RPS Feature 2016's best game
Here we are at last. What was the best game of 2016? What was the best hell of 2016? It’s the same game. It’s behind the final door of the RPS Advent Calendar, which lists our favourite games from across the year…
It’s Devil Daggers!
RPS Feature 2016's best shooter
If DOOM was the year’s second best hell then what was its best first-person shooter? Day 23 of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, brings…
RPS Feature VIOLENT BEAT DOWN
SOMETHING BEHIND THE DOOR IS SCREAMING AND PULSING AND THROBBING AND THE BEAT GOES ON EVEN WHEN BONES HAVE VIBRATED TO DUST
Behind door 22 of our Advent Calendar, which celebrates the year’s best games, you’ll find the best music game of 2016. It’s Thumper [official site].
RPS Feature Park life
Where we are, it’s cold outside right now. So cold that we’re all huddled around the fire, unwilling to explore the winter world. Our Advent Calendar celebrates the best games of 2016 and behind the 21st door you’ll find…
It’s the best use of nature in a game…Firewatch [official site]!
RPS Feature Merry Christmas, Commander
We command you to open the next door in our calendar, Commander.
It’s 2016’s best strategy game, XCOM 2. Read the rest of this entry »
The next door on the Advent Calendar might be dangerous…or, to be more precise, what’s behind it might be. We haven’t examined the contents yet and would advise that you do not approach it until it’s been fully scanned. Why not send in a drone to open the door while you hide in the bedroom. That way if anything terrible emerges, you’ll be safe, hiding under the duvet.
It’s the game with 2016’s best interface, Duskers!
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RPS Feature The year's best multiplayer shooter
Ho ho, you’d thought we’d forgotten about you! (We did) But never mind, we’re here now, sweet friend, with the eighteenth door of our advent calendar, teasing it open like a silky gown, showing you its lacy stockings, its hairy chest, its coy grin. What could it be?
It’s 2016’s best multiplayer shooter, Overwatch!
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RPS Feature 2016's best driving game
Day seventeen of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, takes us away from the red tides of murder and into absolute serenity. A driving game without races, a vehicle game more about what’s at the side of the road than what’s ahead of you. A state of mind as much as it is a videogame.
It’s American Truck Simulator!
RPS Feature Fight and flight
The treat behind the next door on our calendar gives you wings and lets you soar. Day sixteen of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, brings…
The year’s best platformer, Owlboy [official site]!
RPS Feature 2016's best sandbox
A good sandbox is defined by the options it gives you to explore, experiment and discover your own solutions to problems. Day fifteen of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, brings the best sandbox of 2016…
It’s Hitman!
RPS Feature United we stand
The next door on the calendar is ominous. The rewards inside are worth the risk but the whole area might well be contaminated. Day thirteen of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, brings…
It’s the year’s best cooperative game, The Division [official site]!
RPS Feature Ripping and tearing into our hearts
SKULLS AND CHAINSAWS AND SHOTGUNS AND HELLFIRE. Day thirteen of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, brings…
It’s the year’s second-best Hell, DOOM [official site]!
RPS Feature The Emily Awards
You could open the next door on our calendar, but it might be more fun to find another way inside. Surely there’s a window round the back that someone left open, or maybe you could get in through the cellar. Day twelve of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, brings…
It’s sneaky-stabby marvel Dishonored 2 [official site]!
RPS Feature A videogame storybook
There were a lot of great stories told in PC games in 2016, but only one great storybook. Day eleven of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, brings…
It’s sea-faring adventure Burly Men At Sea!
RPS Feature way down in the hole
You can’t write for a website about PC games without spending a fair bit of time down in the dungeons, crawling and looting. We do find some wonderful things in the depths of the earth though. Welcome to day ten of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, daily. Behind today’s door is…
The year’s best dungeon crawler: grab your lanterns before continuing, it’s Darkest Dungeon [official site].
RPS Feature One more wonder
At the beginning of every year, the RPS crew begin work on a team-building crafting project, which we recreate wonders of our world: 2016 was the year of the matchstick Blackpool Tower. Welcome to day nine of The RPS Advent Calendar, which highlights our favourite games of the year, daily. Behind today’s door is…
The year’s best 4X game: don’t settle for less, it’s Sid Meier’s Civilization 6 [official site].
RPS Feature 2016's best puzzle game
It’s the end of another puzzling year in which plenty of things have made us scratch our head and frown so hard that we have permanent crease-marks in our foreheads. The RPS Advent Calendar highlights our favourite games of the year, daily, and behind today’s door is…
The year’s best puzzle game: blow me down, it’s The Witness [official site].
RPS Feature no slash
We like to make mischief around these parts, and if we can do so in the confines of a multiplayer world where we get to play as a rogue AI, all the better. The RPS Advent Calendar highlights our favourite games of the year, daily, and behind today’s door is…
The year’s best mmo: reality-confounding hackmud [official site].
By 2020, it’s entirely possible that we’ll have an entire calendar devoted to roguelikes, but this year, what was our favourite in the ever-expanding genre? The RPS Advent Calendar highlights our favourite games of the year, daily, and behind today’s door is…
Pack your bags – it’s The Curious Expedition!
The Oculus Rift and HTC Vive were both released in 2016, but what was the best VR experience of the year? The RPS Advent Calendar highlights our favourite games of the year, daily, and behind today’s door is…
Virtual artistry tool Tilt Brush.
