The Best of Rock Paper Shotgun
7 most popular Rock Paper Shotgun articles, as voted by our community.
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Rock Paper Shotgun on Gaming
Copyright, cost, and ageing code: why some games disappear from Steam
Thousands of games are delisted from Steam, with more being added all the time. The developers of just a few of them spoke to us about the hows and whys
Where does Dwarf Fortress stand after a decade defined by its own successors?
Now Dwarf Fortress is on Steam, with new graphics, does it still have a place in 2023 among all the colony sims and games it inspired?
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The 30 best Steam Deck games
Read our picks of the best games to play on the Steam Deck right now, including Elden Ring, Hades, Deathloop, Apex Legends and more.
Our favourite games of 2022 so far
We list our favourite games of 2022 so far, in no particular order, covering everything from Elden Ring to V Rising.
The making of Wildermyth: how two ex-Riot devs and a college grad built the most innovative RPG…
The three-person studio Worldwalker Games were inspired by XCOM and League Of Legends but ended up making an astonishing RPG with life-spanning stories to tell.
A Plague Tale: Requiem has dialled up the rat horror, but shows restraint in its approach to…
We go hands on with a chunky preview build of A Plague Tale: Requiem, the upcoming sequel to Asobo's action stealth adventure, A Plague Tale: Innocence.
RPS Time Capsule: the games worth saving from 2007
We list our favourite games from 2007, and why they deserve to be preserved above everything else
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