Delightful parody despotism with a superb soundtrack, some campaign missions with nice twists, and city building that demands careful and interesting balancing of resources and public approval.

Good customization, a simple and effective structure, and some nice features like the pet that fights by your side and sells items, it can start a bit easy, but gets the bite it needs to be fun

Professor Quadwrangle is an intriguing, lightly amusing personality to help you through the puzzle platforming that isn't always the deepest. Timing ends up almost as important as swapping dimensions.

Brimming with love for heavy metal music, Brutal Legend incorporates that fandom into every inch of its world, but the genre mishmash means no one type of gameplay ever really takes off

Gorgeous and with a well-written, captivating narrator, Bastion provides a feast for the senses and a good range of unique weapons. The combat could have used better foes to help it shine more though.

A mostly decent tower defense with a cute cartoon alien look, but the zapper starts to dominate play. Strategy is still important and special levels introduce good rules, but the ray gun is too much.

Similar to Binding of Isaac but less flexible, the dark tones and school-themed villains give it a nice flair but the dodgy rogue-like action is mostly about finding straightforward power upgrades

Delightfully devilish but not outright evil, this minion management game gets creative with its world, puzzles, and its combat while having fun humorous touches to round it out.

The rogue-like elements only prolong an experience with very little variety, but with good luck, you can go on a tear and see some of the interesting layers of hell despite the obnoxious bosses

Simple to understand but thrilling as the fighting picks up, One Finger Death Punch varies up the play well but inevitably gets a bit repetitive just because of how many levels there are