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“DYING LIGHT IS NOW CONSIDERED A GENRE CLASSIC”
The PC Gamer team
YOU BETTER BE-LEAF • IT THE WITCHER 4 is shiny, gorgeous, and… green?
Highs & Lows
SKYRIM’S NAPKIN AI • Bethesda’s quest to make smarter NPCs started with a sketch from Todd Howard
SUPER VILLAINS • Here are the true villains of Skyrim
Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY
BORDERLANDS 4 • Gearbox goes bigger, but keeps doing what it does best
FALLEN ACES • Immersive noir, with a hand-drawn look
DIRECTIVE 8020 • This sci-fi horror with rewind mechanic still left me sweating
CRIMSON DESERT • Open-world action that continues to look strong but unwieldy
ONIMUSHA: WAY OF THE SWORD • Kinetic combat unlike I’ve ever seen before
SINTOPIA • Hell is other people, but now you’re in charge
FALL OF AN EMPIRE • Skip to the end, that’s where the fun is
THE DRIFTER • Conspiracies lurk in the pixel-art darkness
PIXEL STARSHIPS 2 • It’s not exactly rocket science
MANDRAKE • Even stranger horticulture
BEAST UNLEASHED • DYING LIGHT: THE BEAST is a pivotal game for Techland—both a sequel and a return to roots that could serve as a blueprint for future games in the series
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MACHINE GOD • DEUS EX’s influence can be quietly felt throughout gaming like the tendrils of a clandestine organization, but it could have ended up a Command & Conquer game if not for an unlikely intervention. This is the story of how it was made, 25 years ago
SPICE JAM • Craftand fight for your life on Arrakis in Funcom’s survival MMO DUNE: AWAKENING
TAINTED LOVE • TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON is a competent open-world, first-person RPG
PORTALE ROYALE • SPLITGATE 2 doesn’t make FPS great again
SEXYRO • STELLAR BLADE leans on its inspiration a little too much
DATA WORM • The SYSTEM SHOCK 2 REMASTER makes a classic more approachable
FIRST CLASS • Satan’s favorite deckbuilder returns aboard MONSTER TRAIN 2
DOCTOR DOCTOR • Save or sacrifice in TRIAGE
WALK THE LINE • The ants know the score in THE SPIRIT OF THE ANTS
SOLID SNEAKING • Filling in the blanks in STEALTH CROSSWORD
PLAGUE RECOLLECTION • Making all the Reik moves in VERMINTIDE 2
STANZ AND DELIVER • Gozer your own way in GHOSTBUSTERS: THE VIDEO GAME
GNAT’S LIFE • Big hunter becomes the hunted in GROUNDED
“I picked him up and started turning him into a balloon dog” • POCO made me wear the feeling of being a failed clown like a badge of pride
“Turns out flying planes is hard” • Watching my aviation career take off in AVIASSEMBLY
“After King Arthur’s Rammstein-style resurrection ritual, I’m ready to serve” • Bending the knee for TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON’s amnesiac king
“Doom Eternal turned you into a kind of armored wasp” • Playing DOOM: THE DARK AGES is an opportunity to slow down, and marvel at the graphics tech
TWO POINT MUSEUM • More like ‘Two point-Oooooh!’
DAGGERFALL UNITY • The definitive way to journey through the boldest version of...