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The protagonists of Haven
(Image credit: The Game Bakers)

Emma Davies played Haven, a sci-fi RPG about two lovers on the run. It's great to have a game about a happy couple rather than yet another singleton looking for love or at least a sidequest fling, especially given how much Haven resembles a visual novel. That alien planet looks cool too.

Chris Livingston played Legend Bowl, a retro gridiron game. It's in Early Access at the moment but it certainly has the look of a 2D American football sim from the pixel era, the likes of Tecmo Bowl or the 1990s Madden games. 

Tyler Wilde played the new VR Medal of Honor, and found a virtual FPS that's learned none of the lessons of Half-Life: Alyx. Locking players in place for cutscenes is always a no-no in VR, but then so are the many other sins committed by Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond.

Luke Kemp played Chronos: Before the Ashes, the prequel to Remnant: After the Ashes. While originally released as a standalone VR game, Chronos has been retooled into a third-person Soulslike. It's post-apocalyptic fantasy where deaths can age you, though that's a system that apparently doesn't have much effect on the actual game.

Jody Macgregor
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.