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“THE GAME PUSHED YOU TO REACH FOR GREATNESS”

The PC Gamer team

VIKING VACATION • ASSASSIN’S CREED VALHALLA is invading PC this year

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

This month in… 2010

REBUILDING BLOCKS • Cutting-edge graphics find an unlikely home in MINECRAFT WITH RTX

Bleeding edge

WHAT’S NEW • The effects made possible with ray tracing

BREACH BIRTH • How INTO THE BREACH turned tiny tactics into weird fiction

PAPERBACKS • The books Justin Ma read while making Into the Breach

DNA Tracing • GAMING’S LINEAGES EXPLORED

CRYSIS POINT • Crytek has been forever blowing action bubbles

SELF CARE • Crytek isn’t alone in naming games after itself

LASTING LEGACY • How Crytek’s games infiltrated and left their mark on others

CRUSADER KINGS III • Paradox’s historical sandbox sticks to what it does best

SEA OF STARS • A retro RPG in a strange, watery world

GOING UNDER • A roguelike through a dungeon of failed tech startups

CRIS TALES • A hand-animated RPG that pays tribute to Japanese classics

F1 2020 • Take your own Formula 1 team to victory

BEYOND A STEEL SKY • A new adventure from the creator of Broken Sword

TRIALS OF FIRE • A deckbuilding roguelike that’s ready to slay the competition

SPACE ODYSSEY • Kerbal Space Program inspired us to explore an entire solar system. In KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM 2, that’s just the beginning.

ZOOM & ENHANCE • In 2019, fans screencapped an early, in-development flight UI from a monitor in a KSP2 dev diary and set about scrutinising it. Let’s take a magnifying glass to the more polished UI.

COACH KERBAL

FUTURE TECH

THE 50 BEST FREE GAMES • Freeware classics and indie darlings

REVIEW

Switch gear

This month’s alien-human hybrid reviewers…

TEAM SPIRIT • Your enemies want City 31 to burn – it’s up to you to put them down in XCOM CHIMERA SQUAD.

UNREST FOR THE WICKED • How to keep City 31 calm in times of crisis

CHAINSAW CHESS • Fantastic combat makes GEARS TACTICS a strategy game worthy of the PC.

GEARS OF GORE • Gears Tactics zooms in to give you a close look at its grisly executions

BASES RELOADED • Franchise Mode gives SUPER MEGA BASEBALL 3 a deep, multi-season bench.

NEED TO KNOW

MEET THE OWLBEARS • This ragtag group of misfits might win the championship

SILVER LINING • CLOUDPUNK is a story-driven delivery game set in a stunning voxel metropolis.

GARAGE TALK • Essential upgrades for your hover car

ICE COLD • Pick a fight with nature in punishing off-road driving sim SNOWRUNNER.

NEED TO KNOW

MUD FOR IT • What to expect from the three regions

KNUCKLE UP • With luscious hand-drawn animations and creative stages, STREETS OF RAGE 4 packs a powerful punch.

NEED TO KNOW

GUESS THAT THUG • Fun and games on the mean streets

PEEP SHOW • The...