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What you should play this weekend

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By Graham Smith
Cut-out style horses stand around waiting for a turn in a CRISPR DNA extraction machine.
I'm sorry to have to tell you but this is how all horses are made.

Videogames are intensifying! The first week of March has delivered more games I want to play than any other so far this year, and I haven't finished with all the Next Fest demos I want to play yet. Please, please slow down, we are but three sickly men with a small blog.

Here are just some of the games you should be playing this weekend, but remember to tell us all the other games you are playing in the comments below.

A crowded pier dense with shops, a bar, a ship, and dozens of people, rendered in a colourful orthographic style.
Oh, it's a fucking wonderland, is it? Delightful as shit, are we?

Lost And Found Co.

I played the demo of Lost And Found Co. several years ago and had checked in on it intermittently since. Its release this week was still a total surprise. This is a Where's Wally-style hidden object adventure that excites me, mainly, for the warmth and detail of its art style. Sooner or later I'll be queuing up some podcasts and spending hours finding miscellany in its Hergécore dioramas.

Two adventurers stand by a chest. "Not a mimic", reads a sign above it.
This isn't by one of the original Disco Elysium developers, mercifully.

Esoteric Ebb

What if you took many of the RPG systems and writerly flourishes of Disco Elysium and applied them back towards a more traditional D&D-flavoured adventure? That's Esoteric Ebb, which aims to give you the kind of freedom afforded by a witty, generous game master. Also it uses the Caves Of Qud font in its logo, which I'm taking as a promising sign.

Horses race to a finish line. In Heaven has fallen over. Poke Mongo wins.
Some real nominative determinism going on with "In Heaven" there.

Horsey Game

This past week, luxurious 13th century Mongolian horse breed 'em up The Legend of Khiimori came out, and I definitely want to play that. I also want to play Horsey Game though, the latest from the developers of Desert Golfing, in which you collect, breed and race horses made of crudely animated shapes that nevertheless communicate a lot of winning character. I think I might be more attached to Slam Duncle than any possible high-resolution stablemate.

Or you could play Marathon or Slay The Spire 2, of course, but you don't really need me to tell you about those, do you.

Personally I'm going to be playing Pokémon Pokopia this weekend, alone and/or in co-op. I won't be writing about it round these parts, but obviously if it disappoints my child I will broil the next Bulbasaur I see.

You, though: tell us what you're playing this weekend in the comments.

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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.