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Steam News · Jun 8, 2022
The best indie games on PC come in all shapes and sizes, so much so that what indie even means as a term is no longer easy to define. It can mean small teams making pixel-art delights under publishing labels like Devolver or Raw Fury. It can mean established developers breaking off to crowdfund massive passion projects that'd rival blockbuster releases. It can even be one PC Gamer features pr...
Steam News · Apr 20, 2022
Proteus, a relaxing casual exploration game from Ed Key and David Kanaga (with porting by Ethan Lee) was recently upgraded for Linux and the Steam Deck due to some graphical problems. Read the full article here:
Steam News · Apr 19, 2022
Hello everyone! This is a minor housekeeping update for Linux - the Windows and macOS versions were untouched in this update. Simply put, a severe performance regression was discovered recently and it turns out OpenGL call lists were to blame - this hasn't been thoroughly investigated yet but so far radeonsi is affected while the NVIDIA binary driver is not. This of course means the Steam Deck was...
Steam News · Mar 4, 2019
Oikospiel Book I is a game about fevered landscapes, classic literature, operating systems, opera and the need for dog-based unions to stand against cruel labour practices. It is a series of strange and wonderful things, from David Kanaga, the chap who made the strange and wonderful music in the likes of Proteus and Panoramical. Upon its release two years ago, Alice O deemed it one of th...
Steam News · Aug 31, 2018
For a constantly updated list of our favorite games on PC, check out our list of the best PC games right now.  Every year, the PC Gamer team embarks on an epic quest to choose the top 100 PC games. Where previously we voted for our favourite games, this year we talked: discussing each of our nominations and deciding which games should make the list. The result is a more honest, considered ref...
Steam News · May 12, 2018
What's your favorite non-violent PC game? That's what we've asked the writers of the global PC Gamer team today. As with every edition of our regular PC Gamer Q A, which is published on Saturdays, we love to read your responses to the same question in the comments thread below too.  When it comes to our choices, expect a cool mix of trucking, underwater exploration, floatin...
Steam News · Nov 11, 2017
Welcome back to the PCG Q A. Every week, we ask our panel of PC Gamer writers a question about PC gaming. This week: what's your favourite game world or setting? We also welcome your answers in the comments.  Shaun Prescott: Sevastapol Station in Alien: Isolation At the risk of sounding masochistic, Sevastopol Station in Alien: Isolation is the space that springs immediately to mind....
Steam News · Apr 13, 2017
In his review of Yooka-Laylee, Tom opens by saying, “The hardest enemy I had to fight in Yooka-Laylee was its camera.” I’m not trying to say he’s wrong—the camera is godawful for a game about precision platforming—but what if inconsistent and frustrating camera control could be used in a game’s favor? Ideal 3D cameras are either automated through pr...
Steam News · Mar 22, 2017
I meant to post my Springtime walk through the lands of Proteus yesterday because of the vernal equinox, but then I got sidetracked by behind-the-scenes Rezzed stuff. Instead, let s celebrate Spring+ today. Which is definitely a thing.
Steam News · Apr 26, 2016
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. It s a challenge to effectively portray the peculiar emotional effect of playing Proteus . Perhaps the flagship entry in the RPS-celebrated walking simulator genre, it s a pixel painting of seasonal wonder.