Miyoo Mini Plus Game List Review (2026): An 8/10 Curation

There is a category error baked into the phrase "Miyoo Mini Plus game list." It implies that somewhere — on a box, in a manual, on a publisher's landing page — there exists a sanctioned manifest of titles you are supposed to play on this device. There is not. The Miyoo Mini Plus ships with a stock interface that boots to a near-empty deck, and what fills that deck is whatever you, the operator, decide to drag onto a microSD card. The "game list" is not a product. It is a verb. You assemble it, and the assembling is the experience under review.

So this is a review of a thing that technically does not exist as a fixed object, which is exactly the kind of assignment that suits The Machine. We are not grading a curated playlist handed down by a marketing department. We are grading the ecosystem of lists — the firmware that makes them possible, the community spreadsheets that populate them, the canon that has calcified around the hardware, and the rare-import folklore that has grown up like moss on the device's reputation. Across roughly two years of community iteration, that ecosystem has matured into something with a recognizable spine. It has favorites. It has dogma. It has a rarest-games leaderboard argued over on YouTube. That is a library, even if no one signed off on it.

The Premise: A Console With No Game List

Start with what the box gives you, because it explains everything that follows. The Miyoo Mini Plus is a vertical-format handheld with a 3.5-inch screen, a D-pad, four face buttons, shoulder buttons, and Wi-Fi — the last of which is the single feature that separates the Plus from the original Mini and quietly reorganized the entire software story around it. Out of the box the stock firmware is functional and forgettable. It runs a handful of emulators, it looks utilitarian, and almost nobody who cares about a "game list" leaves it installed for more than an afternoon.

The reason is that the device's entire value proposition is downstream of custom firmware. The hardware is a vessel. The list — the thing being reviewed — is authored by third-party firmware, principally Onion OS and, more recently, Unox. According to the 2025–2026 community consensus, Onion OS reached version 2.6.1 in December 2025, and that single release is the closest thing the platform has to an official catalog. It enables playability for over 1,500 Super Nintendo titles and brings native ports of Diablo, Doom, and Quake onto the device for 2026. That is the library. There is no other.

This matters for how you read everything below. When a reviewer says "the Miyoo Mini Plus game list is excellent," what they are actually praising is the labor of a developer who goes by Onion, a constellation of community spreadsheet maintainers, and a few YouTubers who have appointed themselves curators of the rare and the strange. The device is the stage. The list is the performance. We grade the performance.

A note on tone before we proceed, because the genre demands it: I have read the breathless starter guides, watched the "TOP 5 RAREST GAMES" countdowns, and squinted at the PDFs. Much of it is useful. Some of it is the retro-handheld equivalent of a timeshare pitch. Where a claim is sturdy I will treat it as sturdy. Where a claim is a YouTuber's enthusiasm wearing a lab coat, I will say so. The point of a review is to tell you which is which.

Specs and the Shape of the Library

You cannot evaluate a game list without evaluating the constraints that shape it. A handheld's library is the intersection of what the silicon can emulate, what the controls can support, and what the storage and save architecture will tolerate. The Miyoo Mini Plus's library is the way it is because of these limits, not in spite of them. Below is the specification sheet that actually governs what ends up on your card.

Two rows in that table do more work than the rest. The first is controls: no analog stick, no second set of triggers. This is the silent editor of the entire library. Anything that needs twin-stick aiming, pressure-sensitive camera control, or four shoulder inputs is either compromised or excluded. It is why the canon skews toward 8-bit and 16-bit titles designed for a D-pad and two-to-four buttons, and why the PS1 layer — present, real, occasionally glorious — is forever an asterisk rather than a headline.

The second is the base list / extras list distinction, which the developer Onion formalized in December 2025. The base list is the device's comfort zone: Game Boy, SNES, GBA. The extras list is where you graft on the ambitious stuff — Sega CD, 32x, the PlayStation. Engadget's April 2026 starter guide framed this as the device "expanding beyond just Nintendo," and that is fair, but read the architecture honestly: the base list is what the hardware was born to do, and the extras list is what it was talked into doing. Both are real. Only one is reliable.

Onion OS 2.6.1 and Unox: The Firmware Is the List

If the game list is authored by firmware, then reviewing the list means reviewing the firmware that writes it. There are two authors in 2026, and they have different philosophies.

