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“FORMER TELLTALE DEVS ARE CONTINUING THAT STORIED LEGACY”
PRODIGIOUS OFFSPRING • SONS OF THE FOREST rewrites the Early Access survival narrative
SECRET CRYPTO-MINE
DOTA CHEATERS TRAPPED
CORSAIR RMX SHIFT
Highs & Lows
The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?
This month in… 2013
PORT CONTROL • A string of crappy PC PORTS in recent years have PC gamers on edge
ACCESS ANYTHING • HARRIET FRAYLING on accessibility in games, and helping developers to improve it
Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY
REDFALL • Arkane’s co-op vampire shooter feels pale and drained
SONS OF THE FOREST • The Early Access survival game that gives you a friend to play with
PACIFIC DRIVE • The star of this is your quirky customisable car
DUNGEONS 4 • Rule the underworld with a floating iron fist
AGE OF WONDERS 4 • Living my best life as an evil froggy wizard
CAPTAIN’S LOG • STAR TREK: RESURGENCE is more game, but not like we know it, captain
SHINING BRIGHT • HONKAI: STAR RAIL is the new game in the HoYoverse, which looks to be smartly evolving miHoYo’s Genshin Impact megahit.
THE HISTORY OF GOD GAMES • A small genre that leaves an almighty footprint
Mixed signals
This month’s magical reviewers…
WANDS UP • HOGWARTS LEGACY is the best Potter game yet, but a hard one to get excited about
QI TO THE KINGDOMS • WO LONG redefines the action RPG with spectacle and depth
DEEP THOUGHTS • LABYRINTH OF GALLERIA is a dizzyingly deep dungeon-crawl from Disgaea’s devs
EASTWORLD • ATOMIC HEART is a beautiful, flawed, and deeply weird Soviet Westworld
BULLET LIMBO • RETURNAL is a roguelike shooter at war with its own identity
CLUB MED • COMPANY OF HEROES 3 is a fantastic RTS with a main campaign that just doesn’t work
DEAD STRANGE • Not everyone will want to read WANTED: DEAD’S love letter to 2000s action games
SLASH FICTION • LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! transforms Yakuza into a period drama
CITY LIMITS • Explore a bleak, brutalist city in BABBDI
NIGHTMARE FUEL • You snooze you ooze in FEET IN THE SNOW
EYE EYE • Finding hidden depths in platformer STEREOGRAM
NIGHTMARE GALLEY • Sick-seared fish and comradeship in SEA OF THIEVES
BONE IDOL • DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2: the weirdest RPG
PILL BEHAVIOUR • Turning trauma into a game mechanic in FRAN BOW
RTX 40-SERIES GRAPHICS CARDS • Nvidia’s high end RTX 40-series graphics cards offer impressive performance, at a price.
CHARACTER BUFFS • Tiny changes that make PC gaming healthier
OUTSOURCED CODE • Why writers and game devs are worried about CHAT GPT
BUYER’S GUIDE • Build the best PC for your budget
“We should be asking for more variety in our open worlds” • SHERLOCK HOLMES: CHAPTER ONE is a vision of the untapped potential of the genre
“I explode another SinTEK goon’s head” • Revelling in SIN
“I grab the downed soldier’s weapon and start firing on his colleagues” • HITMAN 3’S Freelancer mode taught me I’m not as good as I think
“I couldn’t shake the impulse to inspect every nook and cranny”...