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Here’s how to unlock the Archon Remnant 2, this year’s sequel to surprisingly good ‘Dark Souls, but a co-op shooter’Remnant: From the Ashes, continues to land surprise after surprise - from being asurprisingly ambitious follow-upto the less-good surprise ofits tech woes on PC. The biggest and best surprise so far might be an entirely new class, which devs Gunfire Games deliberately hid behind an unlock process so obscure you needed to datamine its solution....

Admiring more interesting indie games Every weekend, indie devs show off current work on Twitter’s#screenshotsaturdaytag. And every Monday, I bring you a selection of these snaps and clips. This week, my eye has been caught by a whole lot of water, which I swear is a coincidence. Ships! Ponds! Otherworldly pools! Ponds! Sharkgirls! Come admire these attractive and interesting indie games. A big splash inSelfloss(coming to Steam): It’s#screenshotsaturdayand the time for the giant whale to jump up out of the abyss!...

My favourite Elden thing What lies beyond Limgrave? I honestly don’t know. I’ve muddled my way throughElden Ring’s starting peninsula three times now, but have yet to step foot beyond the crumbling gatehouse ofStormveil Castle. The second Godrick The Grafted is reduced to a sickly pile of wobbly limbs, I turn the game off and walk away. It’s not that I don’t like Elden Ring. I’m not struggling to connect with itsopen worldtake on the Souls genre....

What a wonderful world Like everyone with a shred of taste and a pair of mostly functional eyes, I can look atMinecraftand appreciate theoutrageously ambitious and detailed buildsthat get shared around every few weeks. Putting form to my own megastructures, though? Can’t, sorry – I already have plans to wander around and gawp at nature. Outside of Creative mode, exploration has always been core to Mojang’s blockysurvivalsandbox. You need food and shelter to live, and resources for both of those are unlikely to be waiting at your spawn point....

I’m not crying, it’s the onions As a massive foodie with a near bottomless appetite, it pained me to watchVenba’s mouth-watering cooking puzzles knowing a similarly tasty-looking treat wasn’t waiting for me in real life. But as a second-generation immigrant, the game’s explorations of that experience hit so surprisingly close to home that I wasn’t left hungry by the time credits rolled. Venba is a touching, smart, and soulful game that made me want to hug everyone in my family immediately....

Plus details on the DLC packs, free updates, and promises of better PC performance ‘Soulslike but in the Han Dynasty’ gameWo Long: Fallen Dynastyreleased earlier this year, but developers Team Ninja are gearing up for another five months of updates and DLC. A recently revealed roadmap details all the changes coming to the action RPG, from the seemingly small balance tweaks to the hopefully exciting crossovers with fellow Soulsian bedfellowsLies Of PandNioh....

Stuck on the Wordle word for July 31? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?Another week brings another fresh batch ofWordlepuzzles, and they’ve started off with a tough one. If you’re feeling the Monday blues and could do with a hand to make sure you don’t lose that Wordle streak, then you’re in the right place! Every day, Wordle presents its legions of players with a deviously simple quandary: can you guess the right five-letter word within just six guesses?...

New weapons, levels, baddies “I’m going to put on my golden spike fists and start punch the air rapidly, like this”,Amid Evilexpansion The Black Labyrinth seems to say. “And if all you monsters in the mist should be pulped, then that’s your own fault.” Set before the events of the base game, it looks every bit as bloody, and Blood-y, as its throwback first-person shooter predecessor. It also now has a release date: August 18th....

Coming in August Broforcewas a side-scrolling riff on ’80s action movies, in which you’d take control of Rambro, B.A. Broracus and others to run ‘n’ gun through explosive levels. I feel like most of my runs would end because I blew myself up alongside the enemies. On August 8th, Broforce is getting one final free update. Titled Broforce Forever, it adds six new bros, introduced in a trailer below. The six new bros are Xebro: Warrior Princess, Demoition Bro, Burt Brommer, Seth Brondle, Broffy The Vampire Slayer, and Desperabro....

And I do Jagged Alliance 3seemed like a probable car crash waiting to happen, in part because mostJagged Alliancegames are, and in part because its wide-of-the-mark writing was already evident before release. But! It turns out to also be a cannily designed mix of old and new turn-based strategy ideas. You can now try it for yourself, as there’s a demo on Steam. “Apparently, We didn’t F*** It Up!” starts thenews on Steam....

“Goodbye!” Palworldis comfortably summarised as ‘Pokémon with guns’, thanks to its too-familiar character designs and third-person machinegun combat. It’s got more going on than that, though. It’salsoPokémon with base building, Pokémon with sweat shops, Pokémon with corpse piles. A new developer tutorial explains how you can ‘use Pals efficiently’ by putting them to work for you. “Catch a Pal. Make it work. Catch a Pal. Make it work,” advises developers Pocketpair, over footage of Pals constructing machinery and gardens....

Stuck on today’s Wordle word for July 29? Read our hint or find the answer below! Need a hint for today’s Wordle answer?We made it to the weekend! Congrats, if you’re now off work, or commiserations to those who work the weekend shift. Whether you’re pondering how to spend your designated days of rest and relaxation, or getting ready for another day on the grind, why not grab a hot cuppa and start the day with aWordle....

Live from 4pm BST Hello! It’sRPS Game Clubchat time! As you know, this month’s pick isUnpacking, and here at RPS, we’ve been writing a bunchof lovely wordsabout Witch Beam’s block puzzle tidy-em-up. I’ve really enjoyed returning to this indie gem and have noted the irony of my Unpacking house being spick and span but my own house being, well, a dumping ground. But we wanna hear what you have to say, so put that kettle on, grab some bourbons, and tell us what you think....