{"id":5681,"date":"2026-03-16T13:31:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/this-week-in-pc-games-crimson-desert-and-death-stranding-2-plus-frogs-cubes-and-one-amazingly-menacing-chicken\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T13:31:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T13:31:04","slug":"this-week-in-pc-games-crimson-desert-and-death-stranding-2-plus-frogs-cubes-and-one-amazingly-menacing-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/16\/this-week-in-pc-games-crimson-desert-and-death-stranding-2-plus-frogs-cubes-and-one-amazingly-menacing-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in PC games: Crimson Desert and Death Stranding 2 plus frogs, cubes and one amazingly menacing chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Last week our resident novelty-guzzling elder god the Maw ate me, as Julian sorrowfully reported. Well, I&#8217;m back in the waking world, and not as smelly as I could be, all things considered. I&#8217;ve been eaten by the Maw a few times now, but this is the first time I&#8217;ve managed to escape via one of its mouths, rather than by way of\u2026 other orifices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED,&#8221; I bellow, straightening heroically with my shoulders braced against the cyclopean gums, as chunks of rancid Call Of Duty DLC sluice between my ankles. &#8220;MY OTHER CAR&#8217;S A MOTHRA&#8221;, I roar, as the other RPS staff hastily gather with a jump net. &#8220;HERE ARE SOME NEW PC GAMES,&#8221; I add, throwing myself into the waiting arms of my brethren.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday 16th March<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime combines the whimsy of frogs with the steeliness of grid-based battles.<\/li>\n<li>Deadline Delivery combines the errancy of apes with the urgency of exploding mail trucks.<\/li>\n<li>Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War combines the shootiness of guns with the splatteriness of bugs. In a Kafka-esque scandal, the game lets you play as the bugs, for to fight the bug, we must understand the bug. We can ill afford another Klendathu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Tuesday 17th March<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Ratline is the latest moustache-twiddling document arranger from Owlskip. It sees you tracking down Nazi fugitives in the 1970s, putting together the evidence and chewing people out over the phone.<\/li>\n<li>Everwind is an early access first-person survival RPG, set in an open world of procedurally generated flying islands and customisable airships.<\/li>\n<li>Goodness! Some fresh DLC for venerable Zachlike engineering sim Opus Magnum, featuring writing, cutscenes and music from original writer and composer Matthew S. Burns.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Wednesday 18th March<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Crawling Angels reminds me of the old &#8216;kill your boss&#8217; games I used to play on Newgrounds. You&#8217;re a child attending a hideous carnival, centring on a smug-looking puppet, the Forever Chicken. The Chicken has various\u2026 desires. Your job is to satisfy them, or your Uncle Tontine won&#8217;t let you go home.<\/li>\n<li>The Cube, Save Us (pictured) is not a Curiosity follow-up but a melee-oriented early access extraction game about breaking into a huge sky cube in order to steal phat loot and save civilisation, maybe.<\/li>\n<li>In Their Shoes is an ensemble slice-of-life game with an overarching timeline puzzle. It &#8220;reimagines classic visual novel mechanics by allowing you to enter into the tangled and intricate thoughts of each protagonist&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thursday 19th March&#13;<br \/>\n<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Well, well, well, if it isn&#8217;t the PC version of Death Stranding 2: On The Beach, finally. Nice of you to join us, Kojima. Nice of Daddy PlayStation to permit you to release a game on our platform. It&#8217;s not like there are hundreds of millions more PCs than PlayStations, or anything.<\/li>\n<li>Crimson Desert is the Witchery kitchen sink of action-RPG mechanics from the people behind Black Desert Online. I&#8217;ve played about 45 minutes of it, and I think it&#8217;s going to charm the socks off a few people and drive many other people stark raving bonkers. <\/li>\n<li>I like the\u2026 thwackiness of 2D dark fantasy action-platformer Briar Flame.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Friday 20th March<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>We started the week with frogs, and with frogs we shall end: Rubato is a tongue-lashing 2D platformer with a lot of other experimental stuff in it that will gladden the sickly souls of older millennials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things afoot in the Treehouse this week: several of us are playing Crimson Desert, some of us are driving anime cars, a few of us are working on pieces about much older games. There are also New Embargoed Things to see, interviews to solicit, and a lot of fried rice to consume, because I made too much this weekend. How quickly does fried rice go off? If I flush it down the lavatory, will anything bad happen? What if I conceal it down my trousers and sneakily dispose of it while playing baseball, like in The Great Escape? I&#8217;d have to find a local baseball team first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week our resident novelty-guzzling elder god the Maw ate me, as Julian sorrowfully reported. Well, I&#8217;m back in the waking world, and not as smelly as I could be, all things considered. 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