What We're Playing

What you could play this weekend

Tell us what you are playing in the comments
By Graham Smith
A little guy on a kitchen counter scrubs mold, while nearby a mold-covered teapot and mugs await his work.
I know this would be a waste of time, and yet...

The Steam Summer sale is underway, which means you may be playing the ancient game of, Do I Really Need To Buy This Now Or Am I Merely Seeking Dopamine. It's a surprisingly popular game considering the answer is always the same. It's dopamine. You already own dozens of games you haven't played, right?

Here are three new games through which you could seek dopamine this weekend.

A bipedal mech in a grey street, viewed in first-person with a gun in the player's hands.
From the developers of Splitgate.

Empulse

You might never get a Titanfall 3, but Empulse looks like a pretty good consolation. It's a 6v6 multiplayer first-person shooter with wall-running, grapple hooks and pilotable mechs. Its unique idea - or at least, the idea it borrowed from a game other than Titanfall - is paint bombs which you can throw down to apply effects to surfaces, creating faster movement, bigger leaps, and stickiness.

The inside of a fridge, where a little sushi guy is washing mold. Some rotten eggs are nearby.
Imagine how much more time I'd have for writing on Jank if this guy lived in my house.

Moldwasher

There are so, so many games about tidying up in the wake of PowerWash Simulator, but Moldwasher is at least visually distinct by being in isometric 2D. Better yet, you take control of a tiny nigiri sushi, so your powerwashing takes place from within the microwaves, fridges, and dog bowls of a pixel art world much larger than you. Cute.

A colourful house, surrounded by grass and ivy, a witch, and several cute magical creatures.
It looks pretty, but ivy can really damage the mortar and clog drains. They should cut that off.

Witchspire

Valheim but witches. You explore an open world, fight creatures, build homes, befriend spirits, and do all of it alone or in co-op. There's an almost Disneyfied art style to this, all purples and soft edges, and I suspect there are people who'll want to live in this world more than they did Valheim or V Rising or any of the other co-op build 'em ups. Also there are pilotable brooms.

This weekend I will be playing Overcooked 2 with my son, Abiotic Factor with my friend, and who-knows-what in my own time in between. The Adventures Of Elliot? Maybe. I just completed Pokémon Pokopia and installed Hello Kitty Island Adventure, so who knows what awaits me.

Tell us what you're playing below, in the internet's best and only comment section.

Tagged with:
What We're Playing
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.