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What you should play this weekend

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By Graham Smith
A big screen of stats and magic items and gambling systems in CiniCross.
Picross gets the Balatro treatment in CiniCross.

My Retroid Pocket 6 arrived this week and I am immediately leaving on a family trip. Is this the perfect time to cosy down and play some retro classics? Oh friend. I didn't buy this thing to play games on it. I bought it so I could spend countless evenings tinkering with frontends, boxart, and metadata. Should I ever get the device set up just to my liking, it will be going straight in a drawer to be forgotten about. Fingers crossed everything is as fiddly and time-consuming as I think it should be, or I'm going to have to buy an AYN Thor as a second project.

You might be built different. You might want to actually boot up a game. Here's a few you could try - and tell us what you are playing in the comments.

A side-on cut-through of a museum, showing six rooms.
I'm already stealing lost cultural artifacts on my Retroid Pocket 6.

Relooted

Everyone who has watched Indiana Jones or played Tomb Raider has had the idea: what if instead of stealing from foreign historical sites, we were taking back plundered artifacts from museums and repatriating them to their origins? Relooted is exactly that: a 3D sidescroller from a South African developer in which you learn about (real) items of history, case the (fictional) musem in which they're held, and then enact a daring heist with wall-runs and bum-slides.

A small man faces down several large men, all glowing with chain magic.
Why click on demons when I can click on files on the SD card inside my Retroid Pocket 6?

Diablo II: Resurrected - Infernal Edition

That Blizzard's ancient and most beloved action-RPG has arrived on Steam for the first time is pleasant enough, but this Infernal Edition comes with a new Reign Of The Warlock DLC which adds a new character class to this 26-year-old game. I believe the Warlock class is also coming to Diablo 4 in a future DLC, but if you long for Blizzard's past - but not that one - then get clicking.

A nonogram puzzle explodes, surrounded by stats and magic items.
Sure, but is solving these grids as satisfying as making menu grids on my Retroid Pocket 6.

CiniCross

My life is regularly ruined by new Picross and nonogram derivatives, but I will not learn and I will not stop. Enter CiniCross, which marries the number grid puzzles to a dark fantasy roguelite in which you're exploring a branching dungeon and, by the looks of things, wrangling several Balatro-like systems that seem certain to leave me dazed and dopamine-addled.

If you need me, you know where I'll be. Otherwise tell us all what you'll be playing this weekend 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.