Consume Me is an RPG minigame buffet that goes straight to the hits

Beware, reader, for unwrapping and devouring this advent post will take you over your Bite limit for the day, adding multiple paragraphs to your waistline and forever postponing the onset of your Hot Girl Summer. Still, this is a slimmer post at around 400 words. If you've been laying off the fatty intros this week, and you're expert at rotating things to fit your inventory, you might be able to justify the snack.

What videogame could get you thinking about the carb content of a videogame article? It can only be... Consume Me!

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Become a forsaken nun and find absolution in the dead, almost-techno gothic horror world of Metamorphosis

There is something that lies in the belly of Metamorphosis that makes me recoil. The surface level concept is easy enough to follow. It is a 2D pixel art horror where you play as a "forsaken nun" who "walks the long road to absolution." The world you find yourself in in the game's demo is overbearing, crushing. Initially you find yourself in the depths of a church, and even that is worth questioning - what church has depths? When you come across a device, and what on the offset looks like gothic horror a la Bloodborne becomes perplexingly technological.

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RuneScape: Dragonwild's Fellhollow update gets a zombie-bashing and magical farming look-in ahead of its release next week

It's funny to think that RuneScape: Dragonwilds, one of those cosy-ish, survival crafty type of games doesn't have farming just yet, but I suppose that's understandable given it is an early access game. Doesn't matter much either, as farming will be coming to the game next week as part of its Fellhollow update, which just got another look-in through a new gameplay trailer that also shows off all sorts of undead bashing you'll be doing.

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The devs behind Bradley the Badger want it to be the video game industry's satire moment

Satire is a genre that you find often enough in mediums like film and television, but there is an argument to be made that it doesn't happen as often in games, and that maybe, this is due for a reckoning. This is the argument that Davide Soliani (Mario + Rabbids) and Christian Cantamessa (Red Dead Redemption) are making about the game they're co-directing, Bradley the Badger, a comedic, half-throwback, half-fresh-take platformer revealed at The Geoff Keighley Night this week.

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The Rogue Prince of Persia parkours around Hades in its own roguelite lane

In a year where Hades II dominated the roguelite headlines, Evil Empire's The Rogue Prince of Persia slipped by largely unnoticed. This is the second time Supergiant's game overshadowed The Rogue Prince, with both titles entering early access at similar times last year.

In fact, the story you may best remember of Evil Empire's game was the frothing criticism of the Prince's art style – a unique blend influenced by Arabic miniatures, Mœbius comics, and the purple-skinned sprites from the 1990 PC CGA port of the first Prince of Persia game.

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What are we all playing this weekend?

We're heading into our last full week before Christmas and I can almost hear the hellish jangle of Saint Nick's sled bells in the night air. But I shan't spend too long thinking about that red-suited home invader. Not when there are weekends to be had and games to be played.

This is what the team will be playing this weekend.

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Star Wars: Fate Of The Old Republic revealed - a KOTOR "spiritual successor" RPG led by Mass Effect's Casey Hudson

We’re getting a new Star Wars game, ladies and gentledroids! It’s Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic. It’s a single player action RPG created by a team led by Casey Hudson - the project director for Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic, and a veteran of the Mass Effect series. They’re calling it a “spiritual successor” to KOTOR. Here’s the announcement trailer.

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Decrepit is a solo-developed soulslike about escaping a castle by dying in it

Earlier tonight, The Game Awards 2025 briefly ceased funnelling trophies into Sandfall Interactive’s pockets on a heavily sponsored conveyor belt to reveal Decrepit: a horror-flavoured, dungeon-dwelling soulslike that’s the debut project of solo dev outfit Jämmerdal Games. It’s being published by Three Friends, they of Romestead and ex-Mojang/Ghost Ship Games note, and aims to be out in 2026.

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The Sins of a Solar Empire 2 campaign DLC is still coming, but it's years away – "We have a duty to deliver"

When Sins of a Solar Empire 2 launched from early access in September 2024, its premium edition and content pass promised something no other game in the series had delivered: a singleplayer campaign.

