The church has a better game to play

Elsewhere, there’s a first-person shooter that has no right to be as enjoyable as it is, and a first-person puzzle game that I’m sort of breaking the rules for. Because it’s a game from Valve, and one of my favourite games in the world. You understand, right? Read on for this week’s freebie picks.This is a good week for those of you who like Pac-Man. Two new interpretations of the classic arcade game lie nestled below – about as far apart in You know the score, surely.

Grab it before the 20th, and three of the most special gaming hours you’ll have are yours to keep forever. It’s one of the most dazzling, innovative, smart and hilarious computer games ever made, and if you haven’t tried it yet, you now have absolutely no excuses. It’s made even better by a fabulous story, one that starts with refreshing subtlety but builds, slowly, suspensefully, before releasing in a phenomenally climactic final hour.

You’ll always experience the most beautiful moment of realisation when you work out how to apply your existing knowledge to a new scenario.style as you can imagine, but both an inordinate amount of fun. It’s a first-person puzzle game in which you fire one portal to jump through and another portal to emerge from. In doing so you’ll learn to overcome a variety of increasingly complex environmental obstacles, and Valve’s expert level design means that while you’ll scratch your head on a number of occasions.