The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?
From Delta Force to Diesel Legacy, Marvel to Mythwrecked
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To your stations, colleagues! December has ambushed us like a hideous hairy man in a red bobble hat, and time is of the essence. In just a handful of weeks, Horace the Endless Bear shall strike the brazen gong labelled "Happy holidays" and atomise the world, that it may be born anew in 2025. Before that, we must heap the Maw high with any remaining new video games or video game news from 2024. Find below a few new PC releases for the pile. I thought it was going to be a quiet week, but it's actually quite a boisterous haul.
On Monday 2nd December, it's time to Get To Work, for we are bald and have rollerskates for hands and feet. On Tuesday 3rd December, it's hammer time in Pizza Tower-esque platformer Antonblast and, er, feather boa time in 2v2 fighting game Diesel Legacy: The Brazen Age. On Wednesday 4th December, it's time to be a mech-riding sharpshooter space frog in Entropy Survivors. On Thursday 5th December - well, there are many ways to spend time: being a shootyman in Delta Force, befriending amnesiac gods in Mythwrecked: Ambrosia Island, acrobatically traversing a world of musical machines in Symphonia, exploring beautiful Final Fantasy dioramas in Fantasian: Neo Dimension. And on Friday 6th December, it's time to Assemble some Avengers and other caped eccentrics in Marvel Rivals.
Augh, there's a really terrific PC game I forgot to include! No, not Caves Of Qud 1.0 on the 5th, or Path Of Exile 2 on the 6th (thanks, Fachewachewa) - the other one. Only you know which game it is. Please deposit that game with all due reverence in the comments thread. Find the latest news liveblog below, and have a terrific week.
Tic tac toe (aka noughts and crosses) has been Balatroed in the shape of Tic Tactic, a roguelike deckbuilder where you "form combos to deal damage, defeat opponents to collect new tiles, and face stronger enemies as you push ever closer to the chicken stronghold". Yes, the baddies are chickens. Find a free browser demo here.
SeekerX says: Wednesday 12/4 sees Moon Watch launch into Early Access -- a new roguelike from the Backpack Hero developers. Vampire Survivors-ish, but more of a bullet hell game, with deck-building elements, and playing by Superhot "time only moves when you do" rules? Interesting! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2878030/Moon_Watch/
Oh yeah, I wrote about the demo for this one. It seems fun.
The launch trailer for Indiana Johns And The Great Rhombus.
Call Of Duty is doing a Squid Game collaboration. Will it be a story about poverty and class war, or will it be like the scene where you have to run up on the singing doll, but everybody has a Jackal PDW?
LEAGUESDAY OF LEGENDS
Don't let me down at the second hurdle, MOBA week. FEED THE MAW.Netease's open world gacha RPG Project Mugen is now called Ananta. This is the one that's like Spider-Man meets Zenless Zone Zero.
Town-building roguelike Purgatory Dungeoneer is 50% off on Steam and Itch.io, and has just been comprehensively rebalanced.
Somebody has beaten Starcraft 2's epilogue mission In Utter Darkness, which was designed to be unbeatable.
The launch trailer for Marvel Rivals, which has a certain Street Fighter charm. The game itself appears to be Overwatch again, but with destructible terrain and much I-Am-Grooting.
Here's the opening movie for the upcoming Suikoden I & II remasters. Be still, my heart.
IT IS MONDOTA 2
It's a MOBA-themed pun week! Fingers crossed we don't run out of MOBAs. FEED THE MAW.