This week's new PC games are a treasure trove of the scary, eerie and occult, plus a charming Star Trek game

Happy this week, all! It’s clip erstwhile again to load the Maw up with caller PC games, that we whitethorn stave disconnected the apocalypse till adjacent Monday. This week covers a wide spectrum of flavours and textures: papery, Dodo-ish, ducklike, inky, formaldehyde-y, pasty, furry, feculent, and fishy. Once you’re done throwing up, get backmost present and tally your protesting eyes implicit the afloat list. As ever, we invited your urgent suggestions.

Monday 16th February

• Book Smugglers is simply a constituent and click escapade astir circulating forbidden texts successful 19th period Tsarist Lithuania.
• Stormbridge is simply a strictly horizontal blend of operation defence and metropolis builder successful which you agelong retired a colony rightwards, portion raising defences against an encroaching tempest connected the left.
• For radical who privation much randomisation and playdough faces successful their Ogre Battling, Dobbel Dungeon is simply a turn-based tactics matter successful which characters rotation dice each crook to find the moves they tin perform.
• Out this time successful aboriginal access, Astrobotanica is simply a somewhat Crash Bandicoot-esque puzzle ‘n’ endurance crippled successful which you are an extra-terrestrial botanist making consciousness of prehistoric Earth, feat. Neanderthals and Dodos.
• Let’s savagely rebut the chonky ‘take maine to your main mammoth hunter’ bonhomie of that past introduction with Alien Morgue, successful which you bash autopsies connected small greenish men. (You don’t look to beryllium playing a Neanderthal oregon a Dodo.)

Tuesday 17th February

• Time to erstwhile again particulate disconnected those parched and abraded Zelda memories with Under The Island, a top-down land dungeon puzzler featuring six biomes replete with writer you tin slash to uncover wellness hearts.
• Friendslop’s bottomless chum bucket has claimed Cthulhu successful Ritual Party, which is astir 4 buds (or are you?) trying to execute a hellish ritual. Please, idiosyncratic assistance maine deliberation of a non-pejorative connection for “friendslop” that rolls disconnected the lingua arsenic easily. The champion I person are “Overcookie” and “Lethalcomp”.
• No clip for friendslop, actually, for contiguous marks the dawning of duck-builders. Placid Plastic Deck: A Quiet Quest (pictured) is simply a profoundly suspicious card-battler.
• Beyond The Doors is simply a finicky surveillance sim successful which you judge mysterious requests to bug your neighbours, portion probing the enigmas of the architecture itself.
• Roach Post is simply a cheery roguelite puzzler successful which you instrumentality unneurotic postage stamps with the assistance of an service of cockroaches.
• Forgotlings is simply a posh-looking, VA-heavy enactment escapade acceptable successful a satellite of discarded sentient objects.

Wednesday 18th February

• Nice cavernous origami satellite you’ve got there, Blank. Shame if idiosyncratic were to level each implicit it.
• Equal parts horny, despairing and whimsical, Kill The Witch is an aboriginal entree 2D enactment platformer successful which you are a witch with a shot bat.
• The Killing Stone is an Inscryptic confection from the makers of The Blackout Club. You are successful the Arctic, playing a cursed boardgame to prevention the souls of a noble household from the Devil.
• The transgression lack of licensed euphony notwithstanding, Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown looks to beryllium a pleasant “what if”-driven strategy absorption larboard of TV’s definitive travel to the Delta Quadrant. Off to the Transporter country with you, Neelix - you’re doing a one-man-raid connected the Borg Cube.
• People who pre-fur the Star Foxy breed of abstraction sim mightiness privation to propulsion their pennies astatine FUR Squadron Phoenix. Neelix’s tufty mug wouldn’t look retired of spot here, present that I deliberation of it.

Thursday 19th February

• Today brings rather the haul. Let’s barge done them astatine pace. Firstly, PARANORMASIGHT: The Mermaid's Curse is simply a sun-baked enigma fearfulness caller successful which an ensemble formed wrangle with immoderate ghastly fishwomen.
• The N64-to-Gamecube epoch lives connected successful “expressive” platformer Demon Tides, which casts you arsenic a transforming devil princess.
• Styx: Blades Of Greed is your latest helping of putrid and snarky unfastened satellite goblin stealth.
• Love Eternal is an introspective fearfulness platformer we mightiness blithely summarise arsenic Playdead X Celeste.
• Key Fairy is simply a “hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric, bullet-hell” crippled successful which you grapple past monsters, salvaging their shattered stars, and lick riddles successful a wood of scratchy humor and ink.
• Nightsoil is perchance the archetypal turd postulation crippled I’ve covered, and surely the archetypal emotive turd postulation crippled I’ve covered.
• Get the consciousness that each is not good connected this peculiar state elephantine moon.

Friday 20th February

• Just a mates much earlier we spell mildly into that bully Friday night. Ys X: Proud Nordics is an updated mentation of a 2023 entrant successful the sprawling Ys series, champion known (to me, anyway) for popularising the conception of bumpslash combat.
• Horripilant is an incremental dungeon clicker astir an aged knight successful a satellite of Junji Ito-esque filthbastards.

What’s going connected successful the Treehouse this week? James is biffing respective larger hardware stories, and threatening to amended the remainder of america astir teraflops. Mark wants to locomotion the godforsaken – hurting, longing, dancing to disco music. Julian whitethorn person an awkward communicative to archer astir a PC crippled helium shouldn’t admit to person played. I americium reasoning astir unfastened worlds and metropolis builders, due to the fact that I americium thing if not shackled to genre. Callum is biding his clip earlier the Requiem, and Ollie is eyeing the months up done a scope (and also, perchance playing much Arc Raiders). Jeremy ain’t successful yet. How astir you?