What We're Playing

What you should play this weekend

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By Graham Smith
A town of lumber houses and farmland built on a hill, cut through by rivers and waterfalls.
Beavermon Beavopia.

The sun is shining in Brighton, which means my appetite for going outside has returned and my appetite for playing games has greatly dimmed. Luckily I have no available friends nearby this weekend, and so I shall be inside playing videogames anyway.

What of you, our attractive and popular readers? Tell us if and what you're playing in the comments below.

Beavers on ziplines, some of which are robots, float over farms full of lush crops.
I hope these beavers have union protections.

Timberborn

Initially launched in Early Access in 2021, this colony sim features sandbox building and water physics, allowing you to construct vast, hydroelectrically-powered cities of lumber with your populace of beavers. This week brought a 1.0 update, which changes the art and tutorial, adds tools to automate the operation of your city, and smooths the creation of mods. Top stuff.

Some peasants cross a bridge to enter through a stone gate and into a city surrounded by trees and a wooden fence.
Pencils were so big in medieval times.

Going Medieval

Initially launched in Early Access in 2021, this colony sim features sandbox building and deep citizenry management, allowing you to construct vast cities of stone with your populace of needy settlers. This week brought a 1.0 update, which changes the tutorial, adds new endgame objectives among other content, and smooths the management of your many workers. Top stuff.

Lots of baseball player headshots littered in formation across a baseball field.
Pure videogames.

Out Of The Park Baseball 2027

Initially launched - oh, this week. And it's not a colony sim. Out Of The Park Baseball is a sports management game, a la Football Manager, which has been humming along since 1999 to regular rave reviews from its small, appreciative audience. This latest iteration expands on the already vast number of stats represented in-game and claims to improve the look of the 3D games with new animations and weather effects. I'm never going to play OOTPB, but I love that it exists and persists.

This weekend I will be playing: Abiotic Factor, which continues to entertain; and Marathon, which I have only played so far as to exfiltrate from the tutorial, so far. I'm hoping I can have a good time with it solo.

But you, tell us what you're 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.