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Otto Mankitap Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences. When we award the Otto Mankitap Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun — and worth fitting into your schedule. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch.

Reviews

Humanity’s solutions are more triumphant than its puzzles

The more people, the better

By Jacob Geller

Tabletop Games

Votes for Women, one of the year’s best board games, belongs in a museum

Fort Circle Games elevates the battle for women’s suffrage

By Charlie Hall

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom changes the conversation

By Mike Mahardy May 11

Metal Gear Solid 5 mashes up with Spelunky for one of 2023’s most rewarding roguelikes

By Steven Nguyen Scaife April 30

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 says goodbye to a Marvel that may not exist anymore

By Joshua Rivera April 28

Rusted Moss is Hollow Knight with a bungee cord

By Russ Frushtick April 27

Evil Dead Rise is a movie for sickos by sickos

By Rafael Motamayor April 21

Advance Wars’ slick reboot makes 20 years of trouble melt away

By Michael McWhertor April 19

The Pope’s Exorcist teases 199 sequels and I would watch every single one of them

By Austen Goslin April 18

The Mageseeker lets you beat up League of Legends’ oppressive elite

By Cass Marshall April 15

Total War: Warhammer 3’s Chaos Dwarfs turned me into Succession’s Roy family

By Mike Mahardy April 12

How to Blow Up a Pipeline: A perfect blend of radical politics and heist-movie thrills

By Otto Tap April 7

Dredge invents and perfects the fishing-horror genre

By Nicole Carpenter April 5

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is way better than it needed to be

By Grayson Morley April 3

Fist of the Condor: part Bruce Lee, part Rambo, part Sergio Leone, all Marko Zaror

By Otto Tap April 3

MLB The Show 23 will make every baseball fan fall in love with the game again

By Owen S. Good March 29

Tchia stands on the shoulders of Zelda — then leaps off

By Nicole Carpenter March 20

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is everything a D&D fan could want

By Rafael Motamayor March 11

Is Patch Quest a roguelike, Metroidvania, bullet hell, or Pokémon-like? Yes

By Johnny Yu March 11

Dead Cells’ Return to Castlevania DLC is joyous roguelike fan service

By Russ Frushtick March 6

Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty brings Sekiro’s combat to a mesmerizing new world

By Khee Hoon Chan March 2

Company of Heroes 3 propels real-time strategy past the real-time part

By Mike Mahardy February 20

Wild Hearts combines Monster Hunter and Death Stranding into one excellent RPG

By Diego Nicolás Argüello February 13

In Metroid Dread, Samus is an action hero — in Metroid Prime, she’s a scientist

By Grayson Morley February 9

Pizza Tower is paradise for Wario freaks

By Patrick Gill February 9

Hitman’s new mode transforms it into one of the best roguelikes ever

By Mike Mahardy February 1

Hi-Fi Rush arrived at the perfect time

By Diego Nicolás Argüello January 27

The Dead Space remake changes all the right things

By Michael McWhertor January 26

Season: A Letter to the Future is one of the best games I’ve played in years

By Natalie Flores January 26

Persona 4 Golden has a totally different spirit than Persona 5

By Diego Nicolás Argüello January 17

Persona 3 Portable is messy, weird, and lovable on modern platforms

By Chelsea Stark January 17

Fire Emblem Engage does what so many tactics games can’t

By Mike Mahardy January 17

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s DMZ mode is (almost) too good to be free

By Charlie Hall January 13

The Steam Deck works so much better with this kickstand

By Nicole Carpenter December 14, 2023

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