MUST PLAY

“FORMER TELLTALE DEVS ARE CONTINUING THAT STORIED LEGACY”

ROBERT JONES Twitter @rnicholasj This month Pondered how

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CHRIS LIVINGSTON Twitter @screencuisine This month Transformed into

PRODIGIOUS OFFSPRING

SONS OF THE FOREST rewrites the Early Access survival narrative

SECRET CRYPTO-MINE

Authorities in Massachusetts have discovered a secret crypto-mining

DOTA CHEATERS TRAPPED

A tool that let cheaters access hidden game

CORSAIR RMX SHIFT

Corsair’s gone and done the impossible: it has

Highs & Lows

HIGHS Baldur’s Gate III Baldur’s Gate III is

The Spy

BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2013

ISSUE 252, May 2013 ON THE COVER RuneScape

PORT CONTROL

PCG INVESTIGATES

ACCESS ANYTHING

THE UNSUNG HEROES OF DEVELOPMENT

Incoming

THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

REDFALL

Arkane’s co-op vampire shooter feels pale and drained

SONS OF THE FOREST

The Early Access survival game that gives you a friend to play with

PACIFIC DRIVE

The star of this is your quirky customisable car

DUNGEONS 4

Rule the underworld with a floating iron fist

AGE OF WONDERS 4

Living my best life as an evil froggy wizard

CAPTAIN’S LOG

STAR TREK: RESURGENCE is more game, but not like we know it, captain

SHINING BRIGHT

HONKAI: STAR RAIL is the new game in the HoYoverse, which looks to be smartly evolving miHoYo’s Genshin Impact megahit.

THE HISTORY OF GOD GAMES

A small genre that leaves an almighty footprint

Mixed signals

This month the PC Gamer reviews machine tackles

HOW WE REVIEW

We review each game on its own merits,

OUR SCORING SYSTEM EXPLAINED

00%-09% Broken or offensively bad; absolutely no value.

WANDS UP

HOGWARTS LEGACY is the best Potter game yet, but a hard one to get excited about

QI TO THE KINGDOMS

WO LONG redefines the action RPG with spectacle and depth

DEEP THOUGHTS

LABYRINTH OF GALLERIA is a dizzyingly deep dungeon-crawl from Disgaea’s devs

EASTWORLD

ATOMIC HEART is a beautiful, flawed, and deeply weird Soviet Westworld

BULLET LIMBO

RETURNAL is a roguelike shooter at war with its own identity

CLUB MED

COMPANY OF HEROES 3 is a fantastic RTS with a main campaign that just doesn’t work

DEAD STRANGE

Not everyone will want to read WANTED: DEAD’S love letter to 2000s action games

SLASH FICTION

LIKE A DRAGON: ISHIN! transforms Yakuza into a period drama

CITY LIMITS

Explore a bleak, brutalist city in BABBDI

NIGHTMARE FUEL

You snooze you ooze in FEET IN THE SNOW

EYE EYE

Finding hidden depths in platformer STEREOGRAM

NIGHTMARE GALLEY

Sick-seared fish and comradeship in SEA OF THIEVES

BONE IDOL

DIVINITY: ORIGINAL SIN 2: the weirdest RPG

PILL BEHAVIOUR

Turning trauma into a game mechanic in FRAN BOW

RTX 40-SERIES GRAPHICS CARDS

Nvidia’s high end RTX 40-series graphics cards offer impressive performance, at a price

CHARACTER BUFFS

Tiny changes that make PC gaming healthier

OUTSOURCED CODE

Why writers and game devs are worried about CHAT GPT

BUYER’S GUIDE

Build the best PC for your budget

“We should be asking for more variety in our open worlds”

SHERLOCK HOLMES: CHAPTER ONE is a vision of the untapped potential of the genre

“I explode another SinTEK goon’s head”

Gunplay is satisfying, if not truly great. ROBERT

“I grab the downed soldier’s weapon and start firing on his colleagues”

HITMAN 3’S Freelancer mode taught me I’m not as good as I think

“I couldn’t shake the impulse to inspect every nook and cranny”

Discovering the joy of joinery in A PLAGUE TALE: REQUIEM’S wooden world

DISNEY DREAM LIGHT VALLEY

Two new characters and lots of quality of life changes

HOGWARTS LEGACY

Magical mods

GET STARTED IN HOGWARTS LEGACY

Become the strongest wizard in the Highlands.

PREY BY PROXY

Our indirect journey through Talos 1 continues.

CRPG CHAR ACTER PORTRAITS

Classic fantasy faces just can’t be beat

NEVERWINTER NIGHTS

A DnD fantasy epic that changed the RPG rulebook

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