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“DYING LIGHT IS NOW CONSIDERED A GENRE CLASSIC”

The PC Gamer team

YOU BETTER BE-LEAF • IT THE WITCHER 4 is shiny, gorgeous, and… green?

Highs & Lows

SKYRIM’S NAPKIN AI • Bethesda’s quest to make smarter NPCs started with a sketch from Todd Howard

SUPER VILLAINS • Here are the true villains of Skyrim

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

BORDERLANDS 4 • Gearbox goes bigger, but keeps doing what it does best

FALLEN ACES • Immersive noir, with a hand-drawn look

DIRECTIVE 8020 • This sci-fi horror with rewind mechanic still left me sweating

CRIMSON DESERT • Open-world action that continues to look strong but unwieldy

ONIMUSHA: WAY OF THE SWORD • Kinetic combat unlike I’ve ever seen before

SINTOPIA • Hell is other people, but now you’re in charge

FALL OF AN EMPIRE • Skip to the end, that’s where the fun is

THE DRIFTER • Conspiracies lurk in the pixel-art darkness

PIXEL STARSHIPS 2 • It’s not exactly rocket science

MANDRAKE • Even stranger horticulture

BEAST UNLEASHED • DYING LIGHT: THE BEAST is a pivotal game for Techland—both a sequel and a return to roots that could serve as a blueprint for future games in the series

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MACHINE GOD • DEUS EX’s influence can be quietly felt throughout gaming like the tendrils of a clandestine organization, but it could have ended up a Command & Conquer game if not for an unlikely intervention. This is the story of how it was made, 25 years ago

SPICE JAM • Craftand fight for your life on Arrakis in Funcom’s survival MMO DUNE: AWAKENING

TAINTED LOVE • TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON is a competent open-world, first-person RPG

PORTALE ROYALE • SPLITGATE 2 doesn’t make FPS great again

SEXYRO •  STELLAR BLADE leans on its inspiration a little too much

DATA WORM • The SYSTEM SHOCK 2 REMASTER makes a classic more approachable

FIRST CLASS • Satan’s favorite deckbuilder returns aboard MONSTER TRAIN 2

DOCTOR DOCTOR • Save or sacrifice in TRIAGE

WALK THE LINE • The ants know the score in THE SPIRIT OF THE ANTS

SOLID SNEAKING • Filling in the blanks in STEALTH CROSSWORD

PLAGUE RECOLLECTION • Making all the Reik moves in VERMINTIDE 2

STANZ AND DELIVER • Gozer your own way in GHOSTBUSTERS: THE VIDEO GAME

GNAT’S LIFE • Big hunter becomes the hunted in GROUNDED

“I picked him up and started turning him into a balloon dog” • POCO made me wear the feeling of being a failed clown like a badge of pride

“Turns out flying planes is hard” • Watching my aviation career take off in AVIASSEMBLY

“After King Arthur’s Rammstein-style resurrection ritual, I’m ready to serve” • Bending the knee for TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON’s amnesiac king

“Doom Eternal turned you into a kind of armored wasp” • Playing DOOM: THE DARK AGES is an opportunity to slow down, and marvel at the graphics tech

TWO POINT MUSEUM • More like ‘Two point-Oooooh!’

DAGGERFALL UNITY • The definitive way to journey through the boldest version of...