Many of you are by now bathing in twinkling neon ravelights and swooning into the metal arms of Cyberpunk 2077‘s humourless unhunks, who stalk the streets of Night City like animatronic pizza restaurant mascots gone feral. That is fine. There are worse places to find oneself in the labyrinthine hell of video games. Places such as these. Here are 9 neighbourhoods you wouldn’t want to bring up your children in.

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Streets Of Rogue let you get away with some pretty daft stuff. Want to make a profit on the zombie apocalypse? Sorted. Feel like possessing the clone of a scientist to kill his genetic source? Gotcha. But developer Matt Dabrowski reckons there’s even more mayhem he can throw into the Streets Of Rogue blender, and has announced plans for a sequel to deliver just that. After all, what if you could fit those five bloodthirsty gorillas in a truck?

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Every game is better with friends, but some games are the most betterer of all. These are the best co-op games you can play on PC in 2020. Whether you want to survive against zombie hordes, fell giant monsters, or fling your physicsy forms across chasms, there’s a game for you below.

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2019 was a great year for PC games – aren’t they all? – but you might not yet know what the very best> PC games of 2019 were. Let us help you.

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Four weeks ago, in the disgusting heat of old August, we told you we can t stop playing the chaos-fuelled micro-muckabout Streets Of Rogue. And since then we’ve not stopped banging on about it. It’s sort of embarrassing. We spoke to its creator, we praised its tabletop-ish freedom, and we enjoyed having a totally normal one. But listen, we ve got to move on. It turns out we actually can stop playing this gangster-blasting chimp sim. But not before we deliver a final verdict.

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Friends are the worst. One minute they re stuffing delicious bananas in your mouth to heal your wounds, the next they re flailing at your head with a police truncheon. But what would life be without some friendly fractures to the skull? In Streets Of Rogue, the anarchic roguelite we can t stop playing, you can still harm your fellow players in co-op mode. That means lots of accidental pal-murdering.

But that s not how you should play this with friends. You should do it like we did, with a plan. There are a lot of characters in the game, each with their own abilities, so you can easily build a crew of delightful degenerates. Here are some co-op recipes we came up with, guaranteed to provide a good time.

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Streets Of Rogue is a tiny Deus Ex about being stupid. It s good. If you haven t heard us shouting about this teeny-yet-turbulent roguelite, then you haven t been paying attention. To add to the cacophony, I spoke to its creator, Matt Dabrowski, about troublesome bodysnatchers, rampaging giants, vague sequel plans, and how he went about brute-forcing as many silly ideas as possible into a tiny toy city.

“If I have a cool idea, he says, I’m going to try to find some way to get it in there.”

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Streets Of Rogue is a chaotic playground of cunning tricks, slapstick violence, and endless, endless laughter. We’ve been playing it together muchly here lately, in fact you could say we Can’t Stop Playing it.

An important feature we’ve not discussed yet is the custom character creator. This lets you combine the wacky traits and abilities from other characters to make your own little pixel person. It is brilliant. Streets Of Rogue wants you to have fun, to the extent that there’s little to stop you from, oh, I don’t know, recreating characters from your favourite novels and films. Let’s see how that went.

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I love Streets Of Rogue. Loads of us here at Rock Paper Shotgun do, it’s why we Can’t Stop Playing it. I wanted to dig a little into why> I enjoy it as much as I do, and I think a really good way of communicating why is comparing it to rules-light tabletop RPGs.

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You may have already seen us bellowing about Streets Of Rogue, the tiny but flavourful immersive sim full of chaos and angry gorillas. That s because we can t stop playing it. This week, the pod squad are gathering to chat about why they think it s so bloomin good. But also their favourite characters in the game, from a drug-addicted investment banker to a tiny naked body snatcher.

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