The Times of War DLC would for the first time give you an authored story and set of missions for each faction. Originally announced for release in "Fall 2025", there are players of the series who have waited nearly 20 years for this, and they're still waiting because there's no sign of the DLC yet. Nor Harbinger, the expansion bringing a fourth playable race to Sins of a Solar Empire 2.

"They're definitely still on the road map," development lead Brian Clair tells me, "but we've shifted them around a bit."

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With little fanfare, Helldivers 2's creative director shares that Arrowhead are prototyping a roguelite mode

I think there is a very compelling case for Twitter not being the place that information about, well, honestly anything, should be casually shared in a matter of fact manner. It is a site for, if we must use it, posting things like "just downloaded some MP3s to my iPod Touch," not sharing that Arrowhead are currently testing a roguelite mode in Helldivers 2, which is exactly what the game's creative director Johan Pilestedt did today.

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Match delightfully silly, hand-drawn dogs in Dogpile, a roguelike deckbuilder take on Suika Game

With trends and trendy games passing by these days, I'd understand if you'd already forgotten about Suika Game. I am not here to remind you of its existence to talk about it, more so use it as genre context for Dogpile, a new game that is essentially the question "what if Suika Game actually had a bunch of dogs and was also a roguelike deckbuilder?" I know, I know, there are too many of those already, but this one's just so charming!

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Post-Black Ops 7, Call of Duty puts a bullet in releasing Modern Warfare or Black Ops entries back-to-back

With Call of Duty Black Ops 7 now out in the wild and having earned a largely mixed reception, Activision have said right, that's it, time to do a thing. Said thing is committing to no longer releasing entries in the same sub-series, be that Modern Warfare or Black Ops, in back-to-back years going forwards.

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At long last, a cosy game that lets you fulfil your dreams of running an electronics repair shop in turn-of-the millennium Tokyo

As someone staring down the barrel of untangling a box of Christmas lights, I won't lie, a not tiny part of me wants to throw them in the bin and replace the whole lot with a fresh set from the shop. (I must stress, I won't be doing that. But the urge still stands.) However, Restory is a cosy game that appeals to the better angel of my nature, the part that will patiently untangle the lights so they can be enjoyed for another year.

Restory sets you up as the manager of a small Tokyo electronics maintenance shop at the turn of the millennium. Customers bring you broken devices to painstakingly disassemble, clean, and replace their broken parts, restoring them to working order. Though you can also order broken devices and spare parts online using your delightfully dated PC.

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Civilization 7 update 1.3.1 drops today, rolling out a new island-filled map and knocking Egypt off the top of the pyramid

This month's Civ 7 update, 1.3.1, will rock up today, December 9th. Following on from the beefy 1.3.0 update, which added in a bunch of new navally-themed bits and revamped battling at sea, this update's comparatively compact, but still packs a new map type and some civ balancing tweaks which are well worth being aware of if you're gonna be Civving over the holidays.

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Whether middle-aged blokes showering or laser cannons are your thing, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii had you covered this year

After spending game after game in the oppressive suits of the Tokyo Yakuza, it was about time Like A Dragon took a break abroad. Sometimes we all need to up sticks and take our open-world, minigame-filled gangster action to new climes. Infinite Wealth did just that, jetting off to Hawaii for a vast swath of its plot. I'd not have put money on RGG Studio following that game up with a pirate adventure literally called Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, but that's exactly what they did this year.

Series regular Goro Majima’s swashbuckling sojourn is pitched firmly towards those who revel in the surreal side of the Japanese crime series. Waking up on a beach with no memory of his gangster life back in Japan, yakuzaman Majima sees the goons sailing about the modern-day Hawaiian seas in Age of Sail-style galleons and frigates and decides the pirate life's for him. And so begins a treasure hunt full of the usual Yakuza shenanigans.

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A Star Wars: KOTOR 2 Remake was "technically on the roadmap" as of March 2025, court docs reportedly reveal

A full-on remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 was "technically on the road map" to follow the original Knights of the Old Republic remake which has been in development for the past few years. Well, that's at least the plan LucasFilm Games and co had as of March this year, with the KOTOR 2 remake's current status looking to be up in the air.

