An alien medieval planet, colossi to climb, and death as your working partner.

When the community picks on gut feeling, with no criterion, Death's Gambit only edges out 10% of games. That's low. And the criterion-by-criterion detail tells a more nuanced story. On few votes, the feel with a controller in hand puts it right around the middle of the pack, and so does its soundtrack. But ask which game you'd take to a desert island and it drops ahead of just 8% of titles, with raw fun barely better. Connection, though, climbs back up, ahead of a third of games. There's the tension: nobody packs it, nobody fires it up for laughs, yet those who finished it clearly kept something. To be confirmed, the vote counts are still thin on every line.

In the family of demanding side-view action-RPGs, that profile is familiar: the genre asks for endurance before it hands over affection. Games cut from the same cloth often live this curve, admired from a distance, loved by a minority.

So, who's it for? For you if you like difficulty you have to earn, bosses that force you to rethink your approach, and a fully committed dark aesthetic. Much less so if you're after the game you launch without thinking on a Sunday night.