Rachel had been bouncing around different gaming websites as a freelancer and staff writer for three years before settling at PC Gamer back in 2019. She mainly writes reviews, previews, and features, but on rare occasions will switch it up with news and guides. When she's not taking hundreds of screenshots of the latest indie darling, you can find her nurturing her parsnip empire in Stardew Valley and planning an axolotl uprising in Minecraft. She loves 'stop and smell the roses' games—her proudest gaming moment being the one time she kept her virtual potted plants alive for over a year.
Latest articles by Rachel Watts

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles guide: 6 tips to winning a trial
By Rachel Watts Published
Law and order Tips and tricks to make even the most greenhorn lawyer an ace attorney.

A Stardew Valley fan recreated Pelican Town in Minecraft
By Rachel Watts Published
news The Stardrop Saloon looks a lot more blocky than I remember.

Minecraft ocean bases are a delicate balance of slick design and looming disaster
By Rachel Watts Published
Oh Dam One misplaced block break and your entire work could be submerged.

This hyper-realistic Minecraft map looks as good as the real deal
By Rachel Watts Published
news Nope, that's not a photograph.

Love hurts in Boyfriend Dungeon, a dating sim where you romance your weapons
By Rachel Watts Published
Seducing swords Suddenly, all the boys want to practice their parries with me.

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles review
By Rachel Watts Published
Case Closed A courtroom visual novel with a flair for the dramatic.

Stardew Valley did not prepare me for the agricultural bootcamp of Real Farm
By Rachel Watts Published
training wheels It's time I stepped up my farming game.

Friday Night Funkin' is the DDR beatboxing game driving players back to Newgrounds
By Rachel Watts Published
TGIF The game's dynamic fanbase is a nostalgic callback to a piece of internet history.

PC Gamer plays: Nier Automata, Trials of Fire, Mundaun, and Elite Dangerous
By Steven Messner, Robin Valentine, Rachel Watts, Matt Killeen Published
PCG PLAYS The latest reports from virtual worlds by PCG's intrepid explorers.

Harold Halibut is a 10-year stop-motion project crafted from clay, wood, and metal
By Rachel Watts Published
Interview We chatted with Harold Halibut's game director about how the team pieced-together such an intricate world.

Fantasy RPG Wildermyth has all the adventure and humour of a D&D homebrew
By Rachel Watts Published
Spellbound A tabletop game of crafted stories and character legacies.

Minute of Islands is about how humanity will one day be wiped out, and that's totally fine
By Rachel Watts Published
💀💀💀 The end of human civilization? I'm cool with that.

The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles has exciting mysteries, but I want more courtroom shenanigans
By Rachel Watts Published
no objections Capcom's early-access preview hints that the years of waiting have been worth it.

Phantom Abyss is a whip-based platformer where you learn from the ghosts of fallen players
By Rachel Watts Published
Temple run Tomb-raiding has never been this fun, or treacherous.

Decapitated human heads are my weapon of choice in Chivalry 2
By Rachel Watts Published
Chop chop Where's your head at?

Out of the over 700 demos at Steam Next Fest, these 16 are our favourites
By Rachel Watts, Malindy Hetfeld, Mollie Taylor Published
Updated! We've plunged into a sea of indies and have created a selection of our favourite demos.

No two journeys are the same in the wondrous and dangerous hitchhiking adventure Road 96
By Rachel Watts Published
Open Road Digixart's highway story spins a tale about runaways searching for freedom.

Two Point Campus will let you make everything from Hogwarts to Greendale Community College
By Rachel Watts Published
School's out The Two Point Hospital devs are back with another edition to the pun-filled Two Point Universe.

Tails of Iron's trailer spins a tale of brutal animal faction warfare, narrated by Geralt
By Rachel Watts Published
news Rats and frogs have waged a savage war in this challenging tactical adventure.

Harold Halibut's stop motion and strange alien city continues to look absolutely gorgeous
By Rachel Watts Published
News We got another sneak peek of this underwater sci-fi adventure at the Future Games Show.

Solve all your problems by chucking pocket-sized aliens at them in Tinykin
By Rachel Watts Published
news This sci-fi adventure will find home on PC sometime in 2022.

Squishy mutant roguelite Arboria to leave Early Access this August
By Rachel Watts Published
news The fleshy hack-n-slash dungeon crawler finally gets a release date.

Abzu meets Limbo in brutal underwater adventure Silt
By Rachel Watts Published
news Get devoured by underwater monsters much bigger than you.
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