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Screenshots of Factorio: Space Age, Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, Balatro, and Mouthwashing.

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Our 24 favourite games of 2024

In non-calendar form

Jan. 13, 2025 Graham Smith

Artwork from Valheim, No Man's Sky and Astroneer form the header for our best survival games list

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The 30 best survival games on PC

Promise me that you will never die

Jan. 2, 2025 Ed Thorn

A dog senator speaks to the player, welcoming them to a friendly village. The RPS Bestest Best badge overlays the image.

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Caves Of Qud review: an obscenely rich roguelike realm you could get lost in for months

A goat approaches

Dec. 19, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A forest battlefield in Mechabellum, with the RPS bestest bests sticker.

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Mechabellum review: impeccably designed and maniacally moreish mech strategy

Mexcellent

Dec. 2, 2024 Nic Reuben

A player aims a gun at another player crossing a bridge above them in Straftat.

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Straftat review: an anarchic First-Person Speed dater you'll fall in love with

One more round

Nov. 4, 2024 Rick Lane

The character is flanked by two enemies in Shogun Showdown, with featured RPS Bestest Best badge in the top left corner.

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Shogun Showdown review: an exceptional roguelike that hits different

Spend your daimyo on this one

Sept. 24, 2024 Liam Richardson

People walk the streets and warm themselves by a fire in Shadows Of Doubt. A "bestest best" sticker badge has been awarded to the game.

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Shadows Of Doubt review: a buggy yet brilliant detective sim of grand ambition

Criminally good

Sept. 24, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

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Satisfactory 1.0 review: yes, it is

Frack the planet

Sept. 16, 2024 Matt Cox

Captain Leeway considers the view from the bridge of his submarine. A sticker with RPS Bestest Best has been awarded to the game.

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SteamWorld Heist 2 review: a tactical trick shot across the bow of lesser strategy games

Heist, heist, baby

Aug. 22, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

Zan looks up to see the coveted RPS Bestest Best sticker in Tactical Breach Wizards.

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Tactical Breach Wizards review: humour, heart, smarts and playfulness conjure up an instant genre classic

When god breaches a door, he also blasts you through a window

Aug. 19, 2024 Nic Reuben

The 10 best games like Dark Souls

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The 10 best games like Dark Souls

In honour of His Souliness

Aug. 1, 2024 Ed Thorn

Luisa blows into an enormous magical horn, producing a Bestest Best badge.

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Dungeons of Hinterberg review: a breezy action RPG that’s as pretty as a postcard

Ditch deadlines for dungeon delving

July 18, 2024 Rachel Watts

Various JRPG heroes gather on a broken bridge, pointing and looking at Ichiban Kasuga of the Yakuza series.

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The 11 best JRPGs on PC in 2024

The party line

July 4, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

The player characters from Dead Cells, Hades 2, and Spelunky 2 line up against a background map from Caves of Qud.

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The 19 best roguelike games on PC

Going rogue

June 20, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

A Siberian townscape in Workers & Resources: Soviet Union complete with Bestest Best badge.

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Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic 1.0 review: reject tradition, embrace a fundamental revolution in city building

That's a common logistical fallacy

June 18, 2024 Sin Vega

A girl's head looms out of the dark just behind Hauntii, with a Bestest Best badge rising above them both.

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Hauntii review: an adventure as beautiful as it looks

I don't normally like letting things haunt me, but this is an exception

May 22, 2024 Ed Thorn

A screenshot from Animal Well that shows a heart-shaped underground level with an RPS Bestest Best badge flanked by capybaras.

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Animal Well review: an unmissable creature feature

Putting the animal in AI

May 9, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

Lightning, Squall and Cloud from the Final Fantasy series

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The best Final Fantasy games on PC

Ranked in the correct order, finally

May 8, 2024 Katharine Castle

A composite of screenshots from D&D Lords Of Waterdeep, Spirit Island, Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel, Blood Bowl 2, Root and Pokemon TCG Live

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The 20 best online board games on PC

Roll out

April 29, 2024 Matt Jarvis

A composite image of screenshots from Stardew Valley, Roots Of Pacha, Coral Island, Fae Farm and Slime Rancher

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The best farming games like Stardew Valley on PC

The cream of the crop

April 19, 2024 Alice Bell

A composite image from puzzle games: LeChuck from Return To Monkey Island, some weighted cubes from Portal, little ghosts from How To Say Goodbye and a banjo-playing alien from Outer Wilds, all in a forest from The Witness

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The best puzzle games on PC

A very puzzling collection

April 10, 2024 Alice Bell

A composite image made from characters from Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West and No Man's Sky, against a background from Skyrim

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The 15 best open world games on PC

Keep your options open

April 9, 2024 Ed Thorn

A collection of strange but lovely flowers on a sunny windowsill in Botany Manor

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Botany Manor review: peaceful and beautiful best-in-show plant puzzles

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild

April 8, 2024 Alice Bell

A composite image of a gunslinger from Weird West, a mysterious hooded woman, and Geralt of Rivia from The Witcher, standing against he backdrop of a spacer settlement in The Outer Worlds

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The best RPGs on PC

From older classics to brand new trail-blazers

March 28, 2024 Alice Bell

Fighting the RPS Bestest Best badge in a Geneforge 2 - Infestation cavern.

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Geneforge 2 - Infestation review: bold and great like Baldur's Gate

Laptop-friendly roleplaying for the post-Larian age

March 27, 2024 Jeremy Peel