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The bright and beautiful RPS Advent Calendar 2023I’m dreaming of a game Christmas
I’m dreaming of a game Christmas
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun
Let’s get ready ready, let’s get ready ready, let’s get ready to Christmas! Is it just me, or did 2023 seem like it had more games than ever before? But look, don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened - and make the smile extra big, because, as we do basically every year, the RPS staff have worked hard (read: voted and bickered) to bring you our games of the year in beautiful, numerical form. Digitally open a new door each day and enjoy the magnificentThe RPS Advent Calendar 2023!
Merry Christmas, it’s time to play SkealAnother important seasonal tradition is playing SkealWatch on YouTube
Merry Christmas, it’s time to play Skeal
Our advent image this year is courtesy of Lucy Grimwood, who has done a fantastic job. I really love the tiny cookie and glass of milk, and the use of purple. You’ll also be able to enjoy Lucy’s work on the header for the Christmas Cracker jokes we post while we’re away for the break, which is good because you will not enjoy the jokes themselves.
The rules for our calendar voting are thus:Any game released this year eligible for inclusion, which also includes games that released into early access, or games that released into 1.0 after an early access period, or remasters or remakes that we consider especially noteworthy. We sometimes allow games from December last year to sneak in, if they came out after voting was finalised, and games that we can make a case for 2023 beingtheiryear, even if they didn’t come out in 2023. For example, a live service game whose numbers surged suddenly, and old indie game that broke big out of nowhere, or big transformative DLCs would all count.
The RPS calendar appeared in2007, and basically every year since:2008,2009,2010,2011,2012and2013. In 2014 we didthe RPS Bestest Bestswhich were the exact same only it wasn’t based around a calendar. We went back to the calendar format for2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2020,2021, and2022. That makes this the seventeenth RPS advent calendar, if you count the freak years (2008 and 2014).
