Good morrow to ye, stranger! This week's new PC game round-up is jam-packed indeed - absolutely sardine-canned. So let's skip the customary preamble about the Maw's digestive habits and proceed directly to the banqueting table.
On Monday 3rd March, Star Crafter sets out to craft "entire planets, Dyson Ring, Dyson spheres, and more". Possibly just Minecraft in space again, but I do like those skies. On Tuesday 4th March, Carmen Sandiego has third-person hang-glider sequences now? Also, here's Knights In Tight Spaces for medievalists with solid spatial reasoning, and Grimoire Groves for green-fingered, psy-cosy-delic roguelikers. And Two Point Museum, which is apparently a bit too grand for comfort. And Everhood 2 for people who like bizarre musical action-RPGs. And first-person soccer shooter Vector Strike. And Merchants Of Rosewall, for people who like *squints* selling dog figurines to elves.
Enough, Tuesday! You don't get to own the whole week. Look, you've left me no room to write about Wednesday 5th March, so let's call that a rest day. On Thursday 6th March, it's time for those HD remasters of hero-hoarding JRPGs Suikoden 1 and 2, unless you have physically present friends and a sofa, in which case you might prefer Split Fiction, unless you yearn to play monster physician, in which case you might prefer Do No Harm, unless you like pretending your desktop is a Mario level, in which case here's MainFrames. And on Friday 6th March, why not spend a few hours cleaning magical artefacts in Wyrmhall: Brush And Banter.
These games? Merely our picks. Your choices? Probably superior. Where to mention them? The comments thread below. Also below? Our latest weekly news liveblog. Have a jolly week.
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Key points- 09:11 am March 07 2025 LOOK TO WINDWARD, IT'S FRIDAY
- 09:04 am March 06 2025 STEADY AS SHE GOES INTO THURSDAY
- 09:19 am March 05 2025 BY AND LARGE IT'S WEDNESDAY
- 09:05 am March 04 2025 STARBOARD FIFTEEN, WE ARE APPROACHING TUESDAY
- 09:31 am March 03 2025 FULL STEAM AHEAD TO MONDAY
FULL STEAM AHEAD TO MONDAY
The Maw belches and burgeons like an overshaken bottle of pop. Break out the 16-caliber decorkers and FEED IT.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:55 am UTC At least one Japanese restaurant has run out of cheese following Monster Hunter Wilds players getting cravings for cheese naan after watching a scene in the game, via Automaton.– Nic Reuben
10:20 am UTCProject2501 says: Unprofessional for staff to do it so I will, RPS mainstay Caff has a game out. Chilled out micro dosing molly enhancer (my strap line, not his!), Kinetic Canvas is out tomorrow. If you can afford it and fancy it, maybe show some love. Looks like a nice little relax during these fraught days. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3526260/Kinetic_Canvas/
I know writers who are professionals, and they are all cowards. Also this looks absorbing.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
10:23 am UTC Steam set a new record for players simultaneously online this weekend, thanks in no small part to Monster Hunter Wilds, which broke one million concurrents on Friday despite a Mixed user review reception.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
15:40 pm UTC Fucked-up courtier simulator Sultan's Game will launch on 31st March. Not played the demo for this, but Nic found it promisingly debauched.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
16:08 pm UTC Slay The Princess developer Black Tabby's visual novel RPG Scarlet Hollow has received a major update. Expect "70,000 words of new story content" in the first two episodes (one of which is still available as a demo), plus some UI tweaks. The full game is 25% off to celebrate.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
16:40 pm UTC If you've been hankering for some vintage Command & Conquer, you can get basically all of it right now for about a fiver. The Ultimate Collection is 70% off - 10 base games and seven expansion packs, from Tiberian Dawn to Tiberian Twilight.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:05 am UTCSTARBOARD FIFTEEN, WE ARE APPROACHING TUESDAY
The ocean is brisk this morning! Also for some reason this week's days are nautically themed. What's your favourite old-timey helm order? FEED THE MAW.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:06 am UTCHideki Kamiya wants to bring back Scalebound, Platinum's Microsoft-published dragon-riding action-RPG, which was cancelled in 2017. I wonder if he's been playing Monster Hunter.
