Burglin' Gnomes is the next great friend-slop game that everyone with a PC and at least one other friend should check out

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Like Lethal Company, you work with up to three other players to enter the house of some angry old man, which has an ever-changing layout, to steal his stuff and wreak havoc. (Image credit: Fobri)Once you start a round, you have a list of random tasks to complete: steal a personal hygiene item or take something from the living room. But they can also be wilder than that: tase a human, shoot a human, or just break stuff. It’s kind of like YAPYAP or Untitled Goose Game in that regard; you just need to cause chaos Related articles Finally, a fantasy game filled with adorable gnomes that you can punch right in their adorable faces One of the best-reviewed new games on Steam right now is about feeding raccoons and cryptids with the cosmic, Lynchian oven of your eerie woodland house What if instead of Agent 47 you were just some doofus who ‘accidentally’ killed a guy in a hotel room? Dispose of the evidence in this physics-based stealth game You don’t have to complete all of the tasks, but there is a minimum you need to finish before you can head to your home in the clouds via the small mushroom house you started at. If you succeed, you live to pester another day. But if you fail, you get exploded by some angry formless god and have to start again, back at round one, losing all your resources and crafted i