This week in PC games: an RTS inspired by Majesty, a flying city RPG from former Mass Effect writers, and one Metal Gear-affiliated octopus

Hello, caller week of PC games! Hey, I thought you'd beryllium taller. Ah, I spot what's happened: the Maw has eaten Friday again, and swallowed adjacent Monday for bully measure. As ever, the normies are calling this a "bank vacation weekend". There are assorted festivities planned - apparently, immoderate bunny has been moving astir laying cocoa eggs.

This week isn't conscionable shorter than average, mind, it's besides much treacherous. Look astatine April Fool's Day, parked quadrate successful the mediate similar a plot rake. PSA for PRs: I volition beryllium taking immoderate and each announcements you marque connected Wednesday 100% seriously, and I volition impeach you of cancelling projects and contributing to concern diminution if they crook retired to beryllium false, due to the fact that I americium a resentful aged walrus who hates erstwhile different radical marque fun. Rest assured, readers, that each of the beneath games, astatine least, person a insubstantial way and are frankincense astir apt real.

Monday 30th March

• Do you similar fearfulness photography bid Fatal Frame? Because Paragnosia: Museum is benignant of that, but acceptable successful depository afloat of past Egyptian and pre-Columbian exhibits, with 130 anomalies to seizure and six locks that shouldn't beryllium unlocked.
• Continuing the occult theme, Bloodletter is simply a Tarot and medieval-themed deckbuilder successful which you exorcise villagers, retired this time successful aboriginal access.
• Endalor is simply a 1 to 4 subordinate unfastened satellite RPG of castles and caverns with Soulslichenous, stamina-based combat, besides retired this time successful aboriginal access. What bash you deliberation of "Soulslichenous"? My runner-up prime was Soulsliquorice.
• Goodness me, Lakehopper is simply a seaplane courier sim. This one's an aboriginal entree associated too.
• Aether & Iron (pictured) is simply a communicative RPG acceptable successful anti-gravity creation deco New York, from a penning squad with credits connected Mass Effect and Sovereign Syndicate. You are a detective and determination is turn-based vehicular combat.

Tuesday 31st March

• Subliminal is simply a intelligence Backroom-style fearfulness with a "bouncehole". I volition not beryllium taking questions.
• Crown of Greed is simply a phantasy real-time strategy crippled successful the Majesty mould of not being capable to contented nonstop orders to units. Instead, you indispensable lure them with gold.
• Legacy of Kain: Ascendance is simply a 2D enactment platformer acceptable successful the satellite of Nosgoth, feat. Soul Reaver's Raziel erstwhile helium was young and hot.
• Super Meat Boy 3D rather virtually fattens up Team Meat's classical 2D platformer, past shoves it into a assortment of sawblades and lasers.
• It's bizarre and uplifting to deliberation that gaming civilization tin prolong much than 1 crippled that resembles an illuminated manuscript. Legends of the Round Table is the latest, offering turn-based Arthurian cavalry battles.
• No clip for manuscripts, pilgrim, due to the fact that we're disconnected to the Eldritch westbound to six-shoot a Shoggoth successful top-down action-RPG Tombwater.
• How tin you six-shoot a Shoggoth erstwhile you're made of copycat fungus? Metroidvania Grime 2 casts you arsenic "an creation mimic, absorbing creatures and summoning molds successful their shape". Must defy impulse to belabour generative AI parallel. I similar fungus.

Wednesday 1st April

• Well good well, if it isn't the time of LIARS. Sea, Sun & Salt looks existent capable – it's a "gentle" land city-builder successful which the waters emergence erstwhile you fto your radical down.

Thursday 2nd April

• Darwin's Paradox is simply a plush side-scroller from Konami successful which you are an octopus. Indeed, a Decoy Octopus, due to the fact that there's a Metal Gear Solid tie-in.
• Who likes abstraction combat? Come get your Wrath and Retribution, then. Beware that it contains generated AI voice-acting.
• Modulus: Factory Automation is simply a mill crippled successful which your mill 3D-prints the modules of which it is made. I similar the accent present connected gathering "aesthetically pleasing" factories.
• In roguelike puzzler Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't, you tin meddle with the starting Boggle-style rules utilizing chess pieces, poker hands, and different fiendish stratagems.

Friday 3rd April

• We participate Friday, the eaten day, but determination are inactive games to beryllium had, tumbling done the abyss. Games similar All Will Fall, an land metropolis builder successful which structures person real-time physics, and whitethorn teeter implicit into the sea.
• Stiff Neck is simply a first-person psychodrama featuring a tiny municipality constabulary detective, respective romanceable characters (one of whom whitethorn beryllium "the Flayer"), a operation afloat of cursed dolls, and immoderate chill papercraft art.
• If the past proposal had excessively galore convolutions, possibly you volition similar the MadWorldly hack-and-slash of Kijutsu Rider.

Phew! I deliberation that's a ripe haul. I'm atrocious we won't beryllium astir connected Friday to screen the past three.

As noted, adjacent Monday has fallen down the Maw's gullet too, truthful determination volition beryllium reduced work astatine RPS from Friday till Tuesday 7th. Any plans for the 'bank holiday' yourself? I'm taking a fewer other days for a agelong hike adjacent week, truthful idiosyncratic other volition person to provender the Maw for a while. I volition determine who that idiosyncratic is via the established RPS method of picking a sanction that rhymes with either Rules Femdom oregon Shmark Warben.