While Myst and its sequel Riven are omnipresent games thanks to developer Cyan Worlds constantly remaking them, games directly inspired by Myst are few and far between. The most notable example is Jonathan Blow’s maze-obsessed puzzler The Witness, which distressingly will be a decade old come January. Now though, veteran publisher MicroProse has just released…
More quizzes! (Image credit: Larian Studios, PC Gamer) Want to keep testing your knowledge of gaming trivia? We’ve got loads more PC Gamer quizzes, on everything from healthbars to weird currencies to absurd patch notes. It’s one of the basic natural laws of videogames: get too many NPCs together in the same place, and they…
Trawling through Facebook looking for some fresh Wednesday news, and I’ve just found out through the Scorpion Engine Facebook page, that RetroRic (Wardner) is working on a Mortal Kombat II AGA project. A new development that is being created using Earok’s Scorpion engine. Although this sounds like awesome news, it’s still going to be difficult to…
Like a reverse black hole, Stellaris continues to pump out additional matter into its swirling galaxy of expansions. Just four months on from the Biogenesis addon, which built out the 4X’s bioengineering pathways, the Shadows of the Shroud DLC will expand the minds of psionic players on September 22. According to Paradox, Shadows of the…
Tempest Rising finally broke the RTS curse when it arrived earlier this year, delivering a thrilling remix of Command & Conquer‘s classic strategy action, while also remembering to add proper singleplayer campaigns alongside its competitive multiplayer. If I had one complaint, though, it would be that keeping up with the pace of its singleplayer could…
If you’re a FPS fan and haven’t played Cultic yet, you should. Where most retro-shooters take Doom or Quake or Duke Nukem as their primary inspiration, Cultic wades from the primordial pool of Monolith’s 1997 classic Blood. Cultic’s grungy, lusciously lo-fi action sees you blowing away crazed hooded monks with double barrelled shotguns and fistfuls…
“The simulator had to be realistic but also drivable”. In the games industry, there are names which have been around for so long they feel like part of the furniture: Shigeru Miyamoto, Peter Molyneux, Sid Meier, Warren Spector – these are individuals who have remained part of the gaming conversation for decades and continue to…
Silky smooth weekend vibes? Aloha, amigos, and welcome shorts fans, to another weekend. It’s been a very, very quiet one this week, with no games of note to menti…oh, hold on. Wait. We’ve actually been inundated with bangers. I’m terribly sorry. Yes, Hollow Knight: Silksong has finally materialised. It’s a real game that you can…
“The classic Puzzle Quest game is back”. Puzzle Quest is returning to its roots, with 505 Games and Infinity Plus 2 announcing Puzzle Quest: Immortal Edition. This “definitive” version of the Match-3 RPG classic features “brand new content and all previous adventures”, and it’s arriving on 18th September 2025. It will be available across multiple…
Free and paid DLC is on the way. Daemon x Machina: Titanic Scion launched for the Switch 2 earlier this week, and now that the game is available, the team has gone into detail about the post-launch content on the way. This includes a free roadmap update, which will add content from October through to…