Video Game Reviews

“El Hijo: A Wild West Tale” (HandyGames) tells a charming and beautiful story centered on love.

The whole fabric of space and chronology having been ripped open by villains, the stakes are high in “Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time” (Activision).

The whimsical farming simulator game “Harvest Moon: One World” (Natsume) adds to a franchise that reaches back to 2007. Full of innocent fun, its engaging quests and magical adventures make it an entertaining title.

The third-person action role-playing game “Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Earthblood” (Nacon) provides the limited thrills to be derived from playing as a supernatural creature.

Given that “Concrete Genie” (Sony) won the Gamescom award for Best Family Game, parents will find little in it to concern them.

With “Bowser’s Fury” — an updated expansion of 2013’s “Super Mario 3D World” — the company has scored another family-friendly hit.

Set in 1897, the horror adventure game “Close to the Sun” (Wired Productions) reimagines history and the real-life feud between two great pioneers of technology: Nikola Tesla (voice of Jannik Archer) and Thomas Edison.

The latest iteration of a franchise that’s now more than 20 years old, “Hitman 3” (IO Interactive) finds its protagonist, an assassin known only as Agent 47 (voice of David Bateson), working to dismantle a secret organization and avenge himself against his former employers.