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
Hell is murderous geometry in free roguelite action game Hells Divide
By Tom Sykes published
Free In which FPS stands for First-Person Stabber.
Terraform a planet in free, minimalist crafting game Lonely Rover
By Tom Sykes published
Free As meteorites batter the planet's surface.
LSD: Lost Sandy Desert is a free, far out trip on an alien planet
By Tom Sykes published
Free Actually, LSD stands for 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.'
Free puzzle game Xenopulse offers isometric, sci-fi block-pushing
By Tom Sykes published
Free Push it.
Free puzzler 10 People 10 Colors is basically Lemmings with a colour wheel
By Tom Sykes published
Free The colour of magic.
Here's John Wick reimagined as a brutally difficult, free NES game
By Tom Sykes published
Free While we wait for John Wick Hex.
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.
Okami meets Hyper Light Drifter in gorgeous free adventure Atma
By Tom Sykes published
Free Draw your way around a beautiful fantasy world.
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.
Be alone with your camera in peaceful free photography game 30 Pictures
By Tom Sykes published
Free A game that's purely photo mode.
Plant trees in minutes in relaxing free gardening game Meditation Forest
By Tom Sykes published
Free Make like a tree, and leave.
Repair a frightful machine in free horror game Please
By Tom Sykes published
Free A '90s-style horror, warped textures and all.
Procedurally sliced pizza RPG No Delivery has an unsettling free demo
By Tom Sykes published
Free I'd like a margherit-ARGH!
Magic solves everything in clever free puzzler Transmute
By Tom Sykes published
Free Freebie wizard wheezes.
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.
It's you versus a giant worm in free sci-fi adventure Fleshworms
By Tom Sykes published
Free They flesh consumed.
Roadwarden's demo lets you test its cool attitude-driven conversation system
By Tom Sykes published
Free The road less travelled.
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.
Pilot a punchy car-mech in bonkers free brawler Deusimator
By Tom Sykes published
Free It's also, somehow, a boxing game.
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.
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.
Control the roads in graceful, free traffic game Traffix
By Tom Sykes published
Free On the road again.
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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