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Frontier Psychiatry
WHAT IS IT? A multimedia experience recounting the history of a fake kids show, based on actual Knightmare EXPECT TO PAY Free DEVELOPER Minus One Publishing PUBLISHER Minus One Publishing REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce
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Curse Of The Azure Bonds
RELEASE 1989 PUBLISHER SNEG DEVELOPER Strategic Simulations LINK gbc.zorbus.net Years before Baldur’s Gate came along, the CRPGS made in the Gold Box engine, including Curse of the Azure Bonds, were my introduction to the Forgotten Realms. Which
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“The War Within Itself Has Kept Me Coming Back Most Evenings Too”
THIS MONTH Chilled out underground with my new earthen buddies. ALSO PLAYED  Thanks Goodness You’re Here, Star Wars Outlaws There are two immutable facts you should know about me: I will always find a way to mention my dog in pretty much every conv
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Buyer’s Guide
PC gaming is for everyone. Pick these parts if you want to build a new, well-rounded PC for a good price. You want to run every new game at 1080p 60fps. This recommended build will see you through. You’re looking for the best PC on the market and sup
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Police Procedural
WHAT IS IT? A procgen immsim starring a PI. Potentially other abbreviations too EXPECT TO PAY £20 DEVELOPER ColePowered Games PUBLISHER Fireshine Games REVIEWED ON AMD Ryzen 3700x, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 MULTIPLAYER None LINK store.s
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“Leliana Decapitates A Darkspawn”
THIS MONTH Reclined on the Anvil of the Void while reading PC Gamer. ALSO PLAYED  Doom (2016), Doom (1993) Ah, the Deep Roads, my old friends. I see you’re still as drawn-out and frustrating as ever. Good job, then, that I’ve got a dual-wielding w
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Get Started In Frostpunk 2
DIFFICULTY Hard TIME 10 hours VITAL LINKS Tips: pcgamer.com/games/city-builder/frostpunk-2-tips-and-tricks Heatstamps: pcgamer.com/games/city-builder/frostpunk-2-heatstamps Rather than the buildings of the first game, Frostpunk 2 is all about d
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Camera Obscura
EXPECT TO PAY Free DEVELOPER Incredulous Interactive LINK incredulous.itch.io You know all those pictures of people seeming to lean on the Tower of Pisa, or hold monuments in the palms of their hands? Well it’s all a matter of perspective, as you’
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Fatal Velocity
EXPECT TO PAY Free DEVELOPER Powerhoof LINK bit.ly/TerminalCity Makers of modern adventure games have largely decided to follow the LucasArts model rather than the Sierra one, meaning very few of them feature sudden, unforeseeable deaths. Sierra g
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Little Big Adventure – Twinsen’s Quest
RELEASE November 14 DEVELOPER [2.21] PUBLISHER Microids LINK littlebigadventure.com Little Big Adventure (also known as Relentless: Twinsen’s Adventure) is either the 38th best game ever (PC Gamer, 1997) or the 91st (GamesMaster, 1996). The 1994
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Slitterhead
An interesting new game from Kenichiro Toyama, the creator of the seminal Silent Hill saga, and Akira Yamaoka, composer for Silent Hill and Shadows of the Damned, Slitterhead takes place in a fictionalised version of Hong Kong’s Kowloon Walled City,
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Civi-lite-zation
WHAT IS IT? History-spanning 4X grand strategy game, or Phil Spencer’s Civilization EXPECT TO PAY £50 DEVELOPER Oxide Games PUBLISHER Xbox Game Studios REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7 13700HX, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 MULTIPLAYER Yes LINK ar
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“Path Of Exile II Feels Excitingly Fresh And Confident”
We loved the original Path of Exile here at PC Gamer. We described it as a ‘brilliant, sprawling action RPG that keeps changing’. And, after flying to Grinding Gear Games’ headquarters in Aukland, New Zealand, to play its much-anticipated sequel, tha
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Pro-fit Margins
Don’t worry, the printers haven’t made a mistake and dropped a spread from Console Enthusiast Quarterly in with this issue’s PCG. You are going to see the PS5 Pro mentioned quite a lot in these pages though, because its overdraft-troubling pricing ha
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Must Play
As a cosy game expert I am here to inundate the pages with saccharine pastels and games where you can’t lose, plus one immersive mystery sim where you totally can fail. fieldsofmistria.com Inspired by ’90s anime and Harvest Moon, this early access f
