A great concept brought down by an inconsistent tone, hit-or-miss improv troupe humor, and despite its short runtime, bloat. There's a reason a Monty Python sketch was only a few minutes long. Imagine if you had to listen to the lumberjack song for 6 hours but while you're listening the Mounties were giving you a lecture about the dangers of collectivization.

Some of the most torturously derivative gameplay and exploration fraught with overambition. The game is held up by one of the best stories told with the best ensemble cast in video games so far. If the game was 10ish hours shorter it could've been one of the best.

Exodus digs its heels with its mediocre combat and laughable stealth but the effective qualities still shine through to demonstrate the brutality of Metro's world. What makes this one worth your time are the characters. Exodus is written very maturely and with humanity. Worth your time.

A genuine elevation of the medium. I'd be surprised if I played a better game from 2022.

Really bad

Couldn't tell you a single thing that happened. Played it twice.

David Cage is one of the worst things to happen to video games in the 21st century. The way he writes his stories is a plague.

Well and truly one of the most overrated video games ever. A repetitive slog with clunky, outdated shooting. The story it's trying to tell is SY-FY channel-esque. The atmosphere it tries to build is mostly successful but not really original.

Still don't really understand why this one is so universally beloved. The centerpiece relationship is fine but nothing we've never seen before. It's a shame that a talented studio is probably headed toward an inevitable demise under a really bad publisher. I hope they gave the writers a raise so they could buy their way out of making more awful star wars games.

Awful in almost every way, but I love it for whatever reason. The seriously out-of-touch dialogue and silly plot are charming enough I suppose.

A complete failure in every possible creative avenue. A compilation of everything wrong with over-eager pretentious video game design. Why you don't let a bloated egoist auteur run amuck with infinite money and autonomy. There's a reason he had a publisher.