Oh, and a bunch of other difficulty options To survive in looter-booterPacific Driveyou have to keep the paranormal station wagon you drive around in good nick. You’re constantly repairing corroded doors and swapping out busted engine parts with cobbled-together technology. But maybe this tinkering was a little too much. Ourreviewpraised the game for its “trunk loads of atmosphere” but called the constant need to craft stuff “laborious”. If you also felt this, then good news....

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I have measured out my life with T.S. Eliot quotes Alruna And The Necro-Industrialistsopens with paired quotes from T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland andMad Max: Fury Road - a blend of influences that would typically get you kicked out of the Creative Writing Club for being simultaneously too fancy and too obvious, but the game beyond the epigraph looks pretty swish. It’s “a compact and high-densityMetroidvania, with a focus on sequence-breaking and playing things out of order”....

Well, sir, there’s nothing on Mars like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car monorail Efforts to render Mars commuter-friendly proceed apace asMars First Logisticsembraces the magic of trains. The latest update for the physics-based open world build-a-car game introduces a mountable theodolite, which lets you stitch together monorail networks you can then ride about on. If monorails strike you as frivolous, don’t worry.It’s more of a Shelbyville idea. And in any case, the theodolite also lets you construct networks of pipes, power lines and rail-less tarmac roads - the ready-salted crisp of the road family....

The Battle Brothers devs’ next strategy game wants you to keep its soldiers sweet If you’ve playedBattle Brothers, you’ll know that Overhype Studios have a way of making youcare for an underling, no more so than when you inadvertently send them onto the wrong end of a sharp blade.Menace, their upcoming turn-based tacticalRPG, will also put the wellbeing of your chosen fighters at the forefront of your mind – along with a dramatic shift from 2D medieval sprites to the fully 3D battlefields of a unruly space frontier....

Rhythm game fans may want to bookmark this one If you’re a fan of rhythm games and fun bops, then you might want to bookmark ol’Hyperbeat. Set in a wireframe world, you’re to chop, dodge or ride notes as you slam your “hyperknight” through a tunnel at high speed. There’s a subtle, dreamy story element to your musical journey, with confusing dialogue and a nice cherry blossom tree. Hmmm, curious. Anyway yeah, it looks rad....

The Killer7 creator thinks there’s too much focus on the review aggregator Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda - ofNo More HeroesandKiller7fame - reckons a focus on Metacritic scores is bad for creativity. Speaking toGI.bizrecently alongside survivalhorrorgenre maker-upper Shinji Mikami, Suda expressed his frustrations with the review aggregator platform’s cultural cache. “Everybody pays too much attention to and cares too much about Metacritic scores. It’s gotten to the point where there’s almost a set formula – if you want to get a high Metacritic score, this is how you make the game,” Suda51 told Gi....

Frack the planet I am lost in my own factory. From every direction, every angle, conveyor belts and smelters and assemblers obscure my senses and envelop my being. Twenty hours ago I placed my first manufacturer somewhere around here. Back then it represented the state of the art, hatching me a pristine batch of 1.25 computers every minute - now I’ve forgotten where I put the damn thing, after delving into my factory’s guts to hook that piddly yet still useful batch of old relics up to my main production line....

SULFUR is “a modern old-school action-adventure” For all the nightmarish enshittification modern life throws at us, we can at least feel warm and fulfilled about the resurgence of demos. Bountifully they await on Steam, like a friendly worker offering you toothpick-skewered cheese chunks at your local supermarket. And, oh, would you look at that: this cheese has some guns in it. Deeply customisable guns!SULFURis a shooty roguelike with some excellent goblins and a deepRPGequipment system....

Less is moor Tiny Gladehas been a constant presence on TikTok for the last year or so. It’s never far away. In between burrito recipes and hymns to the Fujifilm X100v, this gorgeous toylike art tool’s gamely turning stretches of balmy meadow into semi-ruined castles, semi-ruined villages and semi-ruined citadels. Dreamy and slightly haunted, it’s conjured words like “bewitching” and “spellbinding” in the comments sections, too. It makes sense, really. Tiny Glade’s a game about making rustic dioramas and then photographing them....

Deus Ex Dracula In theory, vampires and immersive sims go together as naturally as bats and caves. Immersive sims tend to involve a balance of stealth, acrobatics, raw strength and crafty manipulation, and vampires are celebrated for all of these things. Despite this, actual vampire-themed immersive sims are rare. My list starts withVampire: the Masquerade: Bloodlines… and sort of ends there. In a devastating betrayal, Arkane Austin’sRedfallwasn’t an immersive sim but an open world co-op shooter (anot very good one)....

Stuck on the Wordle word for September 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Thursday 12th December! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Wordleis an addicting but challenging test of word acumen. Luckily, you’re in the right place for some assistance. Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

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