PC Gaming Show 2023 liveblog

See you back here on Sunday the 11th, 9pm BST / 4pm EDT / 1pm PDT for our PC Gaming Show 2023 liveblog. PC Gamer? Hardly know 'er.

Hello everyone. Judging by the on-screen countdown, the PC Gaming Show is indeed still seven minutes away, though regular host Day9 is already hosting us in his clearly greenscreened mancave,

Oh wow, we're already getting announcements. Here's a lil' futuristic farming sim, I Am Future.

And another, a sludgy Vampire Survivors-like called Slime 3K.

Black Skylands, a top-down aiship combat game, is next on. Launches August 3rd.

Punch Club 2: Fast Foward trailer. Hang on, these aren't new games!

NOW we're starting.

Hello! Hello. I'm here. I didn't realise they'd start revealing stuff before the show. Deary me. Too many announcements!

...I don't think even Geoff's scripted banter was this scripted.

Is this an AI bit. This is an AI bit, isn't it.

Yeah it's an AI bit.

We're kicking things off with Frostpunk 2!

Another look at Teardown and its new creative mode, where you can almost draw 3D objects (presumably before driving a truck through them). That's coming on June 15th.

Huge bits of machinery. A pile of bodies. Hammers. A gruff man talking about opening the doors to hell. This is Frostpunk alright, even if it is just a CGI trailer. That's coming next year, and maybe has a more fire-based twist?

All we can say for certain is that Rachel will be very excited for that one.

Another look at life-sim Nivalis, next. This looks properly good. Customise your apartment. Wander around a gorgeous voxel cyberpunk city. Start a noodle bar. Take photographs. Avoid a serial killer. Yes please. Yes please. It's out next year.

A hardcore survival sim set in a post-apocylptic border zone is up now. Road To Vostok is its name, and there's a demo available to play on Steam right now. The player walked around for a bit and then died immediately.

That was Starlight Odyssey, a starship management (with Saturday morning TV vibes). Got a Steam demo coming soon.

Now for a "Metroidvania based on A Christmas Carol".

They just announced Citizen Sleeper 2? Like it was nothing???

It's 2D, and you play as Scrooge, who both beats up ghosts and can call upon the powers of helpful for combat and platforming.

Ebeneezer and the Invisible World, it's called. No release date but there's a demo on Steam right now.

"You will never make it through this red keycarded door unless you CHANGE YOUR WAYS"

Alright, that Christmas Carol thing has thrown me off a bit. Now it's time for Knights! Knights battering each other about. James thinks this was maybe shown off at Geoff Fest a few days ago?

Warhaven, coming later this year.

A new trailer for retro-styled RTS Dorf.

Lars Westergren says: Dorf-war, significantly less chill than Dorfromantik.

I did have to double check it wasn't a cynical spinoff aimed at the extremely lucrative lofi RTS market.

Be still my beating heart, it's a colourful indie shooter. Looks like you'll be shooting (sort of cute?) demons in a series of caves and dungeons with a variety of weaponry. You'll even meet a few oddballs along the way that will provide you with enchantments for your guns as well as cool new hoodies to wear.

Sulfur. No release date, but I can't wait to see more of that.

Here's Saleblazers, an "open world survival shopkeeping" game.

Oh this looks delightful actually. Lots of physics-based silliness like sliding down a cliff on a chair then clattering into a foe at the bottom. Out September 24th!

Dave L. says: Pretty sure this got announced last year?

Look mate, I'm just the hardware guy.

Though to be fair, most of the games so far have been either a long time coming or were shown during Geoff Fest/Day of the Devs a few days ago.

OK. So. Eternights is a third person action game that features gorgeous anime visuals. A lad got his arm cut off, but also got a nice kiss? Who's to say what's happening there. Looked good, though.

Out in September.

Dave L. says: I was referring to the anime dating sim brawler thing.

...look mate, I'm just-

Here are the Pax Dei devs, in a forest, talking about how studying real plants informed its verdant sandbox.

Pax Dei does sound like an interesting experiment: a functioning guild will require both adventurous dungeon-diving and manual labour like chopping down trees. Will it work if everyone just wants the 'fun' jobs?

Stampede Racing Royale promises to bring Mario Kart antics to PC, eh? Let's see about that.

Created by Sumo Digital, the folks behind the most recent Sonic racing game. It looked... fine?

Quick look at Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life. They have a playable alpha "on the horizon".

Path of Exile 2 time. We're being shown a character with a staff battering some proper horrible looking flesh monsters. Combat looks a little snappier than it does in Diablo 4?

You can find out more on July 28th.

Here's Ferocious, which if you haven't seen it before is a dinosaur-shootin' FPS with a bunch of fancy Unreal Engine graffix.

