Baking the best bread in the business A rooster calls, and the sun rises as I stock the shelves for another day inWinkeltje: The Little Shop, abusiness managementgame about running a little store in a fantasy town. I recently inherited Hefford’s Hovel and, after a manic start, have managed to become well-known for my loaves of bread. Each day customers charge into the store and raid the various displays, tussling over freshly-baked rolls before scrambling home to slap them on a plate....

Our indie coverage is about to go through the roof To explain some of the thinking behind this change, let me do a little scene setting. If you could peer into our RPS Slack channel, you’d see a chat awash with links to incredible looking indie games, strange Itch projects and loads of neat demos. Most of them come from Alice0. It’s one of her greatest strengths, and her ability to constantly root out all these amazing new games is something I’ve always admired about her....

Pot boys, not warrior jars Just a small daft fun thing: I’m delighted to see anElden Ringplayer has realised you can use a bug to dress as the star ofGetting Over It With Bennett Foddy, complete with his pot. Of all the strange outfits I’ve seen inElden Ring, this is one of my favourites. What a joy to see that unlikely gaming icon again, and how gracious of him to visit an easy game for babies....

Art and science Melos Han-Tani and Marina Kittaka, the dev duo that make upAnalgesic Productions, seem to make games about scientists. Young, the hero of their Link’s Awakening-influenced debutAnodyne, may not technically be one, but he bears the coke-bottle glasses and white coat that may make you think he is. Aliph, the put-upon protagonist of the haunting, grief-stricken 2D side-scrollerEven The Ocean, works as power plant technician. Nova, hero of Analgesic’s tour de force Anodyne 2: Return To Dust, labours as a Nano Cleaner, one with the ability to shrink inside the psyches of those plagued by Nano Dust, corrupting their thoughts....

Out on the tiles Until last year, the idea of having a ‘forever game’ never really clicked with me. I’m too old and thin-skinned to enjoy the competitive nature of most online FPS games, and rallying together a regular squad of buddies to tackle the world of games as a service always seemed too much like hard work. Heck, even the allure of daily challenges in some of my favourite single-player games has never quite hooked me in the same way I’ve seen them take hold in friends and family....

The cheapest overclocked RTX 3080 Ti we’ve seen so far. Looking for a GPU? The RTX 3080 Ti offers comparable performance to the RTX 3090 while costing far less, and today there’s an OC model available at the card’s UK RRP. It’s an Ventus 3X OC model from MSI, with a hefty triple-slot thermal solution that ought to keep the card cool and quiet even running at its factory overclocked 1695MHz....

Here’s how to move all your Bethesda games onto Steam Want to know how to transfer your Bethesda Launcher games over to Steam?Back in FebruaryBethesda announcedthat they intended to shut down their Launcher and migrate all their games over to Steam within the coming months, and it looks like that day has arrived. You can now use the Bethesda website to start the process of transferring all your Bethesda games over to your Steam account so you can continue playing them just like before....

Five hundred years later, the man who probably invented video games is in one Humankind’s free Vitruvian update has arrived and it introduces one of history’s greatest inventors, artists and inspirations behind a Ninja Turtle: Renaissance legend Leonardo da Vinci. An avatar and persona of da Vinci are unlockable rewards for completing six new challenges in the game’s Da Vinci Event, running through May 16th. Sift through full patch notes for the Vitruvian updateherefor details of the bug fixes and some subtle changes to the UI, Beliefs system and, of course, trebuchets....

Sunderland ‘Til You Die You’ve survived Silent Hill and escaped Raccoon City, but are you ready to visit Sunderland? A pleasantly unpleasant new free horror game goes down inside the real Sunderland metro station ofPark Lane, and I can’t think of any other game set in the Northern English city. I am delighted when hyper-local mundanities appear in video games. The game, also named Park Lane, is about waiting for your train on a late and lonely night....

The second batch of Famous Flyers planes introduces the Gee Bee Super Sportsters Two more aircraft have dived intoMicrosoft Flight Simulator’s roster in its second Famous Flyers pack of paid DLC, the 1930s Gee Bee Super Sportster air-racers. The stubby-winged, compact Model Z and Model R-2 arrive as the game sees its ninth update, with plenty of bug fixes, a new Spotlight Event landing challenge and an authentic vapour cone for when you go supersonic in the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet....

Will we finally see Starfield in action? This year’s Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase will take place online on June 12th, Microsoft have announced todayvia Xbox Wire. The announcement is light on details right now, as you might expect, but there’s the promise of a “diverse line-up of games coming soon to the Xbox ecosystem, including upcoming releases to Game Pass on Xbox and PC”. Personally, I’m hoping we’ll see our first proper gameplay footage ofStarfield, given it launches almost five months to the day from that date....

Bounced into early access with a demo Combine the peg-pinging action ofPegglewith the roguelikelike dungeon crawling of Slay The Spire and you getPeglin, a delightful game which launched into early access on Monday. Off your cute wee peglin goes on an adventure, battling baddies and claiming treasures, but damage is dealt by pling-plonging orbs down Peggle/pachinko boards and you have a bag of different orbs instead of cards. I like it, and it has a demo you can try for yourself....

A worthy heir After a year in early access,Rogue Legacy 2has born a 1.0 heir, and it’s a game I’ve become well-acquainted with over the last few days. They’re a complex individual with violent tendencies, but invest in them and they’ll flower into a roguelike that you won’t be able to detach yourself from. The game is a worthy successor to the originalRogue Legacy, and one that builds on it with a wealth of incentives to make your runs more rewarding....