This week in PC games: FBC Firebreak, alt-history XCOM and the chance to date your toilet
What we're feeding the Maw
Such has been the onslaught of livestreams, showcases, reveals, re-reveals, trailers and assorted Keighleybollocks this month that we skipped the new game round-up last week. The Maw, thankfully, was too stuffed with Capcom previews to express much discontent, but it could have been disastrous. The last time we forgot to lay out a Monday feeding schedule, the creature ate a bunch of double-A publishers. What, you didn't seriously think THQ went under due to "strong headwinds", did you? But enough lamentation - there are new PC games to discuss.
Monday 16th June
- Are you old enough to remember GEX? My sympathies. There's a GEX trilogy remaster out today. If you are not old enough to remember GEX, perhaps you will be more enraptured by cute co-op climbing game Peak. I also have my eye on Nightmare Frontier, a sort of weird western XCOM, with the caveat that AI generation tools were used to created some of its menu assets and translate the script.
Tuesday 17th June
- It's time to date everything in Date Everything! and take back Control of the office in FBC Firebreak. There's also post-apocalyptic colony builder After Inc: Revival, elven real-time tactics game Wartorn, and shonen mech RPG Nitro Gen Omega.
Wednesday 18th June
- In first-person actioner Blessed Burden you are the last surviving priest journeying deep into the bowels of hell, or thereabouts. In deckbuilder Crown Gambit you are a team of paladins trying to save a city from political turmoil, and "unearthly beasts".
Thursday 19th June
- Broken Arrow is not a 90s airplane movie but a real-time strategy game set in the Baltic states with over 300 units. Pretty much the polar opposite of pixelart escapade Vessels Of Decay, in which you navigate a post-apocalyptic Scandinavia full of folkloric monsters.
Friday 20th June
- I can think of no better way to spend Friday than by tending an eerie mushroom princess. Unless it be sabotaging gravity as a witch.
What are the treehouse up to this week? Brendan and Jeremy are deep in the desert, Nic is roving an open world with a block of tofu, James appears moderately excited about a TV of some kind, Mark is reopening the gates of Oblivion, Graham is sitting on a large throne made of bones, and Ollie continues to reign over the night. How about you?
