What we're feeding the Maw
Merry Monday, readers. Edwin’s been struck down by a post-TennoCon lurgy, and we were only too happy to allow him some rest, provided he file his Soulframe and Warframe: Tau stories before collapsing into a feverish heap. We even agreed to feed the Maw in his absence, albeit without reaching a similar accord on responsibility for the litter tray.
Thus: new PC games this week. Here are some of them.
Monday 13th July
Ascend to Zero is a sci-fi action-roguelike that adds a layer of temporal manipulation on top of its loosely Hades-like fight rooms.
Science Cop sim Forensics: Crime Scene Detective puts you in charge all those fingerprint and bullet striation comparisons you saw attractive people doing on CBS in the 2000s.
Soulforge Lost Path aims to purge some of the RNGness from its Survivorslike/bullet heaven combat by having you carefully manage a cramped inventory space, while letting you use looted resources to forge brand new demoncutters.
Tuesday 14th July
D-Topia is a a "gentle-paced" puzzle adventure about being forced to keep an AI-managed society in a state of algorithmic bliss.
Eerie puzzler The Incident at Galley House is a VN remake of William Rous’ murder mystery text adventure Type Help , down to the use of a strange device that replays past conversations.
Wednesday 15th July
Life sim sequel Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit once again gets you helping out ghosts and building up your campsite. Alice Bee (RPS in Peace) liked the original .
I’m under review embargo for Denshattack , so I can’t say much more than it’s a train-driving game where you do tricks and stunts. Oh no, who dropped this demo impressions piece here ?
Ace Team’s Lovecraftian co-op shooter The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu is out this week; I’ve seen it described as an extraction game, though Edwin got Left 4 Dead vibes from the demo .
Thursday 16th July
Flip patties and flee monsters in Happy's Humble Burger Cult , a "cooking horror" game for 1-4 kitchen drones. Looks alright, though I must say I preferred its original name, Happy's Humble Burgatory.
Mousey 3D platformer Moss: The Forgotten Relic is a combination of Polyarc’s VR console games Moss and Moss: Book II, made 'flat' for headsetless PC players.
Storebound is ending its spell in early access, the mall-set cooperative horror puzzler launching into 1.0 with the addition of its fifth and sixth episodes.
Lot of bring-some-friends horror stuff out this week, eh. Wreck Runners has you shooting and looting within a haunted Bermuda Triangle, armed mainly with HL2-style gravity guns.
Friday 17th July
The tentatively Julian-approved Fogpiercer is a tactical roguelike deckbuilder about equipping and defending a train as it barrels through the end of the world. No Chris Evans, mind.
Frozen Ship also concerns snow, a vital vehicle, and the post-apocalypse, but it’s a first-person survival game where both you and the miniature city aboard your craft depend on MAKING good finds. It’s launching on the 17th in early access.
Also this week – today, in fact – is RPS’s 19th birthday. Hooray for us, and for all of you lovely readers. We’re saving a proper celebration for our 20th, though, partly because it’s a cooler number and partly because we’re a bit all over the place in the coming days. Julian’s off to the Develop conference in Brighton, Edwin’s on the Lemsip, and I’m disappearing on Wednesday for a brief, post-Steam Machine holiday. We’ve got plans to keep the posts a-comin’, though, and as always, do share any games we’ve missed in the comments.