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HomeNewsOutbound Off-grid caravan sim Outbound looks like a cute way to pretend I could live like thatLive in a caravan, coming some time TBA Live in a caravan, coming some time TBA Image credit:Square Glade Games Image credit:Square Glade Games I love the idea of cosy living, which is why it was thatTiny Living updatethat dragged me back intoThe Sims 4for a few years there. The issue of course, is that in real life, if forced to live in a space the size of the interior of a camper van, I would pile things on every surface within about 12 hours....

HomeGuidesPalworld Palworld Ranch Drops: Full list of all Ranch PalsAll the Ranch Drops in Palworld and how to get them All the Ranch Drops in Palworld and how to get them Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Looking for a list of all the possible Palworld Ranch Drops?Palworldallows you to profit from the use and abuse of itslegions of adorable Palsin all sorts of ways. One of the easiest ways to get useful items from Pals is to build a Ranch in your base, and assign certain Pals to the Ranch....

HomeNewsStand-Alone Play as a sheep with a Cloud Strife Buster sword in this fast and fluid action roguelikeStand-Alone’s Next Fest demo is still live and bleating Stand-Alone’s Next Fest demo is still live and bleating Image credit:Lifuel Image credit:Lifuel Steam Next Festmay be over for another few months, but dozens of demos are still alive and kicking, it seems - which is good news for me, who still has a good half dozen on my to do list, and also good news for you, as it means you still have time to check out the really quite good demo forStand-Alone, a fast, 2D hack and slasher where you play as a robot-powered sheep packing a very large sword....

HomeNewsSons of the Forest Sons Of The Forest’s horrible cannibals reach 1.0 next weekTrailer shows some new features Trailer shows some new features Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Limited Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Endnight Games Limited Sons Of The Forest’s 1.0 release date draws nearer. Players who prefer their cannibal islands as polished as possible can begin their visit on February 22nd, and there’s now a release date trailer that shows exactly what kind of human monstrosities you can expect....

HomeNews Star Control 2 becomes Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masters on Steam next weekA free re-release minus the trademark A free re-release minus the trademark Free Stars: The Ur-Quan Masterswill make its way to Steam on February 19th. It’s a version of 1992 strategy classicStar Control2 that takes advantage of updates from its long-runningopen source project, and it’ll be completely free. Why is this release called Free Stars and not “Star Control 2”?...

HomeDeals Take home AMD’s best value high-end graphics card for $490 at Amazon USThe RX 7800 XT gets strong reviews and is capable of stretching to 4K gaming. The RX 7800 XT gets strong reviews and is capable of stretching to 4K gaming. Image credit:Sapphire Image credit:Sapphire Sapphire’s Radeon RX 7800 XT Pulse 16GB card has dropped to a new low price at Amazon US, where it’s available for just $490....

HomeGuidesPalworld The 10 best Palworld modsUpgrade your Palworld experience with these awesome mods Upgrade your Palworld experience with these awesome mods Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pocketpair Looking for the best Palworld mods?WithPalworld’s explosive popularity making it one of the first standout releases of 2024, it was only a matter of time before the game’s mod scene started popping with all sorts of ways to allow players to customise their Palpagos Islands experience....

HomeDeals The ROG Ally PC handheld is down to $599 in the US for the powerful Z1 Extreme 512GB modelThat’s after a $100 Best Buy discount. That’s after a $100 Best Buy discount. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Itseems like just yesterdaythat we were reporting that the Asus ROG Ally had dropped to £539 in the UK, and now we have a similarly good deal for the US market: the same Z1 Extreme 512GB model for just $599 following a $100 discount at Best Buy....

HomeNewsTo The Stars To The Star is a survival game based on Alice In Wonderland in which you can cook your dreamsFrom the Gord devs, features a portable “Briefbase” From the Gord devs, features a portable “Briefbase” Image credit:Covenant.dev Image credit:Covenant.dev If you’d been gazing at the present glut of newsurvival gamesand bellowing for more, as though engaged in a drinking competition with some kind of cartoon Viking, then rest easy....

HomeNewsCryptmaster Typing dungeon crawler Cryptmaster’s demo is a delightWith jokes I actually laughed at With jokes I actually laughed at Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Akupara Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Akupara Games One of the best things in games is the freeform ability to type commands for another character, then having them respond with voiced dialogue recognising your weird directions. That’s one of the joys ofCryptmaster, an upcoming typing-driven dungeon crawler where one of the first things you can do in the demo is get your disembodied necromancer pal to lick a mysterious metal object to help identify it (it’s a helmet)....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#969): How to solve the Tuesday February 13 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for February 13? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for February 13? Read our hint or find the answer below! Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theWordle hint and answer for Wednesday 8th January!...

HomeFeaturesNightingale After a few hours, Nightingale feels like one of the weirder Elder Scrolls RPGsAt its worst, it’s about fighting the UI and stripmining the scenery At its worst, it’s about fighting the UI and stripmining the scenery Image credit:Inflexion Games Image credit:Inflexion Games The major thing Inflexion’s fantasysurvivalsimNightingalegets right is that it makes procedural generation feel like sorcery. “Procgen” has become a ubiquitous concept in game design and especially survival game design, and I fear we’ve all lost sight of how magical it is to summon a landscape full of idiosyncratic flourishes from a hidden dataset....

HomeReviewsBanishers: Ghosts Of New Eden Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden review: an accomplished and emotional action adventureReader, I actually cried Reader, I actually cried Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Focus Entertainment “Banishers took a while to kick in,” I wrote in the RPS group chat last week, “but I fought a monster made of angry witch-hunting jam last night.” It was a pivotal boss fight about half way through Don’t Nod’s ghost hunting action-adventureRPGBanishers: Ghosts Of New Eden, and typical of the over-the-top, slightly ridiculous, but entirely earnest drama of the game that joyfully pulls you along....