Developer: Bothtec Released: 1986 PCs: MSX, PC-88/98, Sharp X1, X68000, FM-7 (Image credit: D4Enterprise Co.,Ltd.) Pasokon Retro is our regular look back at the early years of Japanese PC gaming, encompassing everything from specialist ’80s computers to the happy days of Windows XP. The contrasting blue/yellow tones often make it look like an optician’s colour […]
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: cutscenes are the worst. There I am, sitting down to play a game, ready to tap some keys and wiggle some thumbsticks and click my mouse—when suddenly the game I’m playing decides it’s actually a movie and all I can do for the next few minutes […]
Read MoreBefore I explain to you why Scarlet Deer Inn is one of my most anticipated games of this year, I urge you to download the demoon Steam and play it for yourself. It’s hard to describe why I’m so excited by it without spoiling the very specific moment I realised it had serious juice, so […]
Read MoreThanks to the Steam Release Bot on Bluesky, I am now aware of Kryonull, a game that bums me the hell out. Not only were a majority of its assets AI-generated, but the visual novel is being sold on Steam for a ludicrous $100 US, or £90 in the UK. Kryonull is a particular bummer […]
Read MoreThe Wolf Among Us 2 has been in the oven for a while. Either seven years—if you trace its start back to its announcement in 2019—or 12, if you go by the cliffhanger ending of The Wolf Among Us 1’s final episode, which released in 2014. Fans have been hanging on the telephone for news […]
Read MoreI guess Sea of Thieves is a pirate sim all about amassing treasure, griefing, and getting griefed, but I’ve always treated it like a hangout tool where I can play the hurdy-gurdy, get smashed, and stumble into a shark’s mouth. As was announced at today’s Xbox Games Showcase, developer Rare is catering to those sorts […]
Read MoreIt’s a well-established tradition at this point and so it’s maybe not the newsiest of news, but it’s also one you may not have heard of previously and hey, a free game is a free game—and for the sixth year in a row, Dontnod’s award-winning narrative adventure Tell Me Why is free for Pride Month. […]
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My trip to Hana, the tiny town on the far windward side of Maui, started out with the sort of tangle that wrecks the first day of many a lesser trip. After landing in a small six-seater plane and watching the pilot and co-pilot buzz right back down the runway to return to Wilea, my […]
Read MoreThe studios behind Peak, Aggro Crab and Landfall Games, originally threw the game together at a breakneck pace during a 4-week game jam. In a recent interview at GDC, Aggro Crab studio head Nick Kamant told PC Gamer editor Ted Litchfield it didn’t just help them switch gears to smaller projects—it also helped them realize […]
Read MoreI played a demo of My Arms Are Longer Now at PAX Australia and it was a real good time. It’s a stealth-comedy game, though not in the sense that you’re surprised to find out it’s funny. It’s funny from the first second you twist your upsettingly wiggly arm across the floor of a train […]
Read MoreAdventure game royalty Broken Sword is the latest videogame to get a movie adaptation, with a film being co-developed by series creators Revolution Software and producer Story Kitchen, which has worked on numerous videogame adaptations for screen, including the (generally liked) Sonic the Hedgehog films and Amazon’s upcoming Life is Strange TV show. Reported by […]
Read MoreEver since a study theorized that around 87 percent of videogames are not playable without finding a physical copy or nabbing a digital one via piracy or an archive, I stopped feigning shock when a game gets delisted. Games with licensed characters or music have an especially rough time staying on digital storefronts: Star Trek: […]
Read MoreBlack Mirror’s Bandersnatch was an ambitious and slickly produced experiment in interactive TV, presenting an episode of the series in the form of a choose-your-own adventure with multiple possible storylines and endings. Aunty Donna’s Bandersketch is… well, a lot sillier. The popular Australian comedy group’s parody version invites you to help them write a new […]
Read MoreHarvey Randall Staff Writer I happened to review Mixtape, then made the mistake of going online to see what all the discourse and fuss was about it. So, Mixtape. In case you’ve been wisely keeping out of the loop, Mixtape released last week to a series of rave reviews online. I went ahead and played […]
Read MoreNeed to Know What is it? A three-hour nostalgia trip through ’90s suburbia, following a charmingly delinquent trio in their coming-of-age.Expect to pay $20/£16Developer Beethoven and DinosaurPublisher Annapurna InteractiveReviewed on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060, AMD Ryzen 7 5800 8-Core Processor, 16GB RAM, Force MP600 SSDMultiplayer? NoLink Official site “Mixtape is a good movie.” That’s the […]
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Mina the Hollower was announced in 2022 and originally slated to launch the following year. It’s a top-down adventure in the style of older Zelda games, and as far as I can tell there’s no grand twist: it’s a very orthodox take on the genre, just as Shovel Knight was for the NES-era platformer. The […]