Let’s do it, Phil ! :D https://t.co/BLdBs3hxGt
— 神谷英樹🍀 Hideki Kamiya🍀 (@HidekiKamiya_X) March 3, 2025 To see this content please enable targeting cookies. Manage cookie settings– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:13 am UTCPCGamer have an interview with Inzoi's assistant director Joel Lee exploring the ticklish question of how sex is portrayed in the forthcoming life sim, which aims to be "widely available to as many age groups as possible".
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:14 am UTC Played a bit of the Moadra demo last night at reader Galactic Man's recommendation. It's Super Metroid if Samus were the Predator.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:17 am UTC According to Capcom, Monster Hunter Wilds has sold "8 million units in 3 days, which is the fastest a title has reached this milestone in the company’s history."– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:20 am UTCFachewachewa says: There's an excellent puzzle game called Ligo releasing today. It's really smart, and it has a demo too https://store.steampowered.com/app/2462810/Ligo/
You have yet to steer me wrong! To add some context, this is a sokoban game where you merge, cut and push small creatures together and crush squid with blocks. Seems a bit merciless, but of course it's all fairly abstract.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:23 am UTCA recc from I_have_no_nose_but_I_must_sneeze - Deck Of Haunts. It's a spooky turn-based cardgame in which you are a haunted house, trying to moider interlopers before they reach your heart. I didn't find the demo mindblowing in practice - the early levels boil down to damaging NPCs as they more randomly from room to room - but I love the concept.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:25 am UTC Suikoden is getting an animated show and gacha game. Fart noise. Bigger fart noise. Slightly smaller fart noise. Big fart noise again. (I'll watch the show, sure.)– Nic Reuben
09:26 am UTC Monolith co-founder Jace Hall has expressed an interest in remaking the Condemned games, but cautions followers to "please have ZERO expectations".– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
17:59 pm UTC Emona Capital, the investment firm who recently bought Relic Entertainment, have also bought Still Wakes The Deep publishers Secret Mode. This has led to a "small" number of layoffs, as reported by Eurogamer. Like Relic, Secret Mode will apparently get to operate like an independently owned business.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:19 am UTCBY AND LARGE IT'S WEDNESDAY
I had no idea this was a nautical expression - thanks Shacklestein. FEED THE MAW.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:44 am UTC GTA 5's "next gen" upgrades are now live as a free PC update.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
10:13 am UTCToday I am thinking about:
Red Alert Intro (1996) Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
14:16 pm UTC Alternate history city builder Kaiserpunk launches on 21st March. It's now being published by Elda Entertainment, whose founders include former members of Paradox Interactive.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
14:20 pm UTC Beringed and bizarre wizarding sim Dungeons of Blood And Dream has passed through the magic portal from early access into 1.0.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
16:26 pm UTC As reported by Kotaku, who cite an anonymous source, there have been layoffs in Sony's PlayStation Visual Arts team.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:04 am UTCSTEADY AS SHE GOES INTO THURSDAY
I once learned to sail with my dad, you know. We were the only crew who managed to sink our boat during the capsize drill. I think the boat is still there, sleeping at the bottom of the marina like a straight-to-VHS Titanic. Anyway, FEED THE MAW.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:05 am UTC Insider Gaming are reporting that Ballistic Moon, creators of the Until Dawn remake, are "effectively closed" following layoffs last year, based on anonymous sources.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:10 am UTC As passed on by Percival Gamer, the "original creative team" behind Hand Of Fate are back with Hordes Of Fate, a Vampire Survivorish roguelike. It's being made by Capes developers Spitfire Interactive with Defiant Development publishing.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:16 am UTC The demo for sweet retro town-builder Metropolis 1998 has received a major update, with a more complex life simulation for citizens. Interesting to watch this one come together.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:19 am UTC One of Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra's voice actors has told The Direct that the Amy Hennig-penned superhero caper might be out for Christmas 2025.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:35 am UTC Thanks to this Polygon piece, I'm just learning that Suda51 worked on a 1994 wrestling game starring a man named Smith Morio (after Smith's singer and not-so-charming fascist crank Morrissey). Super Fire Pro Wrestling Special attracted "boxes" of hate mail for its controversial ending, and a new fan translation means its now available to play in English. Oooo, English. Bet you like that don't you Morrissey.– Nic Reuben
13:21 pm UTCInhuman Resources: A Literary Machination is a "Severance-like RPG" visual novel launching in April, with a demo on Steam now.
