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Welcome folks, and happy “54th Anniversary of Are You Experienced?” week! Jimi Hendrix’s debut album was so earth-shattering, other music megastars quaked. After this album dropped, The Beatles never toured again and Eric Clapton took up heroin. Coincidence? You may all celebrate by playing a game with a gun in your hand.

Subnautica: Below Zero thaws out from a lengthy Early Access period and melts over all the platforms this week. Subnautica got props as an aquatic survival game: a No Aquaman’s Ocean or Under Wilds, if you will. Below Zero is an expandalone set in a new, arctic zone on planet numberletter. For the first time, it includes land to traverse: icy, snowy, unstable land. You’ll need to manage warmth as a new resource, on top of the usual hunger, thirst, health, and oxygen. Most of the new features are well-known, having been introduced and polished during the past 2 years of crowdsourced QA Early Access: new vehicles, gadgets, and leviathans. The big unknown is the as-yet-unseen story mode. Details are sketchy, but it promises to be more than just a list of objectives in your journal. This game looks crisp, and collecting stuff to craft is 36% of what I do in any game I play. I tend to drift away from survival games, though a decent narrative hook could pull me through.

Mass Effect Legendary Edition lands this week and looks like a great reason to revisit the whole trilogy and its 40-odd bits of DLC. This is like rewatching a Criterion Collection 4K edition of your favourite TV series. The performance and gameplay tweaks make everything a lot sharper and this-gen: more and better character customisation, higher-res textures, and everything smoothed out more consistently over the 3 games. Mass Effect obviously needed the most work: its combat, inventory system, and Mako have been revamped—with a toggle for the diehards who want to keep the classic Mako handling. It’s been nearly 10 years since Mass Effect 3, long enough that I am relishing the prospect of taking a new FemShep through the complete saga. GOTW.

Rounding out the list, 1-bit strategy game Death Crown hits the consoles, a new episode drops in D&D MMORPG Neverwinter, and there’s a bunch of ports on Switch. Really, the biggest action this week is underwater or in space. If you can just get your mind together…

Here's the list, now in release-date AND alphabetical order!

PC

  • 05-10

  • Asterism Basketball
  • Cowboys, Vampires, Pirates & Ghosts
  • Dream of Bells
  • Eyewitness Hopper
  • Flag Color Number - Painting and Coloring
  • Forgotten Spirits
  • HIGH& LOW Mezase! 26 Renshou! 5000 Chou-en e no michi
  • Hood: Outlaws & Legends
  • Mad Devils
  • Marble Muse Arcade
  • Redeliver
  • The Alien Way
  • Vick's Scientist: Chemistry Puzzle
  • 05-11

  • Antstream Arcade
  • Base One
  • Dwarves Craft. Father's home
  • Fight Party
  • Helix
  • Hexagon War Chess
  • IDLE RAID
  • Magic Frame
  • Perspective
  • PhotoWorld: Smooth Corners
  • Sockventure
  • Stringtropy
  • Sunshine Heavy Industries
  • Tanto Cuore
  • The Hand of Merlin
  • Tic Tac Together
  • 05-12

  • Battle Star Asteroids
  • Broken Sky
  • Crazy Boom
  • Crime Reaper
  • Forgotten Hope
  • Jin Conception
  • Magic LightHouse
  • Metacell: Genesis ARCADE
  • MINICHEF
  • Online Adult Content Manager
  • Retro Machina
  • Robbed Money
  • Roll
  • Sacrificial Lighthouse
  • Sherwood Extreme
  • Shiba Inu Rescue
  • Succubus * Connect!!
  • Survival Horror #8,436
  • Terra Earth
  • Wild Runs
  • Zodiac
  • 05-13

  • Ball Twist
  • Before We Leave
  • Break through 50
  • Dojo Corridor
  • Eos
  • Fantasy Tavern Sextet -Vol.3 Postlude Days-
  • GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon
  • Hexes
  • Hundred Days
  • Infinity Square
  • Install Wizard
  • Jelly Jump
  • Lost Ruins
  • Mini Crafty
  • Namnokh
  • Purrfect Apawcalypse: Patches' Infurno
  • Soul Survivor
  • Space Flex
  • Star Train and White Travel
  • STRIPING FRUITS
  • Tetrius
  • The Companion
  • The Exaggerated Epoch of Edward O'Hare
  • The Last Shot
  • 05-14

  • Alan Sharp
  • ASCENXION
  • Chasing Tails -A Promise in the Snow-
  • Come with Me
  • cyberpunkdreams
  • Diego: Mission Red Tomato
  • Draw IT!
  • Firelight Fantasy: Force Energy
  • Furry Love 2
  • Hamster
  • Heterodox
  • Hide and Run
  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition
  • Nox Terrorem: Lost Souls
  • OBEN
  • Slayer Cat
  • Sokocat - Islands
  • Strife: The Expanse
  • Subnautica: Below Zero
  • Texas Hold'em - Casino Tycoon
  • The Little Trashmaid Puzzletime
  • Through Rust We Are Returned
  • Word Hunt Fever

Xbox Series X

  • 05-14

  • Subnautica: Below Zero

Xbox One

  • 05-13

  • Death Crown
  • Neverwinter: Sharandar Episode 2
  • 05-14

  • Exodemon
  • Karma. Incarnation 1
  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition
  • Subnautica: Below Zero

PlayStation 5

  • 05-11

  • Bibi & Tina at the horse farm
  • 05-14

  • Subnautica: Below Zero

PlayStation 4

  • 05-13

  • Death Crown
  • Neverwinter: Sharandar Episode 2
  • 05-14

  • Mass Effect Legendary Edition
  • Subnautica: Below Zero

Switch

  • 05-12

  • Fire: Ungh's Quest
  • Retro Machina
  • Rift Racoon
  • 05-13

  • Connection reHaunted
  • Death Crown
  • Exodemon
  • KASIORI
  • Rise Eterna
  • RWBY: Grimm Eclipse - Definitive Edition
  • Solitaire Card Games
  • Space Commander: War and Trade
  • Super Shape Shooter
  • Taxi Driver - The Simulation
  • 05-14

  • #1 Anagrams
  • #Wish travel, Super Puzzles Dream
  • Bounce Mania
  • Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind
  • Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir
  • Karma. Incarnation 1
  • Rabisco+
  • Subnautica
  • Subnautica + Subnautica: Below Zero
  • Subnautica: Below Zero
  • 05-15

  • PROJECT : KNIGHT
  • Turbo Skiddy Racing

Comments

The pc list truly is a mishmash of random words this week

Jimi Hendrix’s debut album was so earth-shattering, other music megastars quaked. After this album dropped, The Beatles never toured again and Eric Clapton took up heroin. Coincidence?

Brilliant.

From Friday I will be doing nothing but Mass Effect, and a couple of mandatory work meetings. Took the half day without meetings as leave. I'm ready!

I'm not jelly, you're jelly!

garion333 wrote:

The pc list truly is a mishmash of random words this week

"Ball Twist" sounds pretty great though. I will not be Googling it to find out.

imbiginjapan wrote:
garion333 wrote:

The pc list truly is a mishmash of random words this week

"Ball Twist" sounds pretty great though. I will not be Googling it to find out.

Yes, I learned pretty early on for TWA that, when googling titles for research, you have to add "VIDEOGAME" to make sure you don't get on a list somewhere (probably still on a list somewhere)