Indholdsfortegnelse for February 2026 i PC Gamer

PC gaming loves simulators. They put you in charge of exciting machines such as passenger aircraft, heavy goods vehicles, and even the space shuttle. What marks them out from games structured around combat or speed is the satisfaction you get from doing an otherwise mundane task well, rather than a kill count or a shiny trophy. In a simulator, you may never get a reward for your actions, no matter how well you perform. Public transport is another simulator target that can seem strange to outsiders. While trains are constrained by their reliance on rails and thick books of regulations, driving a bus around a city to a timetable means providing an essential service to the NPCs, but does it tickle the reward centres of the brain in the same…

NEED TO KNOW RELEASE February 1, 2026 DEVELOPER Seed Lab PUBLISHER Seed Lab LINK  bit.ly/4p5jfaN O ne day the well of dead videogame granddads with overgrown plots of farmland will dry up, but today is not one of them. Starsand Island is full of those fuzzy cosy farming sim familiarities, but despite not doing much new I got myself through all ten days of an extended demo. It reminds me a whole lot of the Rune Factory games – anime art out the wazoo and a charming Eastern vibe that makes me overlook all of the weirdness that seems to come from adding a third dimension to farming sims these days. I was given a map, a rickety small farm, and a whole lotta freedom from minute one which was mighty refreshing. No…

RELEASE TBA DEVELOPER Chuhai Labs PUBLISHER Humble Labs LINK  steam.pm/app/1921490 The game your fallible brain remembers the SNES’s Starwing looking like, Wild Blue Skies is an on-rails shooter from a Kyoto studio founded by Giles Goddard, a programmer on Mario 64, Steel Diver and 1080° Snowboarding as well as Fox Mcloud’s most famous adventure. Chuhai Labs, which previously made Cursed to Golf, is going back to its roots for Wild Blue Skies. It’s an on-rails shooter featuring a distinctly canine, rather than vulpine, pilot soaring in his fighter craft across and through colourful landscapes, oceans and deserts in pursuit of enemy waves, aided by wingmen of different species who offer advice over video popups. All while racking up a high score. There are secret routes, boss battles, and probably barrel rolls too, and…

S ome games are immersive; Deadlock is enveloping. Every second of Valve’s third-person movement shooter MOBA demands your attention, whether you’re landing shots in a hectic team fight, or considering shop purchases while beating up neutral monsters and simultaneously monitoring your mini-map. It’s the lovechild of TF2 and DOTA, and deserves to be bigger than both. YOU’LL SPEND A LARGE PART OF EVERY GAME MURDERING MINIONS Deadlock is for a certain kind of person: the kind that likes having dozens of tactical and strategic considerations thrust into their lap at once, where even the quieter moments thrum with deliberation and your brain never stops fizzing. I’ve played over 1,500 hours since Valve launched its quasi-closed alpha last year, and I’m here to tell you why you should join me. Let’s…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?A workplace comedy, with superheroes EXPECT TO PAY£25 DEVELOPERAdHoc Studio PUBLISHERAdHoc Studio REVIEWED ONIntel Core i9-13900k, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 STEAM DECKVerified LINK steam.pm/app/2592160 As someone who still carries a torch for Telltale narrative adventures, I really wanted AdHoc Studio’s Dispatch – a superhero workplace comedy full of HR violations – to be great, even as I had my doubts about the return of the episodic release model and the prevalence of celebrity streamers in the cast. Those doubts were a distant memory by the end of the second episode, thankfully, and the rest of the eight-episode run only served to cement this as a brilliant piece of interactive TV. I am genuinely sad that it’s over and desperately hoping for a second…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?An old-fashioned side-scrolling beat ’em up starring a wide cast of superheroes EXPECT TO PAY£25 DEVELOPERTribute Games Inc PUBLISHERDotemu, Gamirror Games REVIEWED ONAMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, Nvidia Geforce RTX 3080 MULTIPLAYERYes STEAM DECKPlayable LINK dotemu.com/games/marvel-cosmic-invasion That this beat ’em up has a roster of 15 different playable Marvel superheroes is immediately impressive. But what’s really amazing is every single one of them feels completely distinct, fun to play, and truly super. I just wish Marvel Cosmic Invasion offered more for them all to do. This is an unabashedly old-school side-scroller. Bad guys appear, you punch them until they’re all gone, then you move a bit further right and more bad guys appear. Repeat until you reach a boss fight. Simple, nostalgic, satisfying. But…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?An entertaining mystery with a supernatural twist EXPECT TO PAY£17 DEVELOPERSSpooky Doorway PUBLISHERRaw Fury REVIEWED ONIntel Core i9-13900HX, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 STEAM DECKVerified LINK steam.pm/app/1395520 It’s never a good thing when a creepy shadow-woman bursts into a murder of crows during a thunderstorm, is it? This is just The Seance of Blake Manor’s way of saying hello before leaving me trapped inside an Irish hotel with some would-be murderers a few days before Halloween. I’m here to solve the disappearance of Evelyn Deane, and to do this I’ve got to use clues found amongst half-burnt notes and polite dinner conversations to piece it all together. This is classic murder mystery stuff – and also where adventure games can quickly lose grip of…

