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“DYING LIGHT IS NOW CONSIDERED A GENRE CLASSIC”

YOU BETTER BE-LEAF IT • THE WITCHER 4 is shiny, gorgeous, and… green?

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

SKYRIM’S NAPKIN AI • Bethesda’s quest to make smarter NPCs started with a sketch from Todd Howard

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMES ON THE WAY

BORDERLANDS 4 • Gearbox goes bigger, but keeps doing what it does best

FALLEN ACES • Immersive noir, with a hand-drawn look

DIRECTIVE 8020 • This sci-fi horror with rewind mechanic still left me sweating

CRIMSON DESERT • Open-world action that continues to look strong but unwieldy

ONIMUSHA: WAY OF THE SWORD • Kinetic combat unlike I’ve ever seen before

TALES OF THE SHIRE • Minimalism is out, cottagecore is in

BLACK RAVEN • This slasher looks like a comic that inspired death metal bands

DEATH HOWL • A Soulslike deckbuilder that’s coming together superbly well

SINTOPIA • Hell is other people, but now you’re in charge

FALL OF AN EMPIRE • Skip to the end, that’s where the fun is

THE DRIFTER • Conspiracies lurk in the pixel-art darkness

PIXEL STARSHIPS 2 • It’s not exactly rocket science

MANDRAKE • Even stranger horticulture

BEAST UNLEASHED • DYING LIGHT: THE BEAST is a pivotal game for Techland – both a sequel and a return to roots that could serve as a blueprint for future games in the series

MACHINE GOD • DEUS EX’s influence can be quietly felt throughout gaming like the tendrils of a clandestine organisation, but it could have ended up a Command & Conquer game if not for an unlikely intervention. This is the story of how it was made, 25 years ago

King of kings

This month’s Freman reviewers…

SPICE JAM • Craftand fight for your life on Arrakis in Funcom’s survival MMO DUNE: AWAKENING

TAINTED LOVE • TAINTED GRAIL: THE FALL OF AVALON is a competent open-world, first-person RPG

PORTALE ROYALE • SPLITGATE 2 doesn’t make FPS great again

SEXYRO • STELLAR BLADE leans on its inspiration a little too much

UNCONTROLLED • FBC: FIREBREAK is a big old mess. Mainly by design, but partly by mistake

PITCH PERFECT • A few kinks aside, REMATCH is pitch perfect

DATA WORM • The SYSTEM SHOCK 2 REMASTER makes a classic more approachable

FIRST CLASS • Satan’s favourite deckbuilder returns aboard MONSTER TRAIN 2

DOCTOR DOCTOR • Save or sacrifice in TRIAGE

WALK THE LINE • The ants know the score in THE SPIRIT OF THE ANTS

SOLID SNEAKING • Filling in the blanks in STEALTH CROSSWORD

PLAGUE RECOLLECTION • Making all the Reik moves in VERMINTIDE 2

STANZ AND DELIVER • Gozer your own way in GHOSTBUSTERS: THE VIDEO GAME

GNAT’S LIFE • Big hunter becomes the hunted in GROUNDED

LIQUID COOLERS • You don’t need a screen on your liquid cooler for top performance, but don’t tell this lot

BACHELOR PAD • How the Xbox controller became the PC’s de facto input method

REAL TORQUE • Five years after the lockdown sim racing boom, direct drive’s hit the mainstream

THE BUILD • White goods

BUYER’S GUIDE • Build the best PC for your...