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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 in 2024

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 in 2024

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

Aloy looking pensive in a screen from Horizon Forbidden West. She is next to the RPS bestest best badge

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Horizon Forbidden West review: the action adventure sequel has even more robot dinosaurs, of course it's good

Be the change you want to see in the world (with explosives)

March 27, 2024 Alice Bell

A blue armoured knight, an elven archer and a blonde warrior stand from the best MMOs and MMORPGs stand side by side.

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The 10 best MMOs and MMORPGs

Where to play with your massive friends

March 13, 2024 Ed Thorn

The 25 best co-op games on PC in 2024

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The 25 best co-op games on PC in 2024

Grab a pal

March 11, 2024 Alice Bell

A composite image showing elements from Balatro, The Talos Principle 2, Baldur's Gate 3, Jusant and Shadow Gambit

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The 15 best PC games to play right now

Updated regularly

March 11, 2024 RPS

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Balatro review: only fools would sleep on this moreish poker roguelike

No joke

Feb. 19, 2024 Katharine Castle

Helldivers 2 cadets aim a rocket launcher and lasers at a Bestest Best badge.

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Helldivers 2 review: a co-op shooter mixed with comedy genius

My idea of heaven

Feb. 13, 2024 Ed Thorn

Red banishes a specter in the shape of Antea in Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden. The RPS Bestest Bests sticker is in the top right of the image

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Banishers: Ghosts Of New Eden review: an accomplished and emotional action adventure

Reader, I actually cried

Feb. 12, 2024 Alice Bell

Artwork from Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown, Hollow Knight, Ori And The Blind Forest and SteamWorld Dig 2

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The best Metroidvania games on PC

Castleprime, now freshly updated for 2024

Jan. 26, 2024 Katharine Castle

Ichiban thrusts an RPS Bestest Best badge out of one palm in Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

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Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth review: thank goodness for Yakuza

I won't need another game for several years

Jan. 23, 2024 Ed Thorn

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Prince Of Persia: The Lost Crown review: move over Hollow Knight

Royal jubilee

Jan. 11, 2024 Katharine Castle

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. 1, 2024 Ed Thorn

Artwork from Apex Legends, Sea Of Thieves and Among Us form the header of our Best Multiplayer Games list

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The 25 best multiplayer games

Great games to play against friends

Jan. 1, 2024 Ed Thorn

	
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