PC Gamer - UK (2022-01)

TYLER WILDE

I recently bought a TV so
that I can stop watching
movies at my desk with
the ShadowPlay overlay
visible. It was expensive,
so here are some not so
expensivegames.

QUAKE (ENHANCED)

bethesda.net/game/quake

A remaster ofthe inspiration for all

the filthy-looking, hard-angle-having

shooters people over 35keep

making foreach other. Make sure to

rebind themouse and keyboard

controls tosome ridiculous

pre-WASDconfigurationfor theold

school experience.

D O N ’ T S TO P

CALL OF JUAREZ: GUNSLINGER

bit.ly/3bbmhWE

No mucking about aroundhere:

Just lotsof dudes poppingup from

behind Old West things– bars,

wagons, you know– and getting shot

by you. £11 and 4.65GB gets youfive

or so hours of what we correctly

considered high quality fun in 2013.

Regularly on salefor even less.

L I V E FO R F UN

COOKIE CLICKER

orteil.dashnet.org/cookieclicker

The infamous web game about

clicking on a cookie to makemore

cookies isnow on Steam for £4. If

you’re unsure why you’d want to click

on a cookieto make more cookies,

then try the freeweb version first.

Youmay spend several hoursnot

finding theanswer.

N E V E R GE T B O R E D

PLEASE,DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING

bit.ly/3jFOj1a

Before the greatLoop Hero,

developer Four Quarters made this

£4 game in which you aren’t meant

to touch anything. Butif you dopress

the big red button on the control

panel you’re meantto leave alone,

something might happen.And isn’t

that all wewant in life?

B E G T O D I F F E R

BACK 4 BLOOD

back4blood.com

The unofficial Left 4Dead 3is £50,

which doesfeel a bit outdated fora

four-player co-op game,even though

it’sworth it. But B4Bis also onXbox

Game Pass for PC, so you and your

friends can go get chomped by a

horde of zombos for£8a month

instead, if you want.

B R E A K T H E M O L D

LORDS OF THE FALLEN

bit.ly/2Zjg8oF

Insteadof staring at the Elden Ring

subreddit waiting for new details,

play a game that probably isn’t as

good as Elden Ringwill be, but will

sate your thirstfor dodging giant

swords anyway.LotFhas gotten a

few patches since my 58% review,

and regularly goeson sale for £4.

G O P L AY

FUSER

fuser.com

£50felt too pricey for this nifty

Harmonix DJing sim,regardless of

how much I enjoyed defacingrecent

hits by ruthlessly dropping the vocal

track fromSmash Mouth’s AllStar

into the middle of them.A year later,

Fuseris down toa much more

agreeable £18. Go ruin some songs.

G E T T H ES H O W O N

PUNCH CLUB

lazybeargames.com/game/punch-club

I’ve recently gotten to know some

amateur boxers, andit turns out that

Punch Clubpresentsa pretty

accurate picture of a boxer’slife:

work, train, eat, sleep, fight. Granted,

none of the boxers I’ve met have

fought any crocodiles yet, but I’m

sure that’ll happen any day now.

G E T PA I D

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