Videogame index: B
| Title | Genre | Rating | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baba Is You | Logic Puzzle | 7.7 | Interesting Sokoban-esque puzzler based around manipulating the rules of the level |
| Babbdi | First-Person Exploration | 7.0 | Surreal walking sim set in a desolate brutalist town |
| Bad Mojo Redux ★ | Adventure | 8.6 | Insanely atmospheric, FMV-laden surreal adventure game where you play as a cockroach. The steam version has some issues on modern hardware. |
| Baldi's Basics Plus | Horror / Parody | 6.4 | Inexplicably popular Horror maze-game parodying late 90s edutainment games |
| Balloon Fight | Platformer | 5.1 | One of the less well remembered NES launch titles, and with good reason |
| Barotrauma | Submarine Simulation | 7.7 | Pilot a submarine through the hostile waters of Europa, a moon of Jupiter. Lots of fun in co-op. |
| BattleBlock Theater | Puzzle-Platformer | 8.2 | By the makers of Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers |
| Bayonetta | Spectacle Fighter | 6.7 | Stylish combat and eclectic design bogged down by quicktime events and frustrating platforming sections. |
| Bayonetta 2 ★ | Spectacle Fighter | 9.0 | Fixes most of the original's flaws and ends up being one of the best games on the platform |
| Beacon | Roguelite Top-Down Shooter | 6.2 | A bit like Synthetik, if it was painfully mediocre and unengaging. |
| Beautiful Mystic Survivors | Top-Down Shooter | 5.4 | Supremely uninteresting and generic Anime/Fantasy-themed Vampire Survivors clone. |
| Beckett | Experimental Adventure game | 6.1 | Pretentious art game bogwash with a few interesting sections |
| The Beginner's Guide | Experimental Exploration game | 8.2 | By the makers of The Stanley Parable. Weird postmodern meta-fuckery, but actually manages to bring its point across without going too far up its own ass. Bonus points for how much it pisses some people off. |
| Be Not Afraid A.K.A. Seraphim's Horror Show!? | Experimental Microgame compilation | 5.7 | Genuinely weird with a unique visual style, but the gameplay's too terrible to recommend |
| Berserk Mode | Roguelite Retro-FPS | 6.9 | Notable for its strong melee-focus |
| Besiege | Physics Sandbox | 7.2 | Construct bizarre vehicles to take down a variety of medieval fortifications |
| Betrayal at Club Low | Adventure / CRPG | 8.0 | Surreal, dialogue-focused comedy-RPG about infiltrating a nightclub |
| Beyond Crimson Stars | Exploration | 6.9 | Another surreal walking sim. Wildly inconsistent, but with some really good bits, especially when it lets loose and fully embraces chaos. |
| The Binding of Isaac | Roguelite Top-Down Shooter | 8.1 | Still just one step removed from a flash game at this point. Already pretty fun, but there's really no point to playing this version over Rebirth. |
| The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth ★ | Roguelite Top-Down Shooter | 9.4 | The king of Roguelites. Unmatched in terms of content and run variety. |
| BioShock ★ | First-Person Shooter | 9.3 | Top-notch presentation and writing make up for light deficiencies on the gameplay front |
| BioShock 2 ★ | First-Person Shooter | 8.6 | Generally seen as a step-down, mainly due to the weaker story. Still very good though. |
| BioShock Infinite | First-Person Shooter | 7.7 | The flawed and pretentious story and heavily streamlined gameplay make this one the weakest entry in the franchise, despite the stellar environment design |
| BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend | One-on-One Fighter | 7.7 | |
| BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend | One-on-One Fighter | 7.9 | |
| BlazBlue: Centralfiction | One-on-One Fighter | 7.8 | |
| Bleed | Action-Platformer | 7.2 | Megaman-esque level design coupled with John Woo-inspired slo-mo gunplay. |
| Blood ★ | Retro-FPS | 9.6 | May be my personal favourite FPS ever made. Can be unreasonably difficult at times, but makes up for it with unmatched level and weapon design. |
| Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night | Metroidvania | 8.1 | A castlevania game in all but name |
| Bloons TD 4 | Tower Defense | 8.3 | |
| Bloons TD 5 | Tower Defense | 8.4 | |
| Boa Retina | Narrative | 4.5 | Short narrative-focused experimental art game about transgenderism. |
| Boneraiser Minions ★ | Top-Down Roguelite Action-RPG | 9.0 | Play as a necromancer raising an army of minions to take down waves of enemies. Lots of fun, with plenty of run variety. |
| Borderlands | First-Person Shooter | 5.6 | Features less of the wacky humor the series became (in)famous for. Too repetitive for single player. |
| Borderlands 2 | First-Person Shooter | 7.7 | Takes BL1's foundation and adds more variety. Overall pretty fun, especially in co-op. The writing's an acquired taste however. |
| Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel | First-Person Shooter | 6.7 | Basically just BL2 with a less interesting overworld |
| Borderlands 3 | First-Person Shooter | 6.5 | The best gameplay in the series, coupled with some of the most god-awful writing I've ever seen |
| Boson X | Platformer | 5.1 | |
| BPM: Bullets Per Minute | Roguelite Rhythm-FPS | 5.2 | Interesting concept, shame about the music, presentation, gameplay and just about everything else |
| Brave Dungeon | JRPG / Dungeon Crawler | 7.4 | Simplistic, but decently enjoyable |
| Brigador ★ | Isometric Shooter | 9.1 | Semi-tactical mech-based shooter with top marks in presentation, writing and gameplay |
| Brigand: Oaxaca | Immersive Sim / FPS-RPG | 7.0 | Bizarre, overly difficult jankfest that rightfully became a bit of a cult-classic |
| Bringris | Block Puzzler | 7.0 | Non-euclidean tetris by the maker of HyperRogue |
| BRKÖUT | Breakout-clone | 4.2 | |
| Broforce ★ | Action-Platformer | 8.6 | Challenging and humorous, with fully destructible environments. Turns into a hilarious chaotic mess with multiple players. |
| Broken Core | Action-Platformer | 5.0 | Clunky and amateurish |
| Broken Reality | Exploration / First-Person Platfomer | 8.2 | Vaporwave-themed walking sim with light adventure elements. Nice presentation and atmosphere. |
| Brotato | Top-Down Shooter | 8.1 | Obviously inspired by Vampire Survivors. Extremely simplistic presentation and gameplay, but great build variety. |
| Brütal Legend | Open-World Hack 'n Slash / Real-Time Strategy | 7.8 | An odd genre-fusion held together with a strong heavy metal aesthetic. Deeply flawed, but enjoyable all the same. |
| BulletGarden | Vertical Shoot 'em Up | 7.2 | Mostly notable for the varied and bizarre weapon roster |
| BulletStorm | First-Person Shooter | 3.3 | Similarly terrible writing as Borderlands 3, but doesn't even have fun gameplay to make up for it |
| Bunker Punks | Roguelite Retro-FPS | 6.8 | Pretty bare-bones, almost to the point of feeling unfinished |
| Burnout Paradise | Open-World Arcade Racer | 7.5 | Enjoyable, but suffers from a fair bit of repetition |
| Butcher | Action-Platformer | 4.7 | |
| Bytepath | Asteroids-clone | 8.6 | Roguelite-influenced, with a massive upgrade tree |