This week in PC games: not just Silksong, we also have catgirl tearooms, Returnal-esque shooters and vintage toon horror

What we're feeding the Maw

And I looked, and behold a airy hornet: and the crippled that came with her was Silksong, and merchandise delays followed after. And powerfulness was fixed unto them implicit the 4th portion of Steam, to termination with needle, and with thread, and with parrying, and with the bugs of the earth.

This week, the Maw has the large pleasance of eating upon the frenziedly awaited sequel to Team Cherry's metroidvania Hollow Knight. James saw it astatine Gamescom and deemed it "faster, prettier, and harder" but also, "safe". FOOL. There tin beryllium nary information successful the clip of Silken singing. The past period has been a dependable avalanche of caller PC games noping the heck retired of aboriginal September to debar being stung to decease by this deceptively tiny predator. Here are the projects that are lasting their ground.

Monday 1st September

• Bad Cheese is simply a first-person intelligence fearfulness inspired by 1920s animation successful which you are a fretful rodent keeping location portion Mom's away. Remember Dad's pills and enactment retired of the emmental labyrinth, y'hear?

Tuesday 2nd September

• The legions of Super-Earth are burrowing underground successful a bid to flight Team Cherry's approaching locust cloud. Helldivers 2's spelunkin' Into The Unjust update is retired today.
• Neyyah is simply a caller Mystlike from nu-MicroProse. Are you a Mystliker oregon a Mysthater? There tin beryllium nary compromise.
• Otherskin is simply a third-person action-adventure with grandiose alien environments, featuring a woman successful a morphing powersuit. Metroid meets Stellar Blade.
• Metal Eden is simply a hyperactive first-person shooter featuring different woman successful a morphing powersuit. Metroid meets Doom Eternal.

Wednesday 3rd September

• If you find Paper Mario disgustingly low-brow, possibly you'll get your kicks from paper-folding platformer Hirogami, you snob.

Thursday 4th September

• Glass shatters, mountains shudder and each vertebrate lifeforms spontaneously bedewed themselves arsenic the Silksong begins. But what's this? A valiant fewer games person formed a motley choir and are trying to drown Team Cherry out.
• Hell Is Us is simply a gloomy third-person odyssey with notes of soulslike and Returnal, positive the dependable of Adam Jensen.
• Kemono Teatime is simply a perfectly bully crippled astir moving an artisanal teahouse for catgirls.
• Adventure of Samsara is simply a 2D metroidvania follow-up to Adventure connected the Atari 2600. Dear lord, a 2D metroidvania launching alongside Silksong. The humanity.
• Dig & Decode is astir excavating the puzzle chambers of a long-dead Earth, turning archaeological relics specified arsenic *squints* earphones into substance for your spacecraft.
• Casebook 1899: The Leipzig Murders is simply a detective point-and-clicker featuring apical hats, smokestacks, beards and exclusively German vocals. Let's spot you outsing the Germans, Silksong! They wrote, like, fractional the bully operas.

Friday 5th September

• NBA 2K26 is simply a basket-weaving simulation successful which situation is created by radical rudely throwing a shot astatine you. Nobody ever thinks of the basketweavers.
• Shuten Order is the latest from Too Kyo Games, a squad led by Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka. Co-developed with Neilo, it's a whiplash blend of genres including ocular novel, stealth and flight room.
• Cronos: The New Dawn is the caller sci-fi fearfulness shooter from Silent Hill 2 remakers Bloober.

Provisional plans astatine the Treehouse this week? James is successful the hotseat for our Silksong review, which volition beryllium coming aft motorboat due to the fact that Team Cherry aren't giving retired property codes. I can't blasted them for redeeming themselves the hassle - going by wishlists and caller Hollow Knight subordinate stats, this crippled is going to marque 20 quintillion dollars.

Jeremy and Ollie volition besides beryllium Silksinging successful the sanction of guides. Mark has his eyes connected the Elder Scrolls modding scene, but whitethorn besides find clip for a speedy Helldive. I, meanwhile, americium trying to enactment retired whether I attraction capable astir metroidvania these days to bash a Hot Take. How are things looking astatine your end?