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Capcom seek new heights as they whisper potential new Ace Attorney, Mega Man, and Devil May Cry games into existence

I am sure the words "new" and "Ace Attorney game" have functioned as a sleeper agent's activation words for some of you, and these are words that Capcom themselves have sort of put together, but let's slow down before we get carried away. As spotted by Mega Man fansite Rockman Corner, Capcom have released their integrated report for 2025, which for the most part is boring, corporate nonsense. Here comes the but. But! It also appears to suggest that the developer is thinking about new ways it can further develop series like Ace Attorney, as well as Mega Man and Devil May Cry.

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Ninja Gaiden 4 revives a long-dormant series without bowing to Sekiro

In 2012, the Ninja Gaiden series went dormant and other developers took up the precise action crown that Tecmo had once forged. Aside from a forgettable 2014 spinoff dubbed Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z, fans were starved and left wondering what a modern Ninja Gaiden would resemble. Soulslikes had swept the industry, and fan speculation was rampant that when and if Ryu Hayabusa returned, he would resemble Sekiro, and possible be saddled with a stamina or posture bar.

This year, at last, we found out.

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Tekken lead Katsuhiro Harada is leaving Bandai Namco at the end of this year, bows out with hour-long DJ mix

Long-time Tekken director, producer, and general advocate for the virtual graps Katsuhiro Harada has announced he's leaving Bandai Nanco at the close of 2025. Harada's opted to step away as the fighting series turns 30, though he does have one more guest appearance at the Tekken World Tour finals lined up early next year. He's also released an hour-long DJ mix on Soundcloud to commemorate the occasion, making up for the fact he never got around to DJing live at a Tekken tournament.

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What's on your bookshelf: Santa Ragione co-founder and Saturnalia director Pietro Righi Riva

Hello reader who is also a reader! Today marks the sad and glorious return of Booked for the Week, our reliably irregular Sunday column in which games people talk about books. It’s sad because the original creator of this column, arch word baron Nic Reuben, is no longer full time at RPS. It’s glorious because this is one of the best columns I’ve ever read, and I’m delighted Nic has given permission to keep it rolling. He’s now got a Patreon, by the way.

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It’s intrigue, not action, that makes Atomfall such a compelling Lake District trip gone wrong

Today’s advent calendar hails, in both setting and make, from the RPS homeland of the United Kingdom. Which means, like most of RPS, it’ll probably spend Christmas predominantly unconscious, driven into a coma by a combination of tiredness, pigs in blankets overreach, and acute exposure to King Charles. Best play it before then, eh.

It’s Atomfall!

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The Sunday Papers

Sundays are for realising that he's coming. That he's inevitable. That, in a way, he's already here. You feel him in the back of your mind. Grinding his teeth. Picking his nose. Raking his nails across the palms of his hands. He hungers, a snarling hunk of robo-man-flesh yearning for the time his clarion call rings out through the space between each of our psyches.

Something terrible and insidious this way comes. He glues a cookie-cutter short back and sides hairdo to his usually bald bonce. He cries out to the great corporate entities for money and wares to show off. He dusts off a tombstone engraved with the words 'please wrap it up'. He howls at the moon. AWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Adrian Edmondson? "NO," he yells, jumping on stage. "IT IS I, KEOFF GEIGHLEY." You gasp in horror.

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Embark dishes on all the goodies you'll get in Arc Raiders if you choose to prestige later this month

The eternal problem with online shooters of any flavour that has some variation on a levelling system, is that eventually you run out of room, and can't progress any more. That's why so many of them essentially allow you to reset your levels, or to prestige as it's often colloquially known. Arc Raiders is one such game that will feature such a system, and in a new blog post, developer Embark have outlined what you get when you prestige.

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In true roguelike fashion, Slay the Spire 2 is only being made because of a 50/50 coin flip

Imagine a second, alternate version of our world. Everything is the same, on the surface. The sky is blue, the economy is in shambles; it's the unnatural order of things. And yet, you cannot help but feel something is different. Like there's something missing, or perhaps replaced. Ah, there it is - Slay the Spire 2 is not a game that even remotely exists. As it turns out, this world, our world, where the roguelike called Slay the Spire 2 does, or rather will, exist, is only the world we exist in thanks to the flip of a coin.

