What you should play this weekend

This week felt like a merciful relief when compared to the machinegun of new releases at the beginning of March. Still, perhaps your hunger is not yet sated. Perhaps you wish for more new games, games about mending teapots, making spells, and murdering monsters.

What a coincidence, here are some games that meet those specific criteria. Let us know what you are playing in the comments down below.

Piece By Piece

Repair items for animal folk by jigsawing them back together, then use the money you make to decorate your shop. There's some obvious Animal Crossing inspiration here (the fonts, the UI, the character designs), but gardening and painting aside, it seems much more focused on the soothing loop of shop management.

Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection

I've never managed to get into a Monster Hunter game, but the Stories spin-off series seems like my most likely route in at this point. Twisted Reflection looks like it moves a little closer to the main series in art and systems than the chibi first two, but it's still a singleplayer, turn-based JRPG rather than the live service full-time job of Worlds or Wilds. I will also still fail to make time for it.

Rhell: Warped Worlds And Troubled Times

Once upon a time, Elder Scrolls games let you mix potions and construct your own spells, letting you creatively bypass challenges if you could make the spell to float over it. Oblivion and Skyrim gradually nerfed that system, but Rhell seems like an entire game about just that: you combine runes to make a million possible spells, and explore an oversaturated world where everyone has disappeared except for 12 people.

If you're anything like me, you're still playing last week's games, like Lost And Found Co. and Pokémon Pokopia and so on, while eying your downloaded copy of Marathon and wondering if this is the weekend you give it a go.

Tell us what you are playing in the comments.