Wot I Think: Yakuza 0
Many games are defined by the amassing of wealth but few take such an unseemly, predatory relish in the idea as Yakuza 0. The first of Sega’s Japanese crime epics to appear on PC, it’s an orgy of late...
View ArticleHow Six Ages and King of Dragon Pass explore the politics of myth
It wasn’t till some way into development of Six Ages: Ride Like The Wind that designer David Dunham realised he was making a game about climate change. Like its 19-year-old predecessor, the seminal...
View ArticleTotal War: Three Kingdoms' battle tactics are old hat, but its espionage has...
“Spearmen before archers,” I mutter to myself, as the Gamescom build for Creative Assembly’s Total War: Three Kingdoms spins up. “Spearmen before archers.” In 20 years of playing Total War games set...
View ArticleThe Suicide of Rachel Foster asks “What if Firewatch, but also The Shining?”
Midway through totemic 80s skin-crawler The Shining there’s a scene where Jack Nicholson’s disheveled caretaker, scouring the Overlook Hotel for the antidote to writer’s block, stumbles on a scale...
View ArticleOutlast 2's moon and the end of time
RPS is having an Apocalypse Day! We’re celebrating the end of the world and games about it. Check back tomorrow, if we’re still all here. What’s your favourite moon in a game? The lipless satellite of...
View ArticleSubnautica is the open world all open worlds should learn from
There’s a dire force abroad in the open world of Subnautica, an irresistible entity hell-bent on warping or destroying everything that world contains, and just for once, it isn’t the fucking player....
View ArticleEdwin Evans-Thirlwell's 5 best games of 2018
We asked a bunch of our regular writers to tell us what their five favourite games this year were. Today it’s the turn of Edwin Evans-Thirlwell, he of the good words and thinky pieces If my 2018 was...
View ArticleThree hours in Total War: Three Kingdoms, the first Total War soap opera
Once about people in the aggregate, Total War is increasingly a series about the antics of individuals. There’s something of the slippage from RTS to MOBA in how Creative Assembly has edged towards a...
View ArticleThese are the Total War team's favourite ever Total War factions
According to an ancient Sussex proverb, there are as many factions in the 20-year-old Total War series as there are sand grains on a beach, as there are angels dancing upon the head of a pin, as there...
View ArticleAge of Wonders: Planetfall is about building empires in the ruins of an empire
Did you ever read about the Ship of Theseus? I’m sure you have – the RPS community is, after all, a bastion of scholarly insight, where people can write about things like digital museums and heraldic...
View ArticlePlanet Zoo is a promising zoo game and an exhilarating philosophical nightmare
They say you should never ask how the sausage is made, but in the case of Frontier’s Planet Zoo, knowing how the game’s creatures were created makes all the difference. Specifically, it’s the...
View ArticleWot I Think: Kine
Developer: Chump Squad Publisher: Chump Squad Release: October 17 On: Windows, Google Stadia From: Epic Store Price: £16/$20/€20 Kine! What a wonderfully opaque, wide-ranging word. It apparently means...
View ArticleThe unsung horror potential of Homeworld
It’s Halloween! We’ve put the Hivemind Of Horror into a spooky jar of bubbling green liquid, and it’ll be pumping horror-themed articles onto the site today. Over a century has passed since the Kushan...
View ArticleHow a would-be priest explores the horror of God in videogames
Spencer Yan was at the beach, chatting with a friend and pondering the horizon, when he felt the proximity of something like a god. “I was struck by this profound sense of coldness and acute...
View ArticleThe Wonderful 101: Remastered review
The Wonderful 101: Remastered review Not one of Platinum’s best, but The Wonderful 101 wins you round via its writing, music and sense of joy. Developer: PlatinumGames Publisher: PlatinumGames...
View ArticlePersona 4 Golden review
Persona 4 Golden PC review A JRPG classic newly brought to PC, with all its peculiar magic intact in spite, and sometimes because of, the bareness of its port. Developer: Atlus Publisher: Sega...
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