Life Simulation

A white sedan drives along the road with a truck behind it and red houses in the background. The game has been awarded a "RPS Bestest Best" sticker.

Review

Keep Driving review

A road trip to remember

Feb. 6, 2025 Brendan Caldwell

29 comments

A snowglobe view of a single-room apartment with somebody having dinner with their mother at a table on the right handside

News

Vendrán Las Aves is a short free game about burnout from Red String Club developers Deconstructeam

Guitar hero

Feb. 5, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

10 comments

Serafin floats in zero gravity while the Rig, his ship, is docked in the background.

Review

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector review: a sci-fi RPG that explores new space, yet I yearn for old ground

No more mister dice guy

Jan. 30, 2025 Brendan Caldwell

22 comments

The player smokes a cigarette while looking at a rental car that lies upside down on the motorway.

Review

My Summer Car review: A sordid sim of piss and pistons that won't hold your disgusting little hand

Masochism and the art of motorcar maintenance

Jan. 22, 2025 Brendan Caldwell

27 comments

Subnautica 2, Mushroom Musume, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Monster Hunter: Wilds screenshots.

Feature

Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025

Here's what we're excited about in what looks like a big year

Jan. 8, 2025 Graham Smith

119 comments

The player stands in a car park next to a sports car as the sun sets over palm trees in the distance.

News

GTA copycat Paradise is an alleged crypto scam, yet continues to gain Steam wishlists

More red flags than a ski slope

Jan. 6, 2025 Brendan Caldwell

47 comments

A snowy street in The Bustling World with cross-sections of people mingling indoors

News

Ancient Chinese RPG The Bustling World is, in fact, all of the genres, from city builder to life sim

Too ambitious for its own good?

Jan. 2, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

31 comments

Screenshots of Windblown and Shin-chan: Shiro And The Coal Town.

Feature

The RPS Selection Box: Ed's bonus games of the year 2024

Double trouble

Dec. 31, 2024 Ed Thorn

6 comments

A bunny called Mr. Cotton chats to the shopkeeping fox in Piece By Piece.

News

Piece By Piece is about mending, painting and selling goods in a cute repair shop

Trash Kitsune

Dec. 10, 2024 Graham Smith

4 comments

Morgan and her dog amid the web of conveyors in her factory in Little Rocket Lab.

News

Little Rocket Lab is a Factorio and Stardew Valley mashup about building a rocketship in a cute town

Countdown to cosy

Dec. 10, 2024 Graham Smith

1 comment

A man hovers in the doorway of a spaceship cabin while an android tinkers with their arm in Citizen Sleeper 2

News

Spacefaring RPG Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector gets a release date: January 31st 2025

Starward ho!

Dec. 5, 2024 Nic Reuben

6 comments

Two people posing and taking pictures on the pier in life sim Inzoi

News

Offensively good-looking Sims challenger Inzoi hits early access in March 2025

"Extra love and care" required

Nov. 7, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

A shot of the ship's lounge, complete with a large projection of a blue sky.

Feature

Supporters only | My game of the year so far is probably a buggy, broken mess

It's been a year for video games, let me tell you

Nov. 7, 2024 Ed Thorn

9 comments

Autumn in a Stardew Valley multiplayer screenshot.

News

Stop putting hats on your pets, asks Stardew Valley creator

They don't like it

Nov. 6, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

3 comments

A hooded figure with a bird mask on a foggy street in Pathologic 3

News

Pathologic 3 devs keen to avoid "premature promises" about bringing back the Changeling in Pathologic 4

Bachelor-helmed threequel is more about investigation than survival

Nov. 1, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Shin chan and Shiro stand on a country path next to a railway line, as Shin chan holds a bug net and the sky is lovely and blue.

Review

Shin chan: Shiro And The Coal Town review: a nostalgic collectathon I can't stop thinking about

Cicada Summer

Oct. 23, 2024 Ed Thorn

14 comments

Four friends do some fishing on a small bridge over a river.

News

Fishing games don't come much cuter than the Animal Crossing style island of Webfishing

From scritches to riches

Oct. 14, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

1 comment

Two people sit on a bench and watch a train pass by in Kind Words 2.

Review

Kind Words 2 review: as good-hearted as a city built on the internet can get

Worriers Anonymous

Oct. 10, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

25 comments

A mouse with an axe harvesting fruit and vegetables.

News

Redwall meets Skyrim in this new game from Bethesda, BioWare, and Naughty Dog alumni

Hawthorn is everything I love doing everything I don't

Oct. 9, 2024 Nic Reuben

16 comments

The player holds a vial in the Bachelor's study in Pathologic 3.

News

Pathologic 3 announced with time travel mechanic, due for release in 2025

Eligible bachelor

Oct. 7, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

24 comments

The map of the world is spread out as Cathmál looks on.

Feature

I'm sorry for all the dead bodies I left behind while walking from Ireland to China in Crusader Kings 3's brilliant new DLC

The Roads To Power are paved with good intentions

Oct. 2, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

30 comments

A couple embrace beside a fountain as if about to kiss in My Time At Evershine.

News

My Time At Evershine promises to bring a new art style and expanded co-op to the farming life sim

The boys, they're hot now

Sept. 18, 2024 Graham Smith

14 comments

News

Inzoi begins its fight for The Sims' crown with a time-limited character creator trial on August 20th

Make your own zoi

Aug. 15, 2024 Graham Smith

24 comments

A few couples in The Sims 4 go on a date in a bar, with one or two of them looking awkward and uncomfortable.

News

The Sims 4 now lets you set how jealous Sims will get when they catch their partner flirting

Stop kissing the pool boy please, Sally

July 24, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

13 comments

A stats screen for a mushroom girl in Mushroom Musume, represented in green pixelart

News

This weekend I grew a fungus daughter in eerie narrative RPG Mushroom Musume, which has a demo

The morel the merrier

July 8, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

7 comments