The Maw: what's new in PC games this week?

This week is the week of Halloween, a period bountiful in horror games, but I write about horror games all the time anyway. Even when I'm writing about happy, upbeat games , I'm actually writing about horror games. I'm worried that if I double-down further on morbidity I might foul the Maw's humours and give it jaundice.

So let's see if we can satiate the creature with some nice, breezy open worlders and RPGs instead. I'll throw in a single horror game just to keep up appearances. On Monday 28th October, strafe the gobbos in roguelite FPS Sulfur , serve wholesome garbage to hungry ducks in open world cooking RPG Fruitbus , or ply the Weird West in turn-based Civ-style exploration sim ColdRidge .

On Tuesday 29th October, Max Caulfield returns in dimension-hopping mystery Life Is Strange: Double Exposure , but perhaps you'd rather run a horrible toast shop . On Wednesday 30th October, a moment of reflection and perhaps, a quick bout of Poncle-influenced beat 'em up Karate Survivor . On Thursday 31st October, we turn up the volume with the release of Dragon Age: The Veilguard .

There's also a Horizon: Zero Dawn remaster but I'm not linking that, because ffs, it came out on PC a whole four years ago. Instead, why not try Tlatoani: Aztec Cities , in which asymmetry is an offence to the gods. On Friday 1st November, finally, shake off the dust and make for the horizon in back-packing RPG Albatroz .

In obstinately refusing to foreground horror games this week I have, of course, left.