
Christopher Livingston
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.
Latest articles by Christopher Livingston

The best indie games on PC
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.

Blue Prince foundation elevator: how to use it
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Guide There's an elevator in Blue Prince's foundation room: here are some hints and a full solution on how to get inside it.

Blue Prince tips: 10 useful tricks for mastering the mysterious mansion
By Christopher Livingston last updated
house call Before you set foot in the ever-changing mansion, here's some spoiler-free advice to make things easier.

Markiplier says Hollywood was 'willfully ignoring the potential of YouTubers' before his film Iron Lung made $50 million at the box office
By Christopher Livingston published
News "No one was really bashing down my door to say, 'We want to make your movie!'" the actor and director of the indie horror film said.

'Please, let us cook more': Windrose devs aren't ready to give players a release date yet
By Christopher Livingston published
News "We want to lock this in firmly and ship the game on time," said Windrose Crew on its Discord.

Steam Next Fest is full of Balatro-likes: here's 7 demos I think you should try
By Christopher Livingston published
Rogue's Gallery From pushing coins to sweeping mines, developers are still trying to capture LocalThunk's magic.

'We couldn’t even have imagined this': Co-op pirate survival game Windrose has been wishlisted over 1 million times
By Christopher Livingston published
News The swashbuckling survival adventure is a hit before it's even out.

I've already played the demo of this co-op pirate survival game for 7 hours, but the boisterous sea shanties my crew sings keep me coming back for more
By Christopher Livingston published
DRUNKEN SAILORS The demo for Windrose is a rollicking pirate adventure—once you've chopped down enough trees, that is.
I'm extending the Winter Olympics for a few more hours by playing 1985 sports classic Winter Games
By Christopher Livingston last updated
Medal Gear Going for the gold in ski jumping, figure skating, bobsled, and more with this 40-year-old sports game.

Imagine if politics were full of monsters! Haha, no, I mean fun monsters like vampires, orcs, and goblins who use cards to hurl insults and smears at each other
By Christopher Livingston published
Fight your way to the top of the government in card-based roguelike Prime Monster.

First Monopoly, then Catan, and now Netflix has announced a movie based on the Ticket to Ride board game
By Christopher Livingston published
News Maybe we'll eventually get a fantasy drama called Game of Checkers.

Poppy Playtime becomes Steam's global top seller and doubles its all-time peak player count record
By Christopher Livingston published
News Everyone wants to play with Chapter 5's "Wrongside Outimals."

Valheim's creative director is still 'dedicated on Valheim every day' in addition to his new co-op dungeon crawler: 'We love making games so much that we want to make more games'
By Christopher Livingston published
News Work on the second game doesn't "compete in any way" with the work being done on Valheim, says Robin Eyre.

How often do we see game sequels totally shift genres?
By Wes Fenlon published
Change-up The upcoming Control: Resonant moves from shooter to melee action. You sure don't see that very often.

The best Skyrim Special Edition mods
By Jody Macgregor last updated
Updated! The best Skyrim Special Edition mods are as numerous as the best mods for vanilla Skyrim.

This horror sim is like running a food truck in Fallout: cook questionable meals for mutants, monsters, and the occasional alien
By Christopher Livingston published
News There are a lot of hungry mouths to feed in the wasteland. Some of them are even on faces.

Quiz time: Can you guess what games these one-line Steam reviews are from? (Part 3!)
By Christopher Livingston published
👍👎 Will your score be mostly positive or overwhelmingly negative?

The world's first 'standardized gaming test' will see if you can beat an '80s adventure game without a walkthrough—and it'll even monitor you over a webcam to make sure you don't cheat
By Christopher Livingston published
News Developer Woe Industries is using new tools to simulate a retro experience.

After 10 years No Man's Sky still hasn't run out of cool stuff to give you, so here's a gravity gun, too
By Christopher Livingston published
News It's for uncovering and salvaging hazardous waste—but we all know it's really for chuckin' things around.

Microsoft has revoked the DMCA takedown that forced an indie Minecraft-like off Steam
By Wes Fenlon last updated
News Microsoft claimed the indie game uses "Minecraft content."

Subnautica 2 devs show off multiplayer while constantly reassuring solo players it's totally optional
By Christopher Livingston published
News "The important distinction there is that any part of the game isn't going to require cooperative play."

Finally, a fantasy game filled with adorable gnomes that you can punch right in their adorable faces
By Christopher Livingston published
News You've heard of a rumble in the jungle. The demo for Fight-Quest is an altercation in the vegetation.

Valheim devs have been working on a first-person co-op dungeon-crawler 'in the evenings and on weekends,' and you can try it now on Steam
By Christopher Livingston published
News Rob the dead to pay the living in Begraved.
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