HomeFeaturesPrison Architect 2 Prison Architect 2 is coming up for release, but it’s hard to rehabilitate from years of 2DA hard cell A hard cell Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Paradox Interactive Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Paradox Interactive There are management games and there are micro-management games.Prison Architect 2is the latter. I don’t mean this as an annoying thing, like when Harold from corporate starts commenting all over your document at 4....

HomeReviewsSongs Of Conquest Songs Of Conquest 1.0 review: occasionally demanding but often rewarding fantasy warlorderyFrog factions Frog factions Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Image credit:Coffee Stain Publishing Two years of early access have been kindSongs of Conquest. Itsstrategyfundamentals were already strong enough to impress mein 2022that it’s been quite tricky to even remember what’s changed. But there’s more of it, and although after much reflection I think it’s not quite,quitefor me, more of a good and unusual thing is definitely enough to push me into a very nearly wholehearted endorsement....

HomeNews The Maw - 20th-25th May 2024This week’s heartiest videogames, plus our weekly newsblogLive This week’s heartiest videogames, plus our weekly newsblog Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images Image credit:Internet Archive Book Images This week on RPS: secret plans and clever tricks. Also, a bunch of new videogames, none of them particularly Enormous or Crocodilian. We open on Monday 20th May with the extremely Alice B-friendly combo ofLittle-Known Galaxy, akaStardew Valley meets Star Trek, andA Tower Full Of Cats, a hidden object puzzler featuring a tower full of dogs, I mean cats....

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1066): How to solve the Monday May 20 WordleStuck on the Wordle word for May 20? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on the Wordle word for May 20? 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 Thursday 26th December!...

HomeGuidesWuthering Waves Wuthering Waves tier list: Who is the best character?Here’s our ranking of the best Resonators in Wuthering Waves Here’s our ranking of the best Resonators in Wuthering Waves Image credit:Kuro Games Image credit:Kuro Games Looking for a tier list of the Resonators in Wuthering Waves?As of its release,Wuthering Wavesboasts 17 characters known as Resonators, and this number goes up to 18 if you count the fact that the main player character, the Rover, has both male and female appearances....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Monday, May 20)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #344 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #344 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 and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeFeaturesInscryption What’s on your bookshelf?: Inscryption and Pony Island’s Daniel Mullinsread-only read-only Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Image credit:oldbookillustrations.com Hello reader who is also a reader, and welcome back to Booked For The Week - our regular Sunday chat with a selection of cool industry folks about books! Did you know that the word ‘book’ is actually an ancient Sumerian greeting, short for: ‘can I have that book back I lent you eight months ago you said you’d have finished in like, two?...

HomeGuidesWordle Wordle hints and answer (#1065): How to solve the Sunday May 19 WordleStuck on today’s Wordle word for May 19? Read our hint or find the answer below! Stuck on today’s Wordle word for May 19? 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 Thursday 26th December!...

HomeNewsSeablip Seablip is a pixel art pirate ‘em up out now in Early AccessA pixel’s life for me A pixel’s life for me Image credit:Jardar Solli Image credit:Jardar Solli Seablipis a pixel art pirate ‘em up, which promises an open world to sail around, islands to visit, crews to hire, bounties to hunt, and minigames through which to uncover treasure and fish. It looks adorable and it’s out in Early Access now....

HomeHardwareFeaturesGhost of Tsushima Director’s Cut Ghost of Tsushima runs well on Steam Deck, making its PSN nonsense all the more annoyingNetwork issues Network issues Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun Ghost of Tsushima: Director’s Cutis now out and about on PC, sadly with the requirement of signing into a PlayStation Network (PSN) account in order to play the samuraiaction-adventure’s Legends co-op mode. The same requirement, you might recall, thatHelldivers 2players recentlylobbied Sony into abandoning....

HomeNewsHades 2 Hades 2 will likely be in early access until 2025, with first big update to add new enemies, maps and featuresAccording to creative director for roguelite sequel According to creative director for roguelite sequel Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Supergiant Games As you might’ve heard,Hades 2is out in early access, offering up the much-anticipated sequel to Supergiant’s mythical (and delightfully thirsty) roguelite. Though thesheer amount of polish and Stuffin even its pre-release form might have you thinking that a full 1....

HomeNews Looks like Valve’s next game is Deadlock, a multiplayer shooter-MOBA mix of Overwatch, Dota and Team FortressAs screenshots from closed playtest leak ahead of apparent reveal soon As screenshots from closed playtest leak ahead of apparent reveal soon Image credit:Tim Eulitz Image credit:Tim Eulitz If you’ve been wondering what Valve’s been working on as their next game afterCounter-Strike 2, the answer may be at hand. Details and screenshots forDeadlock, a third-person heroshooterwith MOBA elements, have seemingly leaked out of a recent closed playtest, revealing a blend ofOverwatch,Dota 2and Valve’s ownTeam Fortress 2....

HomeFeaturesLorelei And The Laser Eyes Lorelei And The Laser Eyes doesn’t let its surreal creativity strip its puzzles of logicSimogo on then Simogo on then Image credit:Simogo Image credit:Simogo It’s 1963. Renzo Nero, the aforementioned artist and director, has called you to his Italian hotel to witness a transcendental cosmic event via his ‘magnum opus’. If you’ve ever gotten drunk with fine art students, you’ll know this usually just means ‘my latest ketamine doodle’, but there’s an immediate splash of the otherworldly about the place....