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Romeo is a Dead Man sets its outlandish sights on a February 2026 release date

I can see it now… in the near future, the review embargo for Suda51's next game Romeo is a Dead Man, and as far as the eye can see the digital realm is scorched with 7/10s. Its maximalist shenanigans, techno-blasting soundtrack, and ridiculous premise puts it in a position where it couldn't possibly be for everyone, even if such a score is actually ideal for such a game, but when has that ever been the case for a Suda51 game? However, as I said, this vision I have is in the near future, because the hyper-violent action game now has a release date.

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I helped a parasitic worm eat my neighbour's eyeball in 2025's weirdest horror RPG, and I'd do it again

Part turn-based RPG, part-survival horror, with a sprinkling of metroidvania goodness, Look Outside was always going to be my jam. But where it sank its grotty little hooks into me was how gleefully punishing it was. My first playthrough quickly became a cacophony of mistakes, but each one moulded my adventure in ways I never expected.

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What are we all playing this weekend?

Waking up at the crack of dawn today, I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices did not have a comments thread in which to badger us to play Troubleshooter Colon Abandoned Children. I burst from the covers, ran weeping to my PC (this happens most mornings, to be fair) and discovered that I had forgotten to finish the intro for our latest What Are We All Playing This Weekend article. And now I have. So, what are you all playing this weekend?

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Sable creative director's new studio Eteo are aiming to release their first game in 2027, and have a newsletter starting next year

Gregorios Kythreotis, the creative director of sci-fi hoverbike adventure Sable, has a new thing. He's heading up a fresh studio dubbed Eteo, who'll be aiming to release their first game in 2027. Until then, the studio plan to start putting out a newsletter called Archetypes, which'll debut in January and discuss different elements of game design.

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Russia bans Roblox, with state censor accusing it of spreading "LGBT propaganda" and "justifying terrorism"

Access to Roblox has been blocked in Russia, with federal censorship and media oversight agency Roskomnadzor accusing the platform of distributing content "justifying terrorism" and spreading "LGBT propaganda". According to Russian media reports, the state body said Roblox has become rife with content that can "negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of children".

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Hi-Fi Rush is ditching Denuvo in January, and it'll become unplayable if you don't grab the latest patch

Hi-Fi Rush is ditching its Denuvo anti-tamper software as part of developers' Tango Gameworks transition to working under new owners Krafton. A fresh patch has been released swapping logos to reflect that switch in management, and you'll need to install it before mid-January if you want the game to stay playable.

Krafton, of course, bought up Tango after the studio's former parent company Microsoft announced plans to shut it down back in May, alongside Redfall developers Arkane Austin and Mighty Doom creators Alpha Dog Games.

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Element-bending RPG The God Slayer has decent fight scenes, but systemic smarts could elevate it

I'll forgive you if you've not clocked The God Slayer. While it's always been vaguely curious in an Inside Baseball sort of way, its action-RPGness being a stark departure for My Time at Sandrock/My Time at Portia lifesim devs Pathea Games, the project's been in hiding since its 2023 reveal as an apparent PS5 exclusive. Yet it’s still in the works, release date TBD but with a PC version confirmed, and has successfully caught my eye after a hands-off preview session last week – even with said preview being shy about its most intriguing, immsim-influenced openness.

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PlayerUnknown wants to listen to your Prologue: Go Wayback feedback, just not all of it

There are two Brendan Greene's (or PlayerUnknown's, however you prefer to refer to the game dev). There is the Brendan Greene who wants to listen to the feedback offered up by those partaking in the early access period of his current game, Prologue: Go Wayback. And there is the Brendan Greene who doesn't, for quite reasonable reasons. Both of these are still him, and both show up in a recent interview.

