The millionth Steam Next Fest of the year is coming to an end—don't worry, it'll be back before you even have time to uninstall all the demos—and a quick glimpse of the charts might leave you a bit down in the dumps if you're tired of multiplayer games sucking all the oxygen out of the room. But I find myself looking at the list with some uncharacteristic positivity: it's a great showcase of just how surprising—strange, even—PC gaming continues to be.
At the top of the list is returning tacticool dad shooter turned modern PvP shooter Delta Force. Back in the late '90s, the first Delta Force was one of the big lads, laying the foundations of the tactical FPS, and boy did I sink a lot of time into it, trudging through ugly deserts to save POWs and blow stuff up.