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If you’re a vampire, you know the two most beautiful words in the English language: free blood. And if you caught the recent Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced reveal and were left uneasy by the lack of cherry syrup, you’ll be extra pleased to know that blood is coming, and it will be free. Producer […]
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Star Trek: Resurgence released in May 2023, and by all reports it’s a decent narrative-driven adventure in the style of older Telltale Games. Our reviewer called it “the perfect mash-up of dramatic Star Trek storytelling and Telltale-style decision making”. If that sounds appealing to you, then you’d better act fast, because it’s about to be […]
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Find Your Words is a heartwarming adventure game that pushed me to discover new means of communication with my fellow campers, and it’s made me realise how much I’ve been taking standard dialogue for granted. When you’re clicking through screens and screens of dialogue and picking responses and options that are listed on the screen, […]
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With Life is Strange: Reunion recently wrapping up the decade-long story of Max Caulfield and Chloe Price, I’ve spent the last couple of weeks thinking a lot about the game that started it all. 2015’s Life is Strange came during a hugely formative time in my life—going through some big changes, returning to college after […]
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An easy way to feel insecure as a Pokopia player is to just hop onto Reddit and see all the spectacular creations other players are cooking up. There are some seriously impressive builds to be seen, like Resident Evil 2’s RPD. My favourite so far is a Cyberpunk underground city by Pokopia player No-Communication7040. Heading […]
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We will never get a game quite like 2015’s Life is Strange ever again. Ready for the mosh pit, shaka brah? Go fuck yourselfie? I was eating those beans, are you fucking insane? I was eating… those BEANS!? Iconic. Equally as cringe a decade ago as they are now, but it just worked. A small, […]
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Peak was one of the surprise successes of last year. What was originally meant as just a simple game jam project turned into a huge hit as hundreds of thousands of players gathered around the foot of the mountain with their friends with the aspirations of scaling it and escaping the deserted island. Since then […]
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PEAK: The Play It Your Way Update | OUT NOW! – YouTube Watch On Here’s my problem with Peak: I love the climb as much as the next person, but I don’t have the patience for waiting out the snow storm or hiding until the wind settles. Reaching the top of the mountain is hard […]
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Never trust a tree with a name like “Draken Oak”. That is the lesson I took away from Lost Wiki: Kozlovka, a game where you solve a mystery by reading Wikipedia-like database entries. I took one look at that tree and knew nothing good was going on in the little Eastern European town I was […]
Read More2025 was the year of friendslop: bite-sized, inexpensive games that center co-op and proximity voice chat as vehicles for silliness, scares, and slapstick. One of the genre’s biggest smash hits, Peak, is a poster child for the slightly maligned, kind of derogatory label. But in an interview at GDC, Aggro Crab studio head Nick Kaman […]
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Life is Strange developer Don’t Nod announced its next third-person cinematic adventure, Aphelion, during last year’s Summer Game Fest with an Uncharted-like reveal set in space. And if the sci-fi excursion carries on as planned, Aphelion will launch sometime around or before this summer’s next big event. Aphelion’s latest gameplay trailer is a better look […]
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If you could have one magical power, what would it be? For me, it would be the ability to instantly fix anything. Washing machine broken? Zap! Not anymore. Boiler on the blink? Let’s Fantasia that shit. PC giving you some random error you’ve been struggling to solve all morning? Just point your finger at it […]
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When Gecko Gods was revealed in 2022, it instantly became one of those games I simply had to play. The very idea of being a little gecko scampering around ancient ruins and using the world as my climbing frame appeals more than I can really express in words, but I didn’t realise just how long […]
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Few things are more healing than biting into a buttery, flaky croissant fresh out of the oven and sipping on a coffee while the warm sun hits your face. It’s a feeling I’ve been sorely missing in these dark and gloomy winter months, but it’s one that The Witch’s Bakery has managed to capture excellently […]
Read MoreAmanita Design is one of my long-standing favorites. It was the studio’s 2009 robot adventure Machinarium that hooked me, but Botanicula, the Samorost games, the madcap Chuchel—they’re all brilliantly creative works. So when I saw that a demo for its next game, Phonopolis, had dropped into the Steam Next Fest, I was all over it. […]
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