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Owned By Steam
Steam has made a little change to its shopping cart page: a new message that very clearly lays out to one and all that you’re not buying a game – you’re buying a licence. The message itself is brief, “A purchase of a digital product grants a license
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Spacing Out
WHAT IS IT? The first expansion for Bethesda’s space exploration RPG, complete with a fractious cult to investigate and their newly explorable homeworld EXPECT TO PAY £26 DEVELOPER Bethesda Game Studios PUBLISHER Bethesda Softworks REVIEWED ON In
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Lost In Space
How disappointing that, despite consistent feedback from the gaming community on what they don’t like about Starfield, Bethesda seemingly hasn’t heard them. The space-based RPG’s first major expansion, Shattered Space, is getting underwhelming scores
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Gran Stops Gaming
Shirley Curry, more affectionately known as The Skyrim Grandma, is hanging up her gaming video gauntlets. The 88-year-old told fans that she was “bored to death” with content creation, adding, “I’m just doing it for fun, and it isn’t fun anymore”. Fe
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Silent Bob
WHAT IS IT? The game that makes Axe Cop look like Serpico EXPECT TO PAY £12 DEVELOPER Square Enix, Human Head Studios PUBLISHER Square Enix REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-7700, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 MULTIPLAYER No LINK store.steampowere
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Attack On Titans
WHAT IS IT? Another RPG in a long-running and diverse series EXPECT TO PAY £45 DEVELOPER Square Enix PUBLISHER Square Enix REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-7700, XVIGB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 630 MULTIPLAYER No LINK shorturl.at/ijfw9 When you picture
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“I’m Sure That Will Fetch A Nice Sum Of Fake Coin In This Game Of Pretend”
THIS MONTH Let my crops wilt to see what the bard would sing about next. ALSO PLAYED Final Fantasy XIV, DJMax Respect V Forget Critical Role, Fields of Mistria’s residents are the latest band of adventurers whose campaigns I’m eagerly tuning into e
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Braking Bad
WHAT IS IT? What is it? Arcade rally racer with iconic ’90s cars EXPECT TO PAY £16 DEVELOPER Pixel Perfect Dude PUBLISHER Pixel Perfect Dude REVIEWED ON Intel Core i5-7300HQ, 16GB RAM, Nvida GeForce GTX 1050 MULTIPLAYER No LINK drive.game/r
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Shinonome Abyss: The Maiden Exorcist
Produced by the Japanese indie studio Wodan, this spiritual sequel to a 1986 Taito arcade hit sees you step into the shoes of a miko (a Shinto shrine maiden) named Yono, who has to escape from a haunted mansion while purging evil mononoke spirits. Re
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Weird Mods
RELEASE Various PUBLISHER Many DEVELOPER Several LINK nexusmods.com Mods are the lifeblood of PC gaming. Consoles can keep their pomp and highfalutin talk of convenience, whatever that is, I’m busy turning The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion into a si
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Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution
RELEASE Q1 2025 DEVELOPER Studio Imugi PUBLISHER Studio Imugi LINK bonapartegame.com At this point, ‘history but with mechs’ is a staple genre. For upcoming tactics game Bonaparte: A Mechanized Revolution, it’s a pretty functional conceit: it let
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“This Is An Underdog Story Set In A World Of Injustice And Inequality”
THIS MONTH Finally found a protagonist to match his talents. ALSO PLAYED Doom (2016), EA FC25 Beta, Rome 2: Total War I never wanted to be Han Solo. I was very young when I saw Star Wars for the first time, and his type of misbehaviour was complete
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Incoming
RELEASE November 19, 2024 | DEVELOPER Asobo Studio The latest iteration of the long-running and increasingly scarily accurate flight simulator promises new aircraft, flight modes, engine graphics and more. RELEASE November 20, 2024 | DEVELOPER GSC Ga
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Star Attraction
The Tokyo Game Show 2024 was the biggest ever and, excitingly for PC gamers, it was PC gaming that was the clear winner, with Steam, PC GamePass and Windows logos everywhere. Thanks to the downfall of Sony PlayStation’s exclusives policy, which has r
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