Wagon is a 1-bit card-based spiritual successor to survival classic The Oregon Trail, and wastes no time getting right into the cannibalism
News Dysentery is the least of your worries.
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Balatro interview - Gambling, reacting to a big hit, LocalThunk | GDC 2025
We sat down with Wout van Halderen of Playstack, the publisher behind Balatro, to talk about the continued success the game has seen in 2025, and some of the issues that come along with having a big hit.
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Fretless: The world's first GuitaRPG?
YouTuber Rob Scallon has been entertaining us for more than a decade with his light-hearted music-focussed videos. Now he's teamed up longtime contributor Jeff Linville of Ritual Studios to create Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson, a rhythm-focussed, pixel art "GuitaRPG" packed with references to his channel and music culture. Our Features Producer Mollie Taylor recently got to check out the demo and chat to Rob and Jeff about the project, discussing the mechanics, the development, and the famous musicians lending their talents - and their likenesses - to this intriguing game.
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Disco Elysium Studio ZA/UM Talks Project [C4] at GDC
ZA/UM, the studio behind 2019 hit Disco Elysium, is hoping to bounce back from recent controversy with its latest game, codenamed Project [C4]. PC Gamer's Ted Litchfield recently got to sit down with writer Siim Sinamäe, better known as “Kosmos”, to discuss [C4] and how they hope to build on Disco to craft a daring and cerebral espionage RPG. Unfortunately, we're not allowed to show any of the gameplay we saw, so we've used clips of ZA/UM's previous game, Disco Elysium, which [C4] appears to iterate on.
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Magazine Issue 409
This month PC Gamer goes fangs-on with The Chinese Room's revamped World of Darkness RPG, Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, and discover a thrilling, blood-filled, detective noir experience no gamer should miss.
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RuneScape: Dragonwilds - Jagex Community Manager Jake Blunt answers all at GDC
RuneScape: Dragonwilds is an upcoming open world survival game set in the RuneScape universe made by Jagex, creators of one of the most beloved MMOs in history; RuneScape. We sat down with Jake Blunt, Senior Community Manager at Jagex, at GDC 2025 to discuss the lore, challenges, and epic adventures that await in this dangerous region.
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11 BIG FPS games coming to PC in 2025
2025 is going to be a hell of a year for first-person shooter fans. It's not just that we're getting more new shooters than you can fit in a magazine, but the sheer depth and breadth of what's coming is already beating a quieter 2024.
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Assassins Creed Shadows Review
Assassin's Creed Shadows is finally here. With dual protagonists, a sprawling map, and abundant loot, has Ubisoft managed to improve on the AC games that came before it? What has changed and are these changes for the better or worse? PC Gamer writer Morgan Park is here to answer some of those questions with our review.
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PC Gamers Spend 92% Of Their Time On Old Games
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Monster Hunter Wilds Review | Bigger, Wilder, Better?
Monster Hunter Wilds Review – Bigger, Wilder, Better? Monster Hunter Wilds is Capcom’s first PC and console dual release but does it streamline the formula, deliver seamless battles, and cinematic storytelling? Or does it strip away much of what made past entries like Monster Hunter Rise great?
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 | Review
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is many things; ambitious, peculiar, meticulous, funny. But one thing it never is is boring! Set in 15th century Bohemia, developer Warhorse Studios has gone out of its way to craft a dense and intriguing epic tailored to oddball tastes, especially if you're a system-loving sicko like our News Writer and reviewer, Josh Wolens. The game looks beautiful too, thanks to CryEngine, and scales surprisingly well to a variety of hardware. Could this game be a bona fide Bohemia Rhapsody?
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Best cozy games that aren't farming sims
From tumbling railways to soothing scrambles, here's a list of some of the best cozy games that are not farming sims.