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Epic ban Santa Ragione's Horses just before release, allegedly with a weird reminder that NFT games are fine though

Grotesque and surreal 'farming simulation' Horses has been banned from the Epic Games Store on the eve of release, a couple of years after a work-in-progress version of the game was rejected by Valve. In an alleged statement to developers Santa Ragione, the Fortnite makers explain that they've found the game to be in contravention of policies against "Inappropriate Content" and "Hateful or Abusive Content". Given that, according to Santa Ragione, Epic have had access to a build for two months and had already approved the game for publication on their store 18 days before launch, the whole thing feels like a frantic response to Valve's claims about the unfinished build, which Epic presumably haven't seen.

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Wuchang: Fallen Feathers' tangram-like level design shines past its rough edges

Imagine a fantasy version of Ming dynasty China, suffering from a plague that slowly mutates infectees into avian-like creatures. Toss in a femme fatale named after the Chinese gods of death, more hard-as-nails enemies than you can shake a guandao at, and Soulslike vibes imitating the greats, and occasionally even surpassing them. This is Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, a game I loved - warts and all - purely on the strength of its level design.

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A Lies of P co-op mod offering multiplayer boss battles is out now, with full seamless runs in the works

An online co-op mod for very French and very puppety soulslike Lies of P has been released in alpha form. As of writing, it'll let you take on boss battles with a friend and its creators are hoping to offer full multplayer playthroughs similar to Elden Ring's brilliant seamless co-op mod further down the line.

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Splinter Cell remake gets new director who's also old, as its original director sneaks back into the chair

Ubisoft's Splinter Cell remake has a new director who's served as its director before. David Grivel has returned to Ubisoft and take up the role he left when he departed the company in 2022, not long after being tapped as the remake's original director following its late 2021 announcement.

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Shapeshift while chatting to surreal, conversational mortals to figure out where God went in Burden Street Station

It is an incredibly difficult thing to sell someone on a game in just one sentence. What are you meant to focus on, genre, specific mechanics, an interesting element of the story? There's not a right answer! I'm not going to figure out a recipe for success right here and now, but what I can do is at least show you a single sentence that sold me on a game called Burden Street Station quite quickly: "A surreal, narrative adventure game where you shapeshift during conversations to uncover how God went missing."

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Kill this tractor so you won't have to awkwardly ring your parents, Keep Driving's tyres squeal

Keep Driving captures the dream of a road trip, a coming of age experience where you’re finally able to start motoring around the world in your own set of wheels. Your sense of wonder’s still intact and each place you visit on brings fresh surprises.

But the game isn't a schmaltzy dip into wanderlust, or a blinkered memory of youth and a lack of responsibilities. Lurking in the background is the nervousness of inexperience, which transforms mundane tasks into nightmares you must overcome.

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This week in PC games: Marvel beat 'em ups, Nightdive shooter revivals and a festive selection of horror games

November is...done! The tawdry moveable feast that is Videogaming shudders and rolls beyond the canopy, out into the whitening dunes and fathoms of December. Now for revelry! Strike your trumpets! Blow your drums! Possibly the other way round! The folk of game development exit their wagons and sprint weeping amongst the dissipating trees. A bunch of narrative and game designers put on eight-inch stilettos and form a high-kicking cabaret line. The stilettos fly off and perforate Take-Two's entire executive board. A miracle! Saint CJ be praised!

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"We feel we’re reaching a new level": Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer mod just completed its "most stable and successful test" yet

So, an ambitious Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer mod called CyberMP has been in development for a little while now, and the folks behind it have just concluded its "most stable and successful" closed beta test yet. Tweaks to key elements like vehicle and player synchronisation, as well as a new interface and custom lobbies went down well with testers, while technical gremlins were minimal.

If this is your first time hearing about CyberMP, it's a project that's currently being worked on by a team of 10, having first come to prominence last summer. Its goal is to offer multi-person deathmatches and races to Cyberpunkers, rather than full GTA Online-style co-op missioning or gigging.

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The snazzy and sumptuous RPS Advent Calendar 2025

Dastardly December has done it again. Here I was having a nice time with November, joking about the time February tried to explain leap years to August, and the wintry month snuck up in my blindspot. Now December's in the house, kicking back on the sofa with its feet up on the table. At least it's brought a gift: the RPS Advent Calendar 2025, the list of our favourite games of the year.