– Nic Reuben
14:51 pm UTC Cor, a folding Samsung gaming handheld prototype that looks like a radioactive toastie.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
14:54 pm UTC The Financial Times report that gaming social media platform purveyors Discord are in talks to go public.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
15:00 pm UTC Assassin's Creed Shadows has a canon story mode that strips out all the narrative choices, in case you missed it. None of the game's romance options are canon, Ubisoft have told Gamerant.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
15:10 pm UTC Project Citadel is a new space RTS from a few of the people behind Age Of Empires, Age Of Mythology and Halo Wars, including former Ensemble bods Dave Pottinger and Jason Sallenbach and former Microsoft chap Yohan Sengamalay.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
15:26 pm UTC Dark And Darker has been pulled from the Epic Games Store due to "an ongoing legal dispute", as reported by Gamesradar. Developers Ironmace have previously faced litigation from Nexon, who have accused them of "using trade secrets and copyrighted information" to create the game.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
16:07 pm UTC Action-RPG Mandragora, which features writing from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines scribe Brian Mitsoda, will launch on 17th April. A lot of you liked the demo.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
16:08 pm UTC Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is getting a barber mode, modding and "a trove of updates" via patch 1.2 on 13th March.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
16:19 pm UTCMiniMatt says: ancient and wrinkly maw keepers (it me) might remember Head Over Heels on the Speccy (or Atari if you were posh), seems someone's done a remake releasing today https://store.steampowered.com/app/3153640/Head_Over_Heels_Deluxe/
I had neither a Speccy nor an Atari but I would have played this. Apparently they've added chickens?
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:11 am UTCLOOK TO WINDWARD, IT'S FRIDAY
Consider Phlebas and FEED THE MAW.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:12 am UTCSeekerX says: This game has been out for a month, but perhaps The Maw will accept it as an offering since there was a significant update to it this week: Free Itch detective game Type Help bills itself as "A puzzle-mystery game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn, Her Story, Unheard and The Roottrees are Dead" and I found the mechanic of unfolding the game by deducing who was where and when to be tremendously satisfying (I binged the thing in one sitting when I needed to escape reality for a bit). https://william-rous.itch.io/type-help
The Maw is always up for deduction games! Not played this yet, but I like the Itch page's PSA that there are definitely no ghosts in Galley House.
– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:13 am UTCA gameplay trailer for Frogwares' latest, The Sinking City 2. It's breaking all my rules about never showing the Lovecraft monsters but the setting continues to be a wonderful eyesore.
The Sinking City 2 - Gameplay Reveal & Kickstarter Now Live! Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:16 am UTC A demo for Stratogun, which has been billed to me as a Super Stardust successor.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:18 am UTC Lethal Company continues to have plenty of company in the extract-o-horror genre. The latest addition to that genre is Niktophobia, which takes things in more of an Aliens direction with motion trackers and the question of which parts of a space station to illuminate using limited power.– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:22 am UTCDecent-ish licensed shooter Robocop: Rogue City is getting some DLC with a big tower. EDIT - not DLC! As Brendy points out, this is a standalone game.
RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business | Reveal Trailer Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:24 am UTCGood news, fans of Gollummy stealth: Styx is back! Here's the first trailer for Styx: Blades Of Greed.
Styx: Blades of Greed | Reveal Trailer Watch on YouTube– Edwin Evans-Thirlwell
09:32 am UTCWarm? Monkey?
WARM MONKEY - Official Trailer - Steam Watch on YouTube– Nic Reuben
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