Not much new from Ferocious there, I don't think? Some of the footage is on its Steam page in gif form.

Islands of Insight is an "epic shared world puzzle adventure game". I guess it's like The Witness, but you share the world with other players? Solving puzzles together? It looks lovely, but I'm curious how it works. If a puzzle is solved by another player, can you no longer solve it? An intriguing idea.

A very speedy check-in on Lords of the Fallen. It's still a Soulslike. The end, apparently!

Ah, mate. I'm a sucker for a management game where you build bases for horrible goblins. Not entirely convinced by the tone of this trailer, but I am absolutely on board with anything that's clearly inspired by Dungeon Keeper. Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master is out this summer. That's soon! It's hot outside right now!

Time for a reveal: Mariachi Legends. Seems to be a pixelly, 2D action-adventure with detective elements - no other details.

Unless the combat was just a cutscene (it was very quick). It COULD be a point and click. It's mysterious!

Something for Citizen Sleeper now!

Citizen Sleeper 2, no less.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin looks properly good. A real-time strategy title, similar to Relic's excellent Dawn of War series, but set in Warhammer's fantasy universe.

Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Realms of Ruin looks properly good. A real-time strategy title, similar to Relic's excellent Dawn of War series, but set in Warhammer's fantasy universe.

No in-game footage but looks like you'll have a sharp-dressed crim on your tail from the off.

Well, this looks charming. A cute looking crafting game all about building boats and exploring tropical islands. You can make friends with a humanoid cat! The mayor is a rat! Your character has frosted tips! You can build stuff!

Critter Cove. Looks lovely.

Oh okay. We're actually going to look at an AI game now. Okay. Okay.

Hmm, it's like a tabletop-style group RPG with an AI gamesmaster. Hmmmmm.

Dave L. says: "Right now we have this public domain work. Expect more public domain works to be fed into the maw of the AI in the future"

Hahaha

It's called Hidden Door btw.

I would say more about Hidden Door but the knowledge of it relying on feeding classic works of literature in an AI plagiarismo-bot has withered my body and brain.

Turn-based action RPG Miasma Chronicles is on now. Uh, isn't that already on sale?

Oh, it's getting a physical edition for consoles.

Oh, the new game from Klei is up next! A grungy sci-fi adventure about flying your space truck through hositle environments.

Dread Pilots is coming in 2024. Looks intriguing!

Not entirely sure what exactly Undead Inc. is, but that trailer was a lot of fun. An enigmatic CEO shooting zombies in the basement of his research facility. Hoping this is some kind of Resident Evil inspired management sim, but I suspect it might be a shooter?

Apologies to commenter Eulrich, but we have a good-looking Metroidvania. Altered Alma, s'called. Very sci-fi and slashy.

Invector Rhythm Galaxy looks cool. Flying around in a spaceship, hitting notes in time to the beat. Like a cross between Audiosurf and Amplitude?

Out July 14th.

Eulrich says: combination of management sim and arpg/twinstick shooter? i wish some of the announcement trailers were a tad less vague on the concepts

Same.

Here's a new look that Firewatch-y walking sim, The Invincible. Lots of glimpses at the dusty planet you'll be stranded on.

Some fresh footage for Park Beyond, which is out very soon. It's a theme park sim that lets you create wild rides like a bunch of ferris wheels stacked on top of one another.

Out on June 16th.

Another VampSurv-like, Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors. As first reported by WarderDragon a few minutes ago!

This looks interesting. Diesel Legacy: The Blazing Age is a 2v2 fighting game set in a steampunk world. You can play as a gangly plague doctor.

There's an open beta available to play on Steam right now.

Questionable live action aspect to this ParcelCorp reveal, but it looks maybe kinda fun? Extreme bike-courier shenanigans - THPS meets Deliveroo.

Ah, a look at Fabledom! This is a fairytale city builder that's out now in early access. I've had my eye on this for ages. Looks grand.

There are meant to be 55 games in this show, by the by. I wonder how many we've had.

After a Game Pass ad, it's time for 30XX to make an appearance. This 2D shooter has been in early access for a while but it's launching for real on August 9th.

A new sci-fi survival game by the creators of Green Hell is up next. The CGI trailer shows a sun exploding, destorying a human colony on a nearby planet. But from the ashes, rebirth! It's called Chimera and is coming soon.

The next game from the creators of Exo One is a brutal sci-fi rally game which sounds (and looks) brilliant. Exo Rally Championship.

Bit of in-game footage for strategy RPG Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew. I like the concept behind this: you command a hexed pirate ship and its all its undead pirates, collecting magic pearls to restore their souls.

