PC Gamer

In addition to a great visual design, PC Gamer focuses more on communities, user-made content and of course the big-name games we know and love! Each issue also offers exclusive previews and insightful features to make sure you're at the top of your game. Delivering authoritative, honest, informative and entertaining reviews, PC Gamer is the ultimate buyer’s guide.

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“This demon-slaying, witch-hunting extraction FPS is damned good”

Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve

GRAND THEFT NADA • Hackers try to extort Rockstar for $200,000

CLASSIC QUEST • How a ’90s Zelda port became a fangame factory

THE SPY • GAMING’S JUICIEST RUMOURS

The Call of Duty schism: why fans are trapped in a forever war

Crimson Desert’s playable trio might be the worst

Cryptic nonsense and melodrama are ruining videogame storytelling

How BioWare can make a comeback, but won’t

Is real-time with pause RPG combat a sin?

MUST PLAY • GREAT GAMES YOU SHOULD PLAY TODAY

Letters • COMMUNITY CABLES

The Expanse: Osiris Reborn • A BioWare-style action-RPG from the Pathfinder: Kingmaker devs

Sudden Strike 5 • The WWII RTS series opens up another front

Scriptorium • This comedic take on Pentiment is a riot of laughs

Metro 2039 • 4A Games’ hyper dark new FPS looks terrifying

Road to Vostok • A stealthy sprint to the Finnish line

Windrose • Pirate survival made me reinstall Sea of Thieves

Shadow Dungeon • An ARPG with a familiar way of doing things

Gun Store Simulator • Making bank selling brass knuckles

JUDAS PRIEST • After ten years, Witchfire begins its ministry

14 Best MMOs on PC • Whether you love massive raids or ruling a corporation, these are the MMOs to play today

MEET THE TEAM

TURN UP THE HEAT • Diablo IV: Lord of Hatred revolutionises Blizzard’s tremendous action RPG

GALACTIC BORE • Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War just isn’t rated for combat

ET GO HOME • An old-school alien butt-kicking in Xenonauts 2

LUNAR DAD ROCK • Pragmata is a snazzy late-’00s throwback

SAY CHEESE AND DIE • Mouse: PI For Hire is no Mickey Mouse shooter

RED CARD • Vampire Crawlers is a mediocre deckbuilder spin-off

FREE GAMES • COOL GAMES FOR NO CASH

THEY’RE BACK • OLD GAMES REVISITED

Ergonomic PC gear • Kinder on your limbs

YASS-TERISER • Nvidia’s DLSS 5 reveal: a disaster

DEEP LEARNINGS • After DLSS 5’s industry-wide kicking, how will Nvidia respond?

FLP02 Silverstone £220/$230 • Rolling things back to a better time

Buyer’s Guide • THE PC COMPONENTS WE RECOMMEND

Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast • Revisiting the legendary lightsaber master almost 25 years later

“An ultrajank GTA-a-like from the early 2000s that’s fallen through a time portal” • I can’t get enough of broken crime ’em up Samson.

“I discover my favourite feature in the game” • Banquet for Fools is an RPG that refuses to tell you what to do.

“You have to ask yourself how scary birds can really be. As it turns out, quite” • Turning my favourite hobby virtual and horrifying in Birds Watching.

“You absolutely should play this one for yourself – I blitzed through it” • Rubato lets the intrusive thoughts win.

Merchant – Become a Shopkeeper • Finally, you can open your own shop in Stardew Valley.

The Gate Cascade Research Facility • Exploring Abiotic Factor’s science...