Card Games

An armoured shield knight faces a crystalline beast aboard the train, as the player holds five cards in hand.

News

Monster Train 2 rolls up with a release date

The last one was rail-y good

April 2, 2025 Brendan Caldwell

2 comments

A medieval-style illustration of a seated woman being treated for sickness using Tarot-style cards. The scene is full of bright and mildly revolting colours.

News

Purge your village of the Devil using Tarot cards in this festively rancid strategy game

M.D.eckbuilder

March 31, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

6 comments

A creepy-looking old woman is eating something from a bowl, with dialogue above her reading: "You curious little guy" in a screenshot from Carimara: Beneath the forlorn limbs

News

Carimara is a wonderfully grubby looking game about talking to Norman-folklore inspired creeps and exercising ghosts with cards

Fairytales as they should be

March 22, 2025 Oisin Kuhnke

7 comments

Artwork from Into The Breach and a large alien head from XCOM 2

Feature

The 50 best strategy games to play on PC

From tiny tactics to grand campaigns

March 12, 2025 Graham Smith

205 comments

Perfectly legitimate poker in a Balatro screenshot.

News

Localthunk quells AI art civil war started by Balatro erotica subreddit mod

Jimbo's Big Unnaturals

March 12, 2025 Nic Reuben

37 comments

A montage of The Horror at Highrook, Deliver At All Costs, and DoubleWe screenshots with Gamer Network's Wishlisted mascot in the corner.

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Our favourite demos from Steam Next Fest Winter 2025

Until next time

March 3, 2025 RPS

49 comments

Alma reaches towards the camera while yelling.

Feature

Look, 4 new games that are NOT Monster Hunter Wilds

Put down that giant sword

Feb. 28, 2025 Brendan Caldwell

25 comments

Key art for As We Descend, showing a mechanical woman surrounded by armoured warriors looking over a city domed with a forcefield

News

As We Descend burrows beneath the other Frostpunk-likes with ornate card tactics and writing

Downtown

Feb. 28, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

4 comments

A cracked out blob stares longingly at Castle V Castle.

News

Castle V Castle is a snappy minimalist card game with robots, witches, and sentient doomer signage

Also hard hats

Feb. 26, 2025 Nic Reuben

5 comments

High-scoring cards popping off in a Balatro screenshot.

News

After junking Balatro's 18 rating, PEGI will develop "a more granular" rating system for gambling themes

Luck Be A Landlord also no longer 18-rated

Feb. 25, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

18 comments

Guide

MTG Arena codes

How to redeem MTGA codes.

Feb. 21, 2025 Amelia Zollner

A screenshot from The Horror At Highrook, showing a blueprint-style view of a house layout with cards representing characters and items, plus some swirly paranormal effects. In the foreground, a spectral entity is speaking about a missing child.

News

The Horror At Highrook demo is a dangerously enticing marriage of Darkest Dungeon and Cluedo

J'accuse the Plague Doctor in the Chapel with the bottle of reagent

Feb. 13, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

11 comments

Fighting a green goblin guy with a Dyson Sphere in Diceomancer.

Review

Diceomancer review

A spicy Spirelike that lets you reroll any number on your screen

Feb. 7, 2025 Matt Cox

12 comments

The player navigates the blue walls of Tiny Heist as a small yellow thief. One of the white guardbots is shouting "Error! Intruder detected!"

News

Creator of Dicey Dungeons, VVVVVV and Super Hexagon launches a big collection of his shorter games

Terry's Other Games

Feb. 4, 2025 Brendan Caldwell

11 comments

A spread of cards representing rats, trees and other horrible things from card game Roots Devour

News

Roots Devour's demo harbours the seeds of a brilliant horror card RPG

Make like a tree, and bleed

Feb. 4, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

8 comments

Key art for superhero card battler Marvel Snap

News

Marvel Snap has been "banned" in the USA alongside TikTok, but devs insist it'll be back online soon

Card battler affected by US divest-or-ban policy towards Chinese parent company

Jan. 20, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

29 comments

An angled elevated depiction of a woman fighting monsters on a grid, with large fungal objects nearby and cards lined up along the bottom of the screen. It's a screenshot from Death Howl.

News

11-bit's latest curiosity Death Howl is a sorrowing open world deckbuilder set in the Nordic Stone Ages

From developers The Outer Zone

Jan. 17, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

16 comments

News

IGF 2025 nominees show what a wild and vibrant place indie gaming is

There are several surprise nominations and absences this year

Jan. 16, 2025 Graham Smith

21 comments

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

47 comments

Subnautica 2, Mushroom Musume, Sid Meier's Civilization VII and Monster Hunter: Wilds screenshots.

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Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025

Here's what we're excited about in what looks like a big year

Jan. 8, 2025 Graham Smith

119 comments

A side-by-side comparison screen for a mod that gives all the Joker cards in Balatro boobs, including Joker cards that feature inanimate objects, like the walkie talkie depicted here

News

Balatro mod Jimbo's Big Naturals is a lot funnier and safer for work than it sounds

One pair

Jan. 7, 2025 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

10 comments

A screenshot of play from Valve's card game Artifact.

News

Artifact saw a mysterious player count jump over new year, six years after Valve’s trading card game died off

Exhumed?

Jan. 6, 2025 Nic Reuben

27 comments

Geralt holds a card in front of him as Ciri faces him across a table in a candlelit inn.

News

Gwent returns in The Witcher 4, according to CD Projekt's heavy hints

Throw a card to your Witcher

Dec. 17, 2024 Brendan Caldwell

8 comments

Horace the Endless Bear wraps himself around the top of a Christmas tree.

Feature

The RPS Advent Calendar 2024, December 12th

Open today's door - then run

Dec. 12, 2024 RPS

30 comments

A game of noughts and crosses played by a duck adventurer and a chicken king

News

Tic Tactic turns the world's most boring game into a promising roguelike deckbuilder

Nought-cross-lightning

Dec. 3, 2024 Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

14 comments