REVIEW The series that once languished in Call of Duty's shadow now has all the juice.

ROUND TRIP Balls to the wall chaos.

PIT STOP Plenty of personality, but not enough depth to keep you hooked.

D&D beatdown Following in the bootsteps of Golden Axe and Castle Crashers, Absolum places the beat 'em up in a gorgeous fantasy setting.

never alone A cinematic horror with a hypnotically disturbing atmosphere, but with too few new ideas.

Hat-trick Truly the beautiful game, but it makes plenty of unforced errors

godlike A killer roguelike action RPG with satisfying layers of creativity.

Return By remake attested, by port revealed, their tale can now be told (on PC).

Never Climbed Everything's open world now, even QWOP.

Good omen There are too many red spider lilies for this to end well.