Onion OS is the establishment. Its 2.6.1 release of December 2025 is the version that the community treats as canonical, and the developer known as Onion — the project's lead — used that update to specifically optimize the SNES and GBA emulation cores for the Miyoo Mini Plus's hardware. That optimization is the reason the SNES library can credibly claim 1,500-plus playable titles rather than 1,500 titles that technically boot and then chug. The distinction between "in the database" and "actually plays well" is the whole ballgame on a constrained handheld, and 2.6.1's core work is what moved a large chunk of the SNES catalog from the former column to the latter.

Onion's design instinct is curation-by-structure: the base list / extras list split is a way of telling a new owner "start here, and only wander into the swamp once you know what you're doing." It is, frankly, the single most adult decision in the entire ecosystem, because it acknowledges that an unfiltered 1,500-game dump is not a library — it is a landfill with a search function. A list is a set of choices, and Onion OS bakes the first and most important choice (which systems are even visible) into the firmware.

Unox is the upstart, and it is where the 2026 story gets interesting and slightly suspect. The Unox firmware — community-cited at version 1.4.2, released February 2026 — is pitched as the path to native ports: Diablo and Quake running directly on the device without an emulation layer. A developer credited as Stephen, who operates as Mr. Stephen's Retro, confirmed in a June 2026 YouTube guide that Unox lets the device play standalone titles like Doom and Duke Nukem, and — this is the part that raises an eyebrow — that it is "online-capable for multiplayer" in 2026, leaning on the Plus's Wi-Fi.

Let me put on the lawyer hat the byline implies. "Online-capable multiplayer Doom on a sub-$100 handheld" is the kind of sentence that survives in a YouTube title and dies in a living room. The Wi-Fi hardware is real; the source ports are real; whether you will reliably frag a stranger over the internet from a Miyoo Mini Plus in any state worth describing as "multiplayer" is a claim I would want to watch happen before I'd underwrite it. Native ports running locally? Believable and excellent. Stable online deathmatch as a daily-driver feature? File under "impressive demo, manage expectations." The review verdict reflects that skepticism.

The practical upshot for list-building: Onion OS is the foundation you build the library on; Unox is the bolt-on for people who specifically want the id Software and Apogee corner of the catalog as native software rather than emulated ROMs. Most owners will run Onion and treat Unox as a specialist tool. That is the correct order of operations.

The Canon: A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, and the Usual Suspects

Every platform develops a canon — the short list of titles that show up in every recommendation thread until they stop being recommendations and become assumptions. The Miyoo Mini Plus's canon is so stable it is almost boring, and that stability is itself a kind of endorsement.

At the top sit two SNES role-playing landmarks. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is the most-cited top-tier favorite for the device in 2026, and it is the correct citation. It was designed for a D-pad and a handful of buttons, its overworld-and-dungeon loop is paced for portable sessions, and it asks nothing of the hardware that the hardware cannot give. It is, in the most literal sense, what this device was built to play. If a single cartridge could justify the existence of a handheld, it would be this one.

Beside it is Chrono Trigger, the Square RPG that the canon treats as untouchable. The active-time battle system, the New Game Plus structure, the multiple endings — all of it survives the transition to a small screen intact, and the active battles are forgiving of the brief, interrupted sessions a handheld actually gets played in. There is a reason it appears on essentially every "best games for the Miyoo Mini Plus" list ever published: it is a masterpiece that happens to be perfectly shaped for the device's constraints. The fit is not a coincidence; 16-bit JRPGs and small-screen handhelds are the same design language separated by thirty years.

The canon extends down a tier into the Game Boy Color era with the second-generation Pokémon games — Gold, Silver, and Crystal. The community singles out Pokémon Crystal as the most-recommended of the three for its enhanced features, and that is the right call: animated sprites, the Battle Tower, and a slate of refinements make it the definitive version of one of the most beloved generations in the series. These games were literally made for a handheld, which is the lowest-friction recommendation in the entire ecosystem — you are not approximating the original experience, you are reproducing it.

