I'm unsure how much of a detective game Artificial Detective will be, but I enjoyed the bit in the trailer when your character attacks a robot with a massive drill

I’m unsure how much of a detective game Artificial Detective will be, but I enjoyed the bit in the trailer when your character attacks a robot with a massive drill | PC Gamer Skip to main content Open menu Close main menu PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES US Edition UK US Canada Australia Subscribe Sign in View Profile Sign out Search Search PC Gamer Games Hardware News Reviews Guides Video Forum More PC Gaming Show PC Gamer Clips Software Codes Coupons Movies & TV Magazine Newsletter Affiliate links Meet the team Community guidelines About PC Gamer PC Gamer Magazine SubscriptionWhy subscribe?Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming magTry a single issue or save on a subscriptionIssues delivered straight to your door or device From$1Subscribe now Don’t miss these RPG The companions in Owlcat’s new Mass Effect-inspired RPG stand ready to have heart-to-heart chats, drag you into their sidequests, and blow a lot of stuff up RPG Zero Parades devs knew they didn’t want to make another cop game after Disco Elysium: ‘How people think of the police these days, it’s a bit different’ RPG Owlcat says everything in its new Expanse RPG ‘will definitely 100 percent be human-made,’ but also that generative AI will be used for ‘vision coordination’ and ‘inspiration’ Games Upcoming 2026 games: All the new PC games you won’t want to miss, from big hits to hidden gems Games Aether & Iron is a thrilling narrative RPG in a floating, skybound reimagining of New York City’s vibrant 1930s landscape RPG That Hunter: The Reckoning game that was accidentally leaked on Steam is now officially revealed as a new FPS RPG FPS Alien Deathstorm is the very real title of the new ‘action horror game’ coming from Atomfall developer Rebellion Action Pragmata’s devs created human-made AI slop to mimic the ‘uncanny feel’ of LLM art RPG As a Pathfinder 2e sicko, I’m excited for Starfinder: Afterlight after playing an hour of its playtest—but Epictellers has a lot of work to do before demo time this summer Action Pragmata’s director appreciates all the comments likening it to an Xbox 360 game of old: ‘I’m someone who’s got a lot of happy experiences and memories from that generation’ RPG Exodus, the space opera epic with trailers narrated by Matthew McConaughey, drops a trio of gameplay clips that still look a lot like Mass Effect RPG Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy might just have everything I want from a CRPG AI Stellar Blade’s director says AI can see ‘one person can perform the work of 100 people’ but that won’t wind up in job losses, somehow RPG ‘We lost things such as physics in games:’ The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just ‘moving around in a static 3D environment’ RPG Disco Elysium writers marvel at how a game made ‘in a f**king squalid flat’ in Estonia had such a huge impact, and welcomes successors like Esoteric Ebb: ‘We make games, but we also like them’ PopularSpring SaleClipsCrimson DesertMarathonBest PC gearQuizzes Games Action I’m unsure how much of a detective game Artificial Detective will be, but I enjoyed the bit in the trailer when your character attacks a robot with a massive drill News By Rick Lane published 29 March 2026 Former Dead Space and Control developers are involved in the project. 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Revealed at this week’s Xbox Partner Preview, Artificial Detective is a new action adventure game from neophyte studio Vivix, composed of former developers of games like Dead Space, Control, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.Artificial Detective sees you play as a robotic gumshoe in a futuristic metropolis where humanity has disappeared. With the world controlled by robots and prowled by animals infected with a strange nanotechnological disease, you take it upon yourself to discover what happened to all those quivering meatbags, and how the world came to be as it is.The reveal trailer is mostly pre-rendered footage, but there are snippets of the game interspersed throughout. These suggest Artificial Detective follows a fairly standard action-adventure template of exploring, combat, and light puzzle-solving. There’s a neat clip where your character charges at a hulking robot with a pneumatic drill slung under their arm, which is exactly the kind of preposterous action that I endorse.Article continues below You may like Obsidian Moon is a Lovecraftian noir detective game about moving bits of paper around your desk and making sure you’ve got enough money for whiskey and beans ‘Lasting consequences where every action could leave a trail back to you’ is just what I want to hear from a medieval thievery simulator, so this first person sneaker is now one of my most anticipa