How to get a free horse in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 How to buy and steal a horse, or get Pebbles and Herring for free in KCD2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Want to know how to get a horse for free in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? It’s a real mercy that you can get a horse for free in KCD2 without too much trouble, because it’s incredible what a difference it makes while travelling the world....

How to get Lucky Pals in Palworld Here’s everything you need to know about Lucky Pals in Palworld Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Looking to get a Lucky Pal in Palworld? Lucky Pals are essentially shiny versions of Pals in Palworld . These Lucky Pals are variants of standard Pal species but look larger and emit a sparkle. Other than the obsessive need to collect every variant possible, Lucky Pals do also provide an additional buff, making them a worthy pursuit....

How to get the Thruster Boost in Lightyear Frontier Here’s how to increase your jump stamina in Lightyear Frontier Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Amplifier Studios Looking to get the Thruster Boost upgrade in Lightyear Frontier? Lightyear Frontier has a host of Mech upgrades like the Thruster Boost to make exploration and resource gathering easier in the game. Take a look at the trailer for Lightyear Frontier.Watch on YouTube How to get Thruster Boost I in Lightyear Frontier There are two major jump upgrades in Lightyear Frontier, the Thruster Boost I and II....

How to increase carrying capacity in Lightyear Frontier Here’s how to increase your carrying capacity in Lightyear Frontier Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Amplifier Studios Looking to increase your carrying capacity in Lightyear Frontier? Lightyear Frontier is a charming crafting, farming game where you must set up a base on an alien world and colonise it for earthly inhabitants. As such, a large part of the game centres around resource gathering, and transporting quantities of ore back to base....

How to learn the Master Strike in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Here’s how to unlock the Master Strike, and how it works in KCD2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Wondering how to learn the Master Strike in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Combat in the original game was utterly dominated by the Master Strike, a special move so powerful that you were all but required to spam it against opponents as you progressed towards the endgame....

How to use Serpent Ore in Solo Hunters Wondering what Serpent Ore does in Solo Hunters? Here’s how to utilise the common boss drop Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Dungeon RPGs Online Trying to figure out what to use Serpent Ore for in Solo Hunters? After defeating a boss in this Roblox RPG’s various dungeons, you’ll regularly find Serpent Ore in your share of loot. However, it isn’t exactly clear what Serpent Ore does....

I have determined which Lethal Company monster is the hardest worker and should be hired Petition The Company to elect this fellow as employee of the month Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Zeekerss. Most of my time in Lethal Company is full of tomfoolery, panicking, and ultimately letting the quota down. As I run back and forth from the ship, only able to carry four things at a time in my puny arms, I frequently see the various monster inhabitants of the game excelling at pretty much everything....

I knew I’d enjoy Rubato’s demo from the moment the Earth blew up and I fell in the toilet Sonic the Hedgefrog was a better pun, actually Image credit:dconn Rubato is “an experimental, 2D physics-based take on the collect-a-thon genre”, according to developer dconn, which doesn’t really do justice to the below trailer full of screaming skulls and Mode 7 first-person driving bits and fleeting Minecraft references and PS1-era dancefloors. I guess I’m too used to the watering down of “experimental” as a descriptor....

I’ve changed my mind - Mekkablood: Quarry Assault is the only good videogame New Game Of The Year just dropped Image credit:KRUMB Games Covering announcement shows mean saving oneself for huge reveals, and since I might be the only person in the world right now this excited for FPS Mekkablood: Quarry Assault , I wondered if it might be better to hold off until a less pressing time. And then I thought, no: the people need to know....

Improving Civilization 7’s UI is the “top priority”, say Firaxis Hold on there mates, you haven’t heard what RPS thinks yet Image credit:Firaxis The RPS review of Firaxis’ grand strategy Civilisation 7 is currently in progress . We didn’t get early code, and our usual method of sidestepping this issue by rapidly entering the numbers and letters spelled out by our extensive collection of longhorn beetles bore no fruit. Rest assured: it’s coming....

