S.p.l.i.t review CLIt fiction Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mike Klubnika Tense and tactile, S.p.l.i.t’s corporeal interface has a dash of Buckshot Roulette’s sardonic humour, but it’s a far more harrowing, filmic experience. Developer: Mike Klubnika Publisher: Mike Klubnika Release: July 24th, 2025 On: Windows / SteamOS + Linux From: Steam Price: TBC Reviewed on: Intel Core i5-12600K, 32GB RAM, Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti, Windows 11 You don’t use the mouse in S....

Should you save or leave the mayor in Dragon Age Veilguard? Here are the consequences for saving or leaving the mayor at D’Meta’s Crossing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts Wondering if you should save or leave the mayor in Dragon Age Veilguard? As you progress through the first few quests in Dragon Age Veilguard , you’ll be faced with a moral quandary. The mayor of D’Meta’s Crossing has allowed the blighted Gods to take root in the town and is now, himself, trapped....

Solve your own murder and recover your brain in Blanksword, a roguelike RPG with a demo out today And there’s a Kickstarter you can support too Image credit:Quinn K. There are few occasions where a game tells me it’s combining two genres that typically don’t go together and it convinces me it’s worth paying attention to, but Blanksword , a roguelike RPG, is quite different. In it, you are Blank, an angel stabbed in the head, brain destroyed, who somehow managed to survive such an ordeal - albeit without any memory of who you were....

Save on storage after gorging yourself on the Summer Sale. Image credit:RPS Photo Composite / Lexar If you’ve well and truly filled your boots in the Steam Summer Sale (and why wouldn’t you?) then there’s a good chance your Steam Deck is in need of some more storage. And, while there’s no point in buying pricier Switch 2-focused Express cards , a microSD card is an easy recommendation whether you’re an LCD or OLED Deck owner, or one of the other excellent handheld PC options ....

SpaceCraft is aiming for the gap between Starfield, Satisfactory and Eve Online There are always more worlds to conquer Image credit:Shiro Games I’ll be blunt: the only thing that really entices me about SpaceCraft is that it’s from Shiro Games, creators of such robust RPG and strategy fare as Dune: Spice Wars , Evoland , Northgard and Wartales . As a concept, at least, SpaceCraft seems both flavourless and oddly inclined to overplay its own familiarity....

Steam’s latest sale is all about city builders with discounts on Oxygen Not Included, Frostpunk and Project Highrise A Tale Of Too Many Cities Image credit:Klei If there’s one thing I know about you sickos it’s that you love a good city builder. No, don’t try to deny it. I have the site traffic data right here and the numbers do not lie (unless they make me look bad to people who outrank me)....

The 19 best roguelike games on PC Going rogue Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Mossmouth / Twin Motion / Supergiant / Kitfox Games Chaos and comedy. Death and rebirth. Luck and, uh, running out of luck. A good roguelike doesn’t treat the player like other games do. Roguelikes won’t guide you helpfully along a path, or let you cinematically snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. They’re more likely to dangle you deep between the jaws of defeat and fumble the rope until you go sliding down defeat’s hungry gullet....

The Elder Scrolls 6 and ESO devs are “equal partners” in the evolution of Elder Scrolls lore But there’s still no “official” collaboration despite 10 years of ESO, says ZeniMax director Image credit:Microsoft The Elder Scrolls Online is the elephant in the room where discussions of The Elder Scrolls 6 are concerned, though calling it an elephant is obviously missing the opportunity for a banger lore joke – “dragon”, perhaps, or even “Numidium”?...

The ever-gorgeous The Eternal Life of Goldman is tapping some Octopath Traveler and Final Fantasy talent for its score You’ll just have to wait for how it’ll sound Image credit:Weappy Studio I won’t lie, sometimes when I hear a string of words like “beautiful hand-drawn Metroidvania with challenging combat etc., etc.,” my eyes do start to glaze over a bit. It can be a bit buzzwordy! But, gosh, that there The Eternal Life of Goldman looks a bit stunning doesn’t it?...

