Slork in spirit, if not in name

We never got Slork (RIP), the unreleased Deadlock character, and that's fine (RIP revoked) because the only thing I actually know about Slork is that if anyone says "Slork" in our work chat at least 10 people will respond by saying "Slork."

But I still think about Slork (RIS: Rest In Slork), especially when I see a game name that reminds me of Slork, like these six games titles that have big Slork energy:

Games called Lort, Zort, Tork, Zorg, Gorb, and Dorpie — (Image credit: Big Distraction, Londer Software, kodeti, Splendortek, jgallant, Chosen Interactive)

Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.