Then there is the Game Boy long tail, where the community's taste gets more interesting. The 8bitstick game list — a PDF originally from 2024 but maintained for 2025-into-2026 usage — pushes Final Fantasy Legend II and Final Fantasy Legend III (the localized SaGa games) as standard recommendations for new owners. This is the kind of pick that separates a real list from a clickbait list: these are not the obvious choices, they are the right choices for the hardware — deep, monochrome-friendly RPGs that reward the long, low-stakes sessions a pocket handheld invites. The 8bitstick list also champions Mario Kart: Super Circuit and Advance Wars on GBA as the depth-plus-accessibility picks, and on a device with no analog stick, Advance Wars in particular is a near-perfect fit: turn-based, grid-based, D-pad-native strategy that loses nothing on the small screen.

Historical context is worth a beat here, because the canon is not arbitrary — it is the verdict of three decades of criticism re-expressed as a microSD folder. As Hardcore Gaming 101 has documented across its archive, the SNES RPG library was the medium's first sustained argument that games could carry narrative weight, and Chrono Trigger and A Link to the Past sit near the center of that argument. The Miyoo canon is, in effect, HG101's greatest-hits list given a battery. When a starter guide tells you to load these games first, it is not making a discovery. It is ratifying a consensus that predates the hardware by a generation.

Native Ports: Doom, Quake, Diablo, Duke Nukem

Here is where the list stops being a museum and starts being a workshop. The native ports are the most technically impressive entries in the 2026 library, and they are also the ones most likely to be oversold. Both things are true at once.

Doom is the obvious flagship. It runs natively, it runs well, and it has run on everything from pregnancy tests to oscilloscopes, so a capable ARM handheld is hardly a stretch. On the Miyoo Mini Plus the experience is genuinely good within the obvious limit: there is no analog stick, so you are playing Doom the way Doom was actually played in 1993 — keyboard-style, with turning bound to the D-pad and no free-look. Purists will tell you this is correct. Modern players raised on twin-stick shooters will find it stiff. Both are right, and the device cannot reconcile them because the hardware made the choice for everyone.

The Digital Antiquarian's long-form history of id Software is the essential reading for understanding why these ports are the natural endpoint of the device's ambitions: Doom and Quake were built around portability of the engine itself — the source releases are why they run on a handheld at all thirty years later. The Miyoo library is, in part, a monument to the decision to open-source that code. You are not playing a hack; you are playing a descendant.

Quake via Unox 1.4.2 is the more demanding native port, and it is the one where the control deficit bites hardest. Quake's whole identity is mouselook and the freedom of true 3D movement; on a D-pad it becomes a tank-controls experience that is playable, atmospheric, and slightly archaeological. As a tech demonstration — "this little thing runs Quake natively" — it is a delight. As a way to actually play Quake the way it deserves, it is a compromise you accept for the novelty and the portability.

Diablo as a native port is the most quietly remarkable of the set, because Diablo's point-and-click design is far more hostile to a D-pad than a first-person shooter is — the whole game assumes a cursor. The native port is a real achievement and a real awkwardness simultaneously, and your mileage will depend entirely on how much you value "Diablo, in my pocket, on a plane" over "Diablo, the way it controls best." Duke Nukem rounds out the FPS corner and behaves much like Doom: native, characterful, and constrained by the missing stick.

The honest framing of the native-ports tier is this: it is the most exciting sentence in any Miyoo Mini Plus review and the most caveated experience in any honest one. The ports work. The lack of a second analog input means the genre they belong to — the 3D shooter, the cursor-driven action-RPG — is the genre the hardware is worst suited to control. The list includes them because it can. You should play them because they are remarkable, not because they are the best way to experience those games. That tension is exactly why the device earns an 8 and not a 9.

The Rarities: Star Ocean Blue Sphere and the Import Shelf

No retro-handheld library is complete without its folklore — the rare and the strange that exist less to be played than to be possessed. The Miyoo Mini Plus community has a well-developed version of this, crystallized in a March 2026 video titled "TOP 5 RAREST GAMES" from a creator going by MiyooMiniPlusFan. The leaderboard from that video has become a minor canon of its own.

At number one sits Star Ocean: Blue Sphere, a Game Boy Color entry in the Star Ocean series that never received an official Western release and is treated as a high-value import for collectors using the device in 2026. This is the rarity that justifies the whole category: a fully-realized console-tier RPG squeezed onto Game Boy Color hardware, historically locked behind a language barrier and a regional release, now trivially loadable onto a handheld that fits in a coat pocket. The device collapses the import-collector's decades-long quest into a file transfer. There is something both wonderful and slightly deflating about that — the scarcity that gave the game its mystique evaporates the moment it is one ROM among hundreds.

