Merry mid-October all! It’s chucking it down here. This week I’m mostly playing a game of my own devising called There’s A Hole In My Raincoat And I Can’t Find It. The Maw is unlikely to be sated by such flotsam, so it’s just as well there are also a bunch of new PC games on the cards. Please run your eyes over them while I experiment with putting my coat over a lightbulb again.
On Monday 14th October, embrace the permadeath potential of bonzai windmills in minigolf roguelite Up To Par. On Tuesday 15th October, grow yourself a colony of faeriefolk in Elven City Simulator, butcher Celtic myths in action-RPG Drova: Forsaken King, and befriend a wolf in wistful platformer Neva. On Wednesday 16th October, nothing will happen. Nothing whatsoever – not even the mocking motion of the eternal wind across the bones of our once-noble civilisations as they crumble to filaments and the sun falls hopelessly beneath the scoured horizon and reemerges on Thursday 17th October, when there is a new Mechwarrior game, and also Sniper Killer, in which you play both the titular shooter murderer and a detective trying to catch them. And finally, on Friday 18th October, there’s Limb. It’s a horror game where you speak to see.
These are just my highlights, as ever. Your highlights may differ. Come, let us pit our highlights against each other in gruelling deckbuildery turn-based combat. Beware, though, that I may play a “Steal” card and pinch any games you suggest for our news liveblog, below. Have a fine week.
Bithell Games have annouced Tron: Catalyst, a roguelikey top-down action game based on the 80s sci-fi film. You will: bounce a cyber frisbee off people, ride a lightcycle, and make changes to the world that persist from loop to loop. Eurogamer hath the skinny.
The Spirit Of The Samurai is a gloomy dark fantasy samurai action-platformer with graphics inspired by stop-motion film. It’s coming to PC on 12th December.
In gamejam oddity Creature Packets, you grow critters in the microwave. Ta Warpdoor.
Lessing says: Steam Next Fest is this week too, yeah?
It is indeed – brace for the return of Wishlisted.
Evidence mounts that an Until Dawn sequel is in the offing.
Open world feudal Japanese village manager Sengoku Dynasty hits 1.0 on 7th November.
The Suicide Of Rachel Foster – “a decent enough first person explorey mystery along the lines of Firewatch or Gone Home, but, you know, not as good as either of those”, according to Alice B (RPS in peace) – is getting a sequel, The Fading Of Nicole Wilson.
MONDAY ATTEMPTS A FLANKING MANOEUVRE
I’m not sure I even have any flanks to flank, this early in the week. FEED THE MAW.