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Forspoken looked pretty good when we played it in late 2021, but a trailer that dropped in August 2022 left a very different and much less positive impression. Some of the edgy dialog, which commentators on Twitter have compared unfavorably to Joss Whedon, quickly dominated the conversation, while the PlayStation 5 reviews that began flowing yesterday found Forspoken to be, as PC Gamer features producer Mollie Taylor put it, “bullseye average.”

We don’t have our own Forspoken review up yet—no pre-release PC codes were offered for review, so Mollie is still working on it—but you can still get a sense of what it’s all about courtesy of the Forspoken demos that are now available on Steam, Epic, and the Microsoft Store.

Details about what the demo offers aren’t offered on the storefronts, but Square Enix confirmed that it’s the same as the PS5 demo that came out last month.

“This specially-crafted crafted demo gives you the opportunity to really dig into the game’s fluid traversal and take on some truly monstrous enemies in combat,” Square Enix said in December. “Don’t worry about spoilers—there’s no story in this taster. It&rsqu…

Starfield has been out for little more than a week, yet there are already more mods than you could shake a spaceship at. One of the newest additions to the ever-growing modding community is this—the Inner Monologue mod by Somnia. 

Right now, it helps keep you in character by replacing all the immersion-breaking text tooltips that pop up in the corner with your own personal thoughts. In future, though, Somnia plans to make those thoughts even more personal to your roleplaying style.

“This mod is a simple fix, no weird external monologue telling you what you can and can’t do,” says the mod description. “Now it’s your own inner thoughts. Much scarier.”

I have to say I imagined something akin to Baldur’s Gate 3’s dark urge inner monologue from this description. A dark and foreboding voiceover that comments as to how useless you are when you try to unlock things that are above your skill level. Though as Somnia notes, “This isn’t Baldur’s gate, I don’t have a silent dungeon master telling me what’s up.”

“When you think, you don’t think in the 3rd person unless you’re insane.”

I’m not sure about you, but being deep in the D&D community I ca…