The Maw: What’s new in PC games this week?

Happy Monday everyone! Yes, I wrote that in all sincerity. We all deserve a happy Monday – maybe video games can help with that. As you’d expect, Elden Ring’s recently released Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC remains this week’s Big Kahuna, with no obvious mega-releases on the horizon to break its stranglehold on the discourse, but I’ve got my latex-gloved hand in dipped the maternity pools and fished out a few promising oddities.

Monday, June 24 starts with the bone-throwing dungeon solitaire Dice & Fold. On Tuesday, June 25, we have the remake of the mystical 90s point-and-clicker Riven – now with real-time 3D environments, shock – along with the magical realist high school visual novel Until Then and the Argentinian folk horror Pomberito, in which a farmer must survive for five nights while researching a local beast. Jumping ahead to Thursday, June 27, there’s some Orpheus DLC for the RPG musical Stray Gods, and early access to the 30-player last-person mode ’em up Battle Crush. On Friday, June 28, there will be early access to the tornado hunting simulation OUTBRK, which allows you to track the bad weather on a map of 625 square kilometers.

Here at the RPS Treehouse we’ll be spending a fair portion of the week feeding the Maw the freshly hewn Erdtree pieces, but we’ll also be running our mitts on a co-op anime shooter that I won’t spoil, on the dredging up long-forgotten Aliens games, and possibly finding time for a stylized retro FPS or two. The Maw would normally consider this spartan fare, but there’s so much molten Elden Ring DLC ​​coursing through its Cyclopean veins that I think we can get away with it. Even the Maw takes time to digest.