Chat Betrayal At Club Low with us in RPS Game Club

Live from 4pm BST today

TheRPS Game Clubreturns for its second liveblog session, this time about the weird and wonderfulBetrayal At Club Low. Join us from4pm BST today, April 28th, where we’ll be chatting all things pizza and our best disco moves. Lots of the RPS Treehouse have had a great time with Club Low this month, and we hope you’ve been playing along too. So why not come and join in the discussion with us? See you at 4pm, folks!

Our live coverage of this event has finished.

–Katharine Castle

Truth.

–Katharine Castle

Whatdoesflamingo meat taste of though? Is it one of those many things that just taste like chicken? I would love to know.

–Katharine Castle

Love a bit of basil. A classic. A staple. Can’t have pizza (or pesto) without it.

–Katharine Castle

Durian swapping dice is invaluable! Definitely my clutch topping of choice. Even if I have often then needed a Truth Peppers reroll to save me from the durian. I dedicate my life to hubris and daring the fates.

In terms of real pizza, hand on heart, the only topping I miss as a longtime vegetarian is donner kebab meat. Absolute filth. Beautiful. But I like mushrooms too.

–Alice O’Connor

The durian was an absolute lifesaver in a lot of circumstances, for sure. God bless the durian. The most profitable Animal Crossing fruit, and the best Club Low topping. Butwhydoes it taste and smell sobaaaaaad???

–Katharine Castle

–Rebecca Jones

You have to win it from yer manager man in the green room. I barely did it the first time. A classic draw of the dice.

If you get it, though, it’s so good. If rolled, it swaps your numbers over with your opponents. Which can be terrible if you roll a good hand initially, but can be just the thing to turn an unwinnable situation around.

–Katharine Castle

Hey, if you’re saying you’re a pineapple on pizza person, that civil war can start right now…

–Katharine Castle

I also wish to show off how organised my pizzas are. I have never baked a real pizza this tidy. Now that’s what I call a gaming power fantasy.

–Alice O’Connor

Artichoke is one of those real marmite choices for me. I’ll tolerate it, but I don’t love it.

–Katharine Castle

–Rebecca Jones

I also wish to show off how organised my pizzas are. I have never baked a real pizza this tidy. Now that’s what I call a gaming power fantasy.

Those are some beautifully organised pizzas. Mine were all over the shop.

–Katharine Castle

–Rebecca Jones

Oh, you’ll love Club Low, I think. Very similar deal. Tales From Off Peak City also has the infamous flamingo meat, and lets you make pizzas as well!

–Katharine Castle

I did my best to maximise tips with my pizza dice, but I rarely succeeded.

–Katharine Castle

Just realised you had $106, Alice0! A mad amount of money!

–Katharine Castle

–Rebecca Jones

–Katharine Castle

I’m curious: was this anyone’s first game in the series? I played from the start, and have been going around telling pals no it’s fine you can jump in whenever, the connections between games are not vital to understanding. And I think that’s true? An overarching story certainly does develop but I reckon it’s fine to start with whichever most appeals, then maybe later enjoy going back and discovering the connections if you dig it? Right? I hope I have not been handing out bad advice.

–Alice O’Connor

–Katharine Castle

I’ve done 4am. Honestly, I expected it to be more trouble. But as Katharine’s wonder at my wallet might suggest (didn’t even mention my dice were half-full of sixes), I have played it through a few times, so I knew where the whack and lean on the game to force advantages. I liked that little test of needing that knowledge.

–Alice O’Connor

On my very first playthrough, I punched the laser door just to see what would happen. Needless to say, it did not end well.

–Katharine Castle

–Rebecca Jones

–Katharine Castle

Because it’s always worth plugging… for the benefit of everyone: the original Off-Peak is freeon Steamand pay-what-you-want (no minimum)on Itch. I replayed it this week and it’s still such a striking start to the series. Comes out with such confidence. And then to continue that across another three games…! It probably is my favourite series of games, and it works well in part because it’s a series of fragments. I, uh, should technically be finishing a post on that subject right now rather than doing this.

–Alice O’Connor

I never quite got to 6s and 7s, but big same on this. Went big on a couple of numbers, but still a lot of 2s all over the place.

–Katharine Castle

–Rebecca Jones

Haha, thank you! (and no sweat on the spelling!)

–Katharine Castle

–Rebecca Jones

–Katharine Castle

Big same, Sabby787, big same!

–Katharine Castle

There was a moment where I’d managed to pull it back from making a terrible stew, and then I instantly upset him again. Though I did manage to say the escape word and have him not notice on a complete fluke, which I’m still quite proud of.

–Katharine Castle

–Rebecca Jones

So cool.

–Katharine Castle

Oh interesting! He made no comment on the tune I eventually played on the DJ decks, so I didn’t know this factored in to whether he liked you or not. Good to know…

–Katharine Castle

Citizen Sleeper is real good for this.

–Katharine Castle

I wouldn’t mind holidaying in Off-Peak City, but I think I’d go mad living there.

–Katharine Castle

Thank you! :D

–Katharine Castle

I’ve never found it hilarious but I was often delighted. Delight is underrated. I wish more games would try to delight me than make me laugh. Because, you know, so few games trying to be funny actually are, and that’s a painful feeling.

–Alice O’Connor

–Rebecca Jones

I approve.

–Katharine Castle

Although I do now want to mod movie quips into Cosmo D games. Add voiced lines which respond to every unusual item with cynical derision. Constant quipping at every skull and musical instrument and pizza ingredient and bath full of energy drink and canal swimmer and identical people and baby clone and dance and giant and talking building. Monstrous. But that’s what I like so much about Off-Peak city! As I’ve said a few times, these games commit so fully to being what they are that none of it is wacky, it’s just how things are.

–Alice O’Connor

SEE YA!

–Katharine Castle