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“THIS IS TRULY THE STUFF THAT PC GAMING DREAMS ARE MADE OF”

The PC Gamer team

MICRON-AGGRESSIONS • The company that KILLED GAMERS’ RAM says RAM is important for gamers

Highs & Lows

BLUR BE GONE • Make retro games look as good in motion as they did in the ’90s

HARD LOCKED • On top of a vast library of 60Hz games, these classics would benefit from CRT simulation

WARHAMMER 4OK: DARK HERESY • A CRPG that ticks all the right boxes

WARHOUNDS • A new contender takes its turn to make a tactics game

TYR • A direct hit, or tanks for nothing?

BRAVE NEW WONDERS • Create a giant factory on the ruins of an older world

DARKHAVEN • Aiming to break new ground in the ARPG genre

MIXTAPE • Can The Artful Escape devs score another hit?

TACTICAL COUP • STAR WARS ZERO COMPANY is a Clone Wars tactics game from former XCOM devs and may become 2026’s biggest surprise

ALIENS ABOUND • Zero Company lets you make custom characters

CHARACTER CLASS • Zero Company has an RPG-like variety of classes

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15 BEST BARS ON PC • Time for a tip-top tipple in one of PC gaming’s drinking dens

DEAD GOOD • RESIDENT EVIL REQUIEM is the best of it all

GRAND MASTER STRAT • Other games from indie dev Arcen

ARTIFICIAL IMPERIUM • Asking, “What if AI was good, though?” in HEART OF THE MACHINE

CHILD’S PLAY • REANIMAL further darkens the Little Nightmares format, and it’s a grim sight to behold

SWEET LOOT • Esoteric Ebb’s eccentric gear is a delight

EBB AND FLOW • ESOTERIC EBB might be the best RPG of 2026 already

ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTE • Your attributes talk to you, what do they say?

SCOPE CREEP • STYX: BLADES OF GREED expands Cyanide’s infiltration blueprint into open worlds

SQUANCH • HIGH ON LIFE 2 is a creative, funny and chill adventure with nagging problems

EXPLOSIVE ARSE-NAL • Some of High on Life 2’s most notable living guns

MEET THE WARDENS • Try these Wardens

NAY-PEX LEGEND • HIGHGUARD is genuinely cool, but it’s overstuffed with FPS trends that lost their shine

SINK OR SWIM • Escape your kitchen or die trying in KITCHENED

EYE EYE • Have a gander at GLASSY STARE

END OF DAYS • School’s out, but so’s the world in 15 MINUTES

S-FOILED AGAIN • STAR WARS: SQUADRONS stays on target

BRO WEST • Freedom is the only way in BROFORCE

GRAPPLING HOOKED • Struggling to love GANG BEASTS

“If you remember Max Headroom you’ll find it oddly familiar” • BLIPPO+ is a campy FMV transmission from another world.

“One of the funniest games I’ve played” • A superb LOST JUDGEMENT sidequest takes the piss

“I don’t think I’ve ever played a game so intentionally grotesque” • Breed an army of mutated cats to beat the odds in MEWGENICS

“This month I’ve been crunching the numbers to crush my foes” • Game recognizes dungeon-crawling game in LABYRINTH OF TOUHOU TRI

DONE DIRTY • Characters who should get more love

VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE – BLOODLINES 2 • The commitment to this undead...