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News

IGF 2025 nominees show what a wild and vibrant place indie gaming is

There are several surprise nominations and absences this year

Jan. 16, 2025 Graham Smith

21 comments

Screenshots of Factorio: Space Age, Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, and Mouthwashing.

Feature

Our 24 favourite games of 2024

In non-calendar form

Jan. 13, 2025 Graham Smith

47 comments

A side-by-side comparison screen for a mod that gives all the Joker cards in Balatro boobs, including Joker cards that feature inanimate objects, like the walkie talkie depicted here

News

Balatro mod Jimbo's Big Naturals is a lot funnier and safer for work than it sounds

One pair

Jan. 7, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

10 comments

Horace the Endless Bear wraps himself around the top of a Christmas tree.

Feature

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 12th

Open today's door - then run

Dec. 12, 2024 RPS

30 comments

A scene in The Rise Of The Golden Idol that shows a family panicking after a block of ice interrupts their garden barbeque.

Review

The Rise Of The Golden Idol review: fiendish but fair detective puzzling whose mystery you’ll want to unravel

Fuzzwords

Nov. 12, 2024 Nic Reuben

18 comments

Two guards look perplexed in a jail in Rise Of The Golden Idol.

News

Rise Of The Golden Idol launches November 12th, with four DLC planned in 2025

Opening a new case

Nov. 9, 2024 Graham Smith

19 comments

Friends Of Jimbo 2, a free update adding new card art to Balatro.

News

Balatro gets a second set of free card cosmetics inspired by Cyberpunk 2077, Stardew Valley and others

Good deal

Oct. 24, 2024 Graham Smith

7 comments

The corpse of a diver lies tangled in a bunch of coral beneath the surface of a lake.

News

Abiotic Factor's biggest update yet adds new sectors to explore, plus jetpacks, jeeps and laser katanas

Half-Laugh

Aug. 13, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

3 comments

The player characters from Dead Cells, Hades 2, and Spelunky 2 line up against a background map from Caves of Qud.

Feature

The 19 best roguelike games on PC

Going rogue

June 20, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

101 comments

A scientist attempts to catch an alien creature with a net in Abiotic Factor.

News

You can pet the headcrabs in Abiotic Factor, and now they'll follow you around

They've also added cheese

May 13, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

3 comments

High-scoring cards popping off in a Balatro screenshot.

Feature

Supporters only | What are ‘solvable’ games, and is being solvable a bad thing?

Balatroptimisation

April 19, 2024 Nic Reuben

8 comments

A composite image from puzzle games: LeChuck from Return To Monkey Island, some weighted cubes from Portal, little ghosts from How To Say Goodbye and a banjo-playing alien from Outer Wilds, all in a forest from The Witness

Feature

The best puzzle games on PC

A very puzzling collection

April 10, 2024 Alice Bell

55 comments

Review

Balatro review: only fools would sleep on this moreish poker roguelike

No joke

Feb. 19, 2024 Katharine Castle

61 comments

News

Uh oh, Balatro might be the deckbuilder to end all deckbuilders

It's hard to poker holes in this moreish roguelike's new demo

Jan. 25, 2024 Katharine Castle

13 comments

A girl sleeps in a bed with sun coming in through the curtains in Little Problems

News

I'm extremely here for the rise of the Golden Idol-like

Little Problems is a new, more relaxed kind of detective game about everyday mysteries

Jan. 25, 2024 Katharine Castle

8 comments

Artwork from Avowed, Leximan, Hades II, Phoenix Springs and Frostpunk 2

Feature

Our 75 most anticipated PC games of 2024

What we're most excited about playing this year

Jan. 4, 2024 Katharine Castle

99 comments

News

The Rise Of The Golden Idol is the sequel to 2022's best detective game

The case thickens in 2024

Dec. 8, 2023 Katharine Castle

5 comments

A rumble on the beach in The Case Of The Golden Idol DLC The Lemurian Vampire.

News

Mystery puzzler The Case Of The Golden Idol now has a free browser-based demo - and new DLC

Try three cases for free of one of 2022's best games

Aug. 31, 2023 Graham Smith

6 comments

A bearded man with a spotted towel over their head approaches a fat king in The Spider Of Lanka DLC for The Case Of The Golden Idol.

News

The Case Of The Golden Idol's three new mysteries are out now

The Spider Of Lanka

May 6, 2023 Graham Smith

4 comments

Podcast

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S2 Episode 14: the optional content cometh

I'm the problem, it's me

May 4, 2023 Alice Bell

4 comments

A dead body is trapped inside a coffin on wheels in The Spider Of Lanka DLC for The Case Of The Golden Idol

News

Excellent detective game The Case Of The Golden Idol is getting three prequel DLC cases next week

The Spider Of Lanka expansion unfolds on May 4th

April 27, 2023 Katharine Castle

12 comments

A warrior dodges a spear stab from a red, dual-headed monster in Mortal Shell

News

Rejoice, one of the best Soulslikes has returned to Game Pass

Mortal Shell's standard edition was originally removed from Game Pass in November 2022

Jan. 5, 2023 Kaan Serin

10 comments

Slices of four screenshots from Stray, Citizen Sleeper, Elden Ring and Vampire Survivors

Feature

Our 24 favourite games of 2022

As voted for by the RPS Treehouse

Dec. 27, 2022 Katharine Castle

41 comments

A cartoony drawing of Horace The Endless Bear, in a Santa hat and snuggled by/atop a fireplace, regarding three Christmas stockings hung above it. Each contains something from a different game that came out this year

Feature

The RPS Advent Calendar 2022, December 15th

Fool's gold

Dec. 15, 2022 RPS

5 comments

Several men scream in a stable yard as one of them spontaneously combusts in The Case Of The Golden Idol

Review

The Case Of The Golden Idol review: a gripping detective game with echoes of Obra Dinn

Murders most foul

Oct. 13, 2022 Katharine Castle

13 comments