This week in PC games: synthpunk platforming, haunted house hoovering, and a game about growing a black hole

Happy this week all! Please, please come save us from the tormenting sun. The mercury is forecast to hit 38 degrees in south Britain this week, which might not seem very high to you readers from the Bermuda Triangle, but please remember that British people are all descended from selkies and grindylows, that our "breathable fabrics" consist mostly of horsehair, and that we all live inside up-turned witch's cauldrons. My up-turned cauldron resides at the exact epicentre of the incoming solar blight - a Mawish plot, no doubt, to cut off the flow of videogame news at its wellspring. My inbox is already filling up with contemptible heatwave advice from "door and window" experts. Fools! We games journalists cannot afford doors and windows. The view of a kinder world outside would only distract us from the important labour of writing lists of new PC games, like this one. Read more