Ever since Baldur’s Gate 3 came out, I’ve had a lot on my mind. Well, in it.

On paper, Lake is a simple game. You play as Meredith Weiss, a middle-aged woman who moves back to her hometown of Providence Oaks to deliver mail to the residents there. And in practice, the game nails that simplicity. It’s just that… Lake is also a game that is undeniably queer – right down to its very core.

If there’s one thing that you should take away from this The Fermi Paradox preview, a game about shepherding and nurturing – or destroying – galactic civilisations and seeing what the outcome is of all your choices, is it’s all sorts of brilliant.

Maneater is an open-world RPG where, as you may have guessed, you play as a shark whose main goal is to rip and tear their way through most of humanity. While open-world games have already put you in the shoes of a cowboy, a greek goddess called Kassandra, and an Inquisitor with a fancy, schmancy hand, none have really offered you the role of a literal man-eating shark before.

There’s nothing better than swinging a huge sword at incredibly big enemies. Those were my first thoughts of Code Vein immediately before the enemy smacked me right in the face, then sent me sprawling down into the depths below.

Catherine’s Vincent Brooks is a 30-something man who has hit a brick wall in his life.

Wolfenstein Youngblood merges co-op and first-person shooting with the story of twin sisters, Jessica and Sophie Blazkowicz, as they shoot Nazi’s and search Europe to find their missing father.

Observation is a sci-fi game with a lot of mystery, wonder, space and an interesting premise that’ll have you second-guessing everything you know about AI and humanity.