The best RPGs on PC From older classics to brand new trail-blazers Whether you prefer wizards, sword-and-board warriors, the irradiated wasteland, vampires, or isometric text-heavy stories, the RPG is the genre that will never let you down. Accross the dizzing number of games available where you can play a role, there’s something for everyone - and we’ve tried to reflect that in our list of the best RPGs on PC ....

The Crew has started disappearing from game libraries after its closure last month “Why not check the Store to pursue your adventures?” Image credit:Ubisoft The Crew , Ubisoft’s 2014 racing game, closed its doors on March 31st . After that date, launching the game took you to a splash screen and then presented an error message when trying to advance, because the servers are no longer offline. Ubisoft have now taken the extra step of revoking The Crew licenses from purchasers and removing it from their library....

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 episode 12: Helldivers 2 has a game master and this is good For democracy, and so forth Image credit:Arrowhead A month ago Arrowhead’s CEO revealed the existence of Joel (technically J.O.E.L., in game), a game master running the galactic battle of Helldivers 2 . A human being who gets up in the middle of the night to throw more robots at players if they’re doing too well....

The Electronic Wireless Show podcast S3 Episode 16: the new hobbit life sim and our favourite The Lord Of The Rings games What have we got in our digital pocketses Image credit:Private Division This week saw the first (small) look at the new and upcoming Hobbit-themed cosy life sim Tales Of The Shire , plus the news that Embracer group is splitting into three, including a Middle-earth And Friends group. We thus use this as an excuse to spend some time talking about The Lord Of The Rings games we’d like to see, plus our favourite Rings games from days gone by (and also Gollum, and also we do impressions of Gollum)....

The Last Of Us game director reveals a fairytale forest platformer about a witch and her feathery familiar Bruce Straley’s Wildflower Interactive unveils Coven of the Chicken Foot Image credit:Wildflower If you’re staying up all night to watch The Game Awards 2025, follow along with our live coverage . If you want an early night, you can catch up on all the news with our Everything Announced at The Game Awards 2025 roundup ....

The Manor Lords publisher thinks we should all reject the “opportunistic and predatory” quest for a viral hit A chat with Hooded Horse CEO Tim Bender about strategy games and letting devs cook Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse If you’re a strategy game aficionado who has yet to cast a monocled eye over Hooded Horse’s catalogue, 1) which map hexagon have you been skulking under? And 2) you’re in for a treat....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Earth Defense Force, Cataclismo, Arranger and, would you believe it, more Image credit:Antoine-Louis Barye / Wikimedia Commons The below list of new PC games was communicated to me using smoke signals by two brave Advance News Scouts, shortly before the Maw’s event horizon expanded by 100 metres. I have not heard from them since. I fear their souls are even now pigmenting the tides of Destiny 2 gifs that fill the Maw’s lower intestines....

The NYT Crossword answers for Saturday, August 30th 2025 Get a bit of help with the NYT Crossword puzzle Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Crossword answers for Sunday, October 19th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s NYT Crossword on Saturday, 30th August? What better way to start your weekend than with the NYT Crossword?...

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Saturday, August 30th 2025 Your perfect companion guide to understanding and solving The Mini for today Image credit:The New York Times This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s NYT Mini Crossword guide? Check out the NYT Mini Crossword answers for Monday, September 15th 2025 ! Need a hint for today’s Mini Crossword on Saturday, 30th August? Then you have come to the right place....

2TB and 4TB models get the deals treatment The 990 Pro has popped up on RPS a few times, but if you’re unfamiliar, this basically forms a triumvirate with the WD Black SN850x and the Crucial T500 as the three finest examples of game load-time cutting in the mainstream PCIe 4.0 SSD space. Newer PCIe 5.0 drives can just about edge them, but not to the degree that their far higher price is justified, and with some help from the sales that gap gets even wider....

