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It is a cosy management game where you spend most of your time harvesting things to make other things. Like Stardew Valley, but where your thousand acts of labour are done entirely for, on the face of it, nothing. Or at least not for your own material gain. It’s all given away. It is excellent. When I previewed Spriritfarer I was told by Nicolas Guérin, the lead writer and creative director at developers Thunder Lotus Games, that every player has one spirit whose death really gets to them....

After playing Hazelight’s last co-op ’em up A Way Out earlier this year, I was feeling cautiously optimistic about about It Takes Two. I had a decent time with A Way Out, but its transition from stealth puzzles to car chases to third-person shooting wasn’t terribly smooth. Game director Josef Fares put a lot of emphasis prior to It Takes Two’s launch on how each area has you and your pal tackling some totally different set of tasks, which had me worried it would be a similarly bumpy ride....

Seven and Michael are here in a new two-part episode called The Measure Of Morality, out today. Cryptic Studios explain: The update also brings a new ship combining Federation and Klingon technology, Khitomer Alliance Battlecruiser. I played a wee bit of Star Trek Online years back (around the free-to-play switch in 2011, maybe?) and couldn’t get into it. Even by the standards of the time, the combat and questing felt woefully old....

In memorium of the ancient war in the stars, Steam, GOG, and the Origin Store all have a heap of yer old and new favorites on sale. Here are some of RPS’s favorites of the bunch that you can grab on the cheapo. Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic and KOTOR II are on sale on both Steam, GOG, and Origin for £2.51/€2.86/$3.49. KOTOR II rates on our list of best Star Wars Games on PC....

Head on over to Valve’s event page for every game taking part. So, so many games are there. Even with the incomplete list available before launch, a few games with demos caught my eye. Pendragon, the Arthurian turn-based strategy RPG from Inkle, the makers of 80 Days and Heaven’s Vault. Windjammers 2, the sequel to a cult favourite Neo Geo frisbee battle game. Genesis Noir, the surreal metaphysical adventure game about saving your love from the Big Bang of a god’s gunshot....

Super Auto Pets is a breezy, colourful, and slimline auto-battler, a bit like Dota Auto Chess smooshed into Monster Train with a load of cute animals. It was one of our our favourite games of 2021, and I’m delighted to still be playing in 2022. This is mostly thanks to the Weekly Pack mode. Regular Super Auto Pets is divided into three matchmaking pools: the base pack everyone can play with; the first expansion; and the second expansion....

Sounds like there are quite a few new bits putting Mega Baseball the third head and shoulders over its predecessors. Metalhead say that it’s got “new pickoff and stealing mechanics, wild pitches/passed balls, designated hitters, and situational player traits.” There’s also a new Franchise Mode that lets you manage your team as your players age and retire while choosing which free agents to sign. Metalhead also say that the third of the series has “vastly improved graphics....

Counterplay Games announced the move in this video, although the actual repository was made available via GitHub a few months ago: The project is made available under a Creative Commons Zero license, which means all the assets are free to use for commercial and private use. You could take Duelyst’s lovely sprite art and use it in your own game, or you could build something entirely new on top of the existinv codebase....

Tacticon is gathering 115 diverse strategy and tactics games from big studios to solo indies. If you like strategy of any kind then you’ll probably stumble across something of interest, as TactiCon is trying to encompass a variety of subgenres within strategy gaming: deckbuilders, RTS, 4X and turn-based. You can take a look at the full list of featured games here. Along with the usual plethora of Steam fest demos and discounts, you can expect some panels and interviews during the event....

Over the last few days, rumours have been flying over Reddit and Resetera around Team Ninja - Koei Tecmo’s development team behind the likes of Ninja Gaiden, Nioh and (crucially) Final Fantasy’s fighting game spin-off Dissidia NT - hooking up with Square Enix to make this Final Fantasy spin-off. Fanbyte’s news editor Imran Khan checked in with his sources, who corroborated the rumour and suggested that the name of the game is “Final Fantasy Origin”....

In this guide, we’ll provide a Temtem type chart to show the strengths and weaknesses of every Temtem type. Temtem type chart Since Temtem introduces a whole new set of creature types to get used to, we’ve created a handy little Temtem type chart that you can have open alongside the game. Click the image above to enlarge the Temtem type chart to full size. This will ensure that you know exactly which types are super effective against which types, and which will resist your Temtem’s attacks....

Now it seems that the issue has been resolved, and Terraria is again on route to Google’s beleaguered cloud gaming platform. The news that Terraria for Stadia was back on was delivered not by Spinks himself, but by fellow Re-Logic developer Ted “Loki” Murphy in a forum update. Stadia is Google’s cloud gaming subscription service, and it’s in dire need of third-party games like Terraria, having closed down all its internal development teams....

Onde Who’s it by? Lance, 3-50, Mixtvision Where can I get it? Steam, GOG How much is it? £11/€12/$14 The most chilled game of the bunch on offer this week, Onde is what you’d get if you attempted to make a game out of the concept of being in a flow state. You control a… sort of octopus? A cell? Whatever it is, it is made up of four smaller cells, each mapped to a different main button on a gamepad....

Fortunately, I’ve whittled them down to a nice, digestible list of the 10 best Star Wars games you should play on PC today, the emphasis very much being on the word ’today’. This is not a list of the best Star Wars games of all-time. Rather, these are the games we’d recommend you play right now, perhaps in anticipation of the upcoming Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, or one of the many other Star Wars games developers Respawn et al are making right now....

Cobra Mk III - Elite Dangerous There are bigger ships. There are quicker ships. But there are no better ships. The Cobra is the jackiest of all trades. You can strap a giant cargo compartment to the backside, yank off the shield generator, paint it bright yellow, and stand back in awe at your beautiful glass lorry. Or you can stock up on piratical thief drones and head out with an electronic space lasso, ready to catch interstellar truckers for mid-flight shakedowns....

The games are split over snowy mountains and sloping deserts, both excellent things to slide down. They get a lot out of the premise. After the llamas escape, you slide after them, doing basic tricks like backflips and dodging rocks, and adding advanced stuff like wall-rides and wingsuits. You can ride over the top of hot air balloons and glide with tornadoes to look extra cool if you like. It’s a mix of relaxing drifting and extreme sports....

Watch Dogs Legion, for those who don’t know, is Ubisoft’s upcoming open world game set in post-Brexit England some time in the future. The game boasts that you can play as quite literally any NPC you pass, as your goal is to recruit people into your sneaky yet resourceful group. Not shying away from the very political theme Watch Dogs Legion is based around, Cieslak mentions the divisive nature of Brexit and how “quite a lot of people are going to be angry that it’s been included in a video game”....

In a macro sense, this game covers just two cases - one where a bit of jewelry has gone missing, and another later on (and in the intervening years Poirot goes from uniformed officer to plain clothes detective) involving blackmail before a wedding. But within those, you get a bunch of different sub-mysteries. Who is secretly in a relationship, and with whom? What exactly is going on between the journalist and the union boss?...

The best mods for The Forest The Forest mods come in all shapes and sizes and add all manner of different features to the game, so we’ve split this list into sections so you can hop directly to the kind of mod you’re looking for. Alternatively, you can just carry on reading the whole thing. We also tell you how to actually go about modding The Forest with our step-by-step guide on how to use its modding platform....

We’ll keep it updated, too, as this year is set to bring us Starfield, and Dragon Age 4 is somewhere on the horizon. They might not be good, but if they are then there’s a spot for them on the list. For now, though, let’s stick with stuff that is out and ready to play. Best RPGS on PC Our main rule when putting together these lists is that a game should still be fun to play today, rather than just making a big impact when it came out....