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TIM ON THE GRIND CARD SHARP MIND K I LLER
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DESTINY 2 HEARTHSTONE CONTROL
I’m old enough to bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/Shadowkeep playhearthstone.com controlgame.com
remember playing
Elite on the BBC. I’m Real talk: if we were being honest My other main timesink is Is it obligatory to include Control?
also nominally in all eight entries should be Destiny 2. Blizzard’s enraging CCG. As you read It should be. I’m stalled halfway
charge so not sure What sickness brings me back night this the latest expansion, Descent of through, undone by an unresolved
how Robin has tricked after night? It’s an combination of the Dragons, will be a month old. It looks microstutter that was giving me
me into writing this slick weapon feel and the fizzy space packed with hilariously overpowered anxiety, but Remedy’s shooter was
on a Friday afternoon.
He’s now fired. magic. Which still doesn’t explain cards, but whether that new hotness easily 2019’s most stylish game,
why I sunk 2,500 hours before the will be enough to draw me back from channelling weird fiction from X-Files,
swap from Battle.net to Steam. Note: Battlegrounds, the addictive Auto through David Lynch to Mark Z
this is a cry for help. Chess knockoff, is less certain. Danielewski’s House of Leaves.
MR BL OBBY MEDICATED
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INSIDE TWO POINT HOSPITAL
Inside because I still think about it all PL AY twopointhospital.com
playdead.com/games/inside
Speaking of spooky, I’m including
I love this despite being terrible at
maladies and ballooning balance
the time. Set against a backdrop of micromanaging its array of cartoon
monochromatic totalitarianism, it’s A PERSONAL LIST sheet. (Bad news for both the rest of
nominally a platform-puzzle hybrid. OF THE BEST the PC Gamer team and my
More accurately: it’s Kafka does GAMES YOU CAN paymasters.) My sister, in stark
body horror. Best consumed in a PLAY RIGHT NOW contrast, has five-starred every
single sitting, be warned that the final by Tim Clark hospital in the game. It helps that
image on the beach will haunt you. she’s a qualified actuary.
TRUE ST ORY LE ATHER CHAPS C H O O SE WISELY
TELLING LIES RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2 XCOM 2: WAR OF THE CHOSEN
tellingliesgame.com rockstargames.com/reddeadredemption2 xcom.com/war-of-the-chosen
I’m saving this to play over My other big ‘holiday’ game is I haven’t had a chance to sample
Christmas with my other half, PC Rockstar’s none-more-thicc old west Phoenix Point yet, so this is my
hooked up to the TV and a high end epic. I waited to play RDR2 on PC turn-based strategy choice for now.
cheeseboard on hand. We were both because honestly the console War of the Chosen remains the gold
big fans of Her Story, and have also controls were in desperate need of standard when it comes to
played a lot of the other less lauded remapping (unless you want to deal integrated DLC too. The way your
FMV detective fare, like Late Shift with the outcome of shooting NPCs alien nemeses are handled made
and the frankly bizarre Contradiction mid-conversation by accident). them feel like despicable bastards,
– Spot the Liar!. Looks sensational on a 2080 too. and their unique loot is great.
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