This week in PC games: deep-sea roguelite raids, first-person horror cookery, and a spruced-up Dawn of War

Edwin’s off for a few days – something to do with the thesis that he’s recently started using to make us call him “Dr Edwin” in meetings, turning his camera off and muting himself if we forget. So, for this week’s rundown of new PC game releases, you’ve got me, fresh from my recent encroachments into WAWAPW and the Sunday Papers. You thought AI would steal everyone’s jobs? Wrong. It was the hardware editors.

Monday 11th August

• Nebelmer is a compact open world explorer, with just a whiff of that Breath Wot Was In The Wilds. Bet Nintendo never won Best Student Game at the Belgian Game Awards, though.

Tuesday 12th August

• Echoes of the End is a story-heavy, sword-heavier fantasy hack n’ slash inspired by ancient Iceland.
• Abyssus is a 4-player roguelike co-op shooter about raiding enormous sunken temples and blasting the oceanic monsters within. Deep Sea Galactic?

Wednesday 13th

• Dungeon Stalkers, a moderately horny “extraction PvPvE dungeon crawler” with added puzzling, enters early access.
• Alchemy of the Earth casts you as a lone potion mixer at the end of the world, where you’ll harvest ingredients, brew concoctions, and use them to fight off janky skeletons.

Thursday 14th

Friday 15th

• Stomach is a survival horror cooking game in which you, seemingly while being hunted by ghoulies, must craft “increasingly disturbing” dishes using ingredients scavenged from an abandoned cruise ship.

Fair warning that it might be a relatively quiet week from us, with both Edwin and Nic on leave, Mark living out his Cosa Nostra fantasies in Mafia: The Old Country, and me still trying to figure out which of our sister sites I can make lightly hypocritical tech nerd jokes about now that Digital Foundry have gone indie. It’s Gamescom next week, mind, so consider this the calm before the Geoffstorm.