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The way it cynically, yet thoughtfully, criticizes a range of ideologies reveals the game’s politics aren’t nearly as narrow you might expect. Disco Elysium’s sympathies ultimately lie with working people and movements that center their best interests, despite asking you to play as cops on the other end of that equation. The brilliant role-playing mechanics and richly realized world would be impressive no matter the story, but Disco Elysium’s beating, thematic heart makes it the best PC game you can play at this moment in history. With Forza Horizon 5, Xbox Game Studios takes it popular racing series to a beautiful and varied Mexico setting. The fifth title in the racing-and-music festival is fat with the modes, atmosphere, music, and wild stunts you'd expect, but this time the additions and changes are more evolutionary than revolutionary.

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It feels like a big-budget game, one aimed at elevating the series and attracting new fans. Arise makes notable changes to many classic Tales gameplay systems, but its grandiose story is packed with the usual Tales-style anime tropes that the franchise has leaned on for decades. If you can overlook that anime cheese and a few gameplay oddities, you'll find that this PC game is one of the most enjoyable action-RPG titles to come along in some time.

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Some questioned Forza Horizon 4's necessity, given that the open-world racer debuted just two years after its excellent predecessor. Valve's original Portal was noteworthy for its witty and acerbic dialogue, creativity in blending the previously incompatible brain-teasing-puzzle-game and first-person-shooter genres, and relative shortness. With Portal 2, Valve has left intact the first quality, expanded and elaborated on the second, and done a bit to address the third. What this adds up to is a sequel that stands up proudly to the original, updating the characteristics that made it a distinctive success without dulling their memory. Limited multiplayer and post-campaign options slightly diminish the replay factor, but in almost every way Portal 2 is just as amusing and exhilarating as its predecessor. Blade & Soul is a highly stylized Korean MMORPG inspired by martial arts and Asian mythology.

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The sheer number ofCrossout factions, different body types, guns, cannons, and armour ensures that there are many different ways to play… although they are all pretty deadly. Super Mega Baseball 3 contains new on-field improvements, player traits, front office happenings, and gameplay modes for both default and custom ball clubs that push the series deeper into simulation territory. The new Pennant Race mode delivers cross-platform play with console ballplayers, too. Despite light frame rate issues and other minor complaints, Super Mega Baseball 3 is the best title in the series to date. Long gone are the days when the likes of Midway's NFL Blitz and Nintendo's Ken Griffey Jr. games ruled the market with their pick-up-and-play sensibility, flashy graphics, and outrageous gameplay. Hardcore simulations like FIFA or NBA 2K are great, but arcade sports fans have lamented the decline of the less realistic stuff.

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Microtransactions will strike back in some form, however, in the near future. With 2016's Doom, developer Id Software successfully resurrected one of the foundational first-person shooter franchises. Given the game's critical and commercial success, it's no surprise to see a follow-up.

If you've waited this long in hopes that Samurai Shodown would add many PC-exclusive extras, you may be disappointed; this is largely the same game that appeared elsewhere. Still, Samurai Shodown's unique, defense-orientated gameplay make it a fighting game to check out for sword-swinging, blood-letting action. Sonic Mania is, for all intents and purposes, the true Sonic the Hedgehog 4, discounting the intensely mediocre, polygonal game that appeared last console generation.

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Onigiri is an enjoyable, highly customizable anime-meets-gaming experience that lets you mix it up with other online players. Despite its simple graphics and ho-hum music, Onigiri is worth checking out if you want to explore a virtual world that boasts thrilling combat and excellent voice acting. The arcade scene saw an explosion of side-scrolling beat 'em ups in the wake of 1987's groundbreaking—and money-generating—Double Dragon. Developer Capcom played a major role in the genre's skyrocketing popularity, thanks to a string of memorable releases that gave players the opportunity to team up with a friend to pound enemy forces into pulp.

It’s a curious mixture of Final Fantasy XIV and Diablo, and so far people seem to be enjoying it very much, if they can get into a Lost Ark server, that is. Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series has consistently been on the front lines of RPG immersion, giving you ever bigger and more elaborate realms to explore. The quantum strides made in Morrowind and Oblivion continue in Skyrim, which provides the most delicious perspective to date on this fascinating world over which you have almost complete control.