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The best snow in PC gamesSomeone get a fire going, stat
Someone get a fire going, stat
Look outside. Is it snowing? Well, it’s snowing in video games, where it matters. The winter months are here to lay frosty waste to the Northern hemisphere, which is where list goblins like me originate.
To celebrate the first flakes of glimmering ice wafting out of the sky like God’s own sub-zero dandruff, here’s a list of the best snow in PC games. Put on a hat, for heaven’s sake.
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Steep
As an extreme winter sports game, Steep is far from perfect. But as a trudging-through-the-snow simulator, it is unparalleled. The visual effects and frumpy sounds as the frosty powder compresses beneath your big boots make you wanna pause and stir some hot choc. On a snowboard, it smooths away in a clean line. On skis, it carves a silky twin track as you barrel down the Swiss Alps,as personified with weirdly sexy voices. Actual races and the performing of tricks feels wobbly, but as a snowscape, it deserves a flurry of praise.
Snowrunner
Subnautica: Below Zero
Red Dead Redemption 2
Journey
The finale of Journey’s metaphorical wanderings brings you to a stormy mountain peak, where an indignant blizzard shoves back against your last push toward the game’s uber-weenie. It’s a lonely climb, the rime and snowflakes hardening your once-crimson cloak into a glittering case of stiff folds, like a towel left out on the washing line until January. This snow is not a friend, it’s your antagonist. But what chimes close behind? It’s another player, struggling against the same bitter winds. Together you can do this. You can beat the snow, right? RIGHT?
Gwent
I see you’ve got some novice alchemists out on the battlefield, a bunch of spearmen too. That’s very nice. Oh,this? It’s just a little bit of snow, I shouldn’t be too worried if I were you. It’ll only kill off your weakest units. Relax, it’s just weather. I mean, these climate-altering cards are good. But they used to be better. Remember when that one card calledWhite Frostused to cover all your lanes in cold glitter, and it’d last aaaages, and everything you put down would - are you listening? Oh, you’ve died.
Tom Clancy’s The Division
The Division 2 is a better game. But The Division 1 is a better apocalypse. New York in the biting maw of winter sells the end-of-days feeling far better than Washington’s humid summer. Christmas decor hangs lifelessly in windows, trash piles up within mounds of snow and slush. And then the fog descends and thesnowflakes drift aroundin fitful eddies under the street lights, which are somehow still functioning amid the death rattle of a city. It’s mostly decorative weather, unless you too have endured the mostly forgotten yetstrikingly atmospheric Survival mode, in which a freezing megablizzard gets between you, loot, and other players. If that’s you, fellow survivor, I know. I know. Take a breath. We don’t need to go back. Nobody can make us go back.
One Off The List from… the best shotguns in games
Last time we played a shell game, and under our cups lurkedthe 9 best shotguns in PC games. It turns out you lot LOVE shotguns. That’s sweet. But we still need to eliminate one of them from the list. Sad to say it’s…
The Mozambique from Apex Legends
“I thought including the Mozambique was well-played,” says list connoisseur ‘StropheCat’, inspecting the weapons rack. “However, I still want it off the list: I actually got two or three kills with it in the eight or nine months I’ve been playing, negating its purpose.”
Its purpose, in case you forgot, is to be a middling gun that makes the others look good. And in this very list it has again proven useful. Bless you, Mozambique, you have yet again taken one for the team. A true martyr. We will not forget your sacrifice. God speed.
