Black Salt’s fishing adventure gets our Best Setting award this year—a sign that there’s surprising depth to be found here. For more awards, head to our Game of the Year 2023 page. Mollie Taylor, Features Producer: Dredge has the most immaculate vibes of any game I’ve played this year. By day it’s a relaxing and…
I find myself thinking of this past year in terms of pre-Baldur’s Gate 3 and post-Baldur’s Gate 3, which might be unfair to the legions of great games that were released otherwise. I’ve gone back through the archive and settled on thirteen heaters from the first half of the year that practically feel like they…
Personal Pick (Image credit: Future) In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2023, each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We’ll post new personal picks, alongside our main awards, throughout the rest of the month. 2023 has been an absolutely absurd year…
A free content update. Forever Entertainment has today announced its tactical turn-based RPG Front Mission 1st: Remake will be receiving a special Mercenaries update. This is a completely free content update that will add Mercenaries (including a local hot-seat multiplayer mode), single-player scenarios and more. You can get a preview in the trailer above. Read…
Eight’s not a crowd. Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Alana is talking about her favourite RPG of 2023, one that everyone seems to have completely forgotten about… Eight travellers. Eight stories. These eight adventurers’ paths cross, their…
We live in tough times. Inflation is high, temperatures are low, my breath fogs in my home and Baldur’s Gate 3 costs $60/£50. I can’t do much about most of those—though I’m working on a scheme to drive inflation down by burning several billion dollars KLF-style—but that last one? I can help with that last…
Location, location, location. We can all agree that retro games have the ability to transport us to a different time. For some, titles like Tetris, Street Fighter II, Sonic and Super Mario have strong links to a particular moment in their formative years; perhaps they rekindle memories of playing with friends after school or long…
Metroid Prime gets an honourable mention. Nintendo has got a lot of mileage out of the Switch and graphically speaking it has also pushed the hybrid system to its absolute limits. It’s not gone unnoticed this year, either. The tech experts at Digital Foundry have featured Super Mario Bros. Wonder in their “best game graphics…
At your service! Hello one and all, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! Taking a look at last week’s procedings, the lovely Trace Memory went head-to-head as North America took on Europe and Japan. The former won the vote with a respectable 58%, so well done North America! Read the full article…
Want to give your daily Wordle a boost with our tips and tricks? Or maybe you’d really like someone to tell you exactly what the answer to the December 24 (918) game is without making you work for it. Whichever way you want to play, you’ll find all you need and more (even a clue…