What We're Playing

What you could play this weekend

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By Graham Smith
A cat boy dressed in leather holding some sort of steampunk rifle.
We wouldn't dare charge for this.

Wall Week, our weeklong celebration of putting up our paywall, is nearing its end. As Brendy explained, many posts will remain outside that paywall each week, including weekly regulars like this one, and including your ability to comment on those articles. We made the decision early on to make commenting free because we want Jank to feel like a community; a cool place to hang out and chat, even if you don't have the money to hand over when Brendy tries a shakedown.

So come in, pull up a chair. Tell us what you're going to be playing this weekend.

Moonlight Peaks

"I do very much enjoy getting a sense of what it is like to engage in these odd customs of your kind," says Death, to a vampire.

Ever since I completed Pokémon Pokopia, I've been looking for a new game to give me errands to do. Moonlight Peaks looks like it could be that game, as a supernatural life sim in which you play as a vampire, befriend the local witches and mermaids, and spend your time potion-making and, of course, growing crops and fishing.

Echoes Of Aincrad

Anime heroes brandish a glowing sword and look up and off screen.

It's been a surprise to me that there aren't more isekai videogames, given the genre's ubiquity and popularity in anime. It's especially odd given how many isekai anime are about being sucked into videogame worlds. Echoes Of Aincrad is set within one of the giants of that trope, the dismal Sword Art Online, offering a hack-and-slash fantasy action-RPG around the edge's of the show's first season. Reviews suggest you might want to unplug from the death game regardless of the consequences, alas.

Granblue Fantasy: Relink - Endless Ragnarok

A lady with a sword strikes a cool pose while in front of her a purple dragon does star jumps.

If you want a higher grade of anime nonsense, Granblue Fantasy: Relink was a buoyant albeit traditional take on the format. Endless Ragnarok is its latest expansion, which adds new quests, higher level doozits, and summons, but otherwise offers the same colourful cascade of magic effects and damage numbers popping off. Give me days that are 28 hours long and I suspect I would be playing this.

It's been an exceedingly anime week, and I didn't even mention the new gacha game from Tower Of Fantasy's developers, the daftly titled NTE: Neverness To Everness. I continue to await the day when there are more anime-inspired games that aren't action-RPGs.

But you, tell us what you're playing down below in the internet's best and only comments 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.