NEED TO KNOW EXPECT TO PAYFree DEVELOPERHELLLST4R LINK helllst4r.itch.io You could hardly pick a more peaceful setting for a horror game: a cosy house full of light and plants, and a sun-dappled garden, where birds have made their nests in many of the birdhouses scattered around. Birdhouse’s world is idyllic, even as uneasiness begins to infiltrate it. With your mother ill in bed, it’s up to you to take care of the household chores, which include watering said plants and feeding said birds in the garden. The suitably overbearing soundtrack establishes the peaceful yet unquiet mood, while the detailed artwork brings the characters, and the eventual horror elements, vividly to life. Wisely, and impressively, the big reveals are expressed through well-drawn close-ups and creepy animation sequences. Mood and pacing…

NEED TO KNOW EXPECT TO PAY £21 DEVELOPER Team17 PUBLISHER Team17 There are two types of people in this world: those who, while controlling a radio DJ in Killer Frequency, can listen to a terrified caller and resist the urge to add the banana skin sound effect after every panicked interjection. And then there are people like me. [Comedic slide whistle] It’s a cool premise for a game: you’re given full control of the decks, and can live mix music as you take calls. It doesn’t quite work as a convincing DJ game: there are moments of hilarious dead air, and I’m free to wander around the station looking for clues while certain songs play, but it’s close enough that I appreciate the elevated premise and the effort that’s gone into bringing it…

Valve’s making a games console. The company that was famed for making Half-Life games might be speaking about its newly revealed Steam Machine as a mini-PC, but let’s call a console a console when we see one. All the selling points about it – the expected low pricing, the bundled controller, the SteamOS UI making everything as user-friendly as possible – are all the tenets that discerned games consoles from PCs for the past four decades. As a quick recap, it’s specced to outperform the company’s own Steam Deck handheld device, offering about six times the graphical heft. It’s built around a six-core, 12-thread AMD Zen 4 CPU and a semi-bespoke version of AMD’s RDNA 3 GPU, with some bits turned off and just 8GB of VRAM. All that points…

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NEED TO KNOW RELEASE April 4, 2004 PUBLISHER Prime Matter DEVELOPER People Can Fly LINK gog.com The new Painkiller is out now, and it brings me no pleasure to say that it’s really not very good – although it does at least maintain the 20-year streak of Painkiller follow-ups being pale, flaccid imitations of the original. NuPainkiller feels smaller and more constrained than the original, although the basic structure is similar: Enter an area, doors close behind you, kill a bunch of guys, doors open, move forward, rinse and repeat. Along with new weapons, the full game features classics from the first game, such as the Stake Gun, Electrodriver and the whirling-blade Painkiller, and they all feel more or less like they did back then. Anyway, Painkiller – the new one –…

