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What the Car?

What the Car? hits Steam, and it's still one of the best games you'll play this year

Triband Games has done it again.

What the Car? is a celebration of gaming through pure creativity, unfettered by the trappings of narrative logic.

Devindra Hardawar
09.06.2024
Astro Bot

Astro Bot PS5 review: One of the best games Sony has ever made

The mascot's first AAA outing is a delightful success.

Astro Bot highlights the importance of play. It’s Super Mario Bros. for a new generation of video game fanatics, at once an introduction to common video game mechanics and also a significant challenge for seasoned players.

Jessica Conditt
09.05.2024
Thank Goodness You're Here!

Thank Goodness You’re Here is a vibrant, funny, unashamedly silly game

I'd watch this if it was a TV series.

Thank Goodness You’re Here is a vibrant, silly game based in the fictional northern-England town called Barnsworth, which is definitely 80 percent Barnsley, 20 percent plausible deniability. It's also actually, truly, funny.

Mat Smith
09.02.2024

Features and previews

Nintendo Switch review: Revolutionary, but it still needs work

Nintendo Switch 2: Everything we know about the coming release

It could be officially announced later this month.

Here’s everything we know about the Nintendo Switch 2. It could be officially announced any day now.

Lawrence Bonk
09.11.2024
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom plays like a traditional Zelda game, remixed

The huge variety of echoes at your disposal means there are lots of ways to solve a puzzle.

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is the first game in the Zelda series that lets you play as the game's namesake, and it feels well-suited to younger and older players alike.

Nathan Ingraham
09.04.2024
Sony Concord

Concord aside, PlayStation is having a great year

The hero shooter crashed and burned, but Sony's gaming division still has a lot going for it.

By all accounts, Concord looks like a painful failure for Sony. However, that flop aside, PlayStation is quietly having a great year overall.

Kris Holt
09.03.2024
The Crush House

How The Crush House turns procedural generation into social manipulation

The Crush House still surprises its creator, even after years of development.

The Crush House was a jumble of random dialogue and code for a long time before its procedural generation systems had enough information to produce a rational, powerful experience.

Jessica Conditt
08.22.2024

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Paper Trail

The best puzzle games for 2024

From relaxing to challenging, these puzzle games for iPhone, Android, Steam and others will get your brain working.

These are the best puzzle games you can play right now, as chosen by Engadget editors.

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The best PS5 games

The best PS5 games for 2024: Top PlayStation titles to play right now

Load up your console with these excellent games.

Here are the best games you can get for the PlayStation 5 right now, as chosen by Engadget editors.

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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

The best horror games to play in 2024

These spooky, scary games will wake you up with some serious terror.

Are you tired of feeling safe and happy all the time? Do you want an escape from all of the oppressive niceness around you? Here, we’ve collected more than a dozen of the most evocative and disturbing horror games in recent memory.

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The best Playdate games

The best Playdate games for 2024

Puzzles, platformers, shoot ‘em ups, dungeon crawlers and high score chasers too strange to categorize.

Here are some of the best games available on the Playdate Catalog. That includes puzzles, platformers, shoot ‘em ups, dungeon crawlers and high score chasers too strange to categorize.

Cheyenne MacDonald
The best daily online games

The best online games and puzzles you can play daily in 2024

Challenge yourself and have fun each day with these games that are not all simply Wordle clones.

These are the best daily online games like Wordle you can play right now, as chosen by Engadget editors.

Kris Holt
The best Netflix games

The best Netflix games for 2024

Netflix subscribers have access to a treasure trove of great mobile titles.

These are the best Netflix games you can play right now, as chosen by Engadget editors.

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