As we barrel towards the end of the endless yet at an alarming pace, we’ve now opened almost half the doors on the RPS advent calendar. Do check to see our favourite games of the year as we go. A lot of good games this year. I normally manage to cram a lot of my personal wee favourites in my rigging the vote, but this year had too many great games for my trickery. It’s good, I suppose, that there are so many good’uns going round.

What are you playing this weekend? Here’s what we’re clicking on!

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Loop Hero

is a nifty-looking Rogue-like game where you’ll strategically place enemies for your hero from your own hand of cards. Now, before anyone gets on me about calling it a Rogue-like, it’s got randomized adventures, gear, heroes that die, and an “infinite loop” that you’ll need to break out of. The deck-building bit is what somehow makes me personally more interested in it than more literal riffs on Rogue. It will arrive sometime in 2021 for your randomized dungeoning desires.

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CD Projekt’s Red’s newest open world RPG has so far opened a world of bugs at launch, but CDPR have now released a hotfix for PC and PlayStation players to begin addressing some of the biggest issues. Among today’s changes are reduced epilepsy triggers during braindances, copyrighted music issues, and a lot of quest progression bugs squashed.

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The prison map that ghost hunting game Phasmophobia‘s been cooking up is out today in a new game update. That there’s a picture I personally took while exploring it for the first time, a commitment I hope you can appreciate as I do not hunt ghosts solo. Here’s a few other observations about the new prison map from yours truly before you go try it for yourself.

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It sure seems like absolutely everything and everyone appear in Cyberpunk 2077—Keanu Reeves, Grimes, Hideo Kojima, a pose favored by Sailor Moon—but here’s a cameo that’s going the other way at last. Cyberpunk 2077’s very own futuristic cyber car is taking its tires for a spin over on the tracks of Forza Horizon 4 and you can nab it free in game right now.

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The folks of Scavengers Studio behind snowy last survivor standing game Darwin Project have announced something quite different as their next project. Season is a bicycle adventure through a world not quite like ours facing some great collapse, as revealed during a lovely-looking trailer during last night’s The Game Awards show.

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At long last, Cyberpunk 2077 is finally out. Whether your PC is up to actually playing it, though, is another matter entirely. Like The Witcher 3 before it, CD Projekt Red’s latest open world action RPG is a real beast in the old PC performance department, and you may find your rig is struggling to maintain a steady frame rate as you hack your way round the bright lights of Night City.

To help you get the best performance in Cyberpunk 2077, I’ve put together this settings guide so you can see exactly what graphics options you can tweak to help give your PC a bit of a boost. After all, given the state of current hardware prices at the moment, now is not the best time to be buying a new graphics card to improve your PC’s performance the old-fashioned way. Instead, here’s how you can squeeze another 20fps or so out of your existing rig while we wait for everything to calm down a bit.

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During last night’s The Game Awards show with games announcements man Geoff Keighley, a different Geoff actually arrived to deliver one of the reveals. Geoff Ramsey, one of the voices from ye olde Halo-based Red Vs Blue web series, popped out in character as Grif of the red team to announce a new capture the flag map for Fortnite inside a very familiar canyon.

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Rob from the rich and give to the poor, that old Robin Hood’s deal, right? Wrong! In Hood: Outlaws & Legends you’ll be nicking treasure from the oppressive government and, yeah, still giving back to the people it’s been taken from. I hope you get to keep some loot, though. At The Game Awards last night, the upcoming medieval co-op heist game got a shiny new trailer, and a release date to boot: it’s coming out May 10th, 2021.

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Because of all the Dragon Age 4 and BioWare talk over the last week, we thought we’d challenge each other on western RPGs in this week’s Mystery Steam Reviews.

Little did we know — and as Matthew correctly identified on this week’s episode of The PC Gaming Weekspot — we definitely made a few wrong choices and got the bad ending in this.

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