Lean with potential to be really mean Have A Nice Deathis a roguelike where you take control of an overworked Death, whose employees have ditched their jobs and run amok. You’ll journey into the bowels of your company, find the miscreants, and scythe them back into work. Despite the game’s grim backdrop, it’s a joyful experience stacked with cracking combat and funny characters. The moreish roguelike hook is there, albeit with some early access hiccups to overcome....

Stay awhile and prosper The first gameplay video forStar Trek: Resurgenceshows seven minutes of hot chat action in the Telltale-style story ‘em up made by a studio founded by Telltale veterans. I’m glad to see it’s got a good amount of chat, not all Beastie Boys and laser guns, but I can’t get past one point. The voice actor filling in for Leonard Nimoy as Ambassador Spock sounds like he’s doing an impression of Diablo’s Deckard Cain....

Spare 80GB, stranger? Stranger Of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin, Team Ninja’s gleefully edgy action-RPG spin-off, now has some PC system requirements courtesy of itsofficial Twitter account. They, like what we’ve seen of the game itself, are pretty weird – the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Super on the same tier as the much more powerful AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, whaaa – but should be doable for most systems at 1080p....

Taking on 1080p Half the point of theSteam Deckis that it’s portable, but the other half is that it’s a PC. With the right tools, then, you can plug into a monitor, add a mouse and keyboard, and get playing as if it were a (somewhat) conventional gaming rig. But how well does the Steam Deck work as a desktop PC, really? Valve’s use of the Linux-based SteamOS alone makes it less of a 1:1 equivalent to a Windows system, and its AMD APU was designed to handle the onboard display’s 1280x800 resolution – not 1080p and above....

Roguelikelike roughhousing Team17 today announced they’re publishingShip Of Fools, a two-player cooperative “action roguelite” about sailing and fighting through extremely hostile waters filled with all sorts of monsters. Made by Quebec studio Fika Productions, it’s due to launch later this year. For now, check out the trailer below. Unlike the real sea, which is the very best place to be, the sea in Ship Of Fools is bad. Giant critters will attack your boat from the waves, and smaller ones will board you to nibble on your nose....

Little My fanclub, sound off A new video game will visit Tove Jansson’s wonderful world of the Moomins, and I am delighted. Due to launch next year, Snufkin: Melody Of Moominvalley will star the tootling nomad as he returns from his winter away only to find the Park Keeper has imposed order upon the freespirited valley by building parks everywhere. Sounds like a problem to be solved using friendship and mischief!...

Who are ya? Who are ya? I have enjoyed seeing Wordle fans make a million new daily puzzle games to make us guess words instrangeandcruelnew ways. I have enjoyed even more seeing Wordle fans make daily puzzle games which aren’t about guessing words, using familiar elements for whole new challenges.Heardle makes you guess songsby listening to their opening seconds. And now I’ve learned about Who Are Ya?, a game which uses the Wordle format to make you guess the identify of footballers....

They’re still finishing the game The devs first showed a work-in-progress version of the new scoreboardin January. They’ve have made some changes since then in response to feedback from players, which necessitateddelaying its additionfrom February, and aren’t quite done yet. They say, “this is the first version of the Scoreboard, and further improvements will be made to this in subsequent updates, based upon your continued feedback such as the Scoreboard being available during the End of Round screens....

“Screech” is the verb Elden Ringhides its open world’s beauty behind a layer of difficulty, sure, but it’s nothing compared to the Disgaea series. These colourful JRPGs have been hiding some of the deepest and most satisfying levelling systems in all of gaming behind the world’s most obnoxious anime characters for years now. The next brutal gauntlet isDisgaea 6 Complete, with a newly announced released date of June 28th. There’s also a new character trailer below, which sets out its stall....

FromSoftware have lifts down Elden Ringhas got me thinking again. Not about itsterrible banter I adoreor itsrolling goats. My mind has turned to its elevators and how FromSoftware does them justice. They aren’t just tools to get from A to B but moving platforms that hide secrets or instill a sense of dread. Not to mention their little pressure plates - god they’re satisfying aren’t they? I’m sure other games have exceptional elevator sequences....

Give your eyes a rest and ears a test Heardlemaintains many of the hallmarks of Wordle: it offers just one test a day; it’s the same for everyone; and you’ve got six guesses to get it right. The twist is that you’re trying to identify a song, with each guess revealing an extra few seconds from the opening bars. It’s got me in its (melodic) hooks - and you canplay it in your browser now....

Including Dusk, Amid Evil and Ion Fury I’m not sure how I feel about the term “boomer shooter”. Given that it refers to new first-person shooters which evoke games from the ’90s, shouldn’t they be millenial shooters? Fresh from killing napkins and mayonnaise, here come millenials to kill Shub-Niggurath. The other games on the list areDread Templar,HedonBloodlite,Project Warlock, Hellbound - plus discount vouchers for Ultrakill and Prodeus. It’s the first two I mentioned above that we like best: Dusk and Amid Evil....

After a year on Epic Every citybuilder is about keeping the districts of your city in balance, butAirborne Kingdommakes it rather more literal. As your flying metropolis expands, you have to apply propulsion machines - fabric wings, gigantic oars, pedal-powered rotors - to make sure it doesn’t tip dangerously this way or that. It’s delightful, and after a year on Epic’s game store, the Epic Games Store, it’s available on Steam....