Tabletop gaming saved videogame RPGs

Dungeon Master Welcome to Dungeon Master, PC Gamer’s regular RPG column, where Online Editor Fraser Brown (and guests) delves into PC gaming’s most beloved and enduring genre. Grab a seat in our badly-lit tavern and please ignore the goblin puke. The journey made by the RPG genre over the last few decades is yet more…

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You can play Cities: Skylines for free this weekend, ahead of the launch of its first expansion in 2 years

While Cities: Skylines 2 has been sucking up all the oxygen with its bungled launch, severely delayed updates, and developer switcheroo, Colossal Order’s original city-builder has been enjoying the quiet life. An update here, a community pack there, the odd free weekend away. It’s like a retired middle-manager thriving in its dotage while its replacement…

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I was pleasantly surprised by this BioShock-coded roguelike FPS, and its latest update adding a speargun has me yearning to dive back in

Roguelike FPS Abyssus was one of the more interesting games to embed itself in my Steam library last year. Generally, I am of the belief that first-person shooting and roguelike randomisation should never meet, as it generally results in mushy combat and poorly paced levels. But Abyssus beat the odds, successfully infusing the power-curve of…

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Elder Scrolls wannabe Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon gets a ‘huge’ update overhauling its weaker third act with new locations, quests, enemies and more

Last month, the developers of the Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon revealed that its impressive, Elder Scrolls-inspired RPG would receive a major update in March, one that gives its weaker final act a lick of paint. But it left out key details, such as what colour of paint they’d use, whether it’d have a…

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