What you could play this weekend

I had to look it up because I'm no longer professionally bound to structure my life around this kind of information, but Grand Theft Auto 6 comes out on console next week. Will Jank, a PC games site, be finding thin excuses to write about it anyway for SEO and traffic reasons? Oh goodness no. We will continue with our regularly scheduled whatever-the-heck, created and delivered as the mood strikes us.

Thankfully makers of PC games have our backs. Find three whatever-the-hecks below, and tell us whatever you're hecking this weekend down in the comments.

Never Sort By Color

Alice sent this game to me, which is about picking up thousands of spilled Lego bricks, and I told her it looked like a parent's stress dream. Then I sent it to my brother, a recovering Lego addict, and he had basically the same reaction. There's still some part of me that wants to turn that stress into satisfaction by sweeping its messy floors, though. And its off-brand Lego-theming gives it a level of playfulness and ambition I've not seen from others in this nascent genre. Tidy.

Tanuki: Pon's Summer

Fix up your local shrine as a mystical raccoon-dog who delivers mail and rides a bicycle. I think this is at the Tony Hawk-end of the traversal scale, rather than the Easy Delivery Co. sort of physicsy postie 'em up, but still with plenty of folks to talk to as you complete oddjobs and fix things up in time for a coming Tanuki Festival. Cute.

Water TD

Back in August, Brendy wrote about Sir, We Have An Orc Problem, a tower defence game about killing swarms of orc so dense that they function like a liquid. Water TD says: well, what if they actually were a liquid? You still shoot that liquid with guns (or at least flamethrowers), but now the flowing tide of water erodes away the platforms you're trying to build the turrets upon. Neat.

What we're playing

Brendy: In an effort to defeat my enslavement to throwbacks, I've ignored all the cool PS1-inspired games I promised to play last week, and instead installed... Star Wars: Galactic Racer. Well, at least it's got one new type of Star Wars vehicle I've not seen before.

Graham: I'm playing the Ocarina Of Time remake, while my PC and Brendy narrow their eyes disapprovingly at me. I don't care. Me and Epona are going to kick Ganon in the nose.

Jonty: I am back from balmy holiday climes to a freezing UK and hate it. Accordingly I'm planning a trip back to Arc Raiders, which does a beautiful job of capturing Mediterranean climate albeit with killer robots in. I also need to get back to Galactic Racer, although on first impressions it's probably not going to be relaxing.

That's us, but what game are you using to escape the winter chill this weekend? Tell us down below in the internet's best and only comments section.