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“SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE IS THE BIGGEST NEW GAME OF THE YEAR”

The PC Gamer team

IMPERFECTLY BALANCED • Arrowhead says HELLDIVERS 2 balancing patches have ‘gone too far’

Highs & Lows

STACKED DECK • MONSTER TRAIN was a hit, but did that make releasing a new game any easier?

SOMETHING CLICKED • Unavowed developer DAVE GILBERT on the art of designing point-and-click games

KILLING FLOOR 3 • Tripwire Interactive’s creature feature is back

SCREENBOUND • How a 5D platformer went viral two months into development

UNDERSPACE • Big, weird space adventures and Freelancer nostalgia? Yes please!

THE FOREVER WINTER • A scavenger trying to survive in a war between mechs

TEST DRIVE UNLIMITED SOLAR CROWN • Testing out Test Drive before it drives into testing territory

SONOKUNI • Time-bending sudden death from Japan

THY KINGDOM COME • SHADOW OF THE ERDTREE is the culmination of decades of FromSoftware RPGs, and a gargantuan finale for ELDEN RING

30 YEARS OF FANTASY • FromSoftware has used sword & sorcery again and again as the basis for RPGs

FAR REACHING • Twenty years ago, FAR CRY changed the landscape of PC gaming forever.

TIMELINE • Tracing Far Cry’s sequels and spiritual successors

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GALAXY QUEST • HOMEWORLD 3 is a flashy, ambitious RTS, but some of the original magic is missing

LEAN OFFERING • MOTOGP 24 fights off franchise fatigue with new rider market and steward systems

NECKS LEVEL • The twilight at the end of V RISING’s Early Access tunnel

PLOD OF WAR • SENUA’S SAGA: HELLBLADE 2 fails to find a new path for its hero

NUNBELIEVABLE • Starring a Russian Orthodox nun, INDIKA takes a lot of risks, but mostly succeeds

WAR SOMETIMES CHANGES • MEN OF WAR II will scratch an itch for those who like their strategy mechanically dense

SPELLBOUND • GLOBEBA is a great Zelda-like with an awful name

TRISTRAM SHANDY • Delegate Diablo in TRISTRAM

THE WRIT CROWD • Warring with woodland folk in card game THE ROYAL WRIT

MANIAC MANSION • Reliving the dark history of Derceto Manor in the original ALONE IN THE DARK

KUNAI, MONSTER • The savage rhythm action of SEKIRO: SHADOWS DIE TWICE

GHOST NOTES • Saxes and spectral apparitions in BLACKWELL UNBOUND

“You have to restart two or three times before you know how to play it” • Finally acquainting myself with RPG history in DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN ENHANCED EDITION

“He dies in a hail of gibbed body parts” • UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004 is still a god-tier shooter

“I want them to wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night” • The mental gymnastics of ROCKET LEAGUE keep me coming back for more

“When life gives you knuckledusters, it’s rude not to use them” • Becoming a brutal and murderous crime fighter in GUARDS!

HELLDIVERS 2 • Loot treadmill.

FALLOUT SHOW MODS • Modders let you bring the TV show into your Fallout games.

BUILD YOUR FIRST TOWN IN MANOR LORDS • Become the veritable lord of...