Seduce serial killers on the dark web in dating sim Killer Chat, which is free on Steam Also free on Itch, with a paid expanded edition to follow Image credit:angelrot If you’ve been struggling lately with the thought that everybody you interact with online is a closet serial killer, why not fire up Killer Chat, which will remove all uncertainty from your brain and flood it with delicious, sexy fear. Hitherto available on Itch....

Selfloss is a relaxed, fish-fancying jaunt through exhaustion, desolation, and melancholy Dare u seek the Loss fish? Image credit:Goodwin Games When the ageing, silent character you play in puzzle adventure Selfloss performs a roll, it is a tumble of such poignant melancholy I spent the first five minutes of my time with its Steam demo just keeling about in the starting area. It’s a ponderous, pained roll, creaky and ancient. If it has i-frames, the ‘i’ stands for “I would like to not do that again for at least five minutes, please....

Should you bother with… dual-mode monitors? The best of both sharp 4K and fast 1080p, or just silly frankenscreens? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Two monitor-themed Should You Bother Withs in a row? Normally my desire for editorial heterogeneity wouldn’t allow it, but while ultrawide screens have been around for donkeys’ years, 2024 seems to be welcoming a genuinely new take on gaming displays: the dual-mode monitor. Exact specs vary, even among the very few models currently available....

Spec Ops: The Line has been delisted from Steam due to expiring licenses, 2K say Owners can “still download and play” Image credit:2K Games Third-person shooter Spec Ops: The Line has been removed from sale from Steam due to expiring “partnership licenses”, according to a representative for 2K Games. Before the official reasoning was given, speculation surrounding the delisting had focused on the game’s soundtrack and the possibility that music license have expired....

Spooky free-to-play open worlder Once Human is out today, and the devs have some crash and performance tips No controller, Steam Deck or DLSS support right now Image credit:Starry Studio From Zenless Zone Zero to The First Descendant , we seem to be experiencing a free-to-play explosion. Despair, ye time-constrained adults, for your carefully engineered shortage of pocket money offers no bulwark against the onslaught of games that want a slice of your evening or weekend....

Square Enix announce Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse, sequel to one of 2023’s best horror mystery games Ariel surprise Image credit:Square Enix Square Enix have announced Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse, a summery sequel to horror mystery visual novel Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo. The original game earned itself a double thumbs-up from former RPS reviews editor Rachel Watts, shortly before she vanished while gathering blood-stained stones one moonlit night. (I am just joshing with you – Rachel is alive and well over at Thinky Games ....

Stardew Valley 2 continues to remain a hypothetical, but ConcernedApe did actually consider making it at one point “Haunted Chocolatier you could say is like the Stardew Valley 2, but it’s a bit different of a game, so we’ll see” Image credit:ConcernedApe You know, sometimes I wonder if Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone ever sleeps. At any given moment it sounds like he’s working on something, whether that be yet another update for Stardew Valley , or the definitely still in development, just wait a while you silly sausages , Haunted Chocolatier ....

Starfield’s Shattered Space expansion looks to amp up the horror later this year First trailer looks almost Daedric Image credit:Bethesda Softworks We’ve known for a while that Starfield was getting its first expansion later this year, but tonight’s Xbox Games Showcase gave us its first trailer. My main takeaway? That Bethesda are leaning into cosmic horror, as the trailer features landscapes that look like they’re on the other side of an Oblivion gate than anything I saw during my time with Starfield ....

Steam’s ‘complete the set’ bundles can now be gifted, with bits your mates already own accounted for You’ve now got no excuse not to dump about £100 of other Fallout on someone who’s trying New Vegas for the first time Image credit:CD Projekt If you’ve been waiting to bless one of your friends with an entire dump truck worth of games in a series they’ve enjoyed one entry of, then good news....

Steam’s popular Bongo Cat clicker is losing money, but its worth to its devs lies elsewhere Memevertising for monks Image credit:Irox Games Despite currently sitting above the likes of GTA 5 , Elden Ring Nightreign , and Dune: Awakening in the fourth spot on Steam’s most-played chart , a Bongo Cat clicker game is “actually losing us money in the end”, according to its devs. So, why are developers Irox Games and their CEO Marcel Zurawka keeping this app about a meme cat that sits on your desktop and drops a big slap every time you click on a thing going?...