The Sunday Papers Image credit:RPS Sundays are for getting dangerously into No Man’s Sky again. Before I go floating in a tin can, let’s read this week’s best writing about games (and game related things!) I must admit, I had a visceral reaction to Polygon’s headline ‘Watching a video game is basically playing it’, but I enjoyed reading this perspective . So I’d discuss it as if I had played it, because my knowledge of the game matched that of its most dedicated players....

This amazing, surprising browser game shows the Internet can still be magical Dive into an alien experience with Corru.Observer Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/corru.works What I like about browser games is that clicking on a word in this mundane piece of software could take you anywhere, to anything. For example, if you click on this link to the domain corru.observer , you’ll find yourself in a dark room before a strange glowing device....

Small but mighty? Image credit:Acemagic Look, we know you’re here for the latest PC gaming updates, but that doesn’t mean micro PCs aren’t adorable in their own way . While they won’t be the best way to play games, they have potential as servers for media libraries, home automation, and more, and they’re remarkably affordable. Case in point: This Acemagic Vista Mini V1 is down to just $132.83 with a voucher code, and has 16GB of RAM and 512GB of storage....

Threshold review: put in the shift and you shall be… rewarded Your country needs you! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Critical Reflex Developer: Julien Eveillé Publisher: Critical Reflex Release: November 19th, 2024 On: Windows From: Steam Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core i7-12700F, Nvidia RTX 3080, 16GB RAM, Windows 11 My time with Threshold has been fraught with pain. Five times. Five times I had to restart this psychological horror game because of some game-breaking bug....

Tower of Fantasy is quitting the gacha life as it, sort of, transitions into a regular MMO I mean if that’s their MO Remember Tower of Fantasy ? It was one of those Genshin Impact -ish gacha games, with its particular twist, so to speak, being that it’s sort of an MMO . I say sort of, because it’s described as a shared open world, meaning you can see other players, and there are some MMO elements, but its monetisations are much more gacha like....

Trip is a pleasant train journey with normal folk, like this unblinking child who speaks only in dark symbols That tracks Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Bastinus Rex Normal games for normal people, that’s what everyone loves. Cosy experiences where nothing goes wrong and you have absolutely zero things to investigate and no otherworldly mysteries to worry about. It may shock you to learn that we were recently duped by “normal” gardening sim Grunn , which was not normal at all ....

Troublemaker 2 is an exuberant and janky Indonesian open world game with a touch of Like A Dragon Out today, still has a demo right now Image credit:indie.io I’m not sure the just-released Troublemaker 2: Beyond Dream is one of those “good games” you’re all so bloody obsessed with. My working summary, based on 30 minutes with the demo, is that it’s an unofficial Like A Dragon/Yakuza game developed with a fraction of the budget, and set in “fictionalised” Indonesia....

Trust Me, I Nailed It is a turn-based strategy game where you make sick video edits of a really rubbish hero That freelancer life Image credit:Team Afternoon There are not enough games in the world where it feels like the initial concept was born from the thought, “wouldn’t it be funny if…” I’m no fool, I know this is because developing a video game is akin to getting hit by a car, miraculously coming away from it unscathed, only to be hit by six more cars as you continue your journey....

Two of Samsung’s best gaming SSDs are on sale for Prime Day, and also it’s Prime Day I guess July already huh Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun UK deals: Samsung 990 Pro 2TB £129 (was £183) See here US deals: Samsung 990 Pro Heatsink 1TB $100 (was $140) See here Samsung 990 Pro Heatsink 2TB $150 (was $210) See here Samsung 990 Pro Heatsink 4TB $275 (was $385) See here Then there’s the Samsung 9100 Pro, a PCIe 5....

What are we all playing this weekend? Well? Do tell! Spring has sprung, reader dear, and may our spirits soar with it. I’ll not pretend it’s warm yet in Scotland (evidence: not seen a single lad going taps aff) but we’ve had a few nice days and you can feel hope, you can feel hope in the air, it’s coming. Winter has been too long. So, uh, enjoy hunkering down inside playing Dragon’s Dogma 2?...