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“PAINKILLER HAS GOT ME AND A LOT OF THE PC GAMER TEAM EXCITED”

The PC Gamer team

PC STAYS WINNING • NINTENDO can brick your Switch; I’ve never been happier to be a PC gamer

CURSED TO CORRECT

NO MORE WEAKAURAS

SADDLE UP, PARTNER

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

BLUE SHIFT • How BLUE’S NEWS stayed alive and evaded ‘enshittification’ for 30 years

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

ANNO 117: PAX ROMANA • An epic strategy game and city builder with a big toga to fill

BLACKSMITH MASTER • Who knew working hammer and tongs could feel so relaxing?

ERIKSHOLM: THE STOLEN DREAM • Entry-level stealth paired with high-end period drama

OUTWORLD STATION • This sim is threatening to devour hours of my time

EUROPA UNIVERSALIS 5 • This grand strategy game is going to take hours to unpack

OFFSCREEN • The perils of not getting enough screen time, exposed

CAST N CHILL • Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream

OFF-WORLD PROSPECTING • Dig to discover in the sands of an alien world

HALF SWORD • Rip and tear and fall over in an amusing fashion

PROHIBEAST • A faithful hound has beef with Al Capone

Painkiller LAN AES THE TIC • PAINKILLER returns, and this time it’s brought friends

ALONG FOR THE RIDE • Does a lack of choice make CYBERPUNK 2077 a bad RPG?

Bullet heaven

This month’s uncivilised reviewers…

UNCIVILISED • DOOM: THE DARK AGES is indulgent and deliciously violent, but surprisingly safe

BLESS THIS MESS • REVENGE OF THE SAVAGE PLANET is a Metroidvania designed for breezy co-op

NIGHT SHIFT • ELDEN RING: NIGHTREIGN is a flawed, but strangely compelling experiment

TOUGE PARTY • JDM: JAPANESE DRIFT MASTER has grand ambitions, but the execution drifts off course

ALL BY MYSELVES • Fraught and flexible, THE ALTERS expertly blends storytelling with survival

BURROWING IN • SKIN DEEP, Blendo’s first game in seven years, is a small triumph

ROUGH GEM • BLADES OF FIRE doesn’t quite manage to bring the heat

RECORD SCRATCH • LOST RECORDS: BLOOM & RAGE TAPE 2 leaves more dead space than game

HELLJOY • The Flash game aesthetic lives on in SHOTGUN COP MAN

OIL’S WELL • Cosy cleanup sim SPILLED is peacefully brilliant

A-MAZE-ING CHASE • LABYRINTH OF THE DEMON KING emphasises the horror in classic dungeon crawlers

CARMAGEDDON • Hell on wheels just about sums up FUSED 240

EAT FLAY LOVE • Beauty isn’t only skin deep in THE FLAYED MAN

SUIT YOU • PACK sees the satisfaction in packing a suitcase

GRANITE FEET PORTER • Life’s a beach in DEATH STRANDING

POSTAL GETAWAY • A change is as good as a break in LAKE

HAUL OR NOTHING • EURO TRUCK SIMULATOR 2 makes me love things I hate

AIR COOLERS • Move aside, liquid cooling: Air coolers are unbeatable on a budget

XP BOOST • Why our infrastructure still depends on Windows’ 24-year-old OS

REVERSE GEAR • Software remasters are in – now it’s time for hardware to lean into retro appeal

THE BUILD • The CPU King

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