Is it worth it?
Game verdicts
Every game I have given a straight verdict on, rated out of five and ranked. No fluff, just whether it is worth your time and why. Tap a column to sort.
| Game | Rating | Verdict | Videos | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Dead Redemption 2 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 5.0 | Red Dead Redemption 2 is worth it in 2026 for the single-player, even if you came up on twitchy shooters, because the slowness is deliberate and it clicks once you treat Chapter 1 as a runway, switch on the cinematic camera, and keep the survival systems light. | 38 | 23 |
| Ghost Recon Breakpoint | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, on PC, Ghost Recon Breakpoint is worth it with mods in 2026 if you let the community finish the game Ubisoft shipped, because the Spartan Protocol stack I run is a different shooter from the vanilla one. Console stays on Immersive Mode and AI teammates, the install is its own hobby, and I would not buy a second copy just because I liked a SCAR-L. | 514 | 286 |
| Assassin's Creed | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced is worth it if you loved the series before it became an RPG, or you never played the original, because the 9 July 2026 remake in the latest Anvil engine is genuinely brilliant and it pulled me back to a series I had walked away from. The catch is sixty dollars for a rebuild of a 2013 game, so I would buy it if the money is comfortable and wait for a sale if it is not. | 74 | 29 |
| Watch Dogs 2 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, Watch Dogs 2 is absolutely worth it in 2026, and on a sale it is dirt cheap, because the bright playful San Francisco turns hacking into a toy with no forced grind, and I have over 200 videos on the city from long before the price made it fashionable again. The gunplay is the dated part, so I would hand it to you as a stealth and hacking sandbox rather than as a shooter you came to for the rifles. | 202 | 60 |
| GTA 5 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, GTA 5 is still worth it in 2026, thirteen years on, because Los Santos still holds up, the three-character story is still the one I come back to, and it is a cheap warm-up before GTA 6 on 19 November, unless you have already played it into the ground. | 35 | 15 |
| hitman | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, Hitman: World of Assassination is worth it in 2026, and Freelancer alone justifies the buy if you live in extraction loops and permadeath stakes, because it turns every map from Hitman 1, 2 and 3 into a roguelike where failure costs the gear you packed and half your Merces. Buy it on a sale if the budget is tight, and do not expect an offline mode. | · | · |
| Far Cry 5 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, Far Cry 5 is still worth it in 2026, and it is still the Far Cry I actually launch when I want Hope County, a bow, and a free roam I can ignore the story marker for. The story runs roughly twenty hours and keeps interrupting, the cult is grim, the county is the draw, and I am at four and a half out of five. | 211 | 64 |
| arc-raiders | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, ARC Raiders is worth it in 2026 if a bit of PvP does not put you off, because it is the friendliest and most polished door into extraction even for a PvE-leaning solo player, and it is still PvPvE, so other players can end the run. | · | · |
| Ready or Not | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, Ready or Not is worth it in 2026 if you want slow, deliberate, by-the-book tactical play, because it is a finished cross-platform shooter with years of DLC behind it, and it plays brilliantly solo once you learn to command the AI. | 20 | 6 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.5 | Yes, Cyberpunk 2077 is worth it in 2026 if you like solo, story-driven open-world RPGs, because after the 2.0 overhaul and Phantom Liberty it is finally the game it was sold as, and Project Orion is still years off in pre-production. People who wanted a tight extraction loop, with no menus and no slow-burn talk, will still bounce off Night City. | 22 | 12 |
| STALKER 2 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, if you already like the Zone, because Cost of Hope is the paid story expansion that landed with free Update 2.0 on 20 August, and I treated it as free roam rather than a campaign recap, so you buy it for Iron Forest and the plant and you skip it if you only wanted the free patch. | 42 | 12 |
| Ghost Recon Wildlands | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, if you already like Wildlands or you want a free excuse to go back to Bolivia, because Last Rites is a free 25th anniversary mission update rather than a new game or paid DLC, and I finished it before I decided the evening was worth it. | 14 | 20 |
| ground-branch | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, Ground Branch is worth it in 2026 if you want slow tactical solo or co-op against AI, because the 1.0 gunplay and the AI overhaul are the best the game has been, and the campaign that arrived on 16 July is only two missions. Buy it for that sandbox rather than for a finished story, since the rest of the chapters are still on the 2026 and 2027 roadmap. | · | · |
| road-to-vostok | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Road to Vostok is worth it if you have ever wanted a Tarkov-style extraction game with the other players stripped out, because it is single-player, offline, and has no PvP, built almost entirely by one Finnish developer. It hit Early Access in April 2026 to a Very Positive reception, and the catch is that you are backing a work in progress, which is why I am rating it four out of five with that asterisk still on it. | · | · |
| Incursion Red River | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, Incursion Red River is worth it in 2026 if you want an extraction shooter with no PvP at all, just you or a squad against the AI, and you can live with early access roughness after the campaign and economy update. I keep recommending it because the only threat is the AI and the map, and I would still rather play this unfinished than a polished lobby I hate. | 32 | 10 |
| vein | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | VEIN is worth the asking price in 2026 if you like slow rural zombie survival and an AI that can see, hear, feel and smell you, though you are buying a promising Early Access foundation rather than a finished game, since Ramjet estimate about five years to feature-complete. | · | · |
| Sniper Ghost Warrior | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts is worth it in 2026 if you want a focused solo stealth sniper and you can find it on sale, because the shot, the wind and the contract loop are the point and the story is only a frame. It is a four out of five from me, with the missing point sitting in the scope rather than the quality of the rifle work. | 20 | 11 |
