PC Powerplay

PC PowerPlay is Australia's original and best-selling PC games magazine. Offering a mix of games and hardware coverage, the magazine gives a complete picture for the PC entertainment enthusiast. Inside is breaking news of new games, detailed previews of upcoming games, and advice to help readers make sense of the array of hardware and tech products that hit the market each month. PC Powerplay doesn’t just promote tech, it benchmarks and analyses it to help gamers make the most intelligent purchasing decision they can.

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The PC PowerPlay team

ALMOST! 30 YEARS OF GAMING GOODNESS • Founding and final Editor BEN MANSILL would like to say a few words…

MORE THAN A MAGAZINE • Former Editor DAVID WILDGOOSE on our remarkable, wonderful run.

A TOUCH TOO STEAMY • Steam says payment processors pressured it to DELIST ADULT GAMES

OH NO-THOPTER

CARE HOME TOURNAMENT

THE FUTURE IS NOW

Highs & Lows

The Spy • BUT WHO WATCHES THE SPY?

FACTORY FARMVILLE • Roblox hit GROW A GARDEN has become one of the biggest games in the world

SHARECROPPING • Rotating through gaming history's most popular farming sims

Incoming • THE BIGGEST GAMESON THE WAY

CRONOS: THE NEW DAWN • Kraków-set horror dripping with Soviet paranoia

EARTH VS MARS • Advance Wars spliced with Impossible Creatures

NEON INFERNO • A stylish run-and-gun that splices Contra and Metal Slug

COP BASTARD • A retro shooter that's exactly as aggressively weird as you'd expect

MEWGENICS • Breed your very own cat army

ROGUE POINT • Tactical shooting over the rainbow

BELLE CITIQUE • Taking the stress out of city building

SCRIPTORIUM: MASTER OF MANUSCRIPTS • Illuminate your life with assorted dark-age bums

FEROCIOUS • You didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth

DISCOUNTY • Sell cheap food to heal a community

KEPT YOU WAITING HUH? • Can METAL GEAR SOLID DELTA: SNAKE EATER make the fanbase whole again?

SNAKES AND LADS • The VIPs of Delta

BEE SERIOUS • Combat essentials for the apiarist on the go

SHIFTING GEAR • Which MGS needs remaking next?

MYTH MAKERS • Asymmetric fantasy 4X ENDLESS LEGEND 2 parts the murky waters to unveil a new world, new factions, and a new way of revealing the map

THE LAST LORDS

NECROPHAGE

KIN OF SHEREDYN

ASPECTS

REVIEW

Point ‘n’ click

This month's homeless reviewers…

DRAMA QUEEN • What makes the Queen Crawler so annoying?

AIM FOR THE ZED • KILLING FLOOR 3 is classic monster-shooting fun

ROLLER COASTER • The Killing Floor 3 ride

OI! OI! • Anatomy of an officer

PRETTY SNEAKY SIS • ERIKSHOLM: THE STOLEN DREAM's Scandinavian stealth is too strict for its own good

WHACK-A WAKKA WAKKA • Pac-Man gets entertainingly miscast in grimdark Metroidvania SHADOW LABYRINTH

PAC-PICKS • Four other Pac-Man spin-offs

PACIFIC DRIFT • THE DRIFTER is a gorgeous point-and-click with a noir-ish edge

UNCHILL-OMETER • Mick Carter is always either screaming or relaxed

LUNCH BREAK • The culinary delicacies of Abiotic Factor

FULL-LIFE • ABIOTIC FACTOR is an instant survival classic and one of the best I've played in years

HEAD SPACE • What goes on in the mind of a GATE scientist?

KNOCK ‘EM DEAD • What could go wrong? Everything

BACK FOR SPORE • MYCOPUNK is a mess, in the best kind of way

FELLOWSHIP • Other games starring Hobbits

SHORT ORDER CHEF • Make friends with food in TALES OF THE SHIRE: A THE...