This week in PC games: sword surfing, creature collecting and a big old bucket of Gamescom

Hello all! And a precise blessed This Week to you. I'm backmost from interruption conscionable successful clip for Gamescom. Gamescom! *Broadway overture kicks in* A clip of booths and blaggardry! Of queues and carousing! Of flinching distant from cosplayers promising Free Hugs! Of getting caught successful a quality logjam betwixt the large accumulation halls and the lavatories! Of miniature walled villages operated by triple-A publishers, hosting their ain section civilization of digit food! Of strung-out crypto investors filling the alcoves with their philharmonic cries of "DOGECOIN FOR SALE, DOGECOIN FOR SALE!" Of waifu bodypillows and service recruiters! Of uncovering the event's concealed champion crippled tucked distant among the b2b stands! Of agelong walks backmost to the edifice crossed the span of locks, wondering however it ever came to this!

Such are my unspeakable memories, anyway. James is attending the Cologne-based games normal for RPS this year. The remainder of america volition beryllium stationed atop the Treehouse with telescopes and crossbows, scouring the skies for News with which to provender the exuberant and impetuous Maw. In beforehand of each that, here's a rundown of caller PC games, unneurotic with the bare bones of a league schedule.

Monday 18th August

• Stick It To The Stickman entangles firm careerism with punching with the aureate epoch of Newgrounds animation. Mark has already been sticking it to the demo.

Tuesday 19th August

• Sword Of The Sea is the latest Journey-me-do from Abzu and The Pathless devs Giant Squid. It's astir doing ollies connected a claymore. I was rather impressed by the SGF demo.
• Void/Breaker is simply a glistening goldfish vessel afloat of robots, destructible buildings and moddable guns.
• Raygun Gadabout is simply a retro-future sci-fi with splattery Rick & Morty stylings. Possibly an Earthworm Jim for radical who don't similar Earthworm Jim since its creator went a spot Wrong.
• They bash the Geoffs successful antithetic voices astatine Gamescom Opening Night Live, featuring Blandoman Extraordinaire and his Fashion Friends, positive immoderate videogames. The main amusement starts astatine 11am PT, 2pm EDT, 7pm BST and 8pm CEST.

Wednesday 20th August

• Azooma Escape is simply a comedic stealth escapade astir breaking retired of an overbearing household gathering, from a Saudi autarkic team.
• Xbox are doing their archetypal Gamescom broadcast contiguous astatine 6am PT, 9am EDT, 2pm BST and 3pm CEST. Perhaps they'll stock further details of the outer enquiry Microsoft person precocious commissioned into their alleged complicity with warfare crimes.
• The Future Games Show is adjacent up connected the Gamescom docket astatine 11am PDT, 2pm EDT, 7pm BST, and 8pm CEST. We tin expect: the dependable actors down Solid Snake and Lady Dimitrescu. Now there's a fanshipping for you.

Thursday 21st August

• Bean Beasts is simply a lushly pixelled operation defender successful which your towers are Pokenots and your traps are upgradeable - truly, these are acheronian times for operation attackers.
• Herdling is astir ushering befuddled goat things up a mountain. It's from them wot did Far: Lone Sail.
• It's clip for Eggsbogs Gamecome All Ye Faithful circular 2 astatine 6am PDT, 9am EDT, 2pm BST, and 3pm CEST. Perhaps they'll person different ace astatine justifying the wide layoffs successful this one.

Friday 22nd August

• Let's permission Friday wide unfastened and spotless arsenic the freshly fallen snow, to drawback immoderate larger unexpected Gamescom revelations. Maybe idiosyncratic volition deterioration different politically ill-advised chapeau connected stage. Maybe James volition spell afloat gonzo. According to my gathering notes, he's promised to devour each those mushrooms helium recovered successful his planters past week. I deliberation that would beryllium a fantastic mode to adjacent the expo, personally. I'm definite you'll each punctual him.

*Broadway overture crackles and slows into a nightmarish bid of undersea noises* Good luck with the Geoffalypse, all.