This week in PC games: Tokyo Game Show, Silent Hill, babel city-building and an RPG about a fugitive king

Hello reader who is also a player! Once again I have failed in my fervent efforts to meddle with the Earth’s rotation so as to suspend time exactly at 11.30am, Saturday morning. I fear that another week is upon us. Fortunately, it contains some new PC games, spanning full releases and early access launches. Some of those new PC games may even be worth a modest portion of your lifespan and personal capital. Here’s a list of the ones I find most appealing or notable.

Monday 22nd September

Tuesday 23rd September

• Blippo+ is about surfing channels to discover the soaps, sitcoms, news, weather, and talk shows of mysterious Planet Blip
• Baby Steps is about learning to walk, one helplessly sliding ragdoll animation at a time
• The point-and-click artisans of Blue Brain Games are back with The House Of Telsa
• Clone detection horror It Has My Face has my curiosity, perhaps even my attention, but only time will tell whether it has my face

Wednesday 24th September

• Let’s all go be Japanese high schoolgirls from the 1960s and slice up yokai scarecrows in Silent Hill f, which Oisin says is decent
• Let’s all go come-of-age in Consume Me (pictured), a life sim about feeling “stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school”, with mostly bad endings
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds does not contain any schools or self-loathing, but it is thinking with portals

Thursday 25th September

• Mala Petaka is a strikingly upbeat and colourful GZDoom shooter with hanging crystals and many robots
• Dunno if any of you are into Aquaplus, but they’ve got this big cross-over anime 2D fighting game out today that seems jazzy, and we haven’t listed a fighting game for a while
• Drown human scientists in the ichor of your mass-produced minions in Buggos 2, an RTS autobattler for the Zerg appreciators lurking amongst us
• Please partake of another helping of uncanny ballfootsies in EA Sports FC 26

Friday 26th September

• Stario Haven Tower is about building the tallest city you can, contending with changes of weather and the rigours of vertical logistics
• Hotel Barcelona is a side-scrolling roguelike slasher about a US field marshal possessed by the soul of a serial killer, created by a team led by Swery and Suda51
• Lost In the Open is a grubby fantasy tactics RPG about a recently overthrown king and entourage fleeing across a hex-based map

Aside from the above new PC games, this week will contain a non-zero quantity of games so new they aren’t even released yet. We’ll hear about a few of them at the latest Tokyo Game Show, which runs 25th-28th September. As I write this I am looking at a spreadsheet of embargoed announcements. The temptation to just paste the whole thing below and take the week off is fierce, but I am absurdly professional and will resist. Pretty sure none of you care about made you look! anyway.