Our infamously workshy news editor Edwin – he only posted barely twice the number of articles last week as I did, the skiver – is off doing something that isn’t the Maw this morning. See? This time he didn’t even have the gumption to hurl his own body into its waiting gullet, where through the pain of cracked bones and ruined ponytail, he’d endure the acidslide down into the Maw’s endlessly cavernous belly before hacking his way out with a crude axe fashioned from the beast’s own ribcage. Honestly, I’m going to have to have a word with him, once I finish this list of imminent PC game releases.
Monday 11th May
- Mark’s already enjoyed crafting-heavy van life sim Outbound. I think. He mostly spent the demo stealing things.
- Roguelite strategiser Battlestar Galactica: Scattered Hopes has you managing a stricken fleet under threat from the Cylons.
- Greenhearth Necromancer is a “semi-idle” urban farming sim about growing magic, potentially undead plants on your apartment’s tiny balcony.
- Don’t Panic! It is Just Turbulence looks like the kind of thing that would invite accusations of friendslop, but I dunno – its button-strewn plane cockpits, which one player must grapple with while a co-op pal barks instructions from air traffic control, look very, almost sadistically detailed.
Tuesday 12th May
- Newest Supermassive Games horror joint Directive 8020 lands this week, this one taking its surely dwindling cast to a sci-fi space colony.
- Call of the Sea sequel Call of the Elder Gods looks like another Lovecraft-tinged blend of first person eeriness and investigative puzzlesolving.
- Elfie: A Sand Plan has you building intricate sandcastles while being egged on by a cutesy elephantine beachgoer.
Wednesday 13th May
Thursday 14th May
- With its legal grumblings having quietened down, deep-sea survival explorer Subnautica 2 is finally launching in early access. Make sure you can meet its high-pressure system requirements.
- Conversely, hospitality tycoon sim Hotel Architect hits version 1.0 this week, following a year in early access.
- RoadOut is a pixel art action-RPG that splits itself between top-down shootering and drifty cross-wasteland drives.
- Driving sim expansion American Truck Simulator – Illinois is hitting the road, completing ATS’ recreation of the entirety of Route 66.
- The Caribou Trail follows three soldiers in the trenches of World War 1. Includes some shooting, though it’s supposedly “not about winning the war, it’s about enduring it.”
- For a comedy, the trailer for Whirlight – No Time to Trip is light on jokes, but there’s something charming about its adherence to classic point-and-clickery. Prerendered backgrounds, and all.
Friday 15th May
Meanwhile, on RPS: Julian is genuinely excited about us moving off Trello, pretty much the entire guides team is disappearing under the waves in Subnautica 2, Mark continues to wear a bum groove into the leather seats of an embargoed, big-budget racing game, and I have plans – some might say, fantasies – to chase Edwin around with an electrified cattle prod while he begs my forgiveness.
