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Detective adventure Strange Antiquities makes me want to be an apprentice thaumaturge, right after I look up what thaumaturge means
News The sequel to puzzle game Strange Horticulture gives you lots of new tools to investigate mysterious occult relics.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's career mode is buggy and frustrating and I can't stop playing it
Bumpy Ride I will start a successful airline company if I have to fly my way through a thousand glitches.
Well, that's a new twist: save a town by turning it into a giant pinball game in open world adventure Pinbleton Park
News Can't wait to get my flippers on this one.
Forget inheriting a dumpy old farm: your cool uncle left you a 'seaplane delivery service' in this open world life sim
News Explore islands, build and decorate a house, and grow your airborne business in Lou's Lagoon.
Factorio, but cozy? Little Rocket Lab is a factory builder with plenty of Stardew Valley vibes
News Build automated contraptions while getting to know the townsfolk in a cozy village.
In this cozy survival game you're a mouse who knits tiny wool sweaters, bakes pies for his friends, lives in a furnished tree trunk, and I can't even go on because it's so darn cute
News Stay warm and fed all through the coldest months in survival game Winter Burrow.
'My plan is to get ripped': Red Dead's John Marston has an OnlyFans now
News Don't expect to see his hog, though: "I won't be naked and it won't be sexy," said actor Rob Wiethoff.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 dev apologizes for 'what can only be described as an awful launch experience'
news "We want to deeply apologize for what happened," said head of Microsoft Flight Simulator Jorg Neumann.
Secret Level review: our take on every episode of Amazon's videogame anthology show
Prime Time 15 games, from Mega Man to Armored Core to the now-defunct Concord, are adapted in a new series from the creator of Love, Death, and Robots.
My favorite game of 2024, Blue Prince, finally has a release window… in 2025
Blue Prince is a mystery mansion puzzle game I can't wait for everyone else to play.
PlayerUnknown's survival game Prologue will hit early access in the first half of 2025
News If you can't wait that long, there will be community playtests ahead of the early access launch.
PUBG creator Brendan Greene just released a free tech demo of his new game engine on Steam that lets you play with 'an Earth-scale world generated in real-time'
News Preface: Undiscovered World lets players generate and explore Earth-sized worlds.
The creators of Secret Level say Bandai Namco encouraged them to do 'whatever we want' with an iconic character: 'We would like audiences to wonder what the f**k they did with Pac-Man'
News No spoilers, but the Pac-Man episode of Secret Level is a wild one, and Bandai Namco was fine with that.
The best indie games on PC
Small but mighty These are the best indie games you can play on PC.
Another big Stalker 2 patch just arrived to fix the main mission, side quests, and input lag
News A few more anomalies (by which I mean progress-blocking bugs) have been dealt with.
If you missed April's total solar eclipse, you can see it in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
News Set the clock for April 8, 2024, fly around its path in North America, and you'll get a second showing of the celestial event.
Great moments in PC gaming: Being hunted by enemies so scary I spent most of Assassin's Creed Origins hiding from them
Seek & Destroy The Phylakes roamed the open world looking for you, and they were no joke.
My new survival game obsession looks like Minecraft but is way more complex—and you won't find it on Steam
Your Craft Vintage Story looks like yet another blocky voxel game, but it's got a surprising amount of complexity and it's highly customizable.
Get rich quick with these Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord cheats
Lordmode Bannerlord cheats to create gold, level you up, knock out enemies, teleport, and much more.
If you think Stalker 2 is buggy, wait until you climb aboard Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
News And keep your seatbelt fastened until we spawn upside-down halfway inside the airport.
Stalker 2's survival systems haven't changed since the last game 15 years ago, and I'm not sure if I'm happy or disappointed
☢️ I'm not saying it needs elaborate cooking and crafting systems, but it'd be nice to heat up a sausage and fix my own guns.
The first bug I saw in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is the same bug I saw in Stalker: Call of Pripyat 14 years ago, and I find that downright heartwarming
jank tank Even a decade and a half later in a new engine, a specific bit of jank still abides.
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's waiting queue is gone, so you should be able to get in now
News Though there may still be problems playing: "We are aware of additional technical issues that the team is working to address."
