The Maw: what’s new in PC gaming this week?

I’m not sure it’s physically or metaphysically possible to overfeed the Maw, but this week we put that pipe dream to the test. There are no pending mega-sequels, none of the Call Of Dutifuls, just an absolute deluge of beautiful, beautiful originals – a deluge of such proportions I’ve been forced to take out my HTML hammer and break out the single ordinary paragraph of Releases of PC games in two.

On Monday, July 15, we’ve got the moonbase builder The Crust, the beautiful 8-bit platformer Fallen Leaf, and the gelatinous shmup Galactic Glitch. On Tuesday July 16, there’s Strange Scaffold’s latest disturbing oddity, Clickolding, in which a guy just wants to look at you using a clicker in a motel room, and the bright and airy Flock, a collection of flying creatures from the makers of Wilmot’s Warehouse. I was going to call Wednesday July 17th a day of blissful and restorative oblivion, but then I watched the cyberpunk noir detective game Nobody Wants to Die and the folkloric metroidvania Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus.

You’ll need a day off midweek, because on Thursday 18th July, everything gets a bit ‘Autumn 1998’. In no particular order, please be consistent for: Schim’s Amphibious Shadow Dance, Dungeons Of Hinterberg’s Alpine Killing, Flintlock’s Gunpowder Sorcery: Siege Of Dawn, Norland’s Early Kingdom Management, and the immortal reduction of the head of the Vampire Therapist. And on Friday July 19, finally, a colorful closing ceremony in the form of Kanitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess, aka the best game I’ve played at Summer Game Fest. Oh, and the Dungeonborne co-oper who loots the catacombs. Thanks for ruining my neat ending, Dungeonborne.

Are there any important PC releases we missed? I sincerely hope not. It might not be possible to overfeed the Maw, but it’s definitely possible to give the Maw the runs, and you don’t want to be within a thousand feet of that special Altered World event. Have a nice gaming week everyone.