This week in PC games: Summer Game Fest, the Gothic remake, and the policing of furry Chicago

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I recently made a lighthearted comment that we were pausing our ‘feeding’ of the Maw, a strange cosmic entity, because we were busy with other tasks. That was a mistake, and we’re now facing serious consequences. I’m devastated to announce that the Maw has escaped and consumed Geoff Keighley, the host of Summer Games Fest. It appears to have also potentially destroyed our ability to predict what’s to come.

Everything feels different now, and the excitement we usually get from new game announcements might not happen. Without Geoff Keighley, we won’t see the big, flashy trailers and reveals on June 5th that usually help us get through the year. Plans for a sequel to Highguard are cancelled, and we shouldn’t expect any unexpected appearances from famous actors – surprises need something new to happen. We won’t be wondering what Mads Mikkelsen is wearing. I’m sharing this list of new PC games as a tribute to a future that now feels uncertain.

Monday 1st June

  • Tattoo Removal Simulator is a weirdly poignant and somewhat winceworthy addition to the PowerWash clean-up genre.
  • Starforged Legacy is Vampire Survivors but with 3D spaceships that remind me a little of Strike Suit Zero.
  • Developed by Istanbul developers Archaic, Lost in Art: A Miniature Realm is a puzzle game set inside Ottoman and Persian paintings from the 16th to 18th century.

Tuesday 2nd June

  • Hoo, I like the looks of this one. In OddFauna: Secret of the Terrabeast, you collect hand-made clay animals while riding around on the back of a mountain-sized creature that can be terraformed to accommodate the beasties you gather. You can also grow crops and build houses.
  • In Remorses [sic] you are stuck in a rickety shack with a spectral witch and must open windows to not go insane. Hang on, isn’t this just a game about minimising condensation? My estate agent sent round a guy to teach me about this last week and he didn’t seem very witchy, by their standards.
  • Fatekeeper is a first-person sword and sorcery jobbie with some very pretty caves.

Wednesday 3rd June

  • Prohibeast is a 1930s Chicago-set stealth tactics game in which the 18th Amendment banned meat, not booze, for reasons that should be clear from the game’s title. Do you remember Eliot Ness, played by Kevin Costner in the Untouchables? Well, he is a dog now. Do you remember Al Capone, played in the Untouchables by Robert de Niro? Please refer to him as Al Cat-pone from here on out. Adding further layers of iniquity, both Eliot the dog and Al Cat-pone are voiced by generative AI text-to-speech software. Truly, Prohibeast, you are the sum of all evils.

Thursday 4th June

  • Alruna: End of History is a new ‘n’ improved widescreen version of an already very good 2D metroidvania.
  • Out this day in early access, Medic: Pacific War is a no-guns wargame in which you scurry around patching up the wounded of Pearl Harbor.
  • Time for another iron lungful of submarine horror in There’s Nothing Down There.
  • I understood that reference, Snacktorio.

Friday 5th June

  • We close the week with Alkimia’s remake of celebrated quarry-based RPG Gothic (pictured), in which you’re trapped in a magic snowglobe with quarrelsome factions of penal workers.

I’m just mentioning these old games for nostalgia’s sake. With Geoff gone, the future feels uncertain and pointless. I don’t know what the rest of the team is doing, because even trying to make plans feels silly. If we could plan, we’d be figuring out how to get through all the upcoming game presentations without losing our minds.

Okay, so here’s the deal. There’s this crazy rumor going around that Geoff Keighley is still out there. Like, a disturbingly perfect, baby-faced Geoff with, uh, ridiculously defined abs. I’ve seen him posting on X about Summer Game Fest, and honestly, it’s unsettling. Either whatever ‘the Maw’ is spat him back out and is controlling him, or his backers are using some seriously weird tech to keep up the charade. We need to get ready – I’m talking proton accelerators, the whole nine yards! We have to stop whatever’s happening and, somehow, ‘Feed the Maw’ before everything goes completely sideways.

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2026-06-01 13:25