BUYER’S GUIDE

“DOOM’S MOST HELLISHLY WICKED, ADRENALINE-PUMPING EPISODE YET”

John Romero, John Carmack, and the rest of

“PRAISE THE PILE!”

FOXHOLE players battle the odds and build a religion around a corpse pile

WORLD BUILDING

The MORROWIND mod that’s older than the game itself

BUILDING CHARACTERS

THE UNSUNG HEROES OF DEVELOPMENT

NIGHTINGALE

What’s on the cards for the next big survival game?

THE FRONT

The Front’s ambitions are buried under generic survival cruft

BEAST

This mad grimdark tactical RPG let me become a satanic Wolverine

THE INQUISITOR

Vampires, jesters and pigs in a thoroughly muddy fantasy world

ICON OF SIN

John Romero is dragging us back to hell in SIGIL II, the original Doom’s brand-new, devilishly devious, unofficial sixth episode

THE HISTORY OF DOOM

Charting 30 YEARS of the genre-defining (and redefining) FPS series

GAME OF THE YEAR 2023

Celebrating the absolute best of the last 12 months of PC gaming

THINNER CITY

CITIES: SK YLINES II is a lot bigger than the original, but not quite better

KILLER COP

ROBOCOP: ROGUE CIT Y’s engaging, hyper-violent combat only takes it so far

A TALE OF TWO GAMES

LORDS OF THE FALLEN is a great Souls-like, haunted by some bizarre choices

NIGHT TERRORS

ALAN WAKE 2 is a wild barrage of creative storytelling and visual flair

SHRINK-WRAPPED

Tossed salads and random battles in FRASIER FANTASY

THE LOST LEVELS

MR PLATFORMER is a sidescroller that really goes places

LOOPER

Live, die, repeat in puzzle game TEST TEST TEST

CITY LICKERS How your memory betrays you in RESIDENT EVIL 2

I think I speak for all of us

MILLINER TO ONE A HAT IN TIME is a head above other platformers

NEED TO KNOW EXPECT TO PAY DEVELOPER $15

PENITENT PALS

Suffering in silence with BLASPHEMOUS

NOW PLAYING

THE GAMES WE LOVE RIGHT NOW

“Some say there’s satisfaction in working your way up, but balls to that”

Shopping my way to crafting success in FINAL FANTASY XIV

FINAL FANTASY XIV

Worlds collide as Endwalker draws to a close

CY BERPUNK 207 7 2.0

The best mods for the freshly updated RPG.

LORDS OF THE FALLEN

Triumph over Adyr with these tough tips

BALDUR’S GATE III BETTER THE DEVIL YOU DON’T K NOW, IN

In which Pillius Flenk learns it’s dangerous to follow your Shadowheart

CYBERPUNK 2077 2.0’S PHOTO MODE

Admiring the dystopian future through a camera lens.

QUAK E II

Revisiting id’s classic in the wake of the remaster.

MUS TPLAY

A PERSONAL LIST OF THE BEST GAMES YOU CAN PLAY RIGHT NOW

NEXT-GEN GAMING KEYBOARDS

Move over membrane, make way mechanical: these gaming keyboards use light or magnets to deliver a more rapid and reliable response.

META NARRATIVE

How might gaming level up from Zuckerberg’s photorealistic VR CHAT?

FRAME DROP

Learning to love imperfect framerates again