Oxenfree

Few games nail the ebb and flow of conversations like Oxenfree, the supernatural drama about a group of teenagers on a deserted island. The cast speak over one another, cut their friends off mid-sentence and leave realistic gaps of silence that stretch on awkwardly until somebody says “so...”, and moves on.

Tagged with feature, Night School Studio, The Joy Of, Oxenfree.

Hello chum! Sit down and have a nice glass of water and a pack of Bombay mix. That's how we greet our closest friends on the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show. This week, best pals John and Brendan discuss how friendship is handled in videogames, and what characters felt most like close buddies. John felt a kinship with Alistair from Dragon Age: Origins, and…

Tagged with else Heart Break, feature, Podcast, The RPS Electronic Wireless show, Chuchel, Dark Souls, Dragon Age: Origins, Ion Maiden, Night in the Woods, Oxenfree, Pyre, Stardew Valley, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

There are more wonderful games being released on PC each month than ever before. In such a time of plenty, it's important that you spend your time as wisely as possible. Thankfully, we're here to help. What follows are our picks for the best PC games ever made.

Tagged with Battle of Britain 2: Wings of Victory, Bernband, best games, Combat Mission: Barbarossa To Berlin, crimson skies, Day of the Tentacle, Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis, else Heart Break, Falcon 4.0, feature, Google Doodles, Inkle, Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition, NEO Scavenger, Panzer Elite, Papers Please, Red Baron, Secret Habitat, Sid Meier's Civilization IV, Sid Meier's Gettysburg, Silent Hunter 3, Stick Shift, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, The Blackwell Legacy, Thief: The Dark Project, 80 Days, American Truck Simulator, BioShock, Burnout Paradise, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Cradle, Crusader Kings II, Crypt of the NecroDancer, Dark Souls, Dark Souls: Prepare To Die Edition, Day Of The Tentacle Remastered, Deadly Premonition, Deus Ex, Devil Daggers, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Doom, Dota 2, Dragon Age: Origins, Dungeon Keeper, Dwarf Fortress, EVE Online, Fallout: New Vegas, Final Fantasy VII, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Half-Life, Halo, Hexcells, Hitman, Invisible Inc, League of Legends, Legend of Grimrock, Minecraft, Nidhogg, No Man's Sky, OMSI, Oxenfree, Planescape: Torment, Portal 2, Proteus, Quake, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, Spelunky, Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, The Last Express, The Longest Journey, The Sims 2, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Thief II: The Metal Age, Thirty Flights of Loving, Ultima VII, What Remains of Edith Finch, World of Warcraft, X-COM: UFO Defense.

One of my favourite things about end of year lists on RPS is they never match the personal list of any individual writer. They're a compromise between us all, an erratic, uncoordinated vote where consensus sees games of real worth rising to the top and filling our annual advent calendar. It makes for a list that's far more broad and useful to the largest number…

Tagged with best of 2016, feature, Enter the Gungeon, Epistory - Typing Chronicles, Firewatch, OneShot, Oxenfree, Pony Island, Sorcery!.

We usually do our enormous GAMES OF THE YEAR posting fest at the end of the year (as would seem logical) but because it seems silly to reserve praise for special occasions we're doing a Games Of The Half Year collection to tell you about everything we've loved playing so far. It can double as a summer holiday recommendations list too! We've listed ours in…

Tagged with Best PC games 2016, feature, The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine, American Truck Simulator, Apollo 11, best pc games, Californium, Cookie Clicker, Dark Souls III, Darkest Dungeon, Day Of The Tentacle Remastered, Devil Daggers, Digital Bird Playground, Doom, Duskers, Dying Light: The Following, Enter the Gungeon, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, Fantastic Contraption, Firewatch, Grim Dawn, Hitman, It's Spring Again, Kathy Rain, North, Offworld Trading Company, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Overland, Overwatch, Oxenfree, Pony Island, Samorost 3, Sorcery! Part 3, Stardew Valley, Stellaris, Stephen's Sausage Roll, Stikbold, Subnautica, SUPERHOT, Tetrageddon Games, The Flame in the Flood, The Lab, The Witness, Tilt Brush, Total War: Warhammer, Virtual Desktop, XCOM 2.

I came to play Oxenfree [official site] just after finishing a podcast series called The Message. The Message is essentially an eight-part radio play. Its central mystery involves a strange broadcast, possibly from outer space which seems to carry with it a curse. If you haven't listened to it I'd recommend it. The reason I'm bringing it up ahead of telling you anything about the…

Tagged with feature, indie, Night School Studio, review, wot i think, Oxenfree.