HomeGuidesManor Lords Manor Lords buildings: Every building in Manor Lords explainedExplaining every building in Manor Lords Explaining every building in Manor Lords Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Looking to make sense of all the different Manor Lords buildings?If you want to make a true town out of your starting encampment inManor Lords, you’ll need to seriously diversify the number of buildings in your settlement.Manor Lordsgives players access to a whopping 40+ buildings, most of which are unlocked from the start of the game....

HomeNewsManor Lords Manor Lords publisher reassures players struggling to buy at launch that “we’ll run those 25% discounts often"Developer, meanwhile, is planning to rebalance the archers Developer, meanwhile, is planning to rebalance the archers Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Historical strategy simManor Lords- which budding feudal despot Nic Reubenhas deemed"a sturdy and immersive builder that feels incomplete yet alive with promise” - is now available on Steam, the Epic Games Store, Microsoft Store and GOG....

HomeGuidesManor Lords Manor Lords: Which starting scenario and difficulty should you choose?Here is the best starting scenario for new Manor Lords players Here is the best starting scenario for new Manor Lords players Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Hooded Horse Which is the best scenario for new players in Manor Lords?Slavic Magic’s gorgeous and hotly anticipated city-builderManor Lordsgives you a fair bit of freedom for customising your new game setup....

HomeNewsEscape from Tarkov New Escape From Tarkov PvE mode exclusive to pricey Unheard edition despite promises of free DLCCommunity manager insists mode doesn’t qualify as DLC Community manager insists mode doesn’t qualify as DLC Image credit:Battlestate Image credit:Battlestate Escape From Tarkov, the extractionFPSfrom developer Battlestate, recently put up a newUnheard editionof the game for pre-order, and tarkov escapers aren’t happy about it. The price for this bundle - which includes a new mode, a bigger stash, and assorted gubbins - comes in at $250, or around two actual hundred actual pounds, but the price alone isn’t necessarily what’s got a section of the player base so tarked-off that a few of them are even loudlyconsidering a lawsuit....

HomeNewsBarotrauma Aqua horror sim Barotrauma has an update that makes opiates “less of a solution for everything"Of monsters and medicine Of monsters and medicine Image credit:Undertow Games/FakeFish/Daedalic Entertainment Image credit:Undertow Games/FakeFish/Daedalic Entertainment Alien-infested submarine simBarotraumahas received a chunky update, bringing two new-ish monsters into its lethal aquatic world. The shrimp-looking Mantis may be recognisable to veterans (it once appeared in pre-Steam builds). And the Viperling is a venomous variant of the existing Spineling (a thorny seaworm with hull-piercing porcupine-like spikes)....

HomeNews Assassin’s Creed Mirage won’t get story DLC, but the devs have “ideas on how we could extend the story of Basim"Another 15 hour AssCreed game would be welcome Another 15 hour AssCreed game would be welcome Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Ubisoft As an Assassin’s Creed girlie, I enjoyedAssassin’s Creed Mirage, a pared down (but still big game, which is really just proof of how bloated AAA games have gotten, but I’ll stop because it’s not time to take my personal bugbear for a walk) Ass Creed game that was closer to the simplicity of the older games in the stab ‘em up stealth-actionseries....

HomeNewsDr Robotnik’s Ring Racers Dr Robotnik’s Ring Racers is a gorgeous free SNES-style arcade racer, built using Doom LegacyUpdate: SNES stands for Saturn eNtertainment Electronic System, actually Update: SNES stands for Saturn eNtertainment Electronic System, actually Image credit:Kart Krew Image credit:Kart Krew It reinvents the good doctor as a benevolent patron of arcade motorsports, who has teamed up with erstwhile foe Tails to compress thousands of rings into a new energy source that, gosh, there’s a lot of dialogue going on in this arcade racing game....

HomeNewsGarry’s Mod Garry’s mod is removing “Nintendo Stuff” after takedown notices, but users suspect foul play from fraudstersMy uncle told me it’s all true though My uncle told me it’s all true though Image credit:Nintendo Image credit:Nintendo In a rare case of a wild Nintendo being spotted having somewhat of a point, actually, in regards to being protective over their IP, Facepunch announced yesterday that they’re removing all “Nintendo stuff” fromGarry’s Mod’s Steam workshop, following takedown orders sent straight from ninty themselves....

HomeNewsPine: A Story of Loss Gorgeous interactive fiction Pine: A Story Of Loss is a small sad game about a big sad manChopping wood, cutting onions Chopping wood, cutting onions Image credit:Made Up Games Image credit:Made Up Games Pine: A Story Of Loss, which stars a bereaved woodworker and thus may be a play on the double meaning of ‘pine’, is a gorgeously animated interactive fiction game that sees you performingfarmingchores and wordlessly reminiscing upon cherished memories....

HomeNewsInferni: Hope And Fear Inferni: Hope And Fear is an online co-op deckbuilding battle royale, if you were after such a thingA curious combination A curious combination Image credit:Village Studio Image credit:Village Studio As genre mash-ups go, I didn’t see this coming. But maybe I should have, knowing how once things like battle royales pop off, they will always spawn curious mutations.Inferni: Hope And Fearis one of these curiosities, being an onlineco-op, deckbuilding,battle royale, with a 90s theme....

HomeGuidesNYT Connections NYT Connections hint and answers (Friday, April 26)Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #320 Need a hint for Connections? Read our guide for help with Connections #320 Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/NYT This guide is for a previous day! Looking for today’s solution? Check out theConnections hint and answers for Thursday 26th December! Want a hint for Connections today?Piggybacking off the monumental success of daily puzzle gameWordle, the New York Times has another fantastically popular word game out now....

HomeNewsPaper Sky Paper Sky is a joyful flight sim for people who suck at flight sims, and there’s a demo out nowGet high like planes Get high like planes Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Brute Force Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Brute Force Myexperience with actual flight simulatorstypically amounts to approaching the runway far, far too quickly at far, far too perpendicular an angle, so perhaps I’m better off just flying folded-up bits of A4....

HomeFeaturesLethal Company RPS Game Club Asks: What do you think of Lethal Company?Shower The Company with your opinions ahead of our Game Club live chat Shower The Company with your opinions ahead of our Game Club live chat Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Zeekerss Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Zeekerss To keep the ball rolling with this month’sGame Clubpick, we’re asking what you, the readers, think ofLethal Company? What do you think of the comedy horror genre?...