The best King’s Field-likes on PC

FromSoftware’s King’s Field was an astonishingly immersive RPG for 1994, a dark fantasy where every object was something that could be examined up close and from all angles. Every herb. Every skeleton. Every treasure chest and trap. These first-person visual wonders weren’t contained within some artificially restrictive turn-based RPG, tile-based dungeon crawl, or hemmed in…

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I’m sad Deadlock is ‘just’ a MOBA—not because I don’t like them, but because I’m in love with Valve’s lore and characters enough to want any other game instead

Harvey Randall, Staff Writer (Image credit: Future) Last week I was: Begging people not to have a baby for a free copy of GTA 6 (it is financially inadvisable). Also, playing a lot of Deadlock. I have a love-hate relationship with MOBAs, but Deadlock—after its new Old Gods, New Blood update—has dragged me back to…

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I thought Fishing Shop Simulator was a joke after I saw mechs in ancient Rome, but after two hours with its demo, I’m hooked

As much as I love janky, often surface-level fishing minigames that are crammed into almost everything these days, I’ve never been one for an actual fishing game. That was until YouTube randomly recommended me the intro cinematic from Fishing Shop Simulator, whose thumbnail piqued my curiosity like no other: why was there a smouldering city…

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