Ahead of the launch for Fallout Season Two, I got the chance to talk to some of the key cast members: Walton Goggins, Ella Purnell, and Aaron Moten. My number one question for the cast: have they played any of the Fallout games? “No, I haven’t sat down to play the games,” says Goggins, who plays pre-war movie star Cooper Howard and his post-war counterpart The Ghoul. “And I won’t. I won’t. I won’t play the games. I’m not interested.” The reason is actually pretty simple: Goggins doesn’t want to think of the world or the characters of Fallout as elements of a game. “I WON’T. I WON’T. I WON’T PLAY THE GAMES. I’M NOT INTERESTED” “All of a sudden, I’m looking at this world from a very different perspective,…

1 month NOVA ROMA RELEASE January 22, 2026 | DEVELOPER Lion Shield In this new historical city-builder, lead a band of citizens as they break away from Rome to create an all-new city. Build, develop supply chains, enact laws and appease the gods. THE MIDNIGHT WALKERS RELEASE January 28, 2026 | DEVELOPER Oneway Ticket Studio A hardcore FPS game where you must fight, scavenge and extract resources while battling deadly zombies. Craft weapons and armour, upgrade your hideout, then survive. CODE VEIN II RELEASE January 29, 2026 | DEVELOPER Bandai Namco Studios Inc. In a dystopian world overtaken by Revenants, play as a Revenant hunter who must travel into the past with a mysterious girl called Lou in order to save the planet. 2 months DEUS EX REMASTERED RELEASE February…

NEED TO KNOW RELEASE TBA DEVELOPER Quantic Dream PUBLISHER Quantic Dream LINK  steam.pm/app/2458470 Instead of going for the traditional MOBA top-down approach, Spellcasters Chronicles opts for third-person. Taking control of a spellcaster, I started with a limited number of summonable grunts and abilities, both things I’d build into as time went on and I levelled up during the match. Every character can also sprint along the ground or fly in the sky for an unlimited amount of time, making it easy to get a good grasp of the battlefield. Matches are 3v3, but each player has the option to summon an increasing number of grunts depending on what perks you pick every time you level up. Games also go on for around 30 minutes, but having played a few matches at this point,…

NEED TO KNOW RELEASE 2026 DEVELOPER Team Spino LLC PUBLISHER Team Spino LLC LINK  steam.pm/app/3440070 A t last, a game that answers the age-old question ‘what if dinosaurs had access to iron-age weapons that weren’t particularly well adapted to their bodies?’. In Dinoblade, dinosaurs wield swords and other spiky things in their mouths, not caring for a moment that they’re already pretty well armed with claws and teeth. You play as a spinosaurus – objectively the best dinosaur – who comes across a huge greatsword following a cataclysmic event. Other dinosaurs take up weapons too, and what follows is an action-RPG in which you fight duels against rivals and become more powerful with every victory, upgrading your skills and weaponry. Combat is highly dependent on timing, and some fights leave you feeling like…

