Ah, The Forest. I returned to it recently and remembered that there are horrors in the game beyond the creatures that look like God’s spare parts bin got tipped over. The building system still feels like it never left early access, and I wished I could craft cabins that looked like mansions. Luckily, I've found the best Forest mods to help with that, while also allowing me to turn the whole game on its head by making it into an action RPG. You could say I’ve mutated it. So who has six thumbs and wants the best mods for The Forest?

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Final Fantasy fans, I have some news that's both good and bad (and may in fact be both). You see, during a special 14 hour Final Fantasy 14 livestream (how long?!), producer Naoki Yoshida slipped in some precious info about the other project he's working on - the next mainline FF game, Final Fantasy 16. In short, development is going swimmingly, but it might be some time before we get our next big promised info dump on the game, which at this point probably would have been the Tokyo Game Show. Booo!

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If you like 4X games and you haven’t tried Old World yet, you should definitely have a play. While Humankind has been attracting a lot of attention as the upcoming Pepsi to Civilization’s coke, you might not have been aware of this quiet, beautiful little bottle of Dr Pepper, which has been brewing away in early access for the best part of a year. It launched in full last week - and having been playing on and off since then, I want to do a big recommend of it to you. To begin this recommendation, I will resort to my time-honoured tradition of a seemingly irrelevant animal fact, which swerves suddenly into a metaphor.

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If you've been staring longingly at your Nintendo Switch lately and wishing there was something akin to a grown-up Pokemon Snap-alike to play on PC, then get thee to Penko Park. It's a very similar deal. As a budding photographer, you trundle through the aforementioned park on-rails, snapping away at its peculiar wildlife. Some of its creatures are super cute. Others are downright disturbing. But it's all good, cosy fun.

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Sundays are for screaming "IT'S CAHHMING HOME" and caving your wall in. Before you watch people kick a football around, let's read this week's best writing about games.

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Bright Memory: Infinite looks like what would happen if you crossed Crysis and Devil May Cry. It's a first-person shooter with serious technical flair in which you can also dash, fight with swords and juggle enemies.

There's a new trailer below showing all of the above, as well as boss fights, and the player laser-grappling onto the wing of a crashing airplane. It's a lot.

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Robert Yang has released a new game in collaboration with illustrator Eleanor Davis and the Manchester International Festival. It's called We Dwell In Possibility and it is a queer gardening game, which you can play in your browser (possibly NSFW). It will take less than ten minutes, but if you need a little more context before diving in, I'll endeavour to provide it below.

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Grindstone, the match-three/smash-three grid-based puzzler, has received a free Lost Lair update. It adds 20 new levels with brand new hazards, a new mini-boss, a new full boss, and new weekly communited challenges.

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Hunt: Showdown is getting its first new map in three years. Called DeSalle, it's available on test servers now, and there's a new trailer showing its various compounds below.

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Yesterday was WitcherCon, which brought news of The Witcher 3 DLC and a release date and trailer for season two of Netflix's The Witcher TV show.

But that's not all Netflix are cooking. We also got a first look at The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf, an animated prequel film following Geralt's mentor, Vesemir.

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