I can’t stop watching these Dune: Awakening videos of players having butt-puckeringly close calls with angry sandworms

Dune: Awakening’s sandworms aren’t just scary, they’re the most brutally punishing feature of Funcom’s new survival MMO. When you get eaten by a sandworm, you permanently lose all your stuff. Weapons, armor, tools, gear, your entire inventory gets swallowed up when Shai-Hulud sucks you down, and you can’t go back and recover it. Even your…

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This puzzle game challenges you to tell a family’s story through organising photo albums and creating scrapbooks

Instants, a story-rich puzzle game that tells its narrative through a series of family photo albums, has launched alongside the Wholesome Direct. Throughout the game you’ll watch the family grow and experience significant life events like learning how to ride a bike, family vacations, and moving house. You know, all that sentimental stuff that brings…

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Cozy foraging game Out and About shares a new trailer as part of the Wholesome Direct, and there’s a playtest you can take part in right now

When Spring rolls around each year, so many people I know will flock to fields and forests to gather wild garlic. But, that’s as far as their foraging goes. When woodlands are filled with mushrooms ripe for the picking, the same crowd of enthusiastic gatherers don’t trust themselves to collect everything edible because there’s more…

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Balatro meets breakfast? This ‘chaotic cooking roguelike’ where you make omelets for picky customers and try not to enrage a giant chicken just launched on Steam

Now that I’ve put aside Balatro (for now) and Blue Prince (for now), I’m on the lookout for the next creative and unusual roguelike. And I may have just found it: at Wholesome Games Direct today, there was a trailer for Omelet You Cook, a game where you make breakfast for a series of picky…

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I’m quitting PC Gamer to run a vending machine empire in the back streets of Japan after my idle game obsession shadow-dropped at the Wholesome Direct

I’m sure that owning an enterprise of vending machines in Japan probably hasn’t ever climbed onto your lifelong bucket list. It definitely wasn’t anywhere on mine. But after spending more time than I’d like to admit in Vending Dokan!: Kozy Kiosk, I’m starting to think it’s a business I should tap into. I played the…

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