RELEASE Feb 11, 2026 DEVELOPER Grasshopper Manufacture PUBLISHER Grasshopper Manufacture LINK  steam.pm/app/3050900 Not a Shakespeare spoiler, but the new game from Grasshopper Manufacture, the studio behind No More Heroes and Killer7. It’s another ultraviolent third-person action game, following an agent of the space/time police hunting down both time-travelling criminals and his missing girlfriend (Juliet, naturally) while blowing the heads off the former with ridiculous weapons. This looks completely absurd, and is likely to play that way too.…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?A crunchy, freaky, retro shooter set in the ’60s EXPECT TO PAY£17 DEVELOPERJasozz Games PUBLISHER3D Realms REVIEWED ONIntel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT MULTIPLAYERNo STEAM DECKVerified LINK steam.pm/app/3918090/ I loved Cultic Chapter One when it came out in 2022. Now, with the release of its second chapter, the full game is one of the best shooters of 2025. This exercise in demon worshipper annihilation is a meat and potatoes boomer shooter that primarily distinguishes itself by executing everything at a very high level: Great maps, great guns, great enemies, plus one-of-a-kind art direction and suffocating jaunts into pure horror. Cultic has an arsenal of staple FPS guns – pistol, shotgun, magnum, machine gun, etc – but they hit different. They all…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?Near-future aim-down-sights shooting simulator EXPECT TO PAY£70 DEVELOPERTreyarch PUBLISHERActivision REVIEWED ONAMD Ryzen 7 7700, 64GB RAM, AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT MULTIPLAYERYes STEAM DECKUnverified LINK callofduty.com It only takes a single mission in Black Ops 7’s atrocious co-op campaign to figure out what the scheme with this year’s entry is: welding together the campaign, multiplayer, Warzone and Zombies modes, so as to streamline the asset generation pipeline and drastically cut down on the requirement for one-off assets and complex scripting. This drive for efficiency is felt across the whole of Black Ops 7, but nowhere more so than in the campaign, a grinding slog through the forthcoming Warzone map update and the occasional multiplayer map retooled for wave defence against mindless AI hordes. The premise…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?A medieval survival city builder from the creators of Grim Dawn EXPECT TO PAY£30 DEVELOPERCrate Entertainment PUBLISHERCrate Entertainment REVIEWED ONIntel Core i7-9700K, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti STEAM DECKPlayable LINK farthestfrontier.com Priorities. That’s what managing a medieval city is all about. Farms are important for long-term survival, but fishing and gathering makes more sense if people need food quickly. Chopping logs into planks means construction on new buildings can commence, but if people are freezing in their homes, that timber should be turned into firewood instead. And assigning labourers to salvage nearby ruins for resources should be put on hold if – and here’s just one quick example – a giant angry bear is rampaging through the town brutally mauling everybody to death.…

NEED TO KNOW EXPECT TO PAYFree DEVELOPERBruno Medeiros LINK bruneiros.itch.io The modern world can be a frightening place, and Pool Friday captures something of its anxious essence. Its world is a patchwork quilt of mixed media images, where pixel art rubs shoulders with claymation figures, and clipped-out photos float in the background, in place of clouds. It shouldn’t work, perhaps, but the quality of the varied images ties the whole aesthetic together. You suspect that developer Bruno Medeiros’ exaggerated style would come across in nearly any medium, and whether they are made from low-resolution pixel art or detailed claymation people, these lurid characters belong to the same universe. Most are just background characters, NPCs you can’t even chat to, but you could spend the length of the game again…

NEED TO KNOW EXPECT TO PAY £9 DEVELOPER Hi-Bit Studios PUBLISHER Hi-Bit Studios I once went to a Bonfire Night celebration during which one of the attendants accidentally set himself alight. Every millennial in earshot bellowed ‘stop, drop, and roll!’; proof of an upbringing that prepared us for lives full of chip pan fires, spontaneous combustion and quicksand. But it’s not the only lie the ’80s told us. I grew up being ever ready to walk right through a decaying urban hellscape, piledriving gang members through dustbins. Thus far, my limited schmup skills have never been required to repel an alien invasion. And precisely none of my romantic partners have been kidnapped by gorillas. But 198X beautifully encapsulates the promise of these things, and the joyful discovery of the escapism of games. It’s…

I still remember the feeling when I installed my current GPU for the first time. Ray tracing! The future was here, on my desktop machine. Just as soon as I looked up the small list of games that supported it, installed one of them, and went hunting for either a puddle or a car bonnet in one of its levels, to observe its extremely limited implementation for myself and gaze in wonder at it. I THOUGHT INITIALLY THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE FINE BECAUSE OF DLSS But in the end it was neither Battlefield V nor Metro Exodus that gave me the post-upgrade hit I was looking for, as stupendous as their puddles were. The best moment when you buy a new graphics card isn’t the latest visual behemoth you’d yet…

ROBIN VALENTINE THIS MONTH Played matchmaker for rabbit-themed currency. ALSO PLAYED  Absolum, Hades 2 Have you ever played one of those coin-pusher machines? The ones where you drop coins down onto a shelf that moves back and forth, hoping to cause a chain reaction that will dislodge a little avalanche of money into the prize tray? If you’re anything like me, your memory is one of frustration. Designed by the most nefarious minds in engineering, they are the ultimate anticlimax generators, always seeming tantalisingly close to a payout, and always stubbornly refusing to give one up. On the one hand, Raccoin is a roguelike based on coin-pusher machines. But on the other, it’s my emotional catharsis simulator. I can finally let those frustrating memories go – Raccoin’s machines will let me…

