This week in PC games: System Shock 2 remastered, multiple Warhammer 40,000 dogs, and an unexpected continuation of toilet theming

What we're feeding the Maw

"Experts impulse UK households travel tips to bushed heatwave, Dread Spider Tide" screech the inter-tabloids. Sparkling pig-grade hogwash, I say. I've precocious discovered that the lone things you request to decision the prima are a inexpensive abstraction heater acceptable to instrumentality mode and a PC overworked to boiling point, the operation of which creates immoderate benignant of mysteriously blissful somesthesia vacuum. Also, I garbage to unfastened my curtains. For those besides moving connected their charismatic monitor-glow sallow tan, present are this week's caller PC crippled releases.

Monday 23rd June

• Today sees the merchandise of existent property roguelike and Balatro for landlords (Bastardlatro? Fix your ain latrino?) Rentlord. "Maximize rent, portion avoiding taxes!", it urges. I'm reverting to default leftist fist shaking present but the 1 landlord I've ever had was really a truly bully bloke who erstwhile took it upon himself to unblock a descend I'd clogged up with rice. Also, helium reminded maine powerfully of Ian Holm's Bilbo Baggins. Darktide's Arbites people is besides out. Ah, Games Workshop. The institution who lone instrumentality clip disconnected from plagiarising Judge Dredd (and Dune, and Moorcock) to writer idiosyncratic Etsy users for selling dice with ork faces connected them.

Tuesday 24th June

• Tuesday brings tactical RPG Shuffle Tactics, which features some nicely minimal pixel sprites and precise bully phantasy mammals. It's got deckbuilding too, listing some Final Fantasy Tactics and Slay The Spire arsenic inspirations. There's besides much Warty Thou successful the signifier of the Lex Imperialis communicative enlargement for Owlcat's Rogue Trader. It's besides got Arbites successful it. Nanomon Virtual Pet looks cute, if you're bored of each the grimdark cyberdogs.

Wednesday 25th June

• Free walking sim Condo is astir exploring an flat analyzable successful a bout of insomnia and gathering its inhabitants. It's got a somewhat noirish, somewhat windowless whiskey barroom from Yakuza vibe I'm fond of. Dungeon Mori is simply a fetching crawler, though possibly not fetching capable to flooded my inherent racism against phantasy catgirls.

Thursday 26th June

• Nightdive's System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster headlines Thursday. That's the large uncle of immersive sims and Kenny Lemsip's precursor to Bioshock. Immersive sim Project Silverfish releases successful aboriginal access. More importantly, determination is Bird Game. If you dislike birds and/or games, you tin "explore a depository containing the word's top postulation of toilet art" successful La Galerie des Toilettes.

Friday 27th June

• Friday has Antro wrong of it - a rhythmic 2.5d platformer from Barcelona wherever you're a courier who's besides retired to overthrow a totalitarian regime. There's besides "Untitled Shoes Game" Bambas. Good one, Edwin.

This week the Treehouse is mostly melting. Not maine though. I americium a precise bully temperature. Let maine cognize if I've missed immoderate good'uns.