This week in PC games: Stronghold, Destiny and Neverwinter Nights lead a host of drifters, necromancers and Pac-Monsters

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Morning all! The moving week erstwhile again looms supra america similar a bulldozer driven by raucous and someway loveable sheepdogs successful apical hats and cufflinks. Quickly now, lob a fewer caller PC crippled releases nether the caterpillar treads to dilatory its passage. It's not wide wherever those sheepdogs are going, but your and my wellbeing are intelligibly of secondary importance.

Monday 14th July

• Today is each astir mill games, apparently. My highlights among the wide producers are Kaizen: A Factory Story, a craftsmanlike automation puzzler from erstwhile Zachtronics devs, and MoteMancer, successful which you physique fantastical factories successful antithetic dimensions that overlap successful real-time. Note: the MoteMancer devs person said that genAI was utilized to "ideate" the art, though the last creation assets were created by regular humans - oregon "skinloads" arsenic we are known successful the trade.
• If you despise factories, delight instrumentality your resentments to the tiles of Arashi Gaiden, a turn-based ninja slicer. Where is my ninja mill sim, games industry.

Tuesday 15th July

• Today is each astir comebacks of 1 benignant oregon another. Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition is Aspyr Media's revamping of 1 of the D&D RPGs radical venerated earlier "D&D RPG" became synonymous with "Baldur's Gate 3".
• Stronghold Crusader: Definitive Edition is Firefly's remastering of 2002's reply to Angry Birds.
• Troubled Bungie FPS Destiny 2 has a caller variation and DLC rollout - Year Of Prophecy. The archetypal of the caller DLC packs is The Edge Of Fate, which includes a caller satellite featuring mislaid humans and forgotten Fallen houses.
• Becoming Saint is today's token Actual New Game. It's a pleasantly cracked real-time tactics roguelite successful which you effort to get yourself canonised earlier you are martyred.

Wednesday 16th July

• Today, it is clip to exsanguinate Pikmin and daub gory geometry successful occult squad tactics puzzler Worship, which should punctual you instantly of Cult Of The Lamb.

Thursday 17th July

• The Necromancer's Tale (pictured) is an unfastened satellite RPG with Disco Elysium-esque dialog windows successful which you are a questing liche (quiche?), gathering up your rotten retinue (rotinue? Let's spell with it) portion going to the occasional ball.
• Fill Up The Hole is simply a chirpy 2D landfill empire simulator. Can't spell wholesome without hole, etc.
• Shadow Labyrinth attempts to marque a fearfulness crippled retired of Pac-Man, overlooking that Pac-Man is already perfectly horrible. Pac-Man, a crippled successful which you are an insatiable orb successful a maze of ghosts.
• The Drifter could beryllium this week's highlight. It's a pulp escapade associated inspired by "King, Crichton and Carpenter, with a dash of 70s Aussie grindhouse", successful which you a stateless antheral asked to analyse his ain murder.

Friday 18th July

• Do you bask besieging Rainbows? Do you bask kicking doors? Have immoderate Phantom Squad, then.

What are we denizens of the Treehouse up to this week? Well, Nic and Jeremy spent a batch of this week's all-hands gathering complaining astir gardening - perchance gardening successful a video game. I can't rather remember, due to the fact that I was myself excessively engaged complaining astir the 1990s. Possibly the 1990s successful a videogame - again, I can't rather remember. This happens a batch astatine the minute.

Mark has immoderate embargoed worldly connected the boil, and James is conscionable backmost from break, freshly bronzed and bare for words. Ollie is tidying up immoderate bits and pieces earlier he, too, embarks connected holiday. Graham is staring astatine america each patiently from the country of the video call, waiting for radical to unopen up astir their roots. What are you up to this week? Assuming you haven't been smooshed by sheepdogs.