The team at CD Projekt Red recently introduced BANDAR SOCCER updates for The Witcher 1 and 2 that run on Apple Silicon, and they’ve done a good job with the Mac version of Cyberpunk 2077 too. They say that it will run even on Macs with a basic M1 processor – although the bad news is that you will need macOS 15.5 and at least 16GB of memory to run it properly (and there’s no support for Intel Macs either). It’s been a few years since Cyberpunk 2077 was released for PCs, but at least that allowed the developers to fix all the technical problems, and they’ve done an impressive job adapting it for the latest Apple Silicon Macs. The game’s vast open world creates a great sense of freedom as you explore Night City, and decide how to cope with having Keanu Reeves inside your brain.

An eight-year labor of love for cinematographer turned game developer Tonda Ros, Blue Prince is a puzzle adventure inspired by Christopher Manson’s 1984 puzzle book Maze—with Manson even providing some of Prince’s artwork. Also blending strategy and roguelike elements, the game tasks you with exploring the 45 rooms of an ever-shifting manor, hoping to eventually find your way to a hidden 46th room. The latest indie from the duo of Josef Martinovsky and Christopher Andreasson (Post Void) combines adventure, RPG, roguelike, and management gameplay with pixel-art graphics and an open world.

Donkey Kong’s universe is different from previous Kong games, especially the giant, wrinkled Elders who preside over subworlds like spirits, granting extra transformation powers. Technically, this isn’t a true collaborative co-op game, but there’s a mode where Pauline — a young girl who mysteriously fell from the sky and becomes Donkey Kong’s friend — can throw her voice, literally, at things to destroy them. A second player takes over as Pauline and aims and shoots words at enemies, and can absorb material powers from nearby rocks and objects. It’s more engaging than the hat-throwing co-op in Odyssey. The story’s weird, but what Mario (or Nintendo) game isn’t? Donkey Kong’s world has been threatened by a sinister bunch of apes, after a large meteor knocks a mining company deep into the planet’s core.

Also available for PC, this blend of anime-style visual novel with tactical RPG elements comes from Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka and Zero Escape veteran Kotaro Uchikoshi and follows a Japanese high schooler whose neighborhood is invaded by fantastical monsters. Suddenly, he finds himself transported to a school in the middle of nowhere, where he and 14 other students must spend the next 100 days defending the campus against the monstrous invaders. When you aren’t busy fighting them off, spend time exploring the wilderness surrounding the school and bonding with your fellow students.

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This may be from the 3D Mario team, but Bananza regularly pays respects to all of DK history and, at times, feels like a modern follow-up to Rare’s golden era from the SNES and N64. Even the friendly rocks with googly eyes look as if they were plucked right from Banjo-Kazooie. We know how crucial it is to find trustworthy sources for game reviews. That’s why we’ve found some top gaming sites that are reliable and have proven themselves over time. This open-world – or rather, open-worlds – action game features a level of gunbattles and broken promises befitting the legend that is Chewbacca’s best mate. However, Star Wars Outlaws essentially delivers a Han Solo-like experience in both good and bad ways; it has some handsome looks and a strong sense of adventure, but it’s also somewhat scruffy around the edges and is liable to let you down from time to time.

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Here’s where Bananza really starts to feel like a lower-key Zelda game, especially when it comes to finding characters and following sub-missions. You can talk to lots of the strange characters in each sublevel, and some share important news. You’ll get directed to a particular goal, and on a 3D map, you can track your progress or warp to other spots.

I had to, though, so I could carve enough time out to play. We’re going to backtrack and play again, and he’ll start playing, too. Will Bananza feel as replayable and infinitely fun as many of Nintendo’s best?

The main game starts when V is sent on a mission to steal a prototype chip called the Relic, but then ends up with the Relic implanted inside his own head instead. And it turns out that the chip stores the digital personality of a dead anti-corporate rockstar called Johnny Silverhand (played by Keanu Reeves). And yes, this game is worth getting a Switch 2 for — that was the idea all along. It’s nice to see that Nintendo really pulled it off, though. Combined with Mario Kart World, this is a heck of a one-two punch.