Point and Click

A man shapes as if to throw a rock at you in Blood On The Thames.

Feature

Supporters only | Ponder a quietly charming meta-mystery in Blood On The Thames

Away if idol

April 10, 2025Sin Vega

4 comments

A man in a hoody stands on wet asphalt with a row of cars ahead of him and palm trees in the distance.

News

A skeezy crypto GTA 6 clone will launch on Steam this week despite Valve's blockchain ban

The other kind of crime sim

March 31, 2025Brendan Caldwell

25 comments

A puzzling scene in a Riven remake screenshot.

News

Myst and Riven developer Cyan Worlds lay off 12, essentially cutting their team in half

The studio is currently looking to secure financing for their next project

March 29, 2025Oisin Kuhnke

6 comments

Three characters stand on dusty ground surrounded by bushes in Rosewater.

Review

Rosewater review

A traditional point-and-click adventure, for better and worse

March 27, 2025Dayten Rose

54 comments

An alive man discovers a dead man in Slender Threads.

News

Slender Threads is an engrossing point n' click horror with old school charm, out this week

From the Kelvin And The Infamous Machine developer

Feb. 5, 2025Nic Reuben

9 comments

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

Feature

Our 50 most anticipated PC games of 2025

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

Jan. 8, 2025Graham Smith

119 comments

The player stands in a car park next to a sports car as the sun sets over palm trees in the distance.

News

GTA copycat Paradise is an alleged crypto scam, yet continues to gain Steam wishlists

More red flags than a ski slope

Jan. 6, 2025Brendan Caldwell

47 comments

A creepy mannequin caresses the cheek of a piano player in Judas

News

Bioshock was "basically a corridor", says Ken Levine - Judas won't be, and characters will have long memories

No "random number generator" quests, hopefully

Jan. 2, 2025Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

73 comments

Screenshots of An English Haunting, Dragon's Dogma 2 and Vampire Survivors: Ode To Castlevania.

Feature

The RPS Selection Box: Jeremy's bonus games of the year 2024

Hauntings and dragons and whips

Dec. 26, 2024Jeremy Blum

21 comments

Key art showing the cast of Duck Detective: The Ghost Of Glamping.

News

Mallard mystery-solver is taking on a new case in Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Alt: Mallard malady mender

Dec. 10, 2024Graham Smith

2 comments

News

The creators of Jett and Sword & Sworcery are making a 2D mystery action game

Might be out in 2027

Dec. 4, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

18 comments

A very large whale from adventure game Hyperdrive Inn.

News

Hyperdrive Inn is a Lucasarts style adventure game made entirely from scanned fabric samples

Whole cloth

Dec. 2, 2024Nic Reuben

2 comments

A pirate plays the banjo in Curse Of Monkey Island.

Feature

Supporters only | Object-ive review: Captain Blondebeard’s gold tooth from The Curse Of Monkey Island

Toothsome

Nov. 29, 2024Nic Reuben

7 comments

A scene in The Rise Of The Golden Idol that shows a family panicking after a block of ice interrupts their garden barbeque.

Review

The Rise Of The Golden Idol review: fiendish but fair detective puzzling whose mystery you’ll want to unravel

Fuzzwords

Nov. 12, 2024Nic Reuben

18 comments

Two guards look perplexed in a jail in Rise Of The Golden Idol.

News

Rise Of The Golden Idol launches November 12th, with four DLC planned in 2025

Opening a new case

Nov. 9, 2024Graham Smith

19 comments

A clay sculpture sits on a desk, with a pile of books to its left, a journal to its right, and a magnifying glass hanging down above it.

News

This bite-size free horror game has you study an ancient artefact that holds a dark secret

I want more

Nov. 5, 2024Ed Thorn

1 comment

The UI and some abstract imagery in adventure game Decade.

News

Decade is a tech-noir adventure game where you send children back in time to prevent metal rain from pulping the planet

Create multiple futures from a doomed past

Oct. 28, 2024Nic Reuben

10 comments

A scene in Slay The Princess showing a great hall in a castle filled with giant globs of flesh, and a drain filled with blood running down the centre of the floor

News

Slay The Princess gets three new chapters and more when The Pristine Cut releases 24th October

I keep wanting to call it a regicide-em-up because the accurate Latin is too awkward

Sept. 26, 2024Nic Reuben

14 comments

A grim reaper skeleton from Beyond Shadowgate.

News

I didn’t play Shadowgate, but this skeleton reminds me of HeroQuest and that’s good enough for me

Blistered thumbs

Sept. 23, 2024Nic Reuben

20 comments

Many checkboxes in a grid obscure what was once the image of a whale.

News

One Million Checkboxes players hid binary, QR codes and rickrolls among the boxes during its two week war

The internet at its best

Sept. 14, 2024Graham Smith

8 comments

A creepy clown who resembles Pennywise stands out of a hole in the ground in Devil's Hideout.

Review

Devil's Hideout review: scattershot horror through a surreal urban hell

Like a Stephen King story in its best moments

Sept. 10, 2024Jeremy Blum

11 comments

Eavesdropping on a conversation in The Crimson Diamond.

Review

The Crimson Diamond review: an enthralling retro-inspired EGA game with modern mystery style

READ REVIEW OF GAME

Aug. 14, 2024Alice Bell

47 comments

A triangular blue portal mounted above an ocean in point-and-click adventure Neyyah

News

Mysty-eyed point-and-clicker Neyyah brings back the glory of pre-rendered backdrops in August

More areas and puzzles coming over early access

July 30, 2024Edwin Evans-Thirlwell

10 comments

Entering a space journalism base in Times and Galaxy.

Feature

Supporters only | Times & Galaxy is a quietly excellent space journalism story

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July 26, 2024Sin Vega

4 comments

A communal fridge door filled with poems.

News

This web game lets you drag words around a communal fridge door to create poetry

Come back and see what's changed

July 25, 2024Ed Thorn

16 comments