DANIELLA LUCAS THIS MONTH Was humbled by the passage of time. ALSO PLAYED  Final Fantasy Tactics: Ivalice Chronicles, Absolum I used to be good at this. At one point in my life I was a Minecraft expert – I could build intricate cityscapes and fight the Ender Dragon easy peasy. Heck, I even used to run a kids magazine that was exclusively about Minecraft… and yet here I am. Utterly lost. I ended up here after my kid started showing interest in the game so I thought I’d jump back in, go on a little adventure, maybe build something, and show off a bit about how much of a ‘cool’ parent I am… but things didn’t go to plan. My foray back into the world of cheery blocks started pretty well –…

NEED TO KNOW RELEASE TBC DEVELOPER Hyper Games PUBLISHER Hyper Games LINK  hypergames.no T he demo of Moomintroll: Winter’s Warmth sets one simple challenge: rescue a dog lost in the snow. As Moomintroll, and armed with nothing but a shovel and an axe, you have to head into the bleak midwinter and find him before it’s too late, and before the cold really sinks in. Although this task is straightforward, and you’ll find the dog within a few steps, this does give a great opportunity to admire the gorgeous world of Winter’s Warmth. In such a short amount of time, you really get a feel for just how hand-crafted the environment is, much like the appearance of Hyper Games’ previous title, Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley. The woodlands, snowfall and icy winds have been…

NEED TO KNOW RELEASE Feb 3, 2026 DEVELOPER Arctic Hazard PUBLISHER Tripwire Presents LINK  steam.pm/app/3054690 V ikings make great videogame characters. They’ve got everything – distinctive appearance, bladed weaponry, a tendency to charge at things while screaming bloodcurdling battlecries. They’re also, according to Norse: Oath of Blood, simple farmers just looking for somewhere to live, before a murder sends one of them on an epic quest for vengeance. Norse is a turn-based tactics and base-building game set in Norway, and attempts to make its setting as authentic to the Vikings as possible. That means no dragons or other monsters, but the other humans living in the Scandinavian forests are bad enough. So when Gunnar arrives at the piece of land he’s been promised to build his settlement, it’s a surprise to find people…

I ’m not gonna do it: I’m not going to open this feature by quoting the GOAT, Ron Perlman, and his eternal refrain from the beginning of every Fallout game. But I know you can hear it in your head as you read this, and that’s because everybody has played Fallout. It’s been ten years since the last mainline Fallout game and seven since the release of its multiplayer spinoff, Fallout 76, but it paradoxically feels like there’s never been a better time to be a fan of these post-apocalyptic RPGs. Their breadth and depth lends them an inherent longevity, encouraging replay after replay, while they’ve also received varying degrees of mod and official support. The Fallout TV show, the second season of which is imminent at the time of…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?A hardcore shooter with heavy sim elements that makes you work (very) hard to get the best out of it EXPECT TO PAY£44 DEVELOPERBattlestate Games PUBLISHERBattlestate Games REVIEWED ONIntel Core i5-12400, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 MULTIPLAYERYes STEAMDECKUnsupported LINK escapefromtarkov.com Every time I make a kill in Escape from Tarkov, it’s over in a flash. This is not down to skill. Sometimes in Tarkov you’ll be sitting there minding your own business when two players blithely walk by, no idea you’re there, and even with a pop gun it will be the easiest double kill you’ll ever score. Death is almost always instantaneous in Tarkov, and it’s everywhere. The last thing you do after a kill is loot the corpse. Nearby players will have…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?A hellish tactics RPG that’s a little Buffy, a little Shin Megami Tensei EXPECT TO PAY£20 DEVELOPERNecrosoft Games PUBLISHERYsbyrd Games REVIEWED ONAMD Ryzen 9 3900XT, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX3070 STEAM DECKVerified LINK necrosoftgames.com/demonschool Inside me there are two wolves – Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Persona – so it’s hard for me to resist howling when ’90s high schoolers kick demon tail in between quizzes and making out with each other. The way Demonschool weaves apocalyptic vibes with tactics-based combat brought out the beast. Faye’s a self-proclaimed demon hunter on her way to enrol in a school on the mysterious Hemsk Island. Why? Because the apocalypse is coming and the island promises to be a veritable hub of demon activity. Which it is. Demonschool…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT?A game about hellish houses, and trying to rent one EXPECT TO PAYFree DEVELOPERKrish Raghav PUBLISHERKrish Raghav REVIEWED ONIntel Core i7-10750H, 16GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 STEAM DECKTBA LINK krishraghav.itch.io/dont-get-your-hopes-up The thought of having to plunge back into the rental market fills me with dread. After playing Don’t Get Your Hopes Up, I think it might have overtaken spiders on my fear leaderboard. It’s a visual novel about the soul-destroying act of trying to pay people to live in their empty house: the lengths you’ll go to in order to secure the property, and the compromises you might be willing to make. Each day begins in the same way: by firing out applications for rental properties. You do this by furiously clicking on the…

