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PC Gamer • #360 SEPTEMBER 2022

UNDER SIEGE • How the Russian invasion is affecting UKRAINIAN studios

Highs & Lows

FACE OFF • VTuber FOFAMIT turns popular Twitch streamer faces into virtual flesh masks

UGLY MUGS • Fofamit’s most cursed face models

TO DIE FOR • It’s time for a diorama ‘did you know?’

NORTHERN LIGHTS • Inside the dioramic mind of Oskar Stålberg, creator of TOWNSCAPER

BALD DECISIONS • How LARIAN broke out of the B-tier to master the Western RPG

ORIGINAL SINS • The Larian games you don’t hear about

ROLLING STONE • The road to Baldur’s Gate

SAINTS ROW • A more grounded take, but don’t worry: It’s still extremely silly

DISNEY DREAMLIGHT VALLEY • It Disney get any better than this

THE LORD OF THE RINGS: GOLLUM • A stealth adventure with an identity crisis

GERDA: A FLAME IN WINTER • An important story muddled by numbers

F1 MANAGER 22 • An irresistible chance to undo Binotto’s mistakes

STORMGATE • StarCraft II’s devs reunite to make the RTS of their dreams

V RISING • Build, battle, and bite in this vampiric survival game

FRENEMIES WITHIN • MARVEL’S MIDNIGHT SUNS defies every expectation an XCOM player could have.

READ THE CARDS • What a Midnight Suns attack looks like

HOME AND AWAY • What superheros are like at home and in the field

VILLAIN TIME • The forces of evil standing in your way

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Short StoriEs • How indie ‘MICRO-RPGs’ offer fascinating perspectives on the genre’s overstuffed epics.

LITTLE BIG PLAN ESCAPES • Some slightly bulkier smaller RPG productions

LONGREADS • Four big RPGs that carry their own weight…

MASTERCLASS • Dos and don’ts for aspiring RPG devs, from our interviewees

SHIP SHAPE • Work off your debt one salvage job at a time in HARDSPACE: SHIPBREAKER

TIME TO PROCESS • The characters of Eternal Threads, ranked by internalized trauma

SECOND CHANCE • ETERNAL THREADS sends you back in time to fix some broken hearts

MISSION BRIEFING • Sniper Elite 5 has a surprisingly wide offering of modes

OVER-SCOPED • SNIPER ELITE 5 isn’t a misfire but it struggles to hit its mark

THE INNER LIFE OF KARL FAIRBURNE • Who is this international man of mystery?

ETERNAL LIFE? • Vampire: The Masquerade has a long association with videogames

FALSE TEETH • VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE: SWANSONG is a choose-’em-up with charmless characters

CLANTASTIC • The key clans you’ll encounter in Swansong

BLADE ROLLER • Using dice to escape Deckard in cyberpunk RPG CITIZEN SLEEPER

FINE FOLK • Some of the people you’ll meet in space

TERRAIN TYPES • The biomes you’ll encounter on your journey

GET LOST • UNEXPLORED 2 struggles to hit its stride

FIGHTING WORDS • Your Fortune system result can change the outcome of a tense conversation

LIVE BY THE BLADE? • Ranged weapons come in handy

HELL AND BACK • In TREK TO YOMI, the dog is more bark than bite

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