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Beyond A Steel Sky: 90s cyberpunk adventure gets a sequel
Dystopic pointer-clickerer Beneath A Steel Sky is very much in the 90s PC pantheon, even if it’s not necessarily the first name people reach for when turning all misty-eyed about using x on y. With a...
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Have you played… XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen?
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. My favourite XCOM is XCOM: Enemy Unknown*, a pure and direct, no mess/no fuss modern-day remix...
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Wot I Think: Tropico 6
Developer: Limbic Entertainment Publisher: Kalypso Media Release: Out now On: Windows (Mac to follow) From: Steam Price: £40/$50/€50 Islands change everything. What would be just a map option to split...
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Playing Morrowind for the first time? A little work makes it look wonderful
Morrowind, the third and greatest instalment in Bethesda’s Elder Scrolls series, has been back in the news this week. It was briefly free to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the series, and then made...
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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a brutalist city-builder
Developer: 3Division Publisher: 3Division Release: Out now (early access) On: Windows From: Steam Price: £20/$25/€22 If Foundation is the warm bath of 2019 city-builders, Workers & Resources:...
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Generation Zero could be something special without the shooting
One day I suspect we’ll hear the story behind why Avalanche’s Generation Zero feels like being served a pizza that’s all beautifully crisp sourdough base but no sauce whatsoever. It’s a bemusing,...
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Wot I Think: It's Winter
Developer: Alexandre Ignatov Publisher: Alexandre Ignatov Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam Price: £5.68/€6.47/$7.89 ‘Winter’ has always been a term with two meanings. The crisp, pure return to...
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Today: watch us play Phoenix Point, Knights and Bikes, Heaven's Vault & more...
EGX Rezzed 2019 kicks off today: all the best games will be there, and all the best people will be schlepping to London to see ’em. Except you. You’re the best person, clearly, but London? No way,...
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Wot I Think: Islanders
Developer: GrizzlyGames Publisher: Grizzlygames Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam Price: £4.79, $5, €5 I know I’ve banged on about this enough that people are wishing it had happened three...
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American Truck Simulator: journey's end
If there’s one game that has, for me, defined my last few years at RPS, it’s American Truck Simulator. That singular nexus of deadly serious simulation and twinkly-eyed, chill-out road trip has helped...
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The RPS OMeerbus: Alec's least-worst writing
I am a strict adherent of Writer’s Law, which means that I am duty-bound to absolutely despise anything I’ve written within five minutes of publishing it. Hence, all blood drained from my body and I...
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A Fool In Morrowind, Day 3,557 – Tortured Metaphor
Find the story so far here. I’ve been in Vvardenfell for so long now, traipsing across its eerie volcanic plains, over its majestic fungal plateaus and through its singular bone cities. A dream life,...
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Disco Elysium offers a dark mirror to my mid-life crisis
Can’t Stop Playing is our monthly celebration of a game we’re loving. This time, we have been transfixed by the many facets of the ambitious, dense and extraordinary cop RPG Disco Elysium. In the yard...
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Wot I Think – Kentucky Route Zero: Act V
Developer: Cardboard Computer Publisher: Cardboard Computer Release: Out now On: Windows From: Steam, GOG Price: £19/$25/€23 (season pass) This is the story of a journey’s end. But no homecoming can...
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