The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? – Rock Paper Shotgun
WishlistedOur favourite demos from Steam Next FestTwo Point Museum, Knights In Tight Spaces, Suikoden, and mawGood morrow to ye, stranger! This week’s new PC game round-up is jam-packed indeed – absolutely sardine-canned. So let’s skip the customary preamble about the Maw’s digestive habits and proceed directly to the banqueting table.On Monday 3rd March, Star Crafter sets out to craft “entire planets, Dyson Ring, Dyson spheres, and more”. Possibly just Minecraft in space again, but I do like those skies. On Tuesday 4th March, Carmen Sandiego has third-person hang-glider sequences now? Also, here’s Knights In Tight Spaces for medievalists with solid spatial reasoning, and Grimoire Groves for green-fingered, psy-cosy-delic roguelikers. And Two Point Museum, which is apparently a bit too grand for comfort. And Everhood 2 for people who like bizarre musical action-RPGs. And first-person soccer shooter Vector Strike. And Merchants Of Rosewall, for people who like *squints* selling dog figurines to elves.Enough, Tuesday! You don’t get to own the whole week. Look, you’ve left me no room to write about Wednesday 5th March, so let’s call that a rest day. On Thursday 6th March, it’s time for those HD remasters of hero-hoarding JRPGs Suikoden 1 and 2, unless you have physically present friends and a sofa, in which case you might prefer Split Fiction, unless you yearn to play monster physician, in which case you might prefer Do No Harm, unless you like pretending your desktop is a Mario level, in which case here’s MainFrames. And on Friday 6th March, why not spend a few hours cleaning magical artefacts in Wyrmhall: Brush And Banter.These games? Merely our picks. Your choices? Probably superior. Where to mention them? The comments thread below. Also below? Our latest weekly news liveblog. Have a jolly week.
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A recc from I_have_no_nose_but_I_must_sneeze – Deck Of Haunts. It’s a spooky turn-based cardgame in which you are a haunted house, trying to moider interlopers before they reach your heart. I didn’t find the demo mindblowing in practice – the early levels boil down to damaging NPCs as they more randomly from room to room – but I love the concept.
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You have yet to steer me wrong! To add some context, this is a sokoban game where you merge, cut and push small creatures together and crush squid with blocks. Seems a bit merciless, but of course it’s all fairly abstract.
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PCGamer have an interview with Inzoi’s assistant director Joel Lee exploring the ticklish question of how sex is portrayed in the forthcoming life sim, which aims to be “widely available to as many age groups as possible”.
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Hideki Kamiya wants to bring back Scalebound, Platinum’s Microsoft-published dragon-riding action-RPG, which was cancelled in 2017. I wonder if he’s been playing Monster Hunter.Let’s do it, Phil ! 😀 https://t.co/BLdBs3hxGt
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STARBOARD FIFTEEN, WE ARE APPROACHING TUESDAY
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I know writers who are professionals, and they are all cowards. Also this looks absorbing.
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FULL STEAM AHEAD TO MONDAY
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