EVERY WITCH WAY

“LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IS ONE OF PC GAMING’S MOST PLAYED GAMES”

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BAD ROLL

RPG devs blame the temporary death of CRPGs on ‘vibes-based forecasting’ from retailers

THE UGLY EPIDEMIC

Stuffed full of brands and tie-in skins, shooters are getting harder to look at 

DEMONSTRATION MAN

THE UNSUNG HEROES OF DEVELOPMENT

ESCAPE FROM TARKOV: ARENA

Aback-to-basics shooter that punishes mistakes

SOLIUM INFERNUM

Satanic strategy with demonic divisions on hellish hexes

PACIFIC DRIVE

Take a road trip through mankind’s folly 

RAILROADS & CATACOMBS

The roads are rails, but you cannot comb the cat

UNITED 1944

WWII squad shooter risks being another unknown soldier

CREATING A RIFT

Updating LEAGUE OF LEGENDS is a mammoth task, but this year Riot Games has taken more risks than usual

THE HISTORY OF grand theft auto

With GRAND THEFT AUTO VI finally, officially revealed. PC Gamer charts the rise, rise, and rise of one of gaming’s biggest series

RECKONING BALL

A thousand years of wrongs put right in TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

THE FRONTIER IS CLOSED

A Pandora’s box of technical issues in AVATA R : FRONTIERS OF PANDORA

LEAVE IT TO BEAVERS

Building doomed cities and loving it in AGAINST THE STORM

BULLETS TRAIN

Survival RTS LAST TRAIN HOME delves into historical tale-telling 

MARKET DOWN

WARHAMMER 40,000: ROGUE TRADER gets the tone right, but combat’s a drag

DISNEY CROSSING

DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLE Y scratches that Animal Crossing itch, but at a price

FLIP SERVICE

Live the property fantasy, debt-free, in HOUSE FLIPPER 2

AFAMILY AFFAIR

Solving a family size mystery in THE ROOTTREES ARE DEAD

CRAFT WORK

Driving a submersible in THE TWO RIVERS HYPOTHESIS

FORCE FEEDBACK

STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER is a stellar experience

HAVANA LAUGH

Bananas and brutality in TROPICO 5

STOCK AND LOAD

Order out of chaos in WILMOT’S WAREHOUSE

“Two wolves ran out of some trees and killed me almost instantly”

My harrowing first nights in the surprisingly cruel world of LEGO FORTNITE

“Its soundtrack by Thorr is incredible”

Ripping and tearing in SIGIL II

“Rogues can be tanks. Mages can be healers. Nothing’s off the table”

SEASON OF DISCOVERY’s been just weird enough to hook me

“Pushes me to beat every level without taking a scratch”

Is there anything cooler than a Ghostrunner? Yes, it’s GHOSTRUNNER 2 

METAL GEAR SOLID MASTER COLLECTION VOLUME 1

Modders are fixing Konami’s underbaked, underloved MGS ports

LETHAL COMPANY

Make the horror more horrifying.

SURVIVE IN LEGO FORTNITE

Build your village and weather the wilderness.

TRYING TO GET RICH QUICK IN STARFIELD

PART 1

PROJECT WINGMAN’S 11TH MISSION, COLD WAR

A do or die, winner takes all dogfight over the Bering Strait. 

SHADOW OF MORDOR

Revisiting Middle-earth’s nemesis system.

MUST PLAY

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

MAINSTREAM GRAPHICS CARDS

These entry-level and mid-range graphics cards are where the bulk of PC gamers spend their bucks, but which are worth the money?

YOU’VE BEEN FRAMED

Graphics have stopped improving. Why?

ANOTHER LEVEL

Misadventures in UNREALED, 1998’s game dev gateway drug

BUYER’S GUIDE

Build the best PC for your budget