ROUNDUP

We want the good stuff but please: not too much of it

In the beginning, bigger was always better, mostly

Back to reality

Has waning hype freed VR to shift up a gear in 2022?

A war of words

Could a blend of Scrabble and PUBG really amount to more than a gimmick?

A plague tale

The story behind a historical game about an eerily familiar pandemic

SMASH CUT

Past and present collide in this cinematic visual novel

Soundbytes

Game commentary in snack-sized mouthfuls

ARCADE WATCH

Keeping an eye on the coin-op gaming scene

THIS MONTH ON EDGE

When we weren’t doing everything else, we were thinking about stuff like this

DISPATCHES MARCH

Issue 367 Dialogue Send your views, using ‘Dialogue’

Trigger Happy

Shoot first, ask questions later

Unreliable Narrator

Exploring stories in games and the art of telling tales

Hideous corpus

Body horror is discomfiting in any medium, but

SLITTERHEAD

Silent Hill and Siren’s director promises a completely new strain of action-horror

THE ANACRUSIS

This successor to Left 4 Dead risks getting lost in space

FORSPOKEN

Square’s open-world action game finds its magic in movement

99 FAILS

Surrealism and grief combine in a nightmarish puzzle-platformer

SEA OF STARS

The team behind The Messenger realises a childhood dream

SWORDSHIP

Duck and dive in a shoot-’em-up where you can’t fire back

DEATH TRASH

Meat your doom in this postapocalyptic RPG

DARK SECRETS

The exclusive inside story of Jumpship’s mysterious sci-fi adventure Somerville

PLAYED BY EAR

From interactive podcasts to 3D RPGs: why the growing audiogame scene is demanding that you listen in

COLLECTED WORKS JAKE SOLOMON

The journey from underqualified graphics programmer to master strategist

UNPACKING

A moving story in more ways than one

ONE MORE LEVEL

How Ghostrunner breathed new life into a Polish developer in need of a hit

Practical magic

Videogame designers are problem solvers by trade –

Lost Odyssey

How Sakaguchi’s clash of past and present created a true final fantasy

Dead cells

A progress report on the games we just can’t quit

Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker

Developer/publisher Square Enix (Creative Business Unit III) Format

Post Script

Pondering Final Fantasy XIV’s possible future paths

GTFO

Developer/publisher 10 Chambers Format PC Release Out now

Post Script

Co-founder and game design director Hjalmar Vikström on making horror a service

Praey For The Gods

Developer/publisher No Matter Studios Format PC (tested),

Nobody Saves The World

Developer/publisher Drinkbox Studios Format PC (tested), Xbox

Windjammers 2

Developer/publisher Dotemu Format PC (tested), PS4, PS5, Stadia,

Below The Ocean

Developer/publisher Ismael Rodriguez Format PC Release Out

Filmechanism

Developer Chemical Pudding Publisher Phoenixx Inc Format

Aeterna Noctis

Developer/publisher Aeternum Game Studios Format PC (tested),

Dungeon Munchies

Developer/publisher Majaja Format PC, Switch (tested) Release Out