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Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 15 (Sinner’s Road) Tackle Sinner’s Road piece by horrifying piece with our walkthrough Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry About to step foot into Sinner’s Road for the first time in Hollow Knight: Silksong? Sinner’s Road is a dangerous and foreboding place, almost as much as the Blasted Steps you visited previously (if you’ve been following along with our Silksong walkthrough). Sinner’s Road isn’t a terribly large region, but it’s exceptionally tricky to get a handy Bench you can rest at to make life easier there....

Hollow Knight Silksong walkthrough: Part 29 (High Halls) How to reach the High Halls and obtain the Conductor’s Melody Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Team Cherry How do you reach the High Halls in Hollow Knight: Silksong? If you’ve been following along so far with our comprehensive Hollow Knight: Silksong walkthrough, then you have actually had the ability to reach the High Halls for ages. All you need to reach the High Halls is the Clawline harpoon ability, which you can get way back in the Underworks at the beginning of Act 2....

Honkai Star Rail codes [February 2026] Gain Stellar Jade and more rewards with these HSR codes before they expire! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / HoYoverse Looking for the latest Honkai: Star Rail codes? Redeeming active codes in Honkai Star Rail will grant you oodles of free rewards like Stellar Jade, Credits, and EXP materials this February 2026 . Whether you want to accumulate Stellar Jade for more Warp tickets without spending real money, or you want to level boost your characters as much as possible for version 4....

Horses devs accuse Epic of making “provably incorrect statements about the game’s content”, after store exec’s declaration of love Epic Games have reiterated that they determined the horror game to violate the store’s “Inappropriate Content and Hateful or Abusive Content policies” Image credit:Santa Ragione / Rock Paper Shotgun Late last year, horror game Horses was denied a release on Steam and the Epic Games Store . Both Valve and Epic judged that Santa Ragione’s surreal work violated their rules regarding adult content, while the studio have asserted the the game “uses challenging, unconventional material to encourage discussion” rather than sexually titillate....

How multiplayer horror Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game does away with downtime Kno Klowning around Image credit:IllFonic/Teravision Upon learning of the existence of asymmetrical multiplayer horror Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game , from Friday the 13th and Predator Hunting Grounds ’ Illfonic and Teravision Games, you’d be forgiven for having, well, questions. The first of which, understandably if you don’t happen to carry a burning penchant for cultishly adored but undeniably niche 80’s schlock, is simple: Why?...

How to get Fingercreeper Ashes in Elden Ring DLC Obtain the hand-shaped Fingercreeper Spirit in the DLC Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Bandai Namco Looking for the Fingercreeper Ashes in Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree? This massive, multi-fingered Spirit summon doesn’t deal the best damage, but its ability to follow you around while casting healing spells may certainly come in handy. As one of the more unique Spirit Ashes in the Shadow Of The Erdtree DLC, it’s a good idea to collect the Fingercreeper Spirit when you have the chance....

How to heal yourself in Where Winds Meet How to heal sprains and illness without relying on other players Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NetEase Wondering how to heal yourself in Where Winds Meet? As you travel the huge open world of Where Winds Meet , chances are you may contract certain ailments from enemy attacks, traps, or my personal favourite - falling from a very tall height. When this occurs and you get hit by sprains and other illnesses, your Constitution will be affected, and you’ll suffer a lingering debuff....

How to repair equipment in No Rest For The Wicked Here’s how to repair weapons and armour in No Rest For The Wicked Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Moon Studios. Looking for how to repair equipment in No Rest For The Wicked? No Rest For The Wicked has a challenging durability system that will penalise you every time you die. Your equipment will gradually degrade each time you respawn in the game....

How to save in Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 Learn how to use Saviour Schnapps to save your game in KCD2 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Want to know how to save your progress in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? Just like its predecessor, Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 features a rather unusual save system which is far more limiting than in similar RPGs . Rather than simply tapping a hotkey to quicksave or saving your progress via the Pause Menu, in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 you can only perform a manual save by consuming a particular type of potion, or by sleeping in particular beds around the map....

How to turn on Guaranteed Assassination in Assassin’s Creed Shadows Here’s how to never fail your assassination attempts in AC Shadows Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Want to turn on Guaranteed Assassination in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? There’s nothing more annoying in Assassin’s Creed Shadows than sneaking through a castle without any mistakes, creeping up behind a target, and then having them intercept your assassination attempt and force you into a heated battle....

