Tom Sykes

Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.

Latest articles by Tom Sykes

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Stumble through the dark in free exploration game Reaching

By Tom Sykes Published

Free Go towards the light.

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Hell is murderous geometry in free roguelite action game Hells Divide

By Tom Sykes Published

Free In which FPS stands for First-Person Stabber.

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Terraform a planet in free, minimalist crafting game Lonely Rover

By Tom Sykes Published

Free As meteorites batter the planet's surface.

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LSD: Lost Sandy Desert is a free, far out trip on an alien planet

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Free Actually, LSD stands for 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.'

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Free puzzle game Xenopulse offers isometric, sci-fi block-pushing

By Tom Sykes Published

Free Push it.

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Free puzzler 10 People 10 Colors is basically Lemmings with a colour wheel

By Tom Sykes Published

Free The colour of magic.

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Here's John Wick reimagined as a brutally difficult, free NES game

By Tom Sykes Published

Free While we wait for John Wick Hex.

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Free game Sacrifights lets you summon demons so you can beat them up for offal

By Tom Sykes Published

Free Fight for your right to perform occult sacrifice.

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Okami meets Hyper Light Drifter in gorgeous free adventure Atma

By Tom Sykes Published

Free Draw your way around a beautiful fantasy world.

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Play the free demo for Bone Oblitum, an authentic, dark take on Zelda

By Tom Sykes Published

Free A game that makes no bones about its influences.

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Be alone with your camera in peaceful free photography game 30 Pictures

By Tom Sykes Published

Free A game that's purely photo mode.

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Plant trees in minutes in relaxing free gardening game Meditation Forest

By Tom Sykes Published

Free Make like a tree, and leave.

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Repair a frightful machine in free horror game Please

By Tom Sykes Published

Free A '90s-style horror, warped textures and all.

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Procedurally sliced pizza RPG No Delivery has an unsettling free demo

By Tom Sykes Published

Free I'd like a margherit-ARGH!

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Magic solves everything in clever free puzzler Transmute

By Tom Sykes Published

Free Freebie wizard wheezes.

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Seek your memories in gorgeous free puzzler When The Past Was Around

By Tom Sykes Published

Free Root around your home in search of answers.

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It's you versus a giant worm in free sci-fi adventure Fleshworms

By Tom Sykes Published

Free They flesh consumed.

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Roadwarden's demo lets you test its cool attitude-driven conversation system

By Tom Sykes Published

Free The road less travelled.

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Build a camp and ride llamas in The Superfluous Sand's free alpha demo

By Tom Sykes Published

Free A sci-fi, sandbox building game currently in development.

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Pilot a punchy car-mech in bonkers free brawler Deusimator

By Tom Sykes Published

Free It's also, somehow, a boxing game.

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Sail through a drowned world in free game The Things We Lost In The Flood

By Tom Sykes Published

news Write and read notes from other players.

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The Crimson Diamond is an old-fashioned mystery in the style of Sierra's Laura Bow

By Tom Sykes Published

A gem Play a demo of the upcoming adventure game.

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Control the roads in graceful, free traffic game Traffix

By Tom Sykes Published

Free On the road again.

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Wobble Jump is a free, retro LCD game from a parallel dimension

By Tom Sykes Published

Free Reach for the stars.

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The waiting is the easy part in gripping, free 'anti-thriller' The Interlude

By Tom Sykes Published

Free The calm before the storm.

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