NEED TO KNOW WHAT IS IT? Drive, if Ryan Gosling smashed up dogs instead of saving women EXPECT TO PAY £8.50 DEVELOPER Dennaton Games PUBLISHER Devolver Digital REVIEWED ON Intel Core i7-7700, 16 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 STEAM DECK Playable LINK  steam.pm/app/219150 WWE superstar Mankind, one of the three deranged personas of Mick Foley, was unique in the wrestling world because he had two different theme tunes. He’d enter the ring to an unsettling string arrangement – music to be listened to with your one remaining ear – and, once his opponent was destroyed, he’d leave to a genteel piano refrain, finally at peace with the world and himself. I feel only self loathing; a visceral moment of post-cut clarity Hotline Miami is a bit like this. When you’re in the full flow of…

Gaming mice come in all shapes and sizes, but the competitive FPS gamers among you might already know that weight is actually one of the most important factors. Lugging a veritable sack of potatoes across your mousepad can make hitting those flickshots difficult. I’ve grown what some might mistakenly call obsessive over lightweight gaming mice. They’ve really gotten good over the last few years, to the extent that there are now incredibly light mice that somehow still have decent battery life and sturdy shells. Not all lightweight mice are equal, though, as the wildly different price tags can attest to. Some are cheap and cheerful, others offer top-of-the-line specs that might even be overkill for competitive gamers. 1 DeathAdder V4 Pro RAZER £170 Flawless for a price This mouse is…

ROBERT JONES THIS MONTH Failed to shoot bird nests out of trees while cursing. ALSO PLAYED  The Outer Worlds 2, Vampire:The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 After a dramatic turn of events that has seen me, beloved medieval everyman Henry of Skalitz, hunting down a kidnapped young woman called Pavlena, discovering said woman’s boyfriend deep in the forest with his head smashed in with a rock, catching one of the two men responsible and banging him up in the local jail, and then desperately pursuing the other into the woods and talking him down from slitting Pavlena’s throat in a high-stakes hostage situation, I’m in need of a large mug of Bohemian ale. But, unfortunately, Henry of Skalitz’s work is seemingly never done, as after watching the now free Pavlena stab her…

NEED TO KNOW RELEASE 2000 PUBLISHER EA DEVELOPER Westwood Studios LINK steam.pm/app/2229850/ ”When the hell are you going to get the internet?” bellowed my friend Mike as he handed me a wad of folded up sheets of A4 paper on the school playing field. Knowing I loved Command & Conquer, and that I basically lived in a cave on the Cumbrian coast in 2000, he’d very kindly printed off sheets and sheets of web pages covering Westwood’s new announcement: Red Alert 2. Tiberian Sun defined my summer in 1999, sharing its time with Half-Life, Medal of Honor and others behind my barricaded bedroom door, GCSE exams looming. But now only a few months later, the excitement of Mike’s Red Alert 2 print-offs had me on tenterhooks. The same way I pored over…