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PRODIGIOUS OFFSPRING • SONS OF THE FOREST rewrites the Early Access survival narrative
Highs & Lows
PORT CONTROL • A string of crappy PC PORTS in recent years have PC gamers on edge
ALL-TIME LOWS • A quick tour of the worst ports in PC history
HELPING HANDS • Charities championing accessibility in games
ACCESS ANYTHING • HARRIET FRAYLING on accessibility in games, and helping developers to improve it
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
MEET THE CREW • Who’ll be your best pal?
TIME LINE • How it all goes down
SPACE TIME • The life of a Starfleet officer
SHINING BRIGHT • HONKAI: STAR RAIL is the new game in the HoYoverse, which looks to be smartly evolving miHoYo’s Genshin Impact megahit.
GACHA GROUPIES • The whole reason you’re here
THE HISTORY OF GOD GAMES • A small genre that leaves an almighty footprint
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This month’s magical reviewers…
WANDS UP • HOGWARTS LEGACY is the best Potter game yet, but a hard one to get excited about
HOGWARTS HISTORY • Reviewing old Harry Potter games based on 20-year-old memories
GUIDING HANDS • Your two closest confidants at Hogwarts
DECK COMPATIBLE • Should you play it on a Steam deck?
DEAD STRANGE • Not everyone will want to read WANTED: DEAD’s love letter to 2000s action games
LIKE A DRAGON…? • Wanted: Dead’s Yakuza-like minigames—they’re not good
EASTWORLD • ATOMIC HEART is a beautiful, flawed, and deeply weird Soviet Westworld
SHOCK FACTOR • The chaotic pulse of Atomic Heart
ATOMIC PARTS • This is how we roll in Soviet dystopia
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS • Get to know your subcommander advisors
CLUB MED • COMPANY OF HEROES 3 is a fantastic RTS with a main campaign that just doesn’t work
COMPANY MEN • The factions you’ll be playing with
LOVE IS COMPLICATED • Ishin turns a brothel visit into a minigame
SLASH FICTION • LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! transforms Yakuza into a period drama
FEELING LUCKY? • Kyo is a gambler’s paradise
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 • Vomit-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
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