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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...