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The indie RPG scene is basically solely responsible for keeping the torch of the old-school isometric RPG burning. The spirit of that those old games inherited from tabletop roleplaying—do whatever, be someone weird, have your choices truly matter, nobody’s immortal—aren’t very feasible to implement in the fully voiced, richly animated world of modern AAA RPGs….
All the help you need to blaze a trail of glory through the October 16 (849) Wordle is on this very page. You’ll find an easily digested selection of general advice and tips if you’d like to brush up your daily game, a helpful clue if you just need a little guidance, and of course…
Best of the best (Image credit: Bandai Namco) 2023 games: Upcoming releases Best PC games: All-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPSes: Finest gunplay On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up…
My love of games where you play inventory Tetris is well-known. I do not make a secret of this. I like to snugly fit a health potion in beside my spare dagger and weird stuff I’ve picked up off the latest shopkeep or slain demon. I have also played perhaps too much Dota, and therefore…
The village bell is ringing, warning that the Minecraft 1.21 update is approaching. While the latest Minecraft update is still probably a ways off, the details have started to spill as of this year’s Minecraft Live presentation. Along with the new friend coming from the Minecraft mob vote, we’ll also have everything from new blocks…
Fatshark said it would continue to support Vermintide 2 after the launch of Darktide and has done just that, with additions like new free levels and remastered levels from the original Vermintide. Next up, pyromancer Sienna will finally get her fourth career: the necromancer. Each of Vermintide’s other heroes has had a fourth career added…
EA’s gambit to have a Battlefield 2042 free weekend as Modern Warfare 3 got its multiplayer beta seems to have paid off. First noted by PCGamesN, the multiplayer FPS, which was lambasted by fans when it launched in 2021, nearly matched its all-time peak player count on Steam—102,009 according to SteamDB, just shy of that…
Even my crusty old heart has melted at seeing how much everyone loves Baldur’s Gate 3’s companion characters—especially the actors who portrayed them. As reported by Polygon, after some reprised their roles for a High Rollers tabletop one-shot, many in the cast have been sharing playlists tailored to their characters. Neil Newbon’s opted for quite…
An upcoming incremental strategy clicker is taking on the civilization-building theme in an interesting way: Knowing that you’re going to collapse, eventually, before starting over. Indie developer Ondrej Homola’s game Microcivilization has you ascending through tiers of difficulty by building progressively larger civilizations before you either choose to—or are forced to—ascend, gaining currency to spend…
As my colleague, PCG senior editor Robin Valentine, pointed out in his seminal treatise against horniness in Baldur’s Gate 3, “An adventuring party is basically like the Olympic Village, and we all know what goes on there.” Your BG3 crew has this youthful vitality to it, but “youth” can mean very different things for Faerûn’s…