The Best of Rock Paper Shotgun
7 most popular Rock Paper Shotgun articles, as voted by our community.
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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
Grow a whole world from your spit, tears, and piss in this weird idle clicker game
Locked in a biodome, The Barnacle Goose Experiment tasks you with creating a whole new world by generating and combining objects from almost nothing.
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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
Deliver Us Mars is a bigger, prettier, more physical space sequel
We've played Deliver Us Mars, the dusty red follow-up to Deliver Us the Moon - with added family drama and platforming.
Men Of War 2's tactics are impressively complex, but still accessible to a war newbie
Men Of War II's trademark historical accuracy and complicated attention to detail don't stop a war newbie from getting excited.
Elden Ring has taught me to be a little less frugal
Elden Ring has taught me not to hoard stones and plants like a magpie.
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