Ever wanted to be a medieval ruler but thought Crusader Kings III had too few complaints about furniture distribution? Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown is here to remind you that even in the Dark Ages, people really cared about their work-life balance.

Ever wanted to build a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier while roleplaying as Belgium? Götterdämmerung is here to drain your wallet and possibly melt your CPU.

Ever wondered what it's like to work a soul-crushing job where every task might actually kill you? Threshold answers that question with a wheezing "yes" and throws in some existential workplace horror for good measure.

Finally, after enough development hell to make Duke Nukem Forever look punctual, STALKER 2 has emerged from the Zone. Like finding a valuable artifact in a whirling anomaly, it's simultaneously brilliant and potentially hazardous to your hardware's health.

Ever wanted to be an ant commander in a photorealistic garden? Well, Empire of the Ants delivers exactly that – but whether that's what ant enthusiasts actually wanted is another story entirely. Like finding out your dream ant farm is just a pretty picture of one, this game is simultaneously impressive and disappointing.

The game that launched a thousand lunch breaks has finally made its way to Steam, and like a well-aged pepperoni, it's only gotten better with time. Papa's Pizzeria Deluxe takes the Flash game classic we all pretended to play for "educational purposes" on school computers and cranks the sauce up to eleven.

Let's get the elephant in the nuclear bunker out of the way: No, this isn't Half-Life: Alyx. But comparing every VR game to Alyx is like comparing every burger joint to that one amazing place you had in Tokyo – it's just setting yourself up for disappointment. Metro Awakening is its own beast, and while it might not be a revolution, it's definitely more than just another VR shooting gallery.

Remember Gladius? That Warhammer 40K 4X game that was basically "what if Civilization, but everyone's permanently pissed off"? Well, Proxy Studios just dropped ZEPHON, and holy hell, it's like they took everything they learned from Gladius, gave it a shot of personality steroids, and created something that might just make Games Workshop jealous.

Let's get one thing straight: if H.P. Lovecraft made a card game, it probably wouldn't be this random – and this is coming from a guy who wrote about cosmic chaos for a living. Menace from the Deep looks like a slam dunk on paper: gorgeous Lovecraftian art, solid atmosphere, and deck-building mechanics that should work smoother than a cultist's sales pitch. Unfortunately, it plays like someone shuffled the rules with a tentacle.

Ever wondered what would happen if you fed an AI a history textbook, some LSD, and told it to make a grand strategy game? Well, Realpolitiks 3 is here to answer that question with all the grace of a drunk diplomat at a peace conference.

Ever wondered what would happen if a Russian folk tale had a baby with a video game while listening to haunting Slavic music? Well, Vasilisa and Baba Yaga is here to answer that question with more style than a witch's fashion show.

Ever wondered what would happen if Tim Burton decided to make a point-and-click adventure game about teenage rebellion in the underworld? Well, PRIM is here to answer that question with more style than a goth their Instagram feed.

Ever wondered what would happen if Kenshi had a child with a wuxia novel, then raised it exclusively on machine-translated fortune cookies? Well, The Matchless Kungfu is here to answer that question with all the grace of a drunken master falling down stairs.

Ever wondered what would happen if Saints Row and GTA had a baby, but forgot to feed it proper optimization? Well, It's Only Money is here to answer that question with all the charm of a B-movie and twice the bugs.

Ever wondered what would happen if Anno 1800's developers had a collective cosmic nightmare and decided to make a game about it? Well, Worshippers of Cthulhu is here to answer that question with more tentacles than you can shake a sacrificial dagger at.

Ever wondered what would happen if Escape from Tarkov and STALKER had a baby, but halfway through pregnancy they decided to raise it on a strict diet of pixels and bugs? Well, wonder no more, because ZERO Sievert is here to answer that question nobody asked.

You know that oddly satisfying feeling you get from organizing your sock drawer at 3 AM? Well, Wilmot Works It Out is basically that feeling turned into a game, and somehow they've made sorting puzzle pieces more addictive than scrolling through TikTok at work.

Remember that time your ex promised they'd "respect your boundaries" right before setting your car on fire? Well, Deck Nine just pulled the gaming equivalent with Life is Strange: Double Exposure, a sequel that promises to respect both endings of the original game before yeeting those promises straight into a tornado.

Fourteen years. That's how long PC players have waited to experience John Marston's legendary tale, and Rockstar's finally decided to grace us with their presence... for the low, low price of your firstborn child (or $50, whichever hurts more).

Ever wondered what it's like to be the world's most incompetent wildlife investigator? TRAILCAM lets you live out that oddly specific fantasy, offering all the thrills of staring at grainy footage while questioning your career choices. It's like Pokemon Snap meets Blair Witch, minus the Pokemon, and most of the excitement.