This week in PC games: Final Fantasy Tactics, VR-free Alien, wooden mice mazes and opulent card games

What we're feeding the Maw

May Horace prevention and support you, my chap Metamedia Sorcerers, for I travel with atrocious tidings. We are entering a news-lull. While determination are immoderate curious, perchance adjacent attention-worthy PC games retired this week, nary of them are Big. None of them person that triple, quadruple oregon perchance adjacent quintuple-A bullshit frosting the Maw truthful delights to batten upon. Last week gave america Tokyo Game Show, a clip of comparative bounty, but this week, determination is simply a dearth of evident header material, and the Creature is already showing signs of discontent.

Its guts stiffen and strain similar paralysed icebreakers. Its eyes widen successful each mirror. How could it get worse? Oh hell's teeth, I've tally retired of coffee. We're doomed! Rohan has deserted us! Theoden has betrayed me! Abandon your posts! Flee, fly for your lives!

I don't person a Gandalf to stride successful here, whack maine with a unit and rally the troops. James would person played the part, I'm sure, but he's not successful today. Perhaps he's retired buying coffee. Please fto that beryllium the case. Also, delight fto idiosyncratic bargain EA oregon equivalent truthful that we person a chunky morsel to appease the beast, earlier it ruptures the continuum and turns Mars into Belgium again. Casting my regard wildly astatine the events calendar, I spot lone the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit 2025 connected 2nd October. I can't provender HR radical to the Maw! After all, they're vitally needed for approving my holidays. Please, fto idiosyncratic station a nexus to thing straightforwardly immense successful the comments. While you scrape astir for ideas, here's the latest caller crippled round-up.

Monday 29th September

• Boneparte's Bluff is simply a escaped and simple-looking abstract strategy crippled successful which the pieces prevarication to you.

Tuesday 30th September

• Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles is simply a revamp of the venerable PS1 strategy RPG. Dom implicit astatine Eurogamer says it's beauteous good.
• It seems apt you're successful the temper for xenomorphs, aft Alien: Earth, truthful possibly cock a squint astatine Alien: Rogue Incursion's Evolved Edition (pictured), the caller headset-free mentation of a VR fearfulness crippled that is seemingly a spot mid.
• LEGO Party! is simply a four-player minigame bonanza with an unnecessary and frankly condescending exclamation mark. People should cognize good capable to proviso their ain dang exclamation marks erstwhile they play "party" games.

Wednesday 1st October

• Flick Solitaire is simply a solo paper crippled with a batch of decks from antithetic artists. It's free-to-play and launching successful aboriginal access. There are in-app purchases and play passes, but "all halfway gameplay, collecting decks, and completing them tin beryllium experienced for free". A suspicious CTRL+F of the Steam leafage reveals nary notation of NFTs.

Thursday 2nd October

• Éalú is an atmospheric puzzler with hand-made, stop-motion animations. It's astir a woody rodent trying to flight a maze.
• Digimon Story Time Stranger is simply a monster-taming RPG astir those collectible creatures who aren't Pokemon and besides aren't presently being sued for trying to beryllium Pokemon.

Friday 3rd October

• Castle Of Heart: Retold is simply a prettied-up mentation of a lush Slavic side-scroller successful which a knight indispensable continuously execution vodniks to halt his assemblage turning to stone.

There's your cue. Fill maine successful connected immoderate important breaking news, oregon large games releases not mentioned here. Please, I beg of you. I'm virtually penning this from wrong the Mawmouth, peering retired astatine you done a wood of quantum strings arsenic heavy arsenic baleen. It smells atrocious successful here. I'm sitting connected a rancid chunk of Borderlands DLC, attempting to hitch the kaiju dribble disconnected my laptop screen. Time to trial retired this Boneparte Bluff game, I guess, portion Mark embarks connected an exigency expedition to find immoderate monolithic standalone mods we've forgotten about.