The Fallout TV show gave the Fallout games a huge player bump, as everyone remembers they like Fallout Fallout 4, New Vegas and 76 have more than doubled their players on Steam Image credit:Amazon Posted on Xitter by SteamDB yesterday (HT to our pals at Eurogamer ), it appears Fallout has more than doubled its concurrent players on Steam since the show dumped all its episodes last week. Steam DB’s Xeet compared only Fallout 4 , New Vegas and live service ’em up Fallout 76 , but you can give it a check to see that even the older, pre-thesda Fallouts and Fallout 3 have had a big jump ....

The fifth RPS Christmas Cracker 2025 An actual Christmas one Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun We eight scribes from RPS are, Bearing jokes, we wrote in the past, Christmas crackers, god we’re knackered, After twelve months of graft. But first, time to enjoy your lovely joke! Q: Where does Santa feel most sore after his evening delivering presents? A: Ball x Pit Rock Paper Shotgun is better when you sign in...

The Forever Winter devs answer complaints about water scarcity… by adding thieves who invade your HQ and steal your water Water way to respond Image credit:Fun Dog Studios When nightmarish sci-fi extraction shooter The Forever Winter launched into early access in September it was somewhat messy . Bugs and maddening enemy spawns diminished the tension of being a fleshy human scavenger in a mech battlefield. But one feature annoyed some players much more - fresh water....

The King Is Watching’s free demo turns city building into a brilliant balancing act of feudal surveillance If you’ve got time to lean goblins, you’ve got time to clean goblins Image credit:Hypnohead A watched pot never boils, so they say - ‘they’ presumably all being dead now after having their minds physically melted after hearing the first kettle click in readiness while stubbornly staring in the opposite direction. Yes, yes, it’s a metaphor, but we don’t have time for all that....

The Maw - 8th-13th January 2024 Our weekly news liveblog Image credit:Raul654/Wikimedia/William Blake Welcome to another instalment of the Maw, our weekly live round-up of all things New and videogame-flavoured, as we continue our eternal efforts to appease the festering dark god of gossip and reportage. I asked the Maw if it had any 2024 resolutions last Friday, and it responded with the brain-splitting clamour of a million fell voices crying out in anguish....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? All the PC game news from 24th June-1st July 2024 Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Happy Monday all! Yes, I wrote that with total sincerity. We all deserve a happy Monday - perhaps video games can help with that. As you’d expect, Elden Ring ’s recently released Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC remains this week’s Big Kahuna, with no obvious mega releases in the offing to break its chokehold on the discourse, but I have dipped my latex-gloved hand into the gestation pools and fished out a few promising oddities....

The Maw: what’s new in PC games this week? Slitterhead, Planet Coaster 2, Brighter Shores and more more more Image credit:Hendrik Hondius I / Rock Paper Shotgun SCENE. A Video Game Website At Sunrise. Enter A Reader Of News A Reader Of News I wonder whither there be’est any new PC games on sale this week, perchance? Enter A News Editor, With Alarums And Excursions A News Editor On Monday 4th November, terraform hexagons to save princesses in Zero Orders Tactics ....

The next game from the Lies Of P studio sounds like it might just fill a Dead Space shaped hole in my heart No strings, only scares Image credit:Neowiz Seeing great games sell too poorly for the pursestring goblins to shell out for a sequel is always a heartache, but it really stung to learn that the incredible Dead Space remake didn’t catch on enough for EA to greenlight a remake of Dead Space 2 (even if EA were a little spotty on the details)....

The NYT Crossword answers for Wednesday, August 27th 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 Wednesday, 27th August? It’s a brand-new day, and a brand-new NYT Crossword to get your brain ticking this morning....

The NYT Mini Crossword answers for Wednesday, August 27th 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 Wednesday, 27th August? Welcome to Rock Paper Shotgun’s NYT Mini Crossword guide for hump-day this week....

The Rally Point: Command & Conquer Generals would be the best game in the series if it didn’t have boring racist stereotypes EA putting C&C on Steam has made it easily playable again, but should you bother? Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Electronic Arts You wouldn’t believe how long I’ve been bumping Command & Conquer Generals down the list because “but it’s abandonware and a pain in the hole to run” makes for a more frustrating read than “and it’s available here”....