PC Gamer - UK (2022-01)

maps. While we’re not talking Battlefield levels of destruction, certain walls and windows can be shattered to alter the flow of ...

ABOVE: (^) One of us should go home and change or it’ll be embarrassing. RIGHT: (^) “Am I doing it right?” – Phil’s last words o ...

A bit much can also be a good thing, you understand. Ubisoft Annecy’s spiritual sequel to Steep is a decidedly maximalist game, ...

So, the Football Manager series scares me. There are menus and charts and significant obfuscation of its systems. It’s big and c ...

85 FootballManager 2022 , the veteran playmaker, is still banging them in and deserves that new contract. VERDICT The illusion b ...

RIGHT: (^) Another classic Sherlock Holmes disguise. BELOW RIGHT: It’s adorable when Sherlock tries to act tough. The number one ...

Don’t let the title fool you – this is not the first in a series of episodic games, but rather an origin story with a younger, h ...

In truth it’s less a card game than a game built from cards. It’s a cardboard kingdom dealt by a disembodied game master who nar ...

FAR LEFT: Helping NPCs earns cards required for the game’s true ending. LEFT: Difficulty isso lax thatbossesbarely hit hardertha ...

Evenafter two decades of sanding and streamlining, Battlefieldcan still surprise. The modernFPS scene is now stacked withbig map ...

LEFT: Hazard Zone’s crashed satellites have a light Falloutvibe. BELOW: This is just a corner of the map. The bigger maps mean m ...

RIGHT: (^) The old Battlefield Bad Company 2maps now feel tiny by comparison. FAR RIGHT: I got a tank stuck in Portal’s version ...

on my RTX 2070 Super), the menus feel sparse. There are fewer unlockable guns than usual, simpler progression systems, and no ba ...

Gloomhavenisat its heart a dungeon crawler, where framing stories read bya narratorsit alongside missions that takeadventurers t ...

ABOVE: Every battle is its own tactical puzzle to figure out. FAR LEFT: (^) It’sa faithful adaptation, but with some clever addi ...

On the other hand, reverence to the past can be restricting, and I can’t help but feel that Age of Empires IV could havebeen som ...

LEFT: Good luck replicating some of the large-scale campaign battles in Skirmish mode. FAR LEFT: A Holy Roman battalion made up ...

ABOVE: (^) The plain terrain leaves a bit to be desired graphically. RIGHT: Buildings could be better textured, but are complete ...

settle into the rhythm of resource- gathering, villager spamming, scouting, and forward-settling. Victory conditions have been s ...

If you’rea veteran of manya cross-leggedMicro Machines campaignfromthe 16-bit days or, to be honest, if you’vesimplyseen a scree ...