There were a heck of a lot of games showcased at today’s Guerrilla Collective Festival, from huge announcements like the early access release date for Baldur’s Gate 3 to dozens of new indie games like the Monster Hunter-esque Almighty Kill Your Gods and Gonner 2. So here’s a complete list of what went down. Whether you’re here for a quite digest or just need a reminder of that cool trailer you liked, here’s every game announcement from today’s Guerrilla Collective stream.

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The PC Gaming Show is happening right now as I type this, bringing a steady couple of hours of new PC games, new trailers, and plenty of other announcements. Vidbuds Matthew and Colm are currently pouring it into their heads in preparation for a post-show reaction stream. You can hop below to watch the show itself and hang around afterwards for their expert analysis.

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I’ve just invented a new dance move. It’s called the Squatting Witch. You grasp an imaginary ladle, and stir it slowly around an invisible cauldron while doing squats in time to the music. It’s my second best move after the Driving Crab, where you curl your fingers over a pretend steering wheel and steer left and right while scuttling from side to side. My hosts, who’ve been inventing their own moves for months, are well impressed, and congratulate me on my ingenuity. But we can’t muck about dancing all day, there’s work to be done. So I straighten out, compose myself and, after the rest of the crash team count me down from ten, take a running jump off a balcony and slam-dunk a human heart into a bin.

I am, of course, playing Surgeon Simulator 2. And it’s quite the thing.

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Once again, we likely have Stardew Valley to thank for taking the tough row to hoe by clearing fertile ground for farm and town simulators on PC. Story Of Seasons: Friends Of Mineral Town—a remake of the Harvest Moon game from 2003 with the same subtitle—was first announced last summer for the Nintendo Switch. This summer, Xseed Games have announced that the remake is blooming on PC as well, ripe enough to harvest on July 14th.

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Honestly, readers, it is only my obligation to you (and also a vague sense that Graham might tell me off) that I haven’t dropped everything immediately to go and play Among Trees. It’s a gorgeous survival sandbox game set in a lush, lovely evergreen forest full of mists and bears, I’ve been desperate for it since it was first teased almost two years back, and the PC Gaming Show just casually revealed that it’s out in early access on the Epic Games Store right now. And then they moved on to another game. Like it was just nothing> to reveal that to me.

Feast your eyes on the darling launch trailer below.

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Mafia: Definitive Edition

looks a bit nice. The remake of the 2002 open world crime ’em up was announced with an extremely brief trailer a few weeks ago, but it was unclear exactly how remade it would be. A new trailer today makes clear that the answer is: a lot. It’s a ground-up recreation, and the screenshot above gives a sense of the graphical upgrade.

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With no warning, Torchlight 3 launched into early access today. The action-RPG brings a whole heap more monsters to click on into they burst in a shower of coins and trousers. Torchlight 3 grew out of Torchlight Frontiers, which was to be a free-to-play persistent online game until they realised people didn’t want that. Sounds like it’s having some launch server issues, mind, which are everyone’s problems because it’s currently online-only.

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We’re all friends here, readers. As such, you know that I like me a creepsome horror game or two, which is why I was keen to have at the demo for In Sound Mind, a new game of just this sort shown today at the PC Gaming Show. I say creepsome horror, of course, with the caveat that what I played was very much a work in progress, and could entirely change by release. So maybe by the time it comes out, In Sound Mind will be a cute farming sim.

It seems unlikely though, since this comes from the admirably named We Create Stuff, who were the folks behind the popular Nightmare House 2 mod for Half-Life 2. Fans of that mod, indeed, will find some familiarity in In Sound Mind: you wake up in a dark, run-down basement with only hazy memories of what happened to you, first-person your way around with a torch, and encounter obstacles which you then remove with tools. Also there are monsters.

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Here’s another charming—er, brewing—simulation for ya. Potion shop management game Potionomics has concocted a new gameplay trailer to announce Voracious Games’ partnership with publisher Xseed Games. The new trailer shows off a card-based haggling system, a complex brewing menu, and some of the many flamboyant customers you’ll meet.

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Carto

has been in the works for a while, but it’s on the final stretch now, as developers Sunhead Games announced an autumn 2020 launch, and slipped a new trailer into place next to the river, allowing us to… okay I should probably explain this one first.

It’s a puzzle game in which the land underneath you is made of large tiles. You play as Carto, a cute little explorer with the power to rearrange those tiles, which opens up new paths to help you get home, and helping out lots of people along the way.

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