Latest articles by Robin Valentine
I've been trapped on a yacht playing dice with billionaires for two hours now, and I'm already sick of chopping off my own fingers
CUT CONTENT Dead Finger Dice is part roguelike deckbuilder, part cruel and unusual punishment.
As FBC: Firebreak fails to recover from its disastrous launch and profit warnings are issued to shareholders, the CEO of Remedy Entertainment is stepping down
NEWS Tero Virtala is leaving the company after nine years in the role.
Think you know gaming? Test your knowledge with PC Gamer's fiendish quizzes
TRIVIA TROVE All our brain-teasers in one place.
Ball-bouncing, city-building, off-the-wall roguelike Ball X Pit is a huge hit, selling 300,000 copies in just its first five days on sale
NEWS With a peak concurrent player count of nearly 35,000.
Confused about what's what in Warhammer? Let me introduce you to the Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy settings in one easy beginner's guide
LORE & ORDER So the first thing to understand is, it's grim, but also it's dark...
The top 100 PC games
Class of 2025 Welcome to the 2025 edition of the PC Gamer Top 100—our annual list of the best PC games you can play.
Can you find the 10 real games in this jumble of 30 fake ones? Try to see through my lies in our latest quiz
LIE SPY Sort the games that are on Steam from the ones that came to me in a dream.
Ball X Pit review: A wild and excessive mash-up of roguelike action, city building, and a whole lot of ball-bouncing
ROUND TRIP Balls to the wall chaos.
Can you identify these 20 games just from seeing one of their cards? Our latest quiz puts your deck knowledge to the test
CARD SHARP Mobile users rejoice: I finally made you a quiz where all the images are portrait!
CloverPit review: This bite-size roguelike traps you in hell with only a slot machine for company
PIT STOP Plenty of personality, but not enough depth to keep you hooked.
How many roguelikes can you identify in five minutes? Our latest quiz is harder than a no-hit run
ROGUE NATION We show you the screenshots, you tell us the names.
Which Warhammer tabletop RPG is right for you? Discover all 11 games available with our beginner's guide
Trenches & Tyranids There are a lot more ways to have fun with Games Workshop's iconic settings than you realise.
One of the coolest games of 2025 is a Marvel superheroes beat-'em-up—and you can play a demo for yourself right now
NEWS Marvel Cosmic Invasion makes its roster of classic characters feel truly super.
Management sim sequel Jurassic World Evolution 3 offers more park customisation than ever for hardcore fans—but there's no dinosaur-driven chaos left to be found
PARK LIFE Life doesn't find a way, but at least you can place 17 different designs of path.
The best free PC games
Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.
Can you name every BioWare game in just 2 minutes? Find out with the latest PC Gamer quiz!
WARE IT'S AT From legendary RPGs to at least three things you've completely forgotten existed.
Apparently someone decided it was a good idea to make a Let It Die sequel in the year 2025, and God bless them
NEWS Let It Die: Inferno looks just as singularly weird as its largely forgotten predecessor.
Get started in pretty much every current Warhammer tabletop RPG at once for just $25 with this gloriously grimdark bundle
NEWS Whether you love Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Fantasy, or Age of Sigmar, there's a game in there for you.
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is richly authentic, intriguingly written, dripping with brooding atmosphere, and… not very fun to play, unfortunately
REALITY BITES Awkward combat, stealth, and traversal undermine the game's narrative flair.
The best open world games
vast travel Looking to escape into a new open world? Check out our expert recommendations.
Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor review – Vampire Survivors is no longer the king of the genre
GOLD RUSH DRG's survivors-like spin-off has dug its way out of early access, and it rocks.
Is Borderlands 4 the series at 'its most potent', or 'uninspired' and 'painfully dull'? The PC Gamer team is divided
LANDS APART Five members of the team weigh in with their thoughts so far.
I thought the new space factory management sim from the creators of Dorfromantik would be just as cosy, but now I'm panicking over my twisted interplanetary production lines
IN A FLAP Star Birds lures you in with cuteness and then puts you to work.
