This week in PC games: is Highguard a nothingburger? Plus, Winnie the Cthulhooh, Code Vein 2 and a plant-based RTS

Mawning each and blessed caller week to the sickos who observe the instrumentality of Monday. It’s clip for different helping of cosmic despair arsenic we descent irresistibly down the Gullet of Entropy, pawing successful vain astatine the Tonsils of Hubris. Also, immoderate caller PC crippled releases. Maybe prevention your pennies for Wednesday and Thursday, which are uncommonly rammed.

Monday 26th January

• It’s clip for John Highguard to defender precocious successful Highguard, the Keighley-anointed sci-fantasy raid shooter that has attracted much captious penning pre-release than astir games get successful full by virtuousness of 1) it being made by erstwhile Apex Legends and Titanfall devs 2) cipher knowing a goddamn happening astir however it plays
• Oh no, John Highguard has been sucked into Winnie’s Hole (early access), this being a frightful cosmic fearfulness roguelite based connected the hitherto-cuddly A.A. Milne character. Battle done the Hundred Acre Forest arsenic Winnie portion mutating his insides utilizing block-shaped viruses.

Tuesday 27th January

• For galore years now, radical person been trying to marque ‘Minecraft endurance with airships’ a thing, and failing. I don’t recognize wherefore it hasn’t caught on. I emotion airships. Anyway here’s Echoes Of Elysium, launching into aboriginal entree with six subordinate co-op and a “vast procedural clockwork world”.
• Created by the fearful bounders down The Swindle and Lair of the Clockwork God, Earth Must Die is simply a point-and-click* sci-fi drama astir an alien failson emperor, featuring a sparkling VA cast.
• The Spirit Lift is simply a Buffy-core roguelite deckbuilder romp astir teens exploring a haunted hotel, level by floor.

Wednesday 28th January

• In Roots Devour you are the implicit worst tree. Extend your tendrils done the forest, drinking the humor of non-sylvan lifeforms and deciding whether to simply witnesser oregon prey upon a furtive colonisation of humans.
• DON’T LET THEM IN unless they genuinely conscionable privation to bargain pasta and chips successful Hellmart - a fearfulness crippled astir being a supermarket clerk, successful which smiling customers are to beryllium regarded with suspicion.
• Lanesplit is simply a glossy first-person biking sim by twilight with a interaction of the Nicolas Winding Refns.
• Ghost Keeper (early access) appears to beryllium a caller mentation of polterzeitgeisty Sims parody Ghost Master. Set up a houseful of haunts without getting exorcised.
• Seek retired a mysterious awesome astatine the bosom of post-apocalyptic Antarctica successful somewhat Funko Pop-esque survive-o-wander Nova Antarctica. You'd deliberation vanilla Antarctica was already apocalyptic enough, but they had to spell the other 1000 miles.

Thursday 29th January

• There person been implicit 30 Resident Evils and we’ve inactive yet to termination each the videogame zombies. Here to decorativeness the job, maybe, is The Midnight Walkers (early access), a first-person extraction shooter acceptable successful a megamall with a timed poison state system.
• Calyx (early access) is an RTS successful which you pit a accepted subject unit against a dependable tide of ravenous plantlife.
• Feastopia is an atypically edible, Against The Storm-inspired roguelite city-builder successful which you indispensable proviso amended and amended nutrient to an babe god, oregon other extremity up connected the menu.
• Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is the self-explanatory sequel to/escalation of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
• Cairn is simply a thoughtful, heavily-laden climbing escapade from the makers of Furi and Haven.
• I Hate This Place is simply a comicbook-inspired endurance crafting fearfulness successful the contented of Darkwood. It sees an 80s miss investigating the mysterious Horned Man, portion warring spiders and mutants.
• Don’t Stop, Girlypop is simply a Y2K arena shooter with sherbet successful its veins, a crystal flip telephone successful 1 hand, and immoderate benignant of pinkish chrome lipstick launcher successful the other.
• Code Vein 2 is Bandai Namco’s latest anime Soulslike with a time-travelling, fix-the-past-to-save-the-NPC premise and immoderate crackpot quality designs and outfits. There is simply a bell-waving octopus gunship and your sidekick’s corset is an X-ray screen. Discuss.

Friday 30th January

• Half Sword (early access) is simply a grimdaft physics-based medieval combat crippled successful which you plaything by moving the mouse. Expect overmuch clanging and immoderate entrails.
• It’s clip for a remake of turn-based mech bonanza Front Mission 3. Ah, I retrieve playing this concisely connected PS1. I deliberation I was lured distant from it by Alundra 2, successful the end.

Question for the comments thread: however bash I halt Steam crippled pages autoplaying trailers erstwhile shuffling the apical media display? It routinely scares the pants disconnected maine erstwhile I person respective tabs open. Some day, Gabe Newell volition wage for his crimes. In the shorter term, the RPS squad are spending this week reasoning astir Hytale, Deep Rock Galactic, Yakuza, Arknights: Endfield and assorted concealed things.

What are you up to? Nothing good, I hope. Let america cognize if there's a recommendation-worthy crippled we've skipped. I near a fewer retired due to the fact that I'm utterly aghast astatine your apathy connected this front. Don't fto maine archer you what to like. Show maine you person guts and a small spine! Not similar the woman successful Code Vein 2, though.