Rock Paper Shotgun

I do like a combat system that resembles an overflowing dressmaker's draw, full of bouncing rubber thimbles and coils of bunting. While it...

Stormgate is a confusing proposition. It's an RTS directed by former Blizzard developers that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike S...

Workers at Nacon-owned Greedfall 2 studio Spiders have penned an open letter “to their employer” detailing grievances over a period of seve...

There’s nowt more magical than the lambent inscriptions of tangled sigils required to spell places like Ainderby Quernhow, Weedley Copse, o...

Exterminatus. Exterminatus. You’re all exterminatused. None of you are free of sin. Except, maybe Focus Interactive are actually? While it...

Nintendo Direct brings us a gift, and one in the form of exciting news about history's most squirrel stuffed RPGs. Can you really claim 108...

I find it bizarre that people still really like Crash Bandicoot games in this, the year 2024, two decades after the decline of the platfor...

When we talk about a game having a sense of place, it’s often about how adroitly it covers up the necessary falsehoods of a world contrive...

The dwarven engineers of The Lord Of The Rings: Return To Moria have formally entered the Golden Age of Steam. The game is now available o...

The slugcat of Rain World is a distinct little character. He flops around, squeezing through narrow tunnels with a movement that's both cut...

Valve have their own rating system for measuring how games run on Steam Deck, but even following the guidance of whether something is "Play...

If you like jumping on enveloping pixelly architecture while basking in an atmosphere of pathological sadness, set aside some time on 20th...

"Age of Empires with dinosaurs" is, the developers of the Dinolords recently told me in a cramped Gamescom booth, a flattering description...

Everything I know about the French Revolution has hitherto come from two literary works: Hilary Mantel's excellent doorstopper A Place Of G...

Take the ballroom scene from Disney's Beauty And The Beast, swap the wailing utensils for an army of chibi cats, endow Belle with low-key...

A few months back, I enjoyed lurking a conversation on the RPS Discord about the proliferation of cyberpunk/steampunk/atompunk/what-have-yo...

Earlier this year, Bungie's 1990s sci-fi shooter, Marathon, came to Steam for free. And Marathon 2 followed in July. But this series is a t...

One of my GOAT moments as a videogaming youngster is the final mission of Psygnosis cyberpunk flight sim G-Police. (It came out in 1997, an...

We've been distracted by Gamescom, several game releases, the rapid dwindling of the British summer. Or I assume we have, for why else woul...

I recently wrote about a game that aimed to recreate the old magic of Tokyo Xtreme Racer, a series of late-night, urban racing games that h...

Ubisoft have announced Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era, a fresh instalment in the exceedingly olden turn-based strategy RPG series, whic...

If you've been necromantically dreaming of a Callisto Protocol sequel, I'm afraid the monkey paw finger hasn't just curled - it's jammed it...

It is perhaps deeply ungrateful of me that, when presented with the squirrel with a gun of Squirrel With A Gun, my immediate reaction is to...

I shouldn’t be too surprised really. If a park sim based on Tim Burton’s 1996 B-Movie homage Mars Attacks wasn’t on my bingo card, it’s bec...

Remember that puzzle game Unravel and its star: a cute lad made of yarn called Yarny? He'd tackle headscratchers by unwinding the very fabr...