So what are you waiting for?

Which is where the roguelite bit comes in, you see?

Sometimes you’ll spawn with plentiful food resources, sometimes with nothing.

A composite image showing elements from Balatro, The Talos Principle 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Jusant and Shadow Gambit

Sometimes the forest glades will contain bandits or restless spirits.

You never know what you’re going to get, which keeps Against The Storm endlessly entertaining.

You do this with very big guns.

A settlement in Against The Storm.

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Helldivers 2 is extremely popular, and it’s a riot.

All in a days work, right?

Almost like real climbing.

Two Helldivers blast away at approaching alien bugs in Helldivers 2

But you also find remnants of the people who used to live there.

It’s a beautiful game telling a quiet story, without any dialogue.

Balatro

“A poker roguelike?

Zagan talks to a skeleton about a parrot in Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew

It can’t be done!

“, they said.

Well it can, and has been, in the form of Balatro.

Sargon aims his chakram through a spiky platform  in Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown

This stylish little game uses traditional poker hands - two pair, flush, straight, etc.

Cheating is mandatory, in fact.

Balatro then, is about realising the rules are to bend and break the rules.

Climbing a steel cliff covered in handholds in Jusant

To our surprise and delight, it used grappling hooks to board that bandwagon and wrest control of it.

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The ping system is a masterclass in easy contextual communication with teammates.

Perfectly legitimate poker in a Balatro screenshot.

Survivors can bring their fallen teammates back to life if they’re bold or sneaky enough.

This eventually becomes saving the world, as is wont to happen.

Combat in Baldur’s Gate is based on the D20 system - i.e.

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you roll dice do to things.

It’s fiddling and complicated, and turns a lot of the people off the game.

you’re free to rescue a child from a hag.

An intense turn-based fight in Baldur’s Gate 3. A tavern has been attacked by demonic monsters.

you’ve got the option to get turned into cheese.

One of whom can turn into a bear.

Do you like thinking about what it is to be a person?

The hacker wields a big hammer and goes toe to toe with a large robot in the System Shock remake.

Do you also like robots?

Then you should get The Talos Principle 2!

Like the first game, though, is the fact that you’re an artificial intelligence.

Several lasers beam down from a light refractor floating in the air in The Talos Principle 2

It’s a game about iterating horror, almost.

Banishers is a really strong single-player adventure with a great hook and a genuinely compelling story.

A definite boost if you have live-service fatigue.

Getting in a fight with a horrible ‘aspiring model’ - a woman with a strange mask wielding a knife in World Of Horror

This is a mining sim that leans on physics and realism to add flavour to your task.

Though it’s a game about simulated space labour in exchange for money, it’s not grindy.

It’s about experimenting!

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It’s about exploration via the mundane!

It’s a super sim game.

Actual changing seasons!)

A spaceship moves carefully through the centre of an asteroid in V: Rings of Saturn

all set to a soundtrack of licensed tracks that you’ve got the option to really bop to.

His way of going about it?

Chucking shaved ice into the air.

In Forza Horizon 5, a truck catches air while racing three jet ski riders down a river.

But it does the Yakuza thing!

It goes so much deeper than shaved ice in the most unexpected of ways.”

That’s our list of the best PC games to play as of… right now.

Kiryu punches a perv in a Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s turn-based battle.

But remember that this is a living list, and we’re going to be updating it again.