Our favorite RPS options from 2022

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Katharine requested me to do a fast little round-up of my favorite options that we have run over the previous 12 months (to go together with the opposite part round-ups, which you’ll be able to learn right here) so I stated “No problemo, Katharino!”. Off I went to make an inventory, working down the printed items and clicking whichever ones I believed have been good. Then I checked out my checklist and stated “Oh, no!”, as a result of it was extraordinarily lengthy. I reduce it down by about half to get what we’ve got right here, a set of interviews and thinky items and foolish items and fantastic items from 2022.

They’re by each the RPS treehousers and freelancers who climbed up the ropeladder to assist out. If you are feeling the decision to journey your self, why not drop me a line subsequent 12 months? Engaging with the prolonged treehouse metaphor just isn’t a requirement. Here’s to extra profound strangeness in 2023.



A screenshot of Project Zomboid showing a player on a street at night, barricaded by some cars, as a swarm of zombies shamble towards them.

Project Zomboid exhibits The Walking Dead just isn’t useful in a zombocalypse

Much to take pleasure in in Hayden’s piece about how his zombie-apocalypse survivalist goals hit the wall of Project Zomboid. Both humorous and properly thought of. CORALLL! (That’s the one Walking Dead joke I do know).



Link from the Zelda series made in the OlliOlli World character customiser

Video game characters recreated in OlliOlli World

Apparently Brendy bought a job or one thing, so is not contributing as a lot in the intervening time, however that is my favorite factor he did for us this 12 months as a result of it made me snort rather a lot.



Chloe Price, protagonist of Life Is Strange: Before The Storm, in a promotional screenshot for the Remastered Collection

A LIS fan has hella combined emotions concerning the Remastered Collection

Rebecca has achieved a buncha great things for us (I level you to the Stephen King piece final Halloween, however this 12 months I particularly loved her heartfelt article about Life Is Strange and the Remastered Collection.

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Gabe Newell takes a selfie in an advert for a Dota 2 Cave Johnson announcer pack.

An interview concerning the Steam Deck with Gaben himself

Gaben would not make terrestrial contact fairly often, however I believe {hardware} ed. James smashed it out of the park with this interview, relating a number of completely different matters round speaking concerning the Steam Deck.



Hebridean scenes in a Dear Esther screenshot.

Dear Esther’s tenth anniversary

Belter interview with Dan Pinchbeck, by Jay Castello, trying on the tenth birthday of one of many authentic and most well-known strolling simulators. It’s bizarre to suppose Dear Esther is each that outdated and that younger.



What form of pot is Elden Ring’s Pot Boy?

I like seeing I’ve an e mail from Nic Rueben, as a result of he is all the time pitching me one thing as foolish as it’s attention-grabbing. This one has the advantage of making use of precise skilled evaluation to Pot Boy, a strolling meme. Good stuff.



The goat-headed woman, Crimson Acid strikes a cool pose in Paradise Killer artwork.

The Paradise Killer devs on the advantages of being actually bizarre

Paradise Killer is a singular game, each in model and substance. It was attention-grabbing speaking to the bods at Kaizen, not least as a result of they’re all in on being bizarre (and, as famous, I’ve by no means heard somebody say “normie” in an interview earlier than).



How Eastshade can educate you mindfulness with out you even realising

Rymarr’s dialogue of his expertise with Eastshade, a quiet game about life and self and artwork, is truthfully form of zen in how ruminative it’s. An actual tonic after a troublesome couple of years.



Hardspace: Shipbreaker because the video game union motion’s closing frontier

It was laborious to choose from the work Edwin Evans-Thirlwell has achieved for us, however this text about staff rights and unionisation as depicted in Hardspace: Shipbreaker is each fascinating and well timed.



Cyberpunk 2077 turns into actual cyberpunk at its vertical limits

Siobhán Casey wrote us a superb, dreamy, unreal piece about going as excessive as you may go in Cyberpunk 2077 – after which even greater than that.