The rest of the leaderboard trades in the same currency. Far After (Game Boy Color) was ranked third-rarest, the kind of obscurity that circulates through community "Rarest Games" lists precisely because almost no one has played it. 2021 Moon Escape (Game Boy) was flagged as a rare import whose title references its original release year — a piece of trivia that the video treats as a feature. And Green Memories (GBA) was highlighted not as an import but as a homebrew title praised for its artistic ambition, available through community repositories.

Here The Machine must editorialize, because the genre is built on a sleight of hand. "Rarest games" is a meaningful phrase for physical collectors, where scarcity is real and expensive. On a device whose entire premise is that you supply the software, "rarest" is a vibe, not a constraint — a ROM is exactly as available as any other ROM. The MiyooMiniPlusFan leaderboard is best understood as a taste recommendation dressed as a treasure hunt: the value of Star Ocean: Blue Sphere on this device is that it is good and historically interesting, not that it is hard to get, because on this device nothing is hard to get. The homebrew entry, Green Memories, is the most intellectually honest pick of the bunch, because homebrew genuinely is the corner of the library where individual titles still have authorship, scarcity, and a story you cannot get anywhere else. If you chase one item off that list, chase the homebrew.

How the Library Stacks Against Peer Lists

A review needs context, and the right comparison for a Miyoo Mini Plus "game list" is not other hardware — it is other curated libraries in the same handheld-emulation genre. The question an owner actually asks is: how does the list I can build here compare to the list I could build on a peer device or a peer firmware? Below, the Miyoo Mini Plus's Onion-curated library against four comparable curated-library experiences.

The comparison clarifies the Miyoo Mini Plus's actual position. It does not win on raw horsepower; an Anbernic-class device with an analog stick and more silicon will out-emulate it into the N64, Dreamcast, and PSP tiers, and will control the 3D library the Miyoo can only approximate. What the Miyoo Mini Plus wins on is curation maturity. The base/extras structure, the calcified canon, the active-list discipline — that is the most thought-through library in the category, and on a device whose whole value is the list, the thinking is the product.

Against its own predecessor, the original Mini, the Plus's only library-relevant advantage is Wi-Fi, which exists almost entirely to enable Unox's online ambitions and over-the-air list management. If you do not care about the native-port online layer, the two devices offer functionally the same game list. Against the bottom of the market — the all-in-one preloaded sticks promising 10,000 games — there is no contest, and the contrast is instructive: those devices prove that a big number is not a library. A library is 1,500 titles with a structure telling you which 30 to load first. That is what Onion OS provides and what the landfill devices never will.

Five Ways It Actually Plays

A list is only as good as the sessions it produces. Here is how the 2026 Miyoo Mini Plus library performs across five real-world player profiles. The differences between them are large, and pretending otherwise is how reviews mislead.

1. The Casual Player (commute, couch, idle ten minutes). This is the profile the device and its canon were built for, and it is where the list is flatly excellent. Boot the base list, load A Link to the Past or Pokémon Crystal or a Game Boy SaGa game, lean on save states for the interruptions real life imposes, and the experience is close to perfect. Short sessions, instant resume, a screen sized for your hands, a control scheme that asks nothing you can't give. For the casual player there is no meaningful gap between the Miyoo Mini Plus library and the platonic ideal of a retro handheld. 9/10 for this profile.

2. The Completionist (every ending, every secret, 80-hour RPGs). The completionist is also well served, with one structural caveat: saves are card-local and cloud-less. There is no sync. If your microSD card fails — and microSD cards fail — your 60-hour Chrono Trigger save with every charm and the New Game Plus runs goes with it. The library content is ideal for completionism (the SNES and GBA RPG catalog is a completionist's dream), but the save architecture is a single point of failure that the disciplined completionist must mitigate with manual backups. Content: 9/10. Save safety: 5/10. Net: a strong recommendation with a stern footnote.

3. The Speedrunner. This is the profile where I urge caution, and where most reviews go quiet because the answer is unglamorous. Emulation on a constrained handheld introduces input latency and, depending on the core, timing variance that competitive speedrunning treats as disqualifying. The Miyoo Mini Plus is a wonderful device to practice a route on or to mess around with for fun runs. It is not a device to set a leaderboard time on, and you should not pretend the optimized 2.6.1 cores change that — "optimized for the hardware" means "plays well," not "frame-accurate to original silicon." For casual speed-fun: fine. For serious runs: use original hardware or a verified-accuracy setup. 4/10 for serious speedrunning.

