Suzerain - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Sin Vega)

A screenshot of a newspaper front page in Suzerain. The headline reads 'Government imposes mandatory vaccine policy'

December has provided a bounty of games at the long-awaited death of a hideous year, but its greatest and most unexpected treasure is already clear to me.

Suzerain is the modern successor to Hidden Agenda, an ancient political simulator I once described as “possibly the greatest political simulator ever made”. A fictional nation still bleeding from civil war has just overthrown a dictator, and elected you to lead it into whatever future you think is right, just as the world begins to light up with the countless devastating proxy wars of the 1950s. It is superb. The game, I mean. Not the wars. Those are very bad.

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2020 年 12 月 31 日
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

In the foreground, a Christmas cracker in harlequin colours wearing a jester's crown tears itself open. It has a pained grin on its face. Out of it bursts slips of papers saying things like 'PC GAME HUMOUR', 'GR8 JOKE', and 'BIG LARFS'. In the background, Horace the Endless Bear sits on a throne, wearing a crown and ermine robes. He does not appear to be amused.

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Q: How do vets in dystopian future London diagnose skin conditions in poorly hounds?

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Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Colm Ahern)

A DJ mixing DMX with Ace Of Base in Fuser to a massive crowd

I’ll always make it my business to check out a game if music is meaningfully integrated. From Crypt Of The NecroDancer‘s beat-hopping and Vib-Ribbon’s path-generating, to the Rock Bands and DJ Heros that clogged up all of our attics with plastic instruments, I love it all. Well… not all>.

I don’t need to tell you that Harmonix are the superstars of this world. They’re the ones that gifted us the cultural phenomenon of toy guitars, so you better believe I’ll be paying attention to whatever they release. It’s like that chart-topping act you had plastered all over your walls 20 years ago: they don’t get radio play anymore, but you’ll always give their new stuff a spin.

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2020 年 12 月 30 日
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

In the foreground, a Christmas cracker in harlequin colours wearing a jester's crown tears itself open. It has a pained grin on its face. Out of it bursts slips of papers saying things like 'PC GAME HUMOUR', 'GR8 JOKE', and 'BIG LARFS'. In the background, Horace the Endless Bear sits on a throne, wearing a crown and ermine robes. He does not appear to be amused.

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Q: What’s the bravest insect?

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Mesmer - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Alice Bell)

A guard in a fancy blue and gold uniform addresses a crowd in Mesmer. The woman next to him, in a captains hat, hangs her head. He is saying she is 'Guilty of inciting revolt, seeding disobedience and spreading lies about our state!'

We are living, we are constantly told, through unprecedented times. Years like 2020 are the kind of years that make me think things like “woah, we are living through history, like, all the time>“, like a stoned 20-year-old gap year dude coming to self awareness for the first time in his life.

In Mesmer you get to be the history maker, in an old-world, European-esque city that is ruled over by a corrupt monarchy. Leading a revolution and storming the castle is, as it turns out, quite difficult, and requires a complex balancing act.

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2020 年 12 月 29 日
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

In the foreground, a Christmas cracker in harlequin colours wearing a jester's crown tears itself open. It has a pained grin on its face. Out of it bursts slips of papers saying things like 'PC GAME HUMOUR', 'GR8 JOKE', and 'BIG LARFS'. In the background, Horace the Endless Bear sits on a throne, wearing a crown and ermine robes. He does not appear to be amused.

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Q: What happens when Luke Skywalker eats calamari that’s been left out of the fridge for three days?

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Craftopia / 始世樂土 - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Ed Thorn)

The player stands with a bucket in hand and looks at all the crops they've grown.

When Kirby inhales an enemy, he’s able to steal that character’s famous moves as well as a bit of their appearance. Now imagine a group of Kirbys, all attached to one another like some pink frog spawn, inhaling every popular game that released over the last couple of years. Then the violent eruption as Multi-Kirby belches out the result: Craftopia.

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2020 年 12 月 28 日
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

In the foreground, a Christmas cracker in harlequin colours wearing a jester's crown tears itself open. It has a pained grin on its face. Out of it bursts slips of papers saying things like 'PC GAME HUMOUR', 'GR8 JOKE', and 'BIG LARFS'. In the background, Horace the Endless Bear sits on a throne, wearing a crown and ermine robes. He does not appear to be amused.

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Q: What do you call a magical action roguelike where a witch with a poor Irish accent kills zombies, pixel by simulated pixel?

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Milky Way Prince – The Vampire Star - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (Giada Zavarise)

A screenshot from Milky Way Prince showing a young man sat cross legged in front of a large window. Everything is red tinged - behind him are the tops of some pinky red palm trees, and a red apartment block. The young man looks like he has been gagged by a butterfly.

Playing Milky Way Prince made me think about people I would rather forget, and memories that will never quite stop hurting. You know, the ones about the intense, dysfunctional relationships you sometimes end up in when you’re stupid and young.

It’s a game that feels young at its core – the first commercial work of a solo developer, Lorenzo “eyeguys” Redaelli, and the first work published by developer Santa Ragione, of Wheels Of Aurelia fame. Like many young adults, it’s rough around the edges and entirely too sincere.

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2020 年 12 月 27 日
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - contact@rockpapershotgun.com (RPS)

In the foreground, a Christmas cracker in harlequin colours wearing a jester's crown tears itself open. It has a pained grin on its face. Out of it bursts slips of papers saying things like 'PC GAME HUMOUR', 'GR8 JOKE', and 'BIG LARFS'. In the background, Horace the Endless Bear sits on a throne, wearing a crown and ermine robes. He does not appear to be amused.

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Q: Which legendary American character actor starred in films such as The Deer Hunter, Catch Me If You Can, and Antz, while simultaneously hacking and slashing his way through a shattered and corrupted RPG world with no class restrictions?

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