| Mad Max | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, Mad Max is worth it in 2026, a quietly excellent solo open-world game with the best car combat in the genre and a wasteland that earns the word atmospheric, and it is one of the most underrated buys you can still make. | 6 | 2 |
| helldivers-2 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, Helldivers 2 is still worth it in 2026 even from this chair, at about £34.99 with no subscription, because the live-service recovered and you can play the co-op shooter alone, though it is not balanced for you, and I am giving it four out of five with that in mind. | · | · |
| Far Cry 6 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Far Cry 6 is worth it in 2026 if you want a big, polished open-world shooter and you do not mind more of the same, and it is less essential if you wanted the series to change. Yara and the Resolver arsenal are the reasons I still wander it, the checklist is the reason it stays a four out of five, and I would wait for a sale if you are burned out. | 23 | 9 |
| Gray Zone Warfare | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Gray Zone Warfare is worth it in 2026 if you want a slow, solo-capable extraction shooter and you can live with early access, because the solo PvE loop on Lamang is still the best I have found after the bugs and the bag the plumbing deleted. | 79 | 47 |
| Mafia | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, Mafia: The Old Country is worth it if you want a short, linear, story-first crime game in Sicily and you are happy to be led, which is the point of it rather than a sandbox you author yourself. Hangar 13 built it tight on purpose, Free Ride is a bonus after the credits, and anyone counting value in raw hours will find it too on-rails. | 14 | 4 |
| Days Gone | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 4.0 | Yes, Days Gone is worth it in 2026 if you like solo survival, and I would buy the 2025 Remaster rather than the launch build people wrote off, even though the early hours are slow and the bike stays fiddly until you upgrade it. A biker, a bike and a horde of freakers across Oregon are still why I defend it. | 126 | 84 |
| Watch Dogs | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Yes, with your eyes open, the original Watch Dogs is worth it in 2026, because it is the grittiest and most serious game in the trilogy, its Chicago still feels lived-in, and the hacking sandbox holds up even though the story is flat and Aiden Pearce is dull. I would buy it for the world and the systems rather than the writing, usually once the price has fallen off the full roughly 18 pounds. | 82 | 28 |
| arena-breakout-infinite | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Yes, Arena Breakout Infinite is worth installing in 2026, because it is free, it looks fantastic, and a permanent PvE mode is arriving so solo players finally have a raid without other people in it. The catches are the hardcore difficulty and the usual free-to-play store, and neither of them costs you anything to find out about. | · | · |
| delta-force | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Delta Force is free, so worth it means worth your time and storage, and from a solo and PvE angle it is a weak fit because the Black Hawk Down campaign is squad-tuned and Operations is PvPvE, even though the shooting is good and the monetisation is cosmetic. | · | · |
| the-forever-winter | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Yes, on sale, The Forever Winter is worth a punt in 2026 if you want a rough, atmospheric, soloable PvE extraction shooter and you can live with Early Access, now that the real-time water timer is gone. I am calling it 3.5 out of 5, Mostly Positive overall and Mixed across the last 30 days, and I would not pretend the thing is finished. | · | · |
| Just Cause 4 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Just Cause 4 is worth it on a deep sale if explosions are the point, because the grapple, wingsuit and parachute are the best traversal toys in the genre, and the missions and the technical reputation are the weight tied to that sandbox. | 84 | 19 |
| Operator | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Operator is worth it if you want the punishment, because in my runs it is the hardest realistic shooter I have loaded on Steam, and that brutality is the appeal, while anyone who wants to relax or feel powerful should run a mile. | 7 | 1 |
| Watch Dogs: Legion | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Watch Dogs Legion is worth it on a sale if you want a near-future London to cause trouble in, because the play-as-anyone hook is more fun to mess about with than it is to take seriously, and the sandbox is generous even where the writing is thin. | 33 | 16 |
| Better Than Dead | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Better Than Dead is the bodycam shooter I would actually point you at on Steam right now, because the Hong Kong revenge loop still has weight once the fisheye stops being the whole trick. It has been in Early Access since 12 May 2026, it is short and brutal rather than finished, and I am calling it three and a half out of five. | 6 | 1 |
| no-mans-home | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | No Man's Home is the solo mercenary sim I would tell you to stop sleeping on, a 3.5 with Far Cry 2 grit, STALKER atmosphere and an extraction loop, and the AI rework is what made my runs genuinely dangerous without another player in the lobby. | · | · |
| the-division-2 | ★★★★★ ★★★★★ 3.5 | Yes, The Division 2 is still worth it in 2026 if you love deep PvE and build-crafting, three and a half out of five from me, because Year 8 Rise Up added fresh endgame in April and the early hours are still the dated bit I would not sell you. | · | · |
Average across the board: 4.0 / 5. Ratings are my own read after proper time with each game, on the channel.
Head to head
Torn between two? See them side by side.
Gray Zone Warfare vs Incursion Red River Gray Zone Warfare vs Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Incursion Red River vs Tom Clancy's The Division 2 Gray Zone Warfare vs Ready or Not Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint vs Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands Ready or Not vs Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint OPERATOR vs Gray Zone Warfare Far Cry 5 vs Far Cry 6 Far Cry 5 vs Far Cry New Dawn Watch Dogs 2 vs Watch Dogs: Legion Just Cause 3 vs Just Cause 4 Grand Theft Auto V vs Red Dead Redemption 2 Cyberpunk 2077 vs Red Dead Redemption 2 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl vs Days Gone VEIN vs Better Than Dead ARC Raiders vs Marathon Gray Zone Warfare vs ARC Raiders Gray Zone Warfare vs Delta Force Road to Vostok vs Gray Zone Warfare