Such has been the onslaught of livestreams, showcases, reveals, re-reveals, trailers and assorted Keighleybollocks this month that we skipped the new game round-up last week. The Maw, thankfully, was too stuffed with Capcom previews to express much discontent, but it could have been disastrous. The last time we forgot to lay out a Monday feeding schedule, the creature ate a bunch of double-A publishers. What, you didn’t seriously think THQ went under due to “strong headwinds”, did you? But enough lamentation – there are new PC games to discuss.
Monday 16th June
- Are you old enough to remember GEX? My sympathies. There’s a GEX trilogy remaster out today. If you are not old enough to remember GEX, perhaps you will be more enraptured by cute co-op climbing game Peak. I also have my eye on Nightmare Frontier, a sort of weird western XCOM, with the caveat that AI generation tools were used to created some of its menu assets and translate the script.
Tuesday 17th June
Wednesday 18th June
- In first-person actioner Blessed Burden you are the last surviving priest journeying deep into the bowels of hell, or thereabouts. In deckbuilder Crown Gambit you are a team of paladins trying to save a city from political turmoil, and “unearthly beasts”.
Thursday 19th June
- Broken Arrow is not a 90s airplane movie but a real-time strategy game set in the Baltic states with over 300 units. Pretty much the polar opposite of pixelart escapade Vessels Of Decay, in which you navigate a post-apocalyptic Scandinavia full of folkoric monsters.
Friday 20th June
What are the treehouse up to this week? Brendan and Jeremy are deep in the desert, Nic is roving an open world with a block of tofu, James appears moderately excited about a TV of some kind, Mark is reopening the gates of Oblivion, Graham is sitting on a large throne made of bones, and Ollie continues to reign over the night. How about you?