Stop Killing Games hopes to petition regulators to stop developers from shutting down games Ubisoft made The Crew unplayable on March 31st Image credit:Ubisoft Ubisoft racing game The Crew shut down on March 31st, rendering the game unplayable for everyone who bought it since its release ten years ago. In response, YouTuber Ross Scott has launched Stop Killing Games , “the largest campaign ever to stop publishers destroying games”. The initiative exists to encourage people to petetiion their governments about the issue....

The Crew 2’s offline mode is live, so you don’t have to worry as much about Ubisoft ramming it off the road After its predecessor being rendered unplayable kicked off the Stop Killing Games campaign Image credit:Ubisoft The Crew 2 ’s offline mode is now live, ensuring that the racer “remains accessible for years to come”. Well, assuming you’re not bothered about playing online, which would still be deep-sixed if Ubisoft opted to shut down the game’s servers, as they did with its predecessor....

The earliest major inspiration for Shadow Of The Colossus was… Battlefield 1942: “I felt immense potential in the experience” Flags at half-mast Image credit:Sony I can’t remember much about Battlefield 1942 , two decades on, but I’m pretty sure I never thought “by golly, what if this + enormous sad stone monsters” while storming the beaches of Wake Island. It’s one of many things that separate me from Fumito Ueda, director of melancholy PS2 titan-feller Shadow Of The Colossus, first released in 2005....

The Elder Scrolls 6 in the Summerset Isles would be cool, or so recently unearthed Daggerfall-era dev D&D notes have convinced me Bonus points if said trip involves meeting Vanus Galerion and a witch in some woods Image credit:Zenimax As someone who admittedly struggles to feel at home whenever I try to go back and play the older Elder Scrolls entries, I’m surprised how fun I’ve found reading through some notes from a D&D game some devs on the series played around the time of Daggerfall’s development....

The Gothic Remake demo reveals an RPG powered by wheeling, dealing, and growling Dark fantasy makes strange bedfellows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun I’ve never played 2001’s Gothic , developed by Piranha Bytes, but Sin has an article from 2016 about why it is “more believable than modern RPGs” . In that piece, she paints an absorbing picture of a magically quarantined penal colony, where three factions of prisoners enjoy an uneasy truce....

The Maw - 15th-20th January 2024 Our weekly news liveblog Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Time for another week desperately shovelling quotes, release dates and trailers into the Maw, our weekly news liveblog and also, an abyssal abomination poised to guzzle the waking world and all forms of existence, unless we can satisfy its hunger for headlines. The year is starting to pick up, with a few intriguing titles slated to drop this week in addition to the widely acclaimed Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown , out 18th Jan, which Katharine has called “a deep and challenging Metroid-like with some of the best platforming this side of Moon’s Ori games” ....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? The Casting Of Frank Stone, Age Of Mythology: Retold, Corpus Edax, things of that nature Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Strange omens abound as late. Chickens are born with four wings, like horrible feathered dragonflies. Cows scream at the sky, then produce bile instead of milk. Most chilling of all, Aldi have discontinued their Village Bakery Seeded Medium Sliced Loaf (400g), replacing it with deeply inferior Village Bakery Lightly Seeded Loaf (800g)....

The NYT Crossword answers for Thursday, September 4th 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 Thursday, 4th September? Well you’re in luck! Because we have them. All of them, in fact....

The Rally Point: Field of Glory: Kingdoms is an elaborate building game in a grand strategy jacket Demesne calm Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Slitherine Four thousand words of notes. Hoboy. Field of Glory Colon Kingdoms is definitely thought-provoking. It was also complaint-provoking in the fairly long period where I didn’t understand what it’s trying to do. Reaching that point, luckily for you, means we can cut out a lot of the “confused whingeing” subsection of those notes....

The Rally Point: Messy urban wargame Khaligrad is this year’s low-intensity strategy game for when it’s blisteringly hot out Shtrafbattle brothers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Orbi Universo Team I was partial to a scrappy little strategy game even before idiot billionaires doomed the planet, and the UK to brain-steaming heat just when you thought we’d escape it this year. Khaligrad is plenty scrappy. Its edges are rough and you have to figure it out yourself, but it’s more intuitive than it appears, and easy to operate once you discern some basics....