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FEATHER REGIONS
PC Gamer US Edition
|August 2025
The only way is up in A SHORT HIKE
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There are loads of actions in games that we compulsively complete without even noticing. Reloading guns after firing one round. Checking to see if curtains are swooshy. And climbing literally anything, just because it's there. A Short Hike is like the ultimate final form of the desire to scamper up every surface.
This story is from the August 2025 edition of PC Gamer US Edition.
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