Do you ever wonder why some games just don’t get talked about much? I don’t mean obscure games, either, or even mediocre ones. I mean games that were pretty great, but just sank like a stone in time, while others continue to float to the top of our memories. Rise Of Nations is just such a game.
Well then, Rogue Legacy 2. It’s time to pick up where your predecessor left off and start a new lineage of dungeon-diving kiddos – prettier than before, but still squarely focussed on tossing your descendants down the dungeons. After slightly missing its planned July launch, Cellar Door’s sword-swinging sequel hit Steam early access today, a mere seven years after the first game.
Look. If you just wanna shuffle decks, there’s no shortage of good card games on PC, But if you wanna cheat at cards? Well, there really ain’t much stock for your kind. Enter Card Shark, a con-artist’s dream of cheating your way through 18th-century France in search of fame, fortune, and a seat at the king’s table from the creators of Reigns. Just don’t get shot on the way, yeah?
Gather your party, travellers. Taking a break from sucking toes and chatting up brains during today’s devilishly strange Panel From Hell, Larian have finally put a date on Baldur’s Gate 3‘s early access launch. Assuming there’s no further delay, the grand fantasy romp should venture forth on its quest on September 30th.
What could village life more unbearable for Untitled Goose Game‘s tormented villagers? Another goose, of course. Cooperative multiplayer is coming to House House’s breakthrough bird-nuisance romp as a free update next month, letting you tear around town with your fellow feathered friends alongside the game’s debut on Steam and Itch.
is about death. You play as Stella, whose job is to take dying spirits through the Everdoor to their final death, when they’re ready. Except, I think it is actually about kindness. Helping a spirit become ready to go involves cooking for them, hugging them, and building them a home on your enormous houseboat. And for that you must care for sheep, play music to plants to help them grow, mine for coal and learn to smelt silver.
It is a cosy management game where you spend most of your time harvesting things to make other things. Like Stardew Valley, but where your thousand acts of labour are done entirely for, on the face of it, nothing. Or at least not for your own material gain. It’s all given away. It is excellent.
is finally ready for boarding on PC, but if you’re not sure whether your PC has the stomach for soaring through Asobo Studio’s gorgeous new flight sim and its many hundreds of photorealistic cities, then I’m here to help. I’ve been testing the game on its recommended PC requirements today, seeing exactly what kind of performance you can get from a relatively modest PC build.
promises an entire world. It’s a stunning feat, one the game largely succeeds at, but it’s understandably flubbed a few locations here and there. At least, that’s the most reasonable explanation for why the global flyover has replaced Buckingham Palace with a brutal grey apartment complex – assuming, of course, the folks at Asobo and Microsoft haven’t just let slip a peek at their anti-monarchist politics.
‘ sixth season started today, bringing with it big map changes and a brand new character who has a gun so big and special she gave it a name. Rampart (the Legend) and Sheila (the gun) arrived on the scene this morning, ready to drop into the new version of the World’s Edge map. Rather heartbreakingly, Respawn have done away with its excellent train. But they have added some other cool features to the battle royale shooter, like crafting, which is just about enough to make me stop pouting.
If you’re installing Microsoft Flight Simulator, you will find yourself hearing the same short piece of music over and over while it downloads all 91GB. Sure you could just manually mute this in the Windows mixer, but you’d be wrong. Clearly the developers intend to evoke feelings of hours sat in an airport listening to muzak after your flight’s delayed, or the telephone hold music to get a refund on a holiday cancelled by the pandemic. Without installer music, you’re not truly experiencing MS Flight Sim. But if you do want a break from this particular loop, we have some alternative music ideas.
