Threshold is the latest psychological horror title from publisher, CRITICAL REFLEX. As you start your first day on the job at the Border Post, you’ll start to explore and work alongside Mo, your co-worker. While your job is merely needing to keep the train going, you start to realize there is far more going on.

With heavily details stages, slick animations, and a host of intentionally familiar characters, Rage of Dragons became a bit of a cult hit, especially as it originally started out as a new entry in the Double Dragon series. 

Slitterhead has you ghost jumping from body to body as you attempt to kill a city’s worth of grotesque monsters in the process. While combat can function well enough, and the story does get somewhat interesting, a time travel gimmick brings alongside a lot of repeated mission design that really drags the whole experience down.

Awaken: Astral Blade has you hack and slashing through countless abominations as Tania, a Bionic female warrior tasked with a mission. However, as she digs deeper into its mystery, she finds answers that will change her forever.

Echoes of Wisdom is Nintendo’s first debut for a Zelda-led title, allowing the titular Princess to flex her creative muscle to save the Kingdom. While it can at times be charming, it lacks anything memorable in its foundation apart from the brief moments of joy you’ll get from using a few of its clever echoes.

While this collection introduces players to the games that helped spawn Metal Slug, it lacks the bonus content that could honor those games and the teams that built them, especially given the quality of other collections as of late.

SlavicPunk: Old Timer is a sci-fi isometric twin-stick shooter about a private investigator named Janus. As a mission falls into his lap from an old flame. Janus will content with not only those looking to gun him down, but his own personal demons that haunt his every step.

Vertigo Games may be new to the Metro lifestyle, but they pull it off with a confidence that really shows through. The VR touches to bring the series to VR are masterfully handled with only the occasional VR jank issue rearing its ugly head.

Metal Slug Tactics takes all the charm and appeal of the running and gunning classic and crafts a superb tactics experience around it. With incredible pixel art and character art, the game shines in both gameplay and visuals. While it may lack in some variety from run to run, the appeal of unlocking new characters and new weapons keeps the loop engaging.

A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead left me with a tension-filled quietness even when not playing it and that’s all you can really ask for from a good horror game. As a fan of the movie series, I certainly recommend this as a must play.

Shadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered is barely a remaster and feels more like a definitive edition port of a game that wasn’t great to begin with. As Garcia Hotspur enters Hell to save his beloved, he’s enter a world full of dick jokes, bland combat, and boring design.

Phasmophobia has arrived on Xbox Series X/S and PS5. This masterclass in co-op horror is still under Early Access/Game Preview, but the spooks are solid and the game has launched in a good state. If you’ve been dying to play this, now’s the time!