4. The Co-op / Multiplayer Player. Here the device's headline 2026 feature collides with its physical reality. Unox 1.4.2 and the Plus's Wi-Fi enable the idea of online multiplayer Doom, and Mr. Stephen's Retro's June 2026 guide promotes it. But this is a single-screen, single-pad handheld. There is no second controller, no split-screen worth the name on a 3.5-inch panel, and the online-multiplayer claim is the least-proven assertion in the entire research record. Treat co-op as an experimental novelty, not a feature you buy the device for. If shared play is your priority, this is the wrong handheld. 3/10, generously.

5. The Mobile / Pocket Player (airports, trains, the back seat). This is the device's second-best profile after the casual player, and arguably its true purpose. It is genuinely pocketable, the battery handles a long flight, and the offline, card-local design that hurts the completionist's save safety is a virtue here — no connectivity required, no account, no dependency on anything but the device and the card. The native ports earn their keep in this profile specifically: Doom and Diablo on a plane, no internet, no friction, is exactly the kind of small luxury the device delivers better than almost anything else its size. 9/10 for mobile.

Who Should Build Which List

The single most useful thing a Miyoo Mini Plus review can do is stop describing the library in the abstract and tell specific people what to actually put on the card. Here are the use-case recommendations, each tied to a concrete list-building strategy.

1. The lapsed 16-bit fan returning after 25 years. Build the pure base list and nothing else. A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, the SNES first-party canon, plus Pokémon Crystal on the Game Boy Color side. Ignore the extras list entirely for the first month. This is the highest-satisfaction, lowest-frustration configuration the device offers, and it is the one I recommend by default to the largest number of people.
2. The RPG long-hauler. Center the card on the SaGa/Final Fantasy Legend trilogy on Game Boy, the SNES RPG shelf, and Star Ocean: Blue Sphere from the rarities list. This is a hundreds-of-hours configuration. Pair it with a strict manual save-backup habit, because the save architecture is the weak link and the long-hauler has the most to lose.
3. The id Software pilgrim. This is the one owner who should install Unox 1.4.2 day one. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem as native ports, with Diablo for variety. Go in understanding the control compromise — no analog, D-pad turning — and you will be delighted by the novelty and forgiving of the stiffness. Do not buy the device primarily for online multiplayer; buy it for native single-player ports in your pocket.
4. The strategy and puzzle player. Advance Wars and Mario Kart: Super Circuit from the 8bitstick list, plus the SNES and GBA turn-based and puzzle catalog. The no-analog hardware is a non-issue here — these genres were built for a D-pad — making this one of the highest-fit, lowest-caveat configurations available. An underrated way to use the device.
5. The curio collector and homebrew explorer. Lean into the extras list and the community repositories. Green Memories (GBA homebrew), Far After, 2021 Moon Escape, and the rest of the MiyooMiniPlusFan leaderboard. Understand that you are collecting taste, not scarcity — but the homebrew corner in particular offers genuinely unique work you cannot experience anywhere else, and it is the most rewarding place for a curious owner to spend an evening.
6. The gift-giver buying for a non-technical recipient. Pre-build the base list, lock it to base-only, and hand over a device that simply works. The base/extras structure exists precisely so you can do this. Do not hand someone an unfiltered 1,500-game dump and call it a present; that is a chore wearing a bow.

Pricing and Availability

The Machine does not invent prices, and the research record here is about the library rather than retail figures, so this section reports availability and value framing rather than fabricated MSRPs. Where a specific number is not part of the verified record, you will see that stated plainly rather than guessed.

On value, the secondary commentary is worth quoting. Polygon, in its May 2026 piece "Is The Miyoo Mini Plus Still Worth It in 2026?", grounded the device's continued relevance in its ability to run PlayStation 1 games like Final Fantasy IX and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater via the Onion firmware. I would temper that framing the same way I tempered the native ports: PS1 is the ceiling, not the floor. Final Fantasy IX is turn-based and well-suited; Tony Hawk's Pro Skater wants analog control the device does not have and is therefore a "plays, with compromise" entry rather than a showcase. Polygon is right that PS1 capability is part of the 2026 value story. It is the asterisked part.

