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“FROSTPUNK WAS A GRIPPING SURVIVAL STRATEGY CLASSIC”

PC Gamer • #384 JULY 2024

GABE’S FORTUNE • VALVE prints more money per head than Apple and Facebook

THE GOD FACTORY • A group of players built a record-breaking plant

BEST BEHAVIOR • Donkey Crew’s lead gameplay developer, SERGII GREBEN, on programming AI for NPCs

VINDICTUS: DEFYING FATE • Enjoy a spin-off from a long-running Korean MMO

MOUSE • Gangster mice, finger guns and classic rubber hose animation

EIYUDEN CHRONICLE: HUNDRED HEROES • Spiritual successor to Suikoden promises an grand adventure

LEVEL ZERO: EXTRACTION • Tarkov meets Alien in this terrifying extraction shooter

MELT DOWN • Your biggest threat in FROSTPUNK 2 isn’t a storm of snow. It’s the tide of humanity

Unreal Tournament 2004 • TWENTY YEARS AGO, ONE OF THE GREATEST FPS FRANCHISES ON PC PEAKED WITH UNREAL TOURNAMENT 2004. REMARKABLE IN ITS OWN RIGHT, ITS STRIKING LEGACY EXTENDS TO ITS ROLE AS A PLATFORM FOR MODS TH AT WOU LD TURN INTO ENDURING STANDALONE FR ANCHISES, AND ITS INFLUENCE ON LATER GAMES, ESPECIALLY ROCKET LEAGUE.

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PAWN COCKTAIL • DRAGON’S DOGMA 2 is an exceptional and sometimes infuriating RPG

CUTTER STAID • OUTCAST – A NEW BEGINNING rekindles the original game’s epic scope

OLD WORLD BLUES • The beautiful HORIZON: FORBIDDEN WEST COMPLETE EDITION struggles to move on

OFF PUTTING • Lee Carvallo’s PUTTING CHALLENGE 2: another great Simpsons fan game

SHORT CIRCUITS • You know what you’re in for with 20 SMALL MAZES

POMPING IRON • Solve problems with a hammer in PSYCHOPOMP

ALMA MATER • Horror is a family affair in FEAR

PHANTOM PAIN • The unseen side of the occult in PHASMOPHOBIA

MAZE RUNNER • Taking revenge in PAC-MAN CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION DX

“You have to look past the fact that he uses a spine as a sword” • ELDEN RING’s worst character is part of my Tarnished dream team

“The world is ending in a matter of days” • Being a sword in FFXIII: LIGHTNING RETURNS

“If you’re going to carpet a salon, the walls are the best place for it” • Checked to see if I’d be a good barber in HAIRDRESSER SIMULATOR

“The kind of game that would have received an affectionate score of 75” • Sampling the deceptively simple delights of EVIL WEST

ARMORED CORE VI • Diving into ACVI’s post-launch PvP

ELDEN RING REBORN • A Scholar of the First Sin-style total conversion mod for Elden Ring.

GET STARTED IN HELLDIVERS 2 • Take to the stars and fight for managed democracy.

GET RICH OR DIE TRYING IN STARFIELD PART 4 • Jett Johnson’s final pursuit of paradise is here.

FINDING A BUILD IN A ROGUELIKE • The joy of not knowing what you’re doing until you’re doing it.

GRIM FANDANGO • Death is a slave to the city in LucasArts’ last great adventure.

MUST PLAY • A PERSONAL LIST OF THE BEST GAMES YOU CAN PLAY RIGHT NOW

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