What you could play this weekend

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What you could play this weekend

We have once again dragged our nets along the sea floor of videogames to trawl for new releases worth bringing back to port, but for once our catch is bordering on paltry. Perhaps the videogames were simply too small to be caught in our nets, or perhaps the industry's videogame farmers thought it unwise to release alongside the marketing bonanza of Summer Game Fest, which continues over the weekend.

In any case, there are still some interesting new games you could play. Tell us what you are playing in the comments.

Characters, that look like the guys from Peak, drive trucks around a warehouse covered in paint or slime.
Now you know what was at the top of that mountain.

Crashout Crew

The latest game from Aggro Crab, fresh from their success as the co-developers of Peak. Crashout Crew has a similar art style and focus on co-op slapstick, but here your and your buddies are fulfilling orders in a warehouse that's really just an escalating series of physics arenas. A little bit Peak, a little bit Overcooked.

A group of ghostly figures in fancy old fashioned clothes sit around a drawing room.
Guests 1-6.

The 7th Guest Remake

I never played The 7th Guest, but it was practically a permanent fixture for about a decade of PC gaming magazines. This remake uses volumetric filming techniques to produce FMV with real actors that you can walk around and view from different angles as if they're 3D models, for a spooky first-person explore 'em up with lots of environment puzzles to solve.

Pixel art houses of stone and wood in a green field with trees dotted around.
Rome cannot be built alone, says the trailer. Bad news for some in this game for 1-8 players.

Romestead

Rome must be rebuilt, but every night zombie centurions appear and wreck everything. You must therefore split your time between hacking and slashing the undead hordes when it's dark, and gathering, growing and crafting during the day (with up to seven co-op pals) to build homes, city walls, catapults to defend against the nightly legions.

That's our shrimp, tuna and cod. Tell us what games you've caught lately below, in the internet's best and only comment section.

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Graham Smith

Graham Smith

Graham is a former editorial director of Rock Paper Shotgun and editor-in-chief of PC Gamer. He has now been a games journalist for over twenty years, and retains a bottomless appetite for playing new games and tinkering with old ones.