Rock, Paper, Shotgun's Reviews
Layered challenges, unhinged abilities, and generous tools to support wild experimentation combine with brilliant, laugh-out-loud funny writing. A tactics game that's as welcoming to newcomers as it is rewarding for genre aficionados. What an absolute treat.
A beautiful action RPG that genuinely delivers a grand odyssey with style, a staff, and a very cool monkey.
The Crimson Diamond is a murder mystery puzzle adventure that's a love letter to text parser games past, but in a modern and engaging way. It's great fun - despite niggles with some of the puzzle solutions.
A clever and triumphantly unfun immersive sim that challenges you to find the humanity in a timeless parody of 90s reality TV.
This exceptionally creative twist on the fundamentals of Blackjack makes for a moreish roguelike that can often make viable deckbuilding feel too much at the mercy of fate.
A gelatinous puzzler that blurts out a steady stream of fresh goo to prevent joy from drying up.
Thank Goodness You're Here! is a funny, cheeky, innuendo-stuffed 2-3 hour adventure game about sausages, pies and slapped bottoms.
This is Scout Report, an irregular series of indie game recommendations from Sin Vega, offered first to RPS supporters.
Sweet and spooky, this free narrative exploration game is filled with dark thrills and the glow of community.
One of the classic draws to games as a medium is having a go at fictional jobs like wizard, space salvager, or landlord. This week I've been playing Times & Galaxy, a kinda silly but absorbing visual novel game about a sci fi concept called "journalism". It's good!
An action RPG, tower defence hybrid of admirable intent and occasional flashes of brilliance, but is otherwise a very average time.
A collection of three uneven Itch.io adventure games that's worth a look if you like Space Quest.
Arranger is funny, surprising, and builds a simple movement puzzle concept into complex, layered head-scratchers. It's a very charismatic puzzle game that won't outstay its welcome.
Cosy fantasy meets monster hack 'n slashing in Dungeons of Hinterberg, an action RPG that will spirit you away to the majestic Austrian alps.
Conscript's grimy, disturbing setting and gruelling combat are effective and poignant, and a sturdy and well-crafted survival horror skeleton keeps things compelling.
A smart, sporadically generic but on-the-whole exhilarating mixture of ideas from God Of War and Soulslikes.
Flock flexes your curiosity to chase down strange and wonderful little animals. It can be a little repetitive, but it's full of freedom and playfulness and is a treat after a long day being a grown up.
A carefree shadow-hopping puzzler whose colour and charm, combined with frogs, makes for a ribbiting time.
Neither Once Human's third-person combat or survival crafting are especially novel or exciting, made less so by reams of live service baggage and seemingly endless resources and collectables. But an idiosyncratic soul and great creature design keeps it from being uninteresting.
Two-thirds exhilarating and ingenious, one third asinine and frustrating, Anger Foot feels played out by the time you've finished the first few stages. Through great level design, constant novelty, and mostly solid fundamentals, it remains intoxicating for another sixty of them.