This week in PC Games: a new Mafia, a bustling Homeworld homage, a cosmic lighthouse and some strange jigsaws

What we're feeding the Maw

We participate week 1 of RPS Post-Graham. The bureau Slack echoes similar the Great Hall of Durin aft a Balrog teaparty. Horace coils astir the ft of the Treehouse similar a sullen Viking serpent. The Maw seems peevish and incontinent, spurning immoderate quality we connection it. The wifi web keeps changing its sanction to "Execute Order 66".

It is clip to smash the exigency solid and bust retired a fewer favourites from my idiosyncratic postulation of morale-boosting videogame intros. Here's Red Alert, to enactment immoderate outpouring successful your step; Okami to fto the airy in; Colony Wars for the WRAAAOW sound astatine the end. And present are this week's astir absorbing caller PC games.

Monday 4th August

• Texnoplazm is simply a gun-fu brawl-o-shooter acceptable successful an municipality satellite of sorcerous exertion and vengeful synthetic escorts. You tin bargain weapons and footwear dudes into walls existent good.

Tuesday 5th August

• Tall Trails is simply a laidback exploratron featuring a smiling, albeit angst-ridden golem and his rocket-powered boot.

Wednesday 6th August

• Static Dread is astir moving astatine a lighthouse during a cosmic apocalypse, deciding which ships are harmless to let into the harbour.
• Era One is simply a real-time abstraction strategy sim from Homeworld lovers that lets you clip unneurotic your ain ships.

Thursday 7th August

• Mafia: The Old Country takes america backmost to pre-WW1 Sicily for immoderate antique car chases and shoot-outs.
• The Royal Writ is simply a handsome, malevolent cardgame roguelite that mixes inspirations from Inscryption, Monster Train and Balatro - I enjoyed the demo.
• Wildwood Down is simply a point-and-click drama enigma featuring a protagonist with Down Syndrome, inspired and voiced by 1 of the developers' puerility friends.
• Artis Impact is simply a pixelart top-down RPG that feels astatine erstwhile cobbled-together and swish. It reminds maine a small of Sword & Sworcery.
• The Lilliput Workshop is an automation crippled that looks similar an aged Brio artifact trainset.
• These are surely immoderate Strange Jigsaws.

Friday 8th August

• Cleanfall is astir a doughty mining robot descending done a satellite of bare insects. Also feat. airships made of elephantine works spores and Gatling weapon turrets.

As for what RPS unit are up to this week - I started precocious and missed the greeting all-hands meeting, truthful I person nary prime but to marque it each up. James is trying to invent caller buzzwords for graphics cards, each buzzier and wordier than the last. He's got arsenic acold arsenic "polymorphotovoltaic processing" and shows nary motion of showing down. Ollie has embarked connected his magnum opus, a usher to Life. Jeremy has been speechmaking excessively overmuch Goldilocks and Proust and is mislaid successful a bid of flashbacks, each defined by the somesthesia of a peculiar vessel of porridge. Mark is engaged successful an epic warfare against his neighbours, the Ice Giants, who person been trimming the hedge connected his broadside again.