2019-05-01+PC+Gamer

EVERYTHING IS GOING TOBE OK

N

athalie Lawhead’s games

are like nothing else out

there: wiry, multimedia

experiences where

cuteness and harshness,

and comedy and darkness are not

considered mutually exclusive terms.

These are games that tackle big topics like

love and death with rawness and honesty,

CRYPT WORLDS

A

bizarre first-person adventure

that feels like a glitched-out PS1

game, or Ultima Underworld if it

had been corrupted by 100 malware

programs. It’s an incoherent,

overwhelmingly odd archaeology game

containing countless moments that will

make you laugh, think and scratch your

head, often simultaneously. TS

bit.ly/cryptpc

BLUES FOR

MITTAVINDA

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lues for Mittavinda is one of the

slower, more restrained games

found in Jack King-Spooner’s

catalogue of unfiltered delights. It

transports you to a handsomely modelled,

claymation take on the old west. Take your

time exploring this one. TS

bit.ly/mittavinda

MUSCLE WORLD

Taking inspiration from
From Software’s King’s
Field series, Muscle World
nails those games’
dread-laden atmosphere.
However it’s not a
medieval RPG, but a
surreal survival horror
where you play as a
bodybuilder crawling
across the ceiling of a
cavernous dungeon. TS
bit.ly/musclepc

0_ABYSSAL
SOMEWHERE

Techno-horror meets, well,
survival horror in this
third-person adventure set
in a void-like environment.
Don’t expect any clear
answers, as you explore
and battle ghostlike
enemies, but do expect to
stop every few minutes to
gawk at the game’s truly
alien world. TS
bit.ly/abysspc

but where hyperactive rabbits stand in for

humans, and annoying cyberpets are

sometimes unleashed on your desktop.

Everything is Going to be OK is an

‘interactive zine’ – a collection of

minigames, where a bevy of cute

creatures struggle with the bad things that

existence doles out now and again. TS

bit.ly/okfreepc

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