Mark Delaney
GameSpot's guides editor. I also write news, reviews, features, and long Instagram posts about why I love Circa Survive so much. Catch me most often covering horror, sports, Fortnite, and interesting indies.
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Chernobylite is one of the most inconsistent games I can recall ever playing, with fantastic highs and frustrating lows, leading to someplace in between.
Variable State rejects one-hit-wonder status with its long-awaited follow-up, Last Stop, a game that feels equal parts arthouse and blockbuster.
Where The Heart Leads is a unique game that chronicles a family's entire life together, spanning generations and decades. It's ambitious, albeit flawed, but certainly interesting.
Watch Dogs: Legion Bloodline brings familiar faces to new places, and if you can stand the tonal in-fighting, it's a worthwhile, occasionally daring story-driven adventure.
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure wonderfully recontextualizes the video game sandbox as a wholesome call to action.
Whereas so many modern indie horror games can feel like on-rails haunted hayrides, Song of Horror keeps players on their toes.
Though it shows its age in spots, Mass Effect is still as mesmerizing today as it ever was. The Legendary Edition is a fully-featured revival of one of gaming's greatest stories.
MLB The Show is now multiplatform, so more players can see what makes it one of the best annual sports sims in the world.
Telling a gut-punch of a story with novel gameplay mechanics is no small feat, and Before Your Eyes marvelously delivers on both fronts.
It Takes Two is the culmination of a decade of novel co op gaming ideas, and that makes it one of 2021's best games no matter what else comes out.
For a game that's all about finding closure in our lives, Maquette makes it exceptionally difficult to get to its end credits.
The Medium is less survival-horror and more adventure-horror like the studio's past games, but so long as Bloober Team is still refining this style, the team is clearly getting better.
CriticDB tracks 133 Mark Delaney reviews, averaging 69/100. See the score distribution and their highest & lowest rated games below, or browse every Mark Delaney score in the Reviews tab.
Mark Delaney score distribution
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- 80–8936
- 70–7941
- 60–6919
- 50–598
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