Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)

Want a revamped Mario Kart but don’t have a Switch? Then Crash Team Racing will sate your craving for a multiplayer kart racing game with great physics, awesome controls, and varying challenge levels. While it may get tough against the later bosses, the overall package is enough to warrant getting more than one controller for those times you want to socialize over kart shenanigans.

-Mr Toffee

Devotion

Without revealing too much, this Taiwanese-made horror game mixes up the mundane setting of Taiwan with contortions of dread and darkness. The game’s story about a man trying to piece his family back together takes a twisted, haunted, and complex. It would be worth the price of admission were it still on sale on Steam; alas it won’t be coming back onto digital shelves anytime soon. 

-Mr Toffee

Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One)

Better than Destiny 2. Just below Warframe in the loot-and-shoot department. Give props to Ubisoft for at least taking a dystopian America scenario and making it gun-savvy and actually friggin’ tough to complete even on regular difficulty thanks to super-smart no-nonsense AI.

-Mr Toffee

Rage 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox 360)

Hey, until Doom Eternal comes out, this is the best we can do right now to get your shooter jollies filled up in a jiffy. It currently has the best shotgun in a shooter by far, anyway, and the game’s plethora of side missions and unlockable territory is worth the long-ass trek. Almost.

-Mr Toffee

Cadence of Hyrule (Switch)

Music is the weapon, or in this case, it’s you with your sword moving to the bass of the song being said object of destruction. Cadence of Hyrule tweaks down the action RPG roguelike difficulty of Crypt of the Necromancer, bumps up the open-world map, makes the art style and Zelda tune remixes stand out, and ensures you still keep most of your stuff if you die.

In other words, more of the roguelike fun, less of the stress. You could play it hardcore once you finish it, so fans of that past game can still get their sadomasochistic jollies.

-Mr Toffee

Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night

While my previous review did slag it off as a spiritual successor to Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and nothing more, that’s actually a good thing. If you’d rather see a prettier version of that without digging through your CD collection for that PS1 classic, you should at least part with your money just to support Koji Igarashi and his team’s effort in making an arguably better version of his masterpiece.

With tons of weapons and gear you can craft via alchemy, fun-if-familiar powerups that make traversal through the giant-ass Bloodstained castle pretty fun, and challenging boss fights against Bloodless and Zangetsu, this massive nod is still worth a look since there are no other throwbacks like it this year.

-Mr Toffee

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