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I don’t think we’ve ever written about Intravenous 2, but the topdown shooter has been on my radar since its release last year. It’s a blend of tactical stealth and frenetic Hotline Miami spraying, and it just got a major update to add Steam Workshop support and a map editor.

Sons Of The Forest is about being chased by fithy cannibals who cannot swim, so the latest update ought to be useful to players. Its major new feature is the addition of rafts, which players can construct and then float about on like a 2000s Tom Hanks.

Sons Of The Forest is about being chased by fithy cannibals who cannot swim, so the latest update ought to be useful to players. Its major new feature is the addition of rafts, which players can construct and then float about on like a 2000s Tom Hanks.

Team Cherry’s long-awaited metroidvania Hollow Knight: Silksong will be re-revealed in April, if you believe a bunch of frantic reddit posts about cake. The standard practice when writing up such fan theorising is to walk you through it step by step, peeling back the layers like Inspector Clouseau. But I know that you are a

Hyper Light Breaker early access reviewHyper Light Breaker is a disappointing 3D action roguelike, with awkward combat and little of Hyper Light Drifter’s atmosphere or storytelling chops. Developer: Heart Machine Publisher: Arc Games Release: January 14th, 2024 On: Windows From: Steam, Game Pass Price: £22/$27/€26 Reviewed on: Intel Core i9-10900K, Nvidia RTX 3090, 32GB RAM,

Three-person Danish team The Outer Zone and Frostpunk creators 11-bit studios have announced Death Howl, a very gloomy soulslike deck-builder set in a “stone-age Nordic-inspired” open world that consists of biomes with names like “the Forest of Howling Shadows”. Lots of howling round these parts. You play a mother, Ro, whose son has been claimed

Friends, another soul is departing the RPS treehouse today. Ed has decided to lay down the mantle of reviews editor and rejoin polite society. Come join me in saying goodbye.

The announcement of a new Tokyo Xtreme Racer for the first time in 18 years was a welcome surprise at the end of 2024. It now has a release date: January 23rd. It’s an Early Access launch, but I am excited to drive a gaudy monstrosity on a Japanese highway.

I adore A Short Hike, to the point that I’ve finished the uplifting, playful mountain ascent three times. When I tell this to people, one of the most common responses is: hey, you should play Lil Gator Game. I have played Lil Gator Game, and yep: it’s good, too. A similarly knockabout outdoor adventure with

My feelings about Forest Reigns are equal parts enthusiasm and disappointment, inflation and deflation, straight off the back of the announcement trailer. On the one hand, as a fan of weird forests, which is to say all forests, I’m keen on the prospect of an FPS set in a post-apocalyptic Paris that has been overrun

A quick one: Firaxis have confirmed that Civilization 7 will be Steam Deck verified at launch. It’s a pleasant surprise, given that 2016’s Civ 6 is still only listed as “playable” on Valve’s oversized Switch. I like this news about as much as I’m terrified to realise that Civ 7 is just under a month

A recent spate of forced password resets in Action RPG Path Of Exile 2 was acknowledged by developer Grinding Gear Games on Sunday, after a hacker gained access to an administrative account. As reported by 404 Media, this follows several reports on the game’s forums and social media from players who’d had their inventories emptied

Destiny creators Bungie are reportedly making a team-based MOBA that takes hefty inspiration from Nintendo’s Smash Bros series. Or rather, they were. Codenamed Gummy Bears, the project is now apparently in the hands of another, newly founded PlayStation studio, with 40 Bungie developers sticking around to work on it. According to The Game Post, who

Don’t be fooled by the simple synchronicity of the headline above. We have selected our 24 favourite games from the past year every year since 2008. We reveal these beloved games across the month of December in the RPS Advent Calendar, each game behind a new door. This article collects all those wonderful games and

Booked For The Week is our weekly chat with industry folk about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future. Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week – our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books!

Pure Rock Crawling is about steering off road vehicles across rocky terrain. It’s about pumping the gas pedal and wrenching the steering wheel just so, such that you lurch forward and over the obstacles, rather than tumbling backwards. It’s MudRunner without the mud, with a knockabout simplicity presumably as a result of its apparently one-man

Minecraft is the best PC game, according to me and the RPS staff who dare not cross me. I played it for three hours today and, among the many build challenges and adventures, a small story formed around a baby pig. We named him Porky, we caged him as our pet, and in an unfortunate

Slavic Magic and Hooded Horse have released a new Manor Lords update, adding a couple of maps, the ability to construct bridges, and a bevy of smaller features to an already quite robust medieval city builder.