This free-to-play has some inspired aesthetics but otherwise feels like a full embrace of pay-to-win design.

This battle royale's genre-bending ideas are sound but they need some more room to breathe.

This multiplayer game has a solid sense of self but is woefully monetized to intentionally keep matches unbalanced.

This auto-battler is a goofy, casual, and fun time so long as you don't take it too seriously.

This bite-sized arcade game succeeds in part because of its reasonable free-to-play model.

PAKO 3 ditches almost everything about the previous entries that gave it some edge and personality. Now it just feels like it could be called Drivey Cars Game.

This streamlined version of Rocket League is both fun in its own right and completely free of cynical monetization schemes.

You shouldn't play Bloodshore until it gets patched. Even if you do, it's a somewhat middling experience that buries its most fascinating bits along its margins.

This puzzle game keeps things chill and manageable in all of its fun diorama-based levels.

This physics puzzler starts out as a sweet surprise but grows stale the further you get into it.