In assembly line horror The Cabin Factory, you search freshly-built holiday homes for ghosts Genius loci Image credit:Future Friends Games The Cabin Factory is described as a horror game but it’s sort of about deciding whether you are, in fact, playing a horror game. There is indeed a factory and it does indeed produce cabins - jolly, Center Parcs-style affairs made of big, merry logs, which roll up fully constructed on a conveyor belt....

In handsome metroidvania Alruna And The Necro-Industrialists you are a dryad fighting the corpse of capitalism I have measured out my life with T.S. Eliot quotes Image credit:Burning Planet Digital Alruna And The Necro-Industrialists opens with paired quotes from T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland and Mad Max : Fury Road - a blend of influences that would typically get you kicked out of the Creative Writing Club for being simultaneously too fancy and too obvious, but the game beyond the epigraph looks pretty swish....

Katamari creator’s new game about a teenager stuck in a T-pose gets a release date T-lightful Image credit:Annapurna Interactive Colourful story-driven adventure To a T is a new game from the studio of Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi. You play as an eternally T-posing teenager who must learn how to get by performing the simple tasks of life despite the challenge of having their arms permanently outstretched. We first learned about the game back in 2023, when it was announced with a very sing-alongable trailer ....

Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer review The detective is truly born Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Clifftop Games One of the few indie adventures to feel like a proper Gabriel Knight successor, though you do need to finish Kathy Rain 1 to really appreciate it. Developer: Clifftop Games Publisher: Raw Fury Release: May 20 2025 On: Windows From: Steam Price: £16.75/$19.99 Reviewed on: Intel Core-i9-10850K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, Windows 11 Put me in the camp of point and click aficionados who fiercely believe that 1993’s Gabriel Knight: Sins Of The Fathers is one of the best adventure games to ever touch a PC....

Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess was the best game I played at Summer Game Fest Action-strategy with incredible spirit Image credit:Capcom Every so often in the ignoble craft of james gournalism you stumble on a game that reminds you why you got into this weird and silly trade, a game that slices through the phantasmagorical mulch of a million Summer Game Fest announcements and clears the portals of the brain. It seems mad to think of Kanitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess this way, given that on some level, it is a tower defence game....

Lamenter’s Gaol walkthrough - Elden Ring Shadow Of The Erdtree Here’s how to clear Lamenter’s Gaol in Shadow Of the Erdtree Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for a full rundown of Lamenter’s Gaol in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? Like the other gaol mini-dungeons in Elden Ring ’s DLC Shadow Of The Erdtree , Lamenter’s Gaol is full of chains, disturbing shadows, jars, and lots of creepy innards emerging from those jars....

Lego Fortnite is getting Expeditions, a Left 4 Dead-ish hero shooter mode that just looks a bit boring Smile and wave boys Image credit:Lego/ Epic Games I find Fortnite’s desperation to be the everything game both fascinating and overwhelming. There’s always something new for you to do around the corner, some new game mode that’s attempting to tap into current trends of whatever it is that kids are into at any given moment....

Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth’s Dondoko Island is Animal Crossing with baseball bats Smash trash to attract tourists Image credit:Sega We got our first look at Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth ’s Dondoko Island at last year’s Xbox Partner showcase . Right as it dropped, I was in New York giving the Animal Crossing -esque minigame a go myself, albeit for a quickfire half hour of bashing rubbish bags with a baseball bat and plonking a urinal on the dirt to satisfy a tutorial....

Mafia: The Old Country will get a proper open world mode via game update “in the coming months” New Free Ride mode to tune up currently barren exploration Image credit:Hangar 13 / Rock Paper Shotgun Mafia: The Old Country may be an offer you can probably refuse, but it does have a lush-looking open world - “clearly designed with care and a sharp eye for capturing the beauty of a fairytale landscape that alternates between serene and rugged,” as Mark “Ice Pick” Warren wrote in our review ....

Mellow mountain biker Lonely Mountains: Downhill is getting a wintry sequel about skiing Lonely Mountains Downchill Image credit:Megagon Industries The mountain biking of Lonely Mountains: Downhill was sometimes a relaxing ride down gentle slopes, and at other times a hairy hurtle down declivitous cliffs. Alongside the likes of the Descenders and Riders Republic , it offered a more laid-back game, open to furious time trialling but always remembering to let you stop and appreciate the view....