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Black Friday can help you save a bundle on Alienware desktops with RTX 5080 GPUs

With manufacturers looking to raise prices to fuel the AI age we’re sleepwalking blindly towards, Black Friday weekend might offer the last chance to save on PC hardware for a while.

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Become a wolfgirl with a fliphone and explore brutalist, liminal dreamscapes in nophenia

I understand why walking sims aren't really a thing any more. Some of the earliest big names like Gone Home, Dear Esther, and arguably The Stanley Parable all came at a time where indie games were growing in popularity, but were still predominantly 2D. Something simple like a walking sim is obviously quite resourceful compared to contemporary AAA games, but now the indie scene has blown up to the point where mechanics-first genres like roguelikes are dominating. Except I like walking sims! So when a game like nophenia, a walking sim where you're a wolfgirl with a flip phone exploring different dream worlds, shows up, I'm going to pay attention.

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The Long Dark: Wintermute's final episode catches a delay but nabs a concrete release date to make up for it

Crikey, it's been a long time coming, but it looks like The Long Dark is finally coming to a close… next year. Up until earlier this week, the fifth and final episode of The Long Dark's Wintermute DLC was due to be released by the end of the year. As you've probably gathered, the end of the year is very close now, so as a result, episode five has been delayed, but it is a delay that at least comes with a concrete release date.

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A new Dead Rising is reportedly on the way, and one that might come with a familiar face

All that trouble going on with Monster Hunter Wilds aside, for a good long while now Capcom has been doing quite well for itself. Multiple quite well liked Resident Evil games, fresh new bits like Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess and the upcoming Pragmata, and even a few remasters, namely for the Ace Attorney games (throw a dog a bone and give us a new one of those, though Capcom), but also for series like Dead Rising that also haven't had a new entry in a while. Well, for now at least, as a new report suggests a new Dead Rising might be in our future.

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However a non-Hollow Knight game from Team Cherry might look, there's a particular through line you can still expect

Right now, Team Cherry's future is pretty unclear. There is some kind of Hollow Knight: Silksong DLC that'll be coming somewhere along the line, but understandably the developer is keeping their cards close to their chest in terms of what's actually next. They certainly do have some ideas on how they would expand Hollow Knight, i.e. by not making any direct sequels, much like how Silksong isn't one. But in a recent interview, Team Cherry spoke (ever so slightly) more openly about their own future and how the thing that might get in their way most is, well, death.

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Save $500 on this iBuyPower RTX 5070 Rig for Black Friday

Black Friday weekend has arrived, and Walmart has a great PC build for newcomers to PC gaming at a steep discount.

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What are we all playing this weekend?

After forgetting to change my alarm for the weekend, my Saturday has started far too early. I clearly don't respond well to surprise free time, as I spent the morning writing my will. Disappointingly, Co-op don't let you set challenges and riddles for bequestees. This oversight has dashed the mental image of my brother and sister duelling over my gaming PC, armed with those Gladiators-style padded polearms that look like oversized cotton wool buds.

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Recently unearthed Fallout: New Vegas builds could be "incredibly useful" for modders, preservationists claim

Pre-release builds of Fallout: New Vegas recently unearthed at a shop in Utah contain rare files which could be "incredibly useful" to expanding what modders can do with the RPG. Well, at least they doe in the estimation of the folks who claim to have found them, a group of preservationists whose current online presence only looks to have popped up last month.

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Oh hey, it's Black Friday, so here are the best Black Friday best graphics cards deals

I’m trying something new for this year’s Black Friday coverage: drastically overestimating how long it would take to put together a guide to its best graphics card deals. How is it past 11 already. Still, I do hope this helps any potential upgrader or from-scratch DIY builder out there – GPUs haven’t been 'cheap' in years, and while RAM is currently doing its best to replace them as the most overpriced component type in PCdom, graphics cards are usually in drastic need of discounts. Just as, like, their default state of being.

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