gunplay across branching paths and more than 10 unique levels packed with enemies, bosses, secrets, and even arena-style combat sections reminiscent of the All-Range Mode from the Star Fox series.

First - the obvious. Duskfade is gorgeous. The artists who made it clearly worked overtime, as every environment looks resolutely stunning and full of color. The animation work is also tremendous and makes this look and feel like the work of a major developer and not a small studio releasing their first title.

AI is notoriously bad, kind of sloppy, and also a bit dumb, but not in Morbid Metal as you play as the last AI created by an all-powerful and kind of bossy entity known as the Operator, a being who aggressively sasses you the whole time, instructing you to take down the rogue AIs that inhabit this mysterious collapsing simulation.

Romeo is a Dead Man is a third-person action game first and foremost, but saying it's JUST an action game would be selling it short. In what might be Grasshopper Manufacture’s most ambitious release to date, players should go into this game with an open mind.

Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound calls back to the series’ beginnings, not only in how it looks but in how it plays. With gameplay once again taking place on a 2D plane, you’ll slice and dice your way through an endless slew of adversaries on a quest to seal away a clan of demons who managed to bust through a mystical barrier and now threaten to put an end to humanity.