Subnautica

 What’s that on the horizon? It’s glowing, and it’s emanating a faint noise. Like three people talking about videogames on some sort of audio record. Hoist the sails, listeners, we’re going over there on a voyage of discovery. And if this turns out to be another damn Electronic Wireless Show about sport you are entirely at liberty to mutiny. Heave!

Tagged with feature, Podcast, The RPS Electronic Wireless show, Draugen, Everybody's Gone To The Rapture, Journey, Outer Wilds, Sea of Thieves, Subnautica.

I worry about Geralt. The Witcher series may be over for now, but this hasn't stopped Geralt from taking odd jobs here and there, slaying beasts in Monster Hunter: World, or stabbing folks in Soul Calibur VI. Is Geralt getting adequate retirement benefits? Have witchers unionized yet? I hope he can get some rest, or at least find more contract work that doesn't involve exterminating…

Tagged with CD Projekt Red, feature, Dream Daddy, Hitman 2, Jurassic World Evolution, Limbo, Stardew Valley, Subnautica, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

It worked! Everyone, it worked! The sacrifices we all made, they were all worth it. Some said we were fools to ritually slaughter those Fortnite players and smear our naked bodies with their blood and entrails, but look! No GTA V in the Steam Charts! And no Monster Hunter World! Sure, there's still flipping Clancy Siege, and obviously nothing short of sacrificing a god could…

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, Metro Exodus, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Resident Evil 2, Subnautica, Subnautica: Below Zero, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Wargroove.

Subnautica is one of the great early access success stories. Not just because of its financial achievements - still dwarfed by some of the bigger names - but because of how it used the process to build and refine an exquisitely good game. Co-created with its players, but confident enough to maintain its creative direction, the result is one of the best games of the…

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The doors have been opened, the games inside have been devoured, and now it's time to recycle the cardboard. Below you'll find all of our picks for the best PC games of 2018, gathered together in a single post for easy reading.

Tagged with best games, Best Games of 2018, feature, The RPS Advent Calendar 2018, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, BattleTech, Celeste, Chuchel, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Far: Lone Sails, Forza Horizon 4, Hitman 2, Into the Breach, Jazztronauts, Monster Hunter: World, Paratopic, Q.U.B.E. 2, Return of the Obra Dinn, Slay the Spire, SpyParty, Subnautica, The Hex, The Red Strings Club, Unavowed, Warhammer: Vermintide 2, Yakuza 0, Yoku's Island Express, Zones.

If my 2018 was the year “of” anything, it was surely the year of knowing your place. The games I've picked out in hindsight are united by the idea of understanding how you fit into a complex world - appreciating the intricacy of the variables and relationships that surround every given moment, whether your overall aim be to subdue them or just survive them. That…

Tagged with Best Games of 2018, Crytek, feature, SeithCG, Unknown Worlds Entertainment, Weather Factory, Cultist Simulator, Ghost of a Tale, Hunt: Showdown, Objects in Space, Subnautica.

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. (Beware: moderate plot spoilers follow.)

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 Whoa whoa, calm down, breeeathe. Now, explain it to me slowly. The RPS podcast did what? They talked about the games that make them panic? Hm. That does sound like something those scoundrels of the Electronic Wireless Show would do. They’d probably talk about Subnautica and Duskers and SpyParty. Okay, well stay calm. That’s right. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. There’s no need to –…

Tagged with feature, Podcast, The RPS Electronic Wireless show, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, DayZ, Duskers, Killing Floor, Murderous Pursuits, Subnautica.

We’ve been battered by wave after wave of survival romps since Minecraft popularised the genre, with its deadly nights and groaning zombies, almost a decade ago. In its wake, we've been introduced to a cavalcade of punishing, persistent environments intent on putting us in an early grave. The masochistic impulse to put ourselves through the wringer for entertainment has spread to RPGs, management games, cosmic…

Tagged with best games, feature, Ark: Survival Evolved, Astroneer, Darkwood, DayZ, Don't Starve, Don't Starve Together, Frostpunk, Neo Scavenger, Project Zomboid, RimWorld, Rust, Starbound, State of Decay, Subnautica, Sunless Sea, Terraria, The Forest, The Long Dark, This War of Mine.

We're just about halfway through 2018 (which has somehow taken both too long and no time at all). As is tradition, we've shaken our our brains around to see which games from the last six months still make our neurons fizzle with delight. Then we wrote about them here, in this big list feature that you're reading right now this second. And what games they…

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"Miss, Miss, it's so sunny, can we have Steam Charts on the field?" "NO. Sit down and write about popular PC games in this oppressively hot room until the DAY YOU DIE."

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, House Flipper, Jurassic World Evolution, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Raft, Subnautica, The Forest, Tom Clancy's The Division, Vampyr, Warhammer 40000: Inquisitor - Martyr.

The dadification of games continues. So we’re going full Dad this week on the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, as we’ve been asked to talk about the games we play with our children. Alec’s daughter is excited by the unlockable characters in Rayman Legends (and she’s also strangely fascinated by Battletech). John’s son is a bit younger and likes to watch his dad diving…

Tagged with feature, Podcast, The RPS Electronic Wireless show, Trackmania, Abzu, BattleTech, Fe, Hidden Folks, LEGO, Proteus, Rayman Legends, Rime, SteamWorld Dig 2, Subnautica.

As the charting games on Steam once more congeal into a single amorphous lump, quickly dive in to catch the last appearance of Subnautica, and probably Slay The Spire too. Next week it'll just be GTA: Counter-Strike - Witcher Battlegrounds.

Tagged with feature, Steam Charts, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dynasty Warriors 9, Grand Theft Auto V, Human: Fall Flat, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Rise And Fall, Slay the Spire, Subnautica.

Some websites will fob you off with scant details about your favourite best-selling games, but not RPS. Here you will find gaming's most insightful commentary on the leading games of the modern age.

Tagged with Dying Light: Enhanced Edition, feature, Steam Charts, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, Sid Meier's Civilization VI: Rise And Fall, Slay the Spire, Subnautica.