This week in PC games: Battlefield 6 fends off an onslaught of cool indie RPGs, strategy games, horror games and piss simulators

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What we're feeding the Maw

A unrecorded  enactment   cutscene of a daft-looking worker  with a reddish  bandana from C&C homage Dying Breed. Image credit: MicroProse Software

Last Monday I spent 3 paragraphs crying havoc implicit a shortage of tasty caller releases to provender the Maw, our nonmigratory headline-guzzling cosmic kaiju. The week didn't spell truthful terribly successful the end. True, the Maw did swallow the colour purple connected Friday, but Mark managed to distract everybody with a bulky Baldur's Gate 3 mod portion I administered the emetic.

This week, respective monkey paw fingers person curled, and determination is an embarrassment of groovy worldly that spans the full spectrum of budgets, marque recognisability and pricepointage. So let's get close to the listing.

Monday 6th October

  • In Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs, you exorcise ghosts with cards scrounged from a mucky wood environment. I'm successful nary presumption to poke amusive astatine different writers for typos, but I emotion that Oisin accidentally pitched a full antithetic crippled successful their communicative astir Carimara from March. Such thrilling dada gag energy.
  • House Of Necrosis is OG Resident Evil but turn-based.
  • My Card Is Better Than Your Card is simply a collectible paper crippled that really takes spot connected the playground. You tin modify your cards with stickers recovered during treasure hunt minigames and the like. All the kids look similar they've been chucking backmost Monster Energy each night.

Tuesday 7th October

  • Dying Breed (pictured) is simply a big, snotty, tear-stained emotion missive to the archetypal Command & Conquer, with appropriately corny unrecorded enactment cutscenes.
  • Battle Suit Aces is simply a card-battling mech RPG from the makers of hectic cookathon Battle Chef Brigade.
  • Little Rocket Lab is simply a cosy Wernher von Braun sim featuring a cheery lass successful overalls who wants to crook her "sleepy" puerility colony into a monolithic mill truthful that she tin physique the rocket of her mother's dreams. Going by the Steam description, each your neighbours are perfectly good with this.
  • In oneway.exe: Module 1.0, you're stuck wrong an abandoned, cursed videogame and indispensable lick the enigma of its 3 developers, portion picking done assorted eras of net culture.

Wednesday 8th October

  • Your brag needs you to "fix" the charts if you privation that promotion.
  • This "perilous labyrinth" platformer featuring a feline and called Curiosity reminds maine of an aged proverb, but I can't rather enactment my paw connected it.

Thursday 9th October

  • Blue Protocol sounds similar an erotic detective thriller, but past you adhd the subtitle "Star Resonance" and realise that it's a honking gigantic anime MMO.
  • Little Nightmares 3 is different communicative of a tenacious tot exploring a satellite of parental, predatory ogres.
  • Cairn: Mathair's Curse is an RPG that reminds maine of Earthbound, inspired by Celtic mythology and Scottish culture. You get to combat astatine slightest 1 haggis.
  • Bye Sweet Carole is simply a side-scrolling fearfulness escapade hand-drawn successful the benignant of aged animated features - specifically, it reminds maine of Disney's The Rescuers, but it has supernatural goings-on.
  • Dicealot is that dice crippled from Kingdom Come: Deliverance positive a roguelike loop and CRT aesthetics.
  • The Lacerator is astir a antheral porn prima trying to flight a serial killer's basement. Losing a fewer limbs whitethorn beryllium to your advantage.

Friday 10th October

  • PixelJunk Eden 2 is simply a psychedelic gardening crippled that went down beauteous good connected the consoles. Use silk to plaything done "a hypnotic harmony of sights and sounds" - a benignant of "silksong", if you will. We liked the archetypal backmost successful 2012.
  • Why is everybody telling maine to beryllium connected their six? Why bash I support proceeding "abort abort abort" erstwhile I adjacent my eyes? Why is my look covered successful ash and escaped plaster? Ah, it indispensable beryllium Battlefield 6, a blockbuster successful which blocks are so busted.
  • Piss Off is simply a perfectly gross multiplayer crippled featuring respective different bodily fluids. "You volition suffer erstwhile each your hairsbreadth is gone and each your tegument falls off." Cool! Cool.

I've near a fewer promising games retired of the round-up. This whitethorn look similar a dereliction of duty, but is successful information a hideous strategy to marque you permission a remark with a recommendation. Go on.

As for beingness astatine the Treehouse this week, I'm connected vacation from Thursday to adjacent Tuesday, truthful the regular station number mightiness beryllium a small thinner, unless Mark and Oisin turn immoderate other hands. I person advised them that this would beryllium highly adjuvant and adjacent generously offered to disbursal assorted tonics from the darkweb, but they don't look convinced.

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