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At the time, Tess and her team had no idea that Truth Sleuth’s development was unusually fast. It’s a free download for mobile devices from Tess’ Modest Genius Theatre Company. “We turned it into a videogame in six months and shipped it for $15,000,”

CHRIS LIVINGSTON Twitter @screencuisine Learned some magic in Valheim’s new update. That explains why his writing is so enchanting! FRASER BROWN Twitter @FraserIBrown Literally failed to organise a piss-up in a brewery in fantasy city builder Against

Directs the adventure game sequel Return to Zork. Forms Savage Entertainment, worked on products like 007: Nightfire and Agent Under Fire. Joins EA as director of product development. Joins Blizzard as product director on StarCraft II. Forms Frost Gi

Joins Westwood Studios as a game designer Joins Blizzard as campaign lead for Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne Co-founds Supervillain Studios, working on various projects including Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 Founds FireForge, works on several unrelease

Robin Valentine I love a good point-and-click adventure. Is there anything more cosy in all of gaming than settling in for an afternoon of puzzles and pre-rendered backgrounds? Hob’s Barrow doesn’t stray from familiar formulas, but its horror atmosph

Jody Macgregor Turn-based tactics with cowboys and zombies, Hard West 2 builds on the bones of XCOM with swaggering style. You can shoot behind cover by lining up ricochets, the system for earning extra actions is called Bravado, entire levels are ho

Bannerlord’s diplomacy is a bit on the thin side, and this mod aims to change that, adding messengers, pacts, factions and the ability to demand that a monarch abdicates a throne. This mod does what it says on the tin: detaches limbs from bodies. Ban

A 6v6 battle where you lead a selection of AI troops and try to deplete enemy morale. This pits 100 players in two teams against each other in a single 30-minute round. Another 6v6 deal, Skirmish cuts out the troops and focuses on the human players.

Your starting dude, and that’s about it. He kinda sucks, and you’d do well to unlock someone else ASAP. Her weapon is reliable and easy to understand, but she definitely needs a complementary gun with more zing. This fire wizard’s wand can upgrade fo

1 Culture and religion determine whether a pop is discriminated against, just like in real life! 2 Standard of living is based on what income can afford: from basic grains and a variety of clothes to telephones and fine art. 3 There’s that signature

Fans of taxes and things that make them powerful. The friend for whom you will never be good enough. Stubborn, but they believe in schools and healthcare. Change things? Could you please just… not? Solid bros when it comes to funding development. Eit

The game that kicked off Call of Duty’s popularity and made Captain Price a household name. The sequel to Call of Duty 4. Introduced expanded create-a-class and deathstreaks. Activision dropped the ‘4’ for this remaster, but it’s still the same 2007

Run a plant shop and get involved in a conspiracy in one of the best detective games in years. Identify and learn the fate of a ship of missing sailors. A unique and brilliant investigative game. Non-linear detective game where you investigate on you

Teardown is already a brilliant sandbox of voxel destruction, filled with maps and missions where to complete a series of heists you’re gonna have to creatively destroy everything from wooden sheds to concrete walls to entire brick buildings. Your to

The mayor of Howler’s Dell thinks I’m naive. It’s a large settlement with an expanding economy outpacing the rest of the region, and in theory I’m meant to be setting up trade routes between here and the city. When she asks what I really want, though

Unlike ginger from the Forgotten Lands, you’ll receive this as a quest item. Found in the Sunlit Plateau, it looks like a small green vine with yellow flowers. Goofy’s stall in Dazzle Beach will sell sugarcane seeds for you to grow. ■

Disney Dreamlight Valley launched as an Early Access game in September and it immediately struck me as one of those Early Access games that feels pretty much done already. With a $30 retail price, seasonal reward tracks and all, Gameloft could have l

DIFFICULTY Normal TIME 15-20 hours VITAL LINKS Review: bit.ly/3AnqMKX Finish spec ops missions: bit.ly/3UHNSUc Unlock weapon tuning: bit.ly/3UGimpz 1 In Modern Warfare 2, the person who sees the other first is generally the one who comes out on top,

Build complex vehicles, then use them to wreck through missions. A racing game where the goal isn’t just to come first, but to destroy as much as possible. Construct huge machines and put them to work knocking down everything in sight. The physics ar

1 Your own home is hiding valuables. In the back room is a tunnel. Smash your way in and you’ll find a banana worth $600. 2 Lee Chemicals is your first mission, but before you begin visit the building on the far right. Under a shelf you’ll find $400.

1. Play as a full team of five. 2. Win each game playing as champs from the same region. 3. Move to the next region only after beating the previous one. After 11 years, League of Legends is anything but stale. Strategies shift and evolve with new cha

Normally a jungler, pivoting Nidalee to a beefy bruiser build let us weather the toplane storm. By abandoning her traditional support role, Soraka meant we didn’t have to play Targon’s overly complex marksman. Matched against a team with three ranged

This room lured players in with the promise of a shotgun, and then locked the only way out. Almost a reverse trap, here you have to activate the safety features before the glass breaks. Salazar’s huge ego-stroking statue is the ultimate Resident Evil

Exudes so much Halloween energy that you could play it on a summer’s day Costume Quest is a tradition I wish I had. Every time October sneaks back up on me, I get the urge to replay one of my favorite little RPGs. It’s a small-scale spooky adventure

1 Cardboard helmet 2 Styrofoam antenna 3 Rollerskate shoes 1 Titanium wings 2 Heat-seeking missiles 3 Armored fists ■

As soon as the surviving members of STARS’ alpha team burst through the grand entrance of a creepy old mansion and spilled onto the main hall’s iconic red carpet I knew I’d found my horror home. The Spencer Mansion was the perfect place to stand in a

MOLLIE TAYLOR I recently unsubscribed from Final Fantasy XIV, which means I now have to go searching for a whole new personality. Things are rough out here in a post-bunny girl world, but I’m finding solace in games old and new during this breakup. b

Once a Minecraft clone, now host to so many game worlds it’d bust your melon. Persistent and around since 2006. Powerful enough to not only make footballers do celebration dances, but host concerts featuring Ariana Grande. Every server is a unique wo

Like a normal gaming headset, only it vibrates your skull like an ear-mounted washing machine. Ditch the rectangles, grandad. It’s equilateral or GTFO in the modern case game. As the old saying goes: fashions come and go, teal is forever. The big one

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