Hunt Showdown’s 1896 relaunch is live and facing player derision over the new UI, bugs and performance Most recent Steam user reviews are Mostly Negative Image credit:Crytek Crytek’s sweaty and superlative survival boss-rush shooter Hunt: Showdown has been relaunched as Hunt: Showdown 1896, introducing a comprehensive technological update alongside a chronological leap forward to a new map in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado. As is tradition for big 2.0-style updates, some players absolutely loathe it, with recent Steam user reviews dragging the consensus underwater....

I can’t bear to play much of free horror game Toy Box, but I love the concept of pulling talking toys apart Festively grim Image credit:DEADline Studios Toy Box sounds like a very Xmassy game, but then you watch a trailer, and realise that it is not very Xmassy at all. It’s a free visual novel with a macabre puzzling element. The setup is that you’re a toy inspector working for a jovial Grand Toy Maker, his face hidden above the top of the screen....

Islands & Trains is about exactly what it sounds like, and it’s out today Certainly not about highlands and planes Image credit:Akos Makovics What do you think Islands & Trains is about? I’m not going to give you long, because it really is just right there in the name. As you’ve presumably already guessed, it is a quaint-looking sandbox builder where you make tiny diorama-like islands, adorning them with tracks for trains to choo-choo along....

Itch post new list of banned NSFW content that would rule out certain Kojima games and GOTY 2024 Mouthwashing “Non-exhaustive” Image credit:Konami Update : this article has been changed to reflect the fact that while Mouthwashing has been delisted from Itch.io, the platform owners say this is an older change and has nothing to do with the new NSFW policies described below. Last week, Itch.io delisted thousands of games featuring various kinds of “NSFW” material , rendering them invisible to anybody searching or browsing the site....

Itch.io deny mass delisting of paid adult content included “blanket” restrictions “targeting LBGTQIA creators” Platform holders are “working on adding much more transparency to indexing” Image credit:Itch.io Update (9:00AM August 15th): Itch.io have now said that they “regret [their] choice of words” after saying that a Trans News Network report, quoting indie dev krispykat’s claim that both her SFW and NSFW games were deindexed from the storefront, was “full of misinformation....

Jacking in to Stellaris as a fanatical cyberpunk corporate cult in The Machine Age Hack all the planets Image credit:Paradox Interactive From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh , I thought: no bother, like. Everyone has different skills. Then, I realised that some other people might be less enlightened than me about the whole ‘having limits’ things, and that there was a lot of money to be made hawking implants....

Keep your sword aflame and your enemies afloat in shadowy “juggle-based” metroidvania Nocturnal 2 Combo blazer Image credit:Dear Villagers We never covered the original Nocturnal , an “intense 3-hour-long action-platformer” from Sunnyside Games, but the Steam user reception seems very positive for a pay-upfront game that actively describes itself as three hours long, and the just-announced sequel seems excellently awash with fire, darkness and death. It’s a “fast-paced, juggle-based” 2D metroidvania that stands apart for a couple of reasons....

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 update brings full stealth rework, plus barbers, modding tools and oh so many fixes Patch live now on Steam Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Deep Silver Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 hath been Patched, Adorning the Right Goode RPG with the Wondrous Art of Barbering and the Dark Science of Steamworks Modding, together with Sundry Fixes for Quests, Crashing and Performance Problems, Skills and NPC Behavioure. Yes, I’m aware the previous sentence can’t work out which century it’s in....

Kitsune Tails is a wonderfully queer Super Mario 3-inspired platformer that’s out today It’s a follow up to Super Bernie World Image credit:Kitsune Games/MidBoss Hey, remember that 2017 roguelike called Midboss ? Or that 2020 platformer called Super Bernie World , where you attempt to transform the US as a retro-fied Bernie Sanders? Yes or no, Kitsune Games have put out some good stuff in the past, and now they’re back with a Super Bernie World followup: Kitsune Tails ....

Man in charge of Diablo thinks we should start calling games that he thinks are like Diablo ‘Diablo-likes’ How… diabolical Image credit:Blizzard The genre of ‘Action RPG ’ is supremely annoying to write about, because the term can mean different things to different people, but here’s how I see it: Diablo 4 and similar games, such as Path Of Exile , are ‘ARPGs’. Which stands for ‘Action RPG’. But Zelda games are ‘Action RPGs’, which is a totally different genre that you could, if you felt like it, also shorten to ‘ARPG’....