Out on August 17th!

himaji says: Wait, what was the scifi game with the blue lava called again? I didn't catch the name

Whoops, forgot to add it to my post. Chimera!

Time for an extended look at Stormgate, Frost Giant Studios' Starcraft spiritual successor. Pre-alpha footage coming up.

This looks like an APM-y RTS alright - both players building bases before venturing out for some small skirmishes. Maps will have light forests that allow small units to pass through while blocking off larger armies.

Closed beta signups for Stormgate are available now, with the beta itself starting in July.

Fortune's Run next - there's an update for the demo ahead of its early access launch on September 1st.

Hell Let Loose is getting a new update - titled Devotion To Duty - on July 18th.

Atomic Picnic! Anime 3rd-person bug shooter! Okay moving on.

I am so excited for Mullet Mad Jack, a retro-inspired FPS with slick anime vibes. I want that game immediately. Cheers.

Vampire Survivors is getting a fresh update that seemingly introduces a randomiser as well as twitch chat integration. Looks fun. Out tomorrow.

Vampire Survivors is getting a fresh update that seemingly introduces a randomiser as well as twitch chat integration. Looks fun. Out tomorrow.

Okay so a bunch of games just went by so quickly that we literally did not have time to type them up. So, retroactively, we've just seen cartoon comedy Jorel's Brother and the Most Important Game of the Galaxy (out June 15th), ranch sim Gaucho and the Grasslands, sci-fi 4X Revival: Recolonization, and cutely pixellated managment/builder Nova Lands (out June 22nd),.

Baldur's Gate 3 time. We're kicking things off with an animated sketch.

Now here's the actual Baldur's Gate 3.

Nice busyness to this city. Lots going on.

Did that man just incinerate a child?

If he did, we're not dwelling on it. That's that for BG3 - a mostly chill section with lots of dev talking heads.

More fantasy now with Ember Knights, a co-op roguelike. It features properly lovely visuals and some delightfully goofy enemy designs. 1.0 launches July 18th.

TerraTech gets a sequel: TerraTech Worlds. Lots more, even more complex-looking vehicle and base building on alien planets.

Macabre is next, a "stealth extraction horror". It looks very interesting, although I can't tell if it's multiplayer or not? Either way you'll have to explore creepy, shifting buildings while avoiding vicious monsters.

A demo will be available soon.

A reveal for Blackbird Interactive's Earthless. Nothing on how it'll play, but you'll be helping a fleet of spaceships find a new home after the Sun melts our current ball of rock.

Like Interstellar, perhaps, with less organ.

The next game by the developers of Kingdoms and Castles is a city builder set in ancient Rome. Build colosseums! Be smited by the gods! It looks lovely, and it's called Nova Roma.

New from Ashborne Games: Last Train Home. It's a snowy RTS set just after WW1, centered around a group of Czech soldiers using an armoured train as a mobile base.

Ah, My Friendly Neighbourhood. I've been excited for this for a while. A horror shooter about avoiding felt monstrosities inspired by characters from Sesame Street.

It's out on July 18th! That's soon!

New trailer for F1 Manager 23, which is out on July 31st.

Breathedge 2. Spaceships! Fixing a car! Explosions! A chicken!

That was BloomTown: A Different Story. Gives us the ol' bait and switch, setting up a cheerful life sim before switching to semi-spooky JPG battling in a netherworld.

Dave L. says: Was that a corgi werewolf?

A werecorgi, yes.

SAND. The Game.

The CGI trailer for Sand showed off a bunch of fellas having a laugh on the back of an enormous steam powered mech.

Oop, nearly the end of the show. For a finale we're visiting the Funcom team making Dune: Awakening.

*Chanting*

WORM! WORM! WORM! WORM!

Seen a bit of sandbiking in the desert, though the promised sandworms have only been shown in concept art.

Desert sands will shift every week, revealing new places to visit and/or exploit.

Some more Dune: Awakening concept art, and we're done!

Right. That's it. Five (ish) solid hours of gaming coverage DONE. But James, I have to ask, what was your favourite game from this specific stream? I'm gonna have to go with Mullet Mad Jack, which looks rad as hell.

MULLET MAD JACK Trailer - 90's Anime Inspired FPS

Watch on YouTube

Eulrich says: well, have a good nights rest *waves*

You too! Thanks to everyone for stopping by!

Y'know, it might just be ParcelCorp? I've never harboured any secret desires to deliver food to middle class people but bouncing around on an apparently spring-loaded bicycle looked like heaps of fun.

Well, that's that for the PC Gaming Show 2023. There's plenty still to come as part of this year's summer of gaming, so make sure to check out our E3 2023 hub for all the latest announcements. Sleep well, folks!