The Maw – 25th-30th March 2024

It’s a brand new week in Computer Game Land, and right now, I am playing a nasty little survival sim called “Beating Jetlag”. I landed back in the UK from GDC on Saturday afternoon, and my brain and eyeballs still feel as though they’re being gently sautéed in a medicinal blend of oil and vinegar. The sun and sky bear down with a terrible, holy light and I can’t seem to conjure any warmth into my elbows. In the street outside, a small dog is barking. Soon, very soon, I will catch that dog, place it in a box and FedEx it to China.

But what care you of my moderate fatigue and melodramatic posturing? Without further ado, here are this week’s new PC game releases of note: spaceship defence FPS Sentry (25th March, early access); free-to-play survival MMO Palia (25th March); dark fantasy metroidvania Ender Magnolia: Bloom In The Mist (26th March, early access); historical 4X Millennia (26th March); island city-builder Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles (26th March); party-based RPG remaster Geneforge 2: Infestation (27th March); Grandia-style wizards RPG Terra Memoria (27th March); Gone Home-esque mystery Open Roads (28th March); hand-drawn alt-history fest Felvidek (29th March).

As ever, all these new releases are sponsored by the Maw, that abyssal personification of doomscrolling and conjecture – you can follow our efforts to appease it with videogame news stories and random asides about (e.g.) plankton in the latest weekly liveblog, below. The Maw’s mood this week can best be described as “dribbling with anticipation”. The creature knows, after all, that I have a bunch of videogame news stories to pass on from my time at GDC. Look out for the first of them shortly – and don’t forget, fellow UK denizens, there’s a bank holiday on Friday. I am counting down the hours.