The honest pricing verdict: the firmware and the library are free, the hardware is cheap, and the real cost is a good microSD card and the time you spend curating. The value proposition is excellent precisely because the expensive parts — the software, the curation labor — are donated by a community. You are buying a vessel and pouring in a free library. That is the deal, and it is a good one.

On legality, since the byline knows the law: the firmware is community software and free to use. The games are not. The entire ecosystem operates on the premise that you supply your own legally-obtained ROMs, and "the device can play 1,500 SNES titles" is a statement about capability, not a license to acquire them. Dump your own carts, or stick to homebrew and freely-distributed titles. The Machine is not your lawyer, but The Machine has read enough takedown notices to recommend you not learn this lesson the hard way.

Pros, Cons, and the Things Nobody Admits

Every honest review reaches the part where it stops being polite. Here is the balance sheet for the Miyoo Mini Plus game-list experience as it stands in 2026.

Pros:

• The 2D library is, for practical purposes, complete. 1,500-plus SNES titles plus the Game Boy, GBC, and GBA catalogs covers the overwhelming majority of what made these eras great.
• Onion OS 2.6.1's base/extras structure is the most mature curation framework in the budget-handheld category. It turns a ROM dump into a library.
• The canon is reliable. A Link to the Past, Chrono Trigger, Pokémon Crystal, the SaGa games — these are not gambles, they are guarantees.
• Native ports (Doom, Quake, Diablo, Duke Nukem) are a genuine technical delight and a unique selling point in the pocket-handheld space.
• The firmware is free and actively developed; the value-per-dollar is hard to beat.
• Excellent for the two profiles that matter most: the casual player and the mobile player.

Cons:

• No analog stick and no second triggers. This is the permanent ceiling. Every 3D game and every cursor-driven game is a compromise, full stop.
• Saves are card-local with no cloud sync. A failed microSD card is a deleted save file, and the device does nothing to protect you from that.
• The PS1 layer is real but variable — a ceiling, not a foundation. Treat it as a bonus, not a pillar.
• The "online multiplayer" claim around Unox is the least-substantiated item in the 2026 record and should be treated as experimental until proven otherwise.
• The "rarest games" framing is taste cosplaying as scarcity. Good recommendations, dubious mythology.

The things nobody admits: First, that a "1,500 game library" is a marketing number, not a play number — you will seriously play perhaps thirty of them, and the value of the firmware is that it helps you find those thirty. Second, that the device's greatest strength (it plays the 2D canon flawlessly) is inseparable from its greatest weakness (it was never going to play the 3D canon well, because the controls foreclosed it before you opened the box). And third, that most of the "game list" content online is the same dozen recommendations recycled with different thumbnails. The canon is real. The churn around it is mostly noise.

The Verdict

The Miyoo Mini Plus game list is not a product, and judging it as one would be a mistake. It is a community-authored library, written primarily by Onion OS 2.6.1 and supplemented by Unox 1.4.2, populated by a calcified canon and a folklore of rarities, and shaped at every turn by a control scheme that decided long ago what this device would be good at. What it is good at, it is extraordinarily good at. The 2D library — the SNES and Game Boy lineages that taught the medium how to tell stories and structure a long game — runs here as well as it runs anywhere you can fit in a pocket, and the base/extras curation framework is genuinely the best-thought-out library structure in its price class.

What it is not good at, it cannot fix, because the missing analog stick is not a software problem. The native ports are a marvel to demonstrate and a compromise to play. The PS1 ceiling is real but asterisked. The online-multiplayer story is a YouTube headline waiting for living-room confirmation. And the "rarest games" mythology is charming taste-making that should not be mistaken for the treasure hunt it cosplays as.

So: build the base list, load the canon, keep a backup of your saves, install Unox only if you are an id Software pilgrim, and ignore anyone selling you a 1,500-game library as though you will play a 1,500-game library. Do that, and the Miyoo Mini Plus delivers one of the best curated 2D retro experiences available at any size or price. Approach it expecting a 3D powerhouse or a multiplayer machine, and it will disappoint you in exactly the ways the spec sheet predicted.

Rating: 8/10. Two points off — one for the control ceiling that permanently caps the 3D and cursor-driven catalog, and one for the save architecture and the over-promised online layer. An excellent 2D library wearing a few honest limits, ratified by thirty years of criticism and assembled by a community that, for once, did the curation right.