In creepy real-time strategy game Calyx you battle a huge mass of alien plants

Here’s a trailer. The premise: you are the sole surviving crew member aboard an Avaris Corporation deep-space mining vessel. You’ll need to set up turrets and a robust power grid to keep them online. Creators Studio 568were foundedby three, pretty seasoned developers with credits at Epic Games, Lionhead and Natural Motion. All three previously worked at The Irregular Corporation, creators ofGoing Medieval. You canread more on Steam. I hope this turns out to be good....

January 21, 2025 · 1 min · 75 words · Brandy Day

Lysergic FPS Mohrta is a medieval western gothic blend of Morrowind and Doom

“Found a good’un,” I wrote in Slack shortly after playing Mohrta’sSteam demo. “It’s so rad and strange!”. Well, that’s the pitch, reader. It’s a “nonlinear FPS game blending action, exploration, and light dungeon crawling”. It’s a world of stumpy, cowbell-wearing pet giraffes and ferocious avian nightmare bastards. Your sword also has an alt fire, as all good swords should. And so you progress. Among these Hayward operatives is where your remains found new life....

January 21, 2025 · 1 min · 116 words · Deborah Allen

Monster Hunter Wilds PC system requirements may yet fall, as Capcom aim to improve performance

Are they really that demanding? Ugh, I am getting lost in the permutations. I no longer know how to make this metaphor work. Capcom say they’re focussing on the game’s recommended GPU requirements, while also trying to improve performance. Here’s a screenshot of the current PC specs from Steam, for context. Seeking guidance from the gods, I ran those specs by our hardware editor James. And that the minimum GPU requirement is on the beefy side....

January 21, 2025 · 1 min · 96 words · Erin Myers

My most anticipated indie of 2025 quietly updated its demo build while I was off eating lunch

The King Is Watching, but I wasn’t apparently Or months ago, maybe. Iwrote about itlast year, but that was an older demo build. Don’t watch the wheat fields, no food. Don’t watch the barracks, no knights. You’ll need those knights to defend from attacks too. Do you see how it all connects?! like, do your research. How far down does this thing go? It’s stillon Itch. Typical deep state shenanigans....

January 21, 2025 · 1 min · 154 words · Donna Stevenson

NYT Connections hint and answers for Wednesday, 22nd Jan

Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #590. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! For all of you more mature than myself, read on. We’ve got a selection of hints to help you figure out today’s Connections bit-by-bit. If you could’t wait, just scroll down to the end of this page for all the answers revealed....

January 21, 2025 · 1 min · 146 words · Justin Reese

Sledding Game is a chill "hangout game" like Webfishing, but with penguins that ragdoll downhill

Other cute animals are to be confirmed, but I am putting my money on an dopey-faced ermine. They demonstratehow players will get off the ski liftand pay sorrowful tribute to anendless field of frog corpses. However it turns out, I like when devs show their work like this. It looks like they require supervision anyway.

January 21, 2025 · 1 min · 55 words · Daniel Walker

Wordle hints and answer (#1312): How to solve the Tuesday January 21 Wordle

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for January 21? Read our hint or find the answer below! This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Tuesday 22nd April! Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers....

January 21, 2025 · 2 min · 426 words · Breanna Lee

Identify the scary numbers in macrodata refinement with this free Severance-inspired game

It’s not a rip-roaring videogame time or anything, but it is cute. More importantly, it’s topical.Moreimportantly, it means I get to write “Severance is back!” The idea here is that you colour match floating numbers with your mouse cursor before exporting them. Creator Dan Erickson has alsospoken aboutthe direct influence ofThe Stanley Parableon the show. There are also approximately a scary number’s worth of games based on creepypasta-adjacent Severance influenceThe Backrooms....

January 20, 2025 · 1 min · 77 words · Felicia James

Marvel Snap has been "banned" in the USA alongside TikTok, but devs insist it'll be back online soon

The game is still listed on Steam, but people are reporting that they can’t sign in. This is acting like a fleeting interruption, however. “We’ll update you once it’s back up. In the meantime, global players should be able to continue to play with no issues.” Perhaps it’s more of an accidental, administrative knock-on effect from the TikTok ban. People have beensorrowfully uploadingtheir best TikTok clips to other platforms. Here’s hoping you Marvel Snappers can resume snapping marvellously very soon....

January 20, 2025 · 1 min · 94 words · John Gonzalez

Mindwave is a punky, relentless and completely hypnotic Warioware

Wahnderful yo excuse the eyeball jelly. It has wrapped you all up, and it’s going to be quite difficult to escape. “MAKE YOUR WAY TO THE TOP OF MINDSCAPE TOWER. DELVE INTO THE MINDS OF YOUR OPPONENTS. I’d usually reformat the caps there but honestly, Mindwave earns it caps. It’s all very twee but quietly insidious at the same time. It looks to have taken off in a big way already....

January 20, 2025 · 1 min · 71 words · Ruth Reilly

New RPG Cyclopean: The Great Abyss is a Lovecraftian Ultima homage, and I can't get torches to work

My character never deigns to light a torch, however. Is my character eating them? Are they too afraid to light them and expose what those dungeons contain? Do I need to read the manual properly? Or is it just a bug? Sometimes I walk into a ghast, Dark Sentinel, or other Lovecraftian hoodlum. Then off you trot to get your soul sucked by a Moon Beast. I have triggered many a trap in my time with the demo....

January 20, 2025 · 1 min · 138 words · James Griffith

NYT Connections hint and answers for Tuesday, 21st Jan

Need some Connections hints for today? Read our guide for help with Connections #589. This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s? Check out theConnections hint for Tuesday 22nd April! We’re here to assist. Read on for a hint regarding each Connections group today, plus bonus hints for those truly stuck. Let’s take a look! To win the game, you have to find all four Connections without making 4 mistakes....

January 20, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Theresa Decker

Specialist RPG studio's unannounced Warhammer game revealed following layoffs

We never missed a milestone, our feedback was great, our partnerships strong. “Our publisher changed strategic direction, however, and our previous project is now without funding. Last week we had to shrink the size of the studio.” Exactly which of Games Workshop’s universes the Warhammer game took place in is unclear. I love business, man. There was a bit more, to be fair. “We remain cautious when forecasting royalty income”.

January 20, 2025 · 1 min · 70 words · Phillip Vazquez