The first E3 I’ve ever had to pay attention to is upon us, except sort of not because it’s all irregular and online. I am lost.

But what’s this? It is The Iron Oath, a pretty turn-based tactical RPG that promises dynamic campaigns and a world your little mercenary company can change over time as they go around it killing people. I suppose that’d do something> one way or the other, right?

I missed this somehow when it first popped up. But Curious Panda Games have promised a new trailer, and a demo next week.

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I could use a lot of words and phrases to describe Master Spy that, when I read them in a game’s description, tend to put me off. Retro. “Hardcore”. Brutal. Platformer. Balaclava.

And yet I enjoyed it so much that I almost pitched a review a few years back. It’s tough, for sure, and I don’t think it’s the most approachable stealth platformer, but it feels fair. It doesn’t waste your time. If it had come out a few years earlier, it would probably have been pretty big. It can now be yours, along with literally over one thousand other games, as part of the Itch Bundle For Racial Justice And Equality.

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Boy howdy there have been a lot of new PC games announced in the last couple of days, so I’ve updated our mega list of all the PC game release dates for 2020 with all the news from the PC Gaming Show, the Future Games Show, as well as Sony’s PlayStation 5 showcase and all the biggest announcements from the first day of the Guerrilla Collective festival.

You can catch up on all the announcements from the respective shows by clicking the links, but if you want to see how everything stacks up with the rest of the PC games calendar you’re in the right place. Ordered by month, I’ve rounded up all of this year’s new PC game release dates into one handy list so you know exactly when all the biggest and best PC games are coming out.

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Like the supernatural intruder it loves so much, stealthy successor Hello Guest snuck its way into this weekend’s not-E3 proceedings. Taking Hello Neighbor‘s home invasion out of the suburbs and into the pine-sheltered alcoves of a haunted amusement park, TinyBuild opened the turnstiles to their stealth-horror follow-up with a free alpha beginning this weekend – no tickets required.

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Like a skeleton fired out of a dimensional rift, Undungeon‘s eldritch creatures have arrived on Steam. Well, one of them did. A free demo for Laughing Machines’ hack n’ slash n’ loot ’em up launched with a new trailer during this not-E3 weekend, letting you roam the post-apocalyptic ruins of seven Earths as Void – a ghostly world-hopping “Herald” who never quite left their goth phase behind.

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“Mankind is dead. Blood is fuel. Hell is full.” What a lovely poem, which is used to describe Ultrakill, a fast-paced first-person shooter that’s like Quake with more colourful levels and a lot of jumping. It’s been kicking around for a while, but a new trailer and demo are available now.

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Like a lad’s day out to Margate gone wrong, Trash Sailors will send you and your pals out on a raft to face threats you’re woefully unprepared for. Drifting through swamps, between icebergs, and over sunken cities, up to four fools will be trying to dodge obstacles, fend off attackers, gather passing salvage, craft gear, repair holes, and generally not get eaten by crocodiles, robosharks, or trashkrakens. I see bits of Raft, bits of Don’t Starve, shooty bits, and certainly a nice hand-drawn style.

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It is all go on the [cms-block] bandwagon this evening, as the Future Games Show has just wrapped up its notE3 show for 2020 – making it the third big games showcase of the evening after Day One of the Guerrilla Collective and the PC Gaming Show.

Unlike the other two shows tonight, the bulk of the Future Games Show was focused on new content for existing games, such as a new map for MMO Last Oasis and expanded versions of trailers we’ve seen earlier in the evening. As a result, I’ve limited my big list of what went down at the Future Games Show to just the new PC games that were announced this time, because otherwise I’d be here all night. So if you want a quick run down of everything you need to know from tonight’s Future Games Show, you’re in the right place, as here are all the new PC games you need to take note of as well as their respective trailers.

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Quietly grab your mop bucket, select your least squeaky soap, and bring a whole load of bin bags, for soon we’ll again be called on by the mob to clean up crime scenes before cops get the evidence. Serial Cleaners, announced today and coming next year, is a follow-up to 2017’s Serial Cleaner. I still like the sound of the concept. I hope that its realisation is less frustrating this time.

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Bomber Crew was already a bit FTL-like, and its sequel is leaning in. Space Crew swaps the original’s World War 2 setting for outer space, but otherwise still looks to be a strategy game about telling your vessel’s crew what to do as you launch missiles and catch fire. The announcement trailer can be found below.

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