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HomeNewsPacific Drive Closing the car boot on your head will now kill you in Pacific DriveOh, and a bunch of other difficulty options Oh, and a bunch of other difficulty options Image credit:Ironwood Studios Image credit:Ironwood Studios To survive in looter-booterPacific Driveyou have to keep the paranormal station wagon you drive around in good nick. You’re constantly repairing corroded doors and swapping out busted engine parts with cobbled-together technology. But maybe this tinkering was a little too much....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Mon, September 16thNeed some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #462. Need some Connections hints? Read our guide for help with Connections #462. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 16th September?...

HomeNewsAlruna And The Necro-Industrialists In handsome metroidvania Alruna And The Necro-Industrialists you are a dryad fighting the corpse of capitalismI have measured out my life with T.S. Eliot quotes I have measured out my life with T.S. Eliot quotes Image credit:Burning Planet Digital Image credit:Burning Planet Digital Alruna And The Necro-Industrialistsopens with paired quotes from T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland andMad 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....

HomeNews Mars First Logistics has turned into a Martian railway builder, with some very pretty, 100% authentic cloudsWell, sir, there’s nothing on Mars like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car monorail Well, sir, there’s nothing on Mars like a genuine bona-fide electrified six-car monorail Image credit:Outersloth Image credit:Outersloth Efforts to render Mars commuter-friendly proceed apace asMars First Logisticsembraces the magic of trains. The latest update for the physics-based open world build-a-car game introduces a mountable theodolite, which lets you stitch together monorail networks you can then ride about on....

HomeFeaturesMenace Menace’s turn-based battles are the galaxy’s deadliest teambuilding exercisesThe Battle Brothers devs’ next strategy game wants you to keep its soldiers sweet The Battle Brothers devs’ next strategy game wants you to keep its soldiers sweet Image credit:Hooded Horse Image credit:Hooded Horse If you’ve playedBattle Brothers, you’ll know that Overhype Studios have a way of making youcare for an underling, no more so than when you inadvertently send them onto the wrong end of a sharp blade....

HomeNewsHyperbeat Neon knight flier Hyperbeat looks like a stylish mash-up of Rez and Osu!Rhythm game fans may want to bookmark this one Rhythm game fans may want to bookmark this one Image credit:Alice Bottino/Chancellor Wallin Image credit:Alice Bottino/Chancellor Wallin If you’re a fan of rhythm games and fun bops, then you might want to bookmark ol’Hyperbeat. Set in a wireframe world, you’re to chop, dodge or ride notes as you slam your “hyperknight” through a tunnel at high speed....

HomeNewsShadows of the Damned: Hella Remastered Resident Evil and No More Heroes creators join long list of devs who think Metacritic is bad for game devThe Killer7 creator thinks there’s too much focus on the review aggregator The Killer7 creator thinks there’s too much focus on the review aggregator Image credit:Grasshopper Manufacture Image credit:Grasshopper Manufacture Goichi ‘Suda51’ Suda - ofNo More HeroesandKiller7fame - reckons a focus on Metacritic scores is bad for creativity....

HomeReviewsSatisfactory Satisfactory 1.0 review: yes, it isFrack the planet Frack the planet Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Coffee Stain Publishing Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Coffee Stain Publishing I am lost in my own factory. From every direction, every angle, conveyor belts and smelters and assemblers obscure my senses and envelop my being. Twenty hours ago I placed my first manufacturer somewhere around here. Back then it represented the state of the art, hatching me a pristine batch of 1....

HomeNewsSulfur This action roguelite’s demo has more stuff in it than some full games, plus some very good goblinsSULFUR is “a modern old-school action-adventure” SULFUR is “a modern old-school action-adventure” Image credit:Perfect Random Image credit:Perfect Random For all the nightmarish enshittification modern life throws at us, we can at least feel warm and fulfilled about the resurgence of demos. Bountifully they await on Steam, like a friendly worker offering you toothpick-skewered cheese chunks at your local supermarket....

HomeReviewsTiny Glade Tiny Glade review: lovely tools and procedural flourishes make building castles a treatLess is moor Less is moor Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pounce Light Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Pounce Light Tiny Gladehas been a constant presence on TikTok for the last year or so. It’s never far away. In between burrito recipes and hymns to the Fujifilm X100v, this gorgeous toylike art tool’s gamely turning stretches of balmy meadow into semi-ruined castles, semi-ruined villages and semi-ruined citadels....

HomeNewsTrust Trust is a vampire FPS with immersive sim elements from the Forgive Me Father devsDeus Ex Dracula Deus Ex Dracula Trust: Official Announcement TeaserWatch on YouTube Trust: Official Announcement Teaser You play a recently awoken elder vampire, who is trying to survive in a quarantined Central European city. “On your path to regaining power, you can choose to openly engage in combat with humans using their technology and weapons, or remain true to vampire abilities, allowing you to achieve goals unnoticed,” the press release explains....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1185): How to solve the Monday September 16 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for September 16? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for September 16? 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!...

HomeGuidesNYT Connections Connections hints and answers for Sun, September 15thNeed some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #461. Need some Connections hints today? Read our guide for help with Connections #461. Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint for Wednesday 8th January! Looking for a hint to help with today’s Connections puzzle on 15th September?...