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What you should play this weekend

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By Graham Smith
A person in a frog hat wobbles while trying to hit a golf ball because someone is blasting an airhorn behind their head.
Well I suppose at least one of these people is having fun.

Last week I suggested that you might play the new Styx game, Blades Of Greed. This week, Styx publisher Nacon declared bankruptcy. I guess you didn't listen to me and now you see what happens. Let's try it again.

Here's three games you could be playing this weekend. Let us know what game you're playing instead in the comments.

Harry Kim is asking for your orders, Captain, in a text prompt next to a picture of the USS Voyager. But look, it's not actually Harry Kim. Harry Kim was sucked into space and killed in season two and we replaced him with a different Harry from an alternate universe. Nobody talks about it but our Harry Kim is dead! Don't let Janeway cover up anymore dea--
I can't explain right now, but that's not the real Harry Kim.

Star Trek: Voyager - Across The Unknown

This survival strategy game is supposedly a "faithful recreation" of the TV series, a very dumb show that I love very much. Presumably this means that the characters aboard the ship die constantly but then are miraculously restored within 44 minutes, their traumatic experiences never to be mentioned again. In fact, I'd be much more inclined to play it if it was more knockabout toybox than Frostpunk misery sim. Here's hoping.

Some magic guys blast fire at an enemy next to a bunch of cornfields and grass.
The use of fire in these fields is deeply irresponsible.

Towerborne

Stoic, makers of The Banner Saga trilogy, return with a new game with similarly gorgeous character designs. There's no turn-based thinkery here, however. This is a co-op action-RPG about biffing big monsters with brawler-style combos. A bit Dragon's Crown? A bit Absolum? You can play it solo, too, although I don't know which is the better experience.

Six golfers all strike their golf balls simultaneously. Some of them might be rocks, not balls.
As if golf wasn't already annoying enough.

Super Battle Golf

Golf but everyone takes their swings simultaneously and then can disrupt their opponents by hitting them or running them down with golf carts. I actually long for more casual sports games in the Mario Golf/Sensible Golf mode, but alas I am doomed to live in this universe where I instead get endless casual sports games that ruin their sport with buffoonery. You may feel differently, and certainly all the positive reviews suggest there's more of an audience for this than more Everybody's Golf.

Or you could play Resident Evil Re9uiem, I suppose, but you probably don't need me to tell you that.

Let us know what you are playing in the comments below.

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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.