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“LEAGUE OF LEGENDS IS ONE OF PC GAMING’S MOST PLAYED GAMES”

PC Gamer • #381 APRIL 2024

BAD ROLL • RPG devs blame the temporary death of CRPGs on ‘vibes-based forecasting’ from retailers

THE UGLY EPIDEMIC • Stuffed full of brands and tie-in skins, shooters are getting harder to look at

DEMONSTRATION MAN • TOBIAS GRAFF, CEO and co-founder of Mooneye Studios, on making a game demo

ESCAPE FROM TARKOV: ARENA • A back-to-basics shooter that punishes mistakes

SOLIUM INFERNUM • Satanic strategy with demonic divisions on hellish hexes

PACIFIC DRIVE • Take a road trip through mankind’s folly

RAILROADS & CATACOMBS • The roads are rails, but you cannot comb the cat

UNITED 1944 • WWII squad shooter risks being another unknown soldier

CREATING A RIFT • Updating LEAGUE OF LEGENDS is a mammoth task, but this year Riot Games has taken more risks than usual

THE HISTORY OF grand theft auto • With GRAND THEFT AUTO VI finally, officially revealed. PC Gamer charts the rise, rise, and rise of one of gaming’s biggest series

RECKONING BALL • A thousand years of wrongs put right in TOTAL WAR: WARHAMMER III

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THE FRONTIER IS CLOSED • A Pandora’s box of technical issues in AVATAR: FRONTIERS OF PANDORA

LEAVE IT TO BEAVERS • Building doomed cities and loving it in AGAINST THE STORM

BULLETS TRAIN • Survival RTS LAST TRAIN HOME delves into historical tale-telling

MARKET DOWN • WARHAMMER 40,000: ROGUE TRADER gets the tone right, but combat’s a drag

DISNEY CROSSING • DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY scratches that Animal Crossing itch, but at a price

FLIP SERVICE • Live the property fantasy, debt-free, in HOUSE FLIPPER 2

A FAMILY AFFAIR • Solving a family size mystery in THE ROOTTREES ARE DEAD

EVERY WITCH WAY • Bubble, bubble, recoil and trouble in TOMMY GUN WITCHES

CRAFT WORK • Driving a submersible in THE TWO RIVERS HYPOTHESIS

FORCE FEEDBACK • STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER is a stellar experience

HAVANA LAUGH • Bananas and brutality in TROPICO 5

STOCK AND LOAD • Order out of chaos in WILMOT’S WAREHOUSE

“Two wolves ran out of some trees and killed me almost instantly” • My harrowing first nights in the surprisingly cruel world of LEGO FORTNITE

“Its soundtrack by Thorr is incredible” • Ripping and tearing in SIGIL II

“Rogues can be tanks. Mages can be healers. Nothing’s off the table” • SEASON OF DISCOVERY’s been just weird enough to hook me

“Pushes me to beat every level without taking a scratch” • Is there anything cooler than a Ghostrunner? Yes, it’s GHOSTRUNNER 2

METAL GEAR SOLID MASTER COLLECTION VOLUME 1 • Modders are fixing Konami’s underbaked, underloved MGS ports.

LETHAL COMPANY • Make the horror more horrifying.

SURVIVE IN LEGO FORTNITE • Build your village and weather the wilderness.

TRYING TO GET RICH QUICK IN STARFIELD PART 1 • From one side of the galaxy to the next with the one and only Jett Johnson.

PROJECT WINGMAN’S 11TH MISSION, COLD WAR • A do or die, winner takes all...