What We're Playing

What you should play this weekend

Tell us what you are playing in the comments
By Graham Smith
Four pots with faces and legs stand in front of a roaring fire in, I guess, a kiln, in Kiln.
Double Fine's Kiln looks like it'd be a blast (furnace) with kids.

What a pushy, presumptive title this post has. Who are we to tell you what you should play? We are but mere servants, providing a bucket for you to fill with your own independent selections.

Shovel the chum, friends. Fill our bucket for it is empty without you.

"So yeah. As part of my deal, I won't actually be appearing in this game," says a character on the phone. I do not know what else is going on here.
I have no idea what's going on in this screenshot. Art.

Titanium Court

"A surreal strategy game for clowns and criminals." The IGF Grand Prize winner, 2026. This year's Blue Prince or Animal Well. The game your smartest and smuggest game-playing friend will be raving about all year. A game that's brave enough to make jokes out of its Steam screenshots. Doomed to be critically beloved and commercially underperforming. Art.

A pot with green arms and legs emotes on a glowing platform.
Look at that little guy! Simple and coherent and expressive.

Kiln

Double Fine in their silly, frivolous mode, producing a team-based multiplayer brawler in which you sculpt pottery and then, optionally, steer those pots into battle against others. The abilities of your character are determined by how you've crafted your beautiful porcelain bodies - and in the game. I love the art style that fits the pottery with doodled appendages and expressive faces.

A gun is fired at an enemy in a dungeon crawler that looks like a library and has cards at the bottom of the screen.
This game is going to swallow me and I'm going to let it.

Vampire Crawlers

What if all of Vampire Survivors' speed and bombast was channelled through a turn-based dungeon crawler? You'd get this compulsive confection, which operates Legend Of Grimrock with a lot less grim and a lot more rock. Don't play it unless you want to keep playing it, locked eternally into a dopamine-addled haze.

Yet again this is just a sliver of the games released in the past week. I am currently playing Molyneux's latest, Masters Of Albion, which I hope to have words on by Monday, but what about you? Tell us what you're playing in the comments below.

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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.