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7 Hours in Dune Awakening: Your Questions Answered | First Look
Dune Awakening is a much anticipated new MMO from Conan developers Funcom. Fresh from a 7 hour hands-on preview in Oslo - perhaps the least Arrakis like place on planet Earth - our News Writer Joshua Wolens took to answered some of your questions.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 FE | Review
A new graphics card built for silicon austerity and a new era of AI rendering. Here is our Editor-in-Chief of Hardware Dave James to share his verdict.
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Steam Surges Past 40 Million Concurrents For The First Time
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Biggest FPS Games Coming to PC in 2025: Unrecord
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PC Gamer's Top 100 2024: Highlight Reel
Welcome to the PC Gamer Top 100, our annual rundown of the best games you can play on PC today. This list is the culmination of months of discussion, negotiation and a handful of arguments—the passion of the PC Gamer team as our writers and editors wrangled to get their favourites into the list. We judge games based on a number of factors: Importance, Hotness, Playability, and, above all, Quality. Hopefully you'll discover some new favourites too. Enjoy!
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The best free PC games
Freebies Forever Our frequently updated selection of the best free games right now.
I'm honestly shocked, but Arc Raiders is a much more exciting extraction shooter than Marathon
EMBARK After 4 hours with both shooters, Bungie should be worried that Embark will steal its spotlight.
MSI Vector 16 HX AI gaming laptop review
Gruntwork A classic gaming laptop that delivers on the frame rate promise of Nvidia's RTX 50-series, but not on the battery life.
Thrustmaster T.Flight HOTAS One Microsoft Flight Simulator Edition review
Cheap thrills A cheap-yet-cheerful starting point to an otherwise expensive hobby.
How to start Knights of the Nine in Oblivion and the remaster
Pilgrimage How to begin your Pilgrimage to The Nine.
How to begin The Shivering Isles in Oblivion and the remaster
Cheese! How and when you can unlock Oblivion's most beloved expansion.
The current and future Resonance banners in Infinity Nikki
Style Watch Manage your Diamonds wisely for only the finest fashion fits.
Be Quiet! Dark Mount modular mechanical keyboard review
Overshadowed A modular keyboard desperate for the spotlight.
Be Quiet! Light Mount mechanical keyboard review
Quietly de-lightful A full-size sound-dampened board exuding far from quiet confidence.
Best Marvel Rivals crosshairs and reticle codes
Aimbot Get the best reticles for every character using these crosshair codes and settings.
I hope Dune: Awakening's base-building get weirder and wilder than what we saw in the beta, because it's going up against decades of killer Dune artwork
Desert power Dune: Awakening's building interface is a bit clunky, too.
Baldur's Gate 3's new Giant Barbarian is beating out one of D&D 5e's oldest powergamer builds, making Karlach the MVP of my second Honour Mode playthrough
BIGGER, BETTER Giant woman, big damage.
Fill out this PC Gamer brand survey for a chance to win a £250/$300 Amazon voucher
Survey It'll only take around five minutes to complete.
Five new Steam games you probably missed (April 28, 2025)
New on Steam Sorting through every new game on Steam so you don't have to.
Hexblade might the best 1-level dip in Baldur's Gate 3, but going the distance with a full 12 levels and their infinite necrotic ghost turrets has me fixing to finally beat the game without multiclassing
Hex Heck I'm Mr. Multiclass, but a full 12 levels of Hexblade is hard to beat.
My favourite Elder Scrolls YouTuber returned after 2 years, and it's made me fall in love with ridiculous challenge runs all over again
Up to the challenge Challenge accepted.
Oblivion Remastered looks so good that I can't believe I'm saying this: I kinda hope Bethesda remasters Skyrim (again) too
Alteration I wouldn't have said this a week ago, but in the wake of Oblivion's shiny new facelift, Skyrim suddenly feels pretty drab.
Oblivion Remastered leveling explained—with skill exploits to rank up faster
Skill Swiftly Here's how leveling skills works in Oblivion Remastered along with some tips on how to grind ranks quickly.