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A deep dive into PAX’s Pinny Arcade neighborhood

This is dishonest as a result of it is a video, and Liam has achieved a video round-up individually, however I discovered this take a look at the Pinny Arcade collectors completely bloody fascinating.



A knight suffers a major blow with a splatter of blood in Chivalry 2

The making of Chivalry 2

Rick Lane has achieved a number of deep dive articles for us this 12 months, however for my cash this take a look at the event PC gaming’s most favorite bizarre medieval conflict simulator, after the failure of Mirage, is the very best.



The level editor open in Speedy Eggbert

The trials and terrors of benchmarking The Cycle: Frontier

James’s job is commonly an invisible one, however he spends a lot of time benchmarking. This provides you with a glimpse into his life as a {hardware} ed (and likewise it’s humorous).



A screenshot from Red Dead Redemption 2 of Arthur walking in the rain next to a field.

An extraordinarily thorough grading of the very best rain in video games

Guides editor Ollie is usually given to message me saying “might you please verify this text for me” and omitting “it’s 5 thousand phrases lengthy”. In this case I do not thoughts. It’s usually Ollie, by which I imply thorough and worthwhile.



Dead Pets Unleashed is a chaotic punk rock drama that’s giving me quarter-life disaster flashbacks

Rachel hadn’t been with us lengthy at this level, however her piece on the feels that she bought from Dead Pets Unleashed was humorous and recent, so I used to be like “Ah sure, good.”.



The proprietor of the pet shop in A Pet Shop After Dark tells the protagonist to not, under any circumstances, turn off the lights

A Year Of Springs dev npckc “by no means deliberate” on making games

Alicia Haddick did some nice protection of BitSummit for us this 12 months, however I believe this interview with npckc on telling kinder LGBTQ+ tales is my favorite



A close-up view of a busy service station in Flat Eye

The Night Call devs are swapping taxis for tech-fuelled gasoline stations in Flat Eye

Katharine grew to become one thing of a preview specialist this 12 months, particularly the preview interview. This one on Flat Eye is tremendous attention-grabbing.

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A screen in Terra Invicta confirming that the space flight program has been initiated

Terra Invicta is an excessive amount of for one article, and presumably one lifetime

It may be very laborious to choose one in all Sin’s Rally Point technique gaming columns, but when it should be one then let it’s this.



A piece of key art from the horror game Devotion showing a young girl in a grey smock, holding a microphone and with a blindfold covering her face, against a red background

Why some games disappear from Steam

This is about why games get delisted from Steam. It’s generally by selection and generally necessity, and generally by pressure. One of essentially the most attention-grabbing issues we have run.



World Of Warcraft: Dragonflight launches on November 28th, 2022. It's the latest expansion for Blizzard's long-running MMO RPG.

Has World Of Warcraft change into too massive for its personal good?

This is a companion piece to Ed and Liam’s wonderful Inventory Space on WOW. Lord is aware of Ed has achieved many wonderful articles and evaluations this 12 months, however this strikes an incredible be aware between nostalgia and practicality.



An image of Judas, titular main character of upcoming action RPG from Ghost Story Games. Judas is a blonde white woman covered in bruises and cuts, looking into a mirror as what appears to be an asteroid approaches the burning ship she's standing in

[Pre-emptive backlash to backlash to positive reviews for Judas]

It was both this or the one about not having trousers in Lost Ark that made so many individuals mad at me for no rationally explicable purpose, so depend yourselves fortunate.



The new frontier in a Nightingale screenshot.

Nightingale’s closed alpha checks revealed one obvious omission: doorways

CJ is our information bud, however this uncommon foray into characteristic territory produced a really attention-grabbing interview that goes into how alpha gamers have modified Nightingale throughout growth.



A Greggs in a screenshot from the Duke Nukem 3D custom map Duke Smoochem.

Modding Duke Nukem 3D right into a joke about English tradition could be good on your psychological well being

Daniel Lipscombe turned on this candid interview with Dan Douglas, about how Douglas’s now-famous Duke Smoochem mod has helped his personal psychological well being over the previous couple of years.

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