- Reviews
- 30
- Average
- 8.0
- Lowest
- 6.0
- Highest
- 9.5
9/10
Games2 Oct 2026
Star Wars Galactic Racer: best scores since 2003
Eight verdicts average 9.0 across a two-point range, four days before release. The PC Metascore sits six points under the PS5 one.
8/10
Games1 Oct 2026
Gears of War: E-Day is best when it stays linear
Score 8 from five verdicts spanning 6 to 9.5. Reviews landed five days early, most of them campaign-only, and the split is about level structure.
9/10
Games30 Sept 2026
Ace Combat 8 review: superb flying, rough on PC
Eight verdicts average 9.0 and Steam still reads Mixed. A 150GB install for a PS2-era bonus and a memory leak past 20GB are doing the damage.
7.5/10
Games29 Sept 2026
Minecraft Dungeons II review: safe, and divisive
Five verdicts on Minecraft Dungeons II run from 6 to 9. A three-point spread on a sequel critics agree refines rather than reinvents.
6/10
Games26 Sept 2026
Pawbay review: lovely town, and too little of it
A palette I'd happily steal, townspeople built from a handful of boxes, and a cat that only jumps where the game allows. A thin 6 from me.
9/10
Games23 Sept 2026
Well Dweller review: acclaimed, with one firm dissent
Six verdicts average 9 across a 2.5-point spread, from a perfect score down to a 7.5. Kyle Thompson drew, coded and designed all of it himself.
7.5/10
Games22 Sept 2026
EA Sports FC 27 is a good football game with a hub problem
Six verdicts average 7.5 across a 2.5-point range. What splits them is The Grounds, the open-world hub EA spent the year building.
8/10
Games21 Sept 2026
Silent Hill: Townfall nails the atmosphere, splits on stealth
Eleven verdicts average 8.0 across a four-point spread. Reviewers agree the atmosphere is franchise-best and argue about the stealth on top of it.
7.5/10
Games20 Sept 2026
Control Resonant splits on everything but its environments
Eight verdicts average 7.5 across a six-point range. Reviewers agree the environments are career-best work and disagree about nearly everything else.
7.5/10
Film & TV17 Sept 2026
Resident Evil: critics warm to Cregger’s take
Seven outlets put a number on Cregger's Resident Evil. Five said eight, two said six, mean 7.5. Rotten Tomatoes reads the same pile as 98%.
9/10
Games16 Sept 2026
Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave is near-flawless but for the cost
Nine verdicts average 8.8 across a three-point spread. The marks it drops are almost all for the most expensive thing in the game.
7/10
Games13 Sept 2026
NHL 27 and the generative-AI commentary reviewers hit hardest
Seven scored verdicts average 6.8 across a three-point range, and the part reviewers hit hardest is the commentary EA expanded with generative AI voice.
7.5/10
Games10 Sept 2026
Marvel's Wolverine: PlayStation Studios' lowest score yet
Twenty-four verdicts average 7.5 across a five-point spread. Metacritic 78, and the lowest-scored PlayStation Studios game of the PS5 generation.
9/10
Games9 Sept 2026
Valheim 1.0 ends five years of early access, near flawless
Eight launch-day verdicts average 9, running from an 80 to IGN's 10. Five years of early access ended today, and snow is the hardest biome for this art style.
7.5/10
Games6 Sept 2026
Hot Wheels Infinite Rush divides over its open-world turn
Six verdicts run from a 6 to a 9 and average 7.5. The disagreement sits over one decision — the playset became four open-world islands.
8/10
Games4 Sept 2026
Orbitals turns a low frame rate into style
Ten verdicts average 8 and run from 6 to 9.5, a three-and-a-half point spread. The characters animate at 12 and 24fps on purpose.
8.5/10
Games2 Sept 2026
NBA 2K27 nails the defence broadcast cameras barely show
Three scored verdicts average 8.3 a week into paid early access. The defence everyone is praising is built from footage broadcast cameras barely shoot.
8/10
Games31 Aug 2026
Blood of Dawnwalker’s thirty-day clock splits the verdicts
Twelve verdicts average 8, running from 6 to 9.5. The thirty-day clock is what splits them, and it is an environment budget problem before it is a design one.
8.5/10
Games31 Aug 2026
Onimusha: Way of the Sword and the flaw Capcom chose
Twelve verdicts average 8.5 and the spread is unusually tight. The complaint that keeps coming back is the one Capcom wrote into the story on purpose.
9.5/10
Games30 Aug 2026
Elden Ring Tarnished Edition proves the doubters wrong
The Switch 2 port everyone wrote off after a 15fps demo is reviewing at 91. Six verdicts average 9.5, and almost nobody docked it for the cuts.
8/10
Games28 Aug 2026
Captain Tsubasa 2 wins on spectacle, not football
Five published verdicts average 8/10. The high scores love the cinematic super-shots, the lower ones want the football back, and Tamsoft's answer is a parry.
8.5/10
Games27 Aug 2026
Star Wars Zero Company nails the tactics, not the camera
EA and Lucasfilm's Clone Wars tactics game landed today at 87 on OpenCritic from nineteen critics. The six outlet scores I could verify average 8.5.
8.5/10
Games26 Aug 2026
Resonance divides on how much a sequel can throw away
Twenty published scores run from 7 to 9.5. The split is about whether a sequel is allowed to throw away the thing that made the series famous.
7/10
Games24 Aug 2026
Beast of Reincarnation: something new, something unfinished
Game Freak's first real-time action RPG averages a firm 7 across eight scores, split between critics who found something new and something unfinished.
9/10
Games21 Aug 2026
What it took to get Metal Gear Solid 4 off the PS3
Master Collection Vol. 2 reviewed to a 9.0 average this week, and the headline is simple — MGS4 is off PS3 for the first time ever.
8/10
Games19 Aug 2026
What Frogwares stopped modelling in The Sinking City 2
Frogwares ditched the open-world detective formula for tight survival horror, and critics gave it a full aggregate jump for the change.
8/10
Film & TV17 Aug 2026
Lanterns built a real ring suit instead of CG
HBO's Green Lantern show built a practical ring suit instead of the CG one every prior adaptation used, and the reviews keep circling that choice.
8.5/10
Games17 Aug 2026
Mortal Shell II clears the original by a full grade
The reviews landed with premium early access, and they are a full grade above the original. Around thirty people made this.
8.5/10
Games13 Aug 2026
Marvel Tokon reviews: great scores, bad launch
An 87 on OpenCritic, a Mixed on Steam, and a forty-point gap. Forty-odd reviews in five languages point at art direction as the shared complaint.