BACKPACK HERO

Go a-sidescrolling, your knapsack on your back

VICTORIA 3

Creating utopias and dystopias by gaslight

THE EXCAVATION OF HOB'S BARROW

Eldritch goings on in this folk-horror adventure

MINECRAFT LEGENDS

A strategy spin-off that gives Minecraft a whole new scale

JAGGED ALLIANCE 3

Escaping the spectre of XCOM by never telling you the odds

THE CALLISTO PROTOCOL

A gloriously gory spiritual successor to Dead Space

HOMEWORLD 3

Even in space, you need to use terrain to your advantage

DEAD ISLAND 2

Back from the grave... again. With a vengeance

ASKAN UXPERT

Sprung Studios CEO JAMES CHAYTOR on UI, UX, and why they're so important

UNCATCHABLE

Why has no indie riff on POKÉMON taken off on PC?

PAST OASIS

After admitting its MMO 'sucks,' DONKEY CREW reworks the entire game

BUDGET CASES

Play it smart by saving money on your chassis and spending it on bigger and better components.

DUNGEON OF THE ENDLESS

A simple but effective strategy game that's still my mainstay.

SWING TIME

MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN REMASTERED is a mostly good port of a mostly good game

SIM KITTY

STRAY is a sparkling feline adventure that always lands on its feet

MOONWALKING

Naoki Yoshida on how FINAL FANTASY XIV found its feet after seven years-and what's next for the behemoth MMO.

A TREASURED ISLAND

There was never meant to be a RETURN TO MONKEY ISLAND-but Ron Gilbert is making the trip.

FARTHEST FRONTIER

A challenging survival city builder from the developer of Grim Dawn

SOULFRAME

After nearly a decade, the Warframe devs have a new game

WARFRAME: THE DUVIRI PARADOX

Digital Extremes is getting into the time loop business

BIG IN BRAZIL

Don't know any LATIN AMERICAN GAME STUDIOS by name? That's about to change

VIVA LAS PHOENIX

Meet the erotic roleplayers making a living in FINAL FANTASY XIV’s mini Vegas

HARDWARE FAILURE

How a botched giveaway brought down a multi-million dollar PC BUILDER

GO PHISH

Stack the deck in your favor in CARD SHARK

CHOP CHOP

Another slice of cyber-mystery in AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES—NIRVANA INITIATIVE

GLORIOUS SUNSET

MONSTER HUNTER RISE: SUNBREAK is more of the same, but luckily the same is fantastic

SMOOTH OPERATOR

F1 22 is sheer class, but who hears barrel scraping?

SHELL POWER

Thanks to plenty of turtle wax, TMNT: SHREDDER’S REVENGE shines

WARHAMMER 40K: DARKTIDE

A confident, carnage-filled step forward from Vermintide

STARFIELD

No Man’s Sky meets Skyrim, with a touch of FreeSpace