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Super Lesbian Animal RPG is a big hit with the target audience
Today in niche games, the recent release of Super Lesbian Animal RPG seems to have greatly pleased people who enjoy the idea of a game called Super Lesbian Animal RPG. It's a classic-inspired turn-based RPG about a crew of…
15 hidden gems to grab before the Steam Winter Sale ends
2022 was a preposterously good year for games. Maybe not so much on the AAA blockbuster front, but every single month of the year smaller studios brought a swarm of fascinating new things to play, only to be driven from our minds by the…
You get two guesses as to what puzzle game Sushi for Robots is about
I'm a sucker for a clever indie puzzler, so naturally Sushi for Robots looks quite nice, doesn't it? It's a simple premise, the robots are obsessed with some sushi and you've got to serve it to them by setting up the weird conveyors they…
Here’s a quirky little game with excellent sailing ships to explore and battle in
A curious little indie launched last week, a game where you sail customizable ships across a vibrantly-colored fantasy archipelago in search of ancient secrets, battling monsters and pirates while exploring new islands. Players and…
Please enjoy this free, weird, and somewhat disconcerting adventure
Trapped in the crumbling outskirts of a brutalist megalopolis, in a town called Babbdi, your job is to get out. That's the conceit of BABBDI, a free indie from duo developers Lemaitre Bros that's gotten some positive buzz on Steam in the…
So, so many Vampire Survivors clones came out this year
Is "survivors" distinct enough from "survival" to be the name of an entirely different genre? I'm not sure, but we're almost certainly in the midst of a mini genre boom of Vampire Survivors-likes, our favorite roguelike of 2022 and the…
2023’s looking like another banger year for deckbuilders
There’s just something deliciously moreish about drawing a fresh hand and rolling with the punches as long as you can. From solitaire to Slay The Spire, single-player games of chance-laced strategy have always been popular, but never so…
The horror of Signalis: Trying to make sense of a reality that’s ever-so-slightly off
At first nothing makes sense in Signalis. It's an inscrutable collection of strange places, people and ideas—a puzzle box nested inside a bigger puzzle box, heavily seasoned with robots, space colonisation, skinned nightmare creatures and…
Roadwarden is the first text adventure I enjoyed as much as a good book
Personal Picks(Image credit: Future)In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2022 (opens in new tab), each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks, alongside…
Dorfromantik was 2022’s ‘no thoughts, just vibes’ game of the year
Personal Picks(Image credit: Future)In addition to our main Game of the Year Awards 2022 (opens in new tab), each member of the PC Gamer team is shining a spotlight on a game they loved this year. We'll post new personal picks, alongside…