Alice Liguori

Marie’s Room is perhaps one of the shortest games I’ve ever played. Intentionally short, anyway. There are plenty of games that have made me want to stop playing and so have been "short" for the wrong reasons, but Marie’s Room is a short game I wish was longer. Although I understand entirely why it had to be the length it was. There are no save…

Tagged with Have You Played, Like Charlie, Marie's Room.

I’m super into murder mysteries and wandering around falsely idyllic towns, so The Painscreek Killings really spoke to me. There are red phone boxes but dollar signs, yet something about it still feels so quintessentially British. Little did I know that I would get so deep into this mystery that I would end up filling just over 10 A4 sides of paper, with notes scribbled…

Tagged with EQ Studios, Have You Played, The Painscreek Killings.

Hue is an delightful puzzle game which is incredibly bright and colourful (unsurprisingly), where you progress by changing the colour of the background. At its core it’s quite a sad game. You’re searching for your missing mother, and you uncover her story as you go. This takes you through various themes of love, loss, remorse, and existence. It might be sad, but damn it’s beautiful.

Tagged with Curve Digital, Fiddlesticks Games, Have You Played, Hue.

What’s this? The Spectrum Retreat? Another puzzle game chosen by Alice L? She would never, she’s not that predictable! Well, wait. If the slendermenesque robots aren’t enough to hook you, then how about knowing it was created by one guy, for five years, and he started it when he was 15. How impressive is that? It also won the BAFTA Young Game Designer Game Making…

Tagged with Dan Smith Studios, Have You Played, ripstone, The Spectrum Retreat.

Look at this creepy snek dude. This game used to scare the heebie jeebies out of me, but I did have an above average reading and spelling age in Lower School so I guess I ought to give it a special shout out for that reason alone. In Word Rescue you had to… rescue words. It’s still on Steam if you want to up your…

Tagged with 3D Realms, Apogee Software, Have You Played, Redwood Games, Word Rescue.

I’m going to be honest here. I was incredibly apprehensive about Bridge Constructor Portal. I didn’t even play it for the first 8 months after it came out. I am a huge Portal fan and I think I was a bit offended by this game when I first heard of it. Kids these days get offended by anything, the snowflakes.

Tagged with ClockStone, Have You Played, Headup Games, Whispergames, Bridge Constructor Portal.

Uh oh, here she goes again. “Does anyone want to tell Alice that The Sims 4 is the worst iteration in the Sims series?” No, you don’t need to tell me, I know it’s not the best. The Sims 3 will forever be dear to my heart, what with its cars and lack of loading screens, but The Sims 4 does its best by having…

Tagged with Electronic Arts, feature, Have You Played, The Sims Studio, The Sims 4.

Wheeewy, Barbie had some pretty amazing careers back in the day didn’t she? From being a super sports superstar, a world class horse rider, amazing vet, to clued-up detective, she’s certainly had all the careers you wanted when you were a kid. At least she gave you the opportunity to live out her best lives in the form of a videogame, I suppose.

Tagged with feature, Gigawatt Studios, Have You Played, Vivendi Universal Games, Secret Agent Barbie.

I like little games you can jump in and out of, or play all in one go, and Flood of Light is one of those. It’s a hand-drawn, 2D, adventure puzzle game. And if you know me, you know I love puzzle games. You play a small girl in a big raincoat, called "The Guide", left in a city that is submerged in water. It…

Tagged with feature, Have You Played, Irisloft, Flood of Light.

What Remains of Edith Finch has a story that will stay with you for a long time. Small tableaus of the lives of the Finch family. Much like Gone Home you start at your old family home, but this time you uncover how a lot of your family died. Cheerful, I know. However, with each new story you learn a little more about the family…

Tagged with feature, Giant Sparrow, Have You Played, What Remains of Edith Finch.

It almost feels wrong to put a precision killing machine like Agent 47 into the hands of a total newcomer, but sometimes needs must. As the video team's resident Hitman fan was off assassinating some brain cells on a stag do, I was left to attend a hands-on with the newest stage in Hitman 2. It's called Santa Fortuna, and whisks you off to sunny…

Tagged with IO Interactive, video, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, Hitman 2.

Who doesn’t love cats, right? But who really wants to date a cat? I mean sure, we’ve heard of people marrying their pets, but that first dinner out has to be awkward, right? “If loving cats is wrong, I don’t wanna be right,” the trailer for Purrfect Date sings at you. This is a dating sim by Bae Team... with cats.

Tagged with Bae Team, feature, Have You Played, Purrfect Date.

What’s this? Two video posts on the site in two days? Now, you can’t say we don’t spoil you, because, well, we do. If you were wondering why we didn’t have a Monday Matinee or even a Tuesday Matinee it’s because we were busy filming our first ever episode of our new Team Play series. In this series myself, Noa, and Mathew will be playing…

Tagged with Larian Studios, let's play, Team Lemons, videos, Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition.

Ahhh management games. Aaahh building games. Ahhh roller coasters. Planet Coaster is easily one of my favourite games in which to waste about 300 hours at a time. I’m only slightly exaggerating. I was a bit late to the party with Planet Coaster, but once you finally buy your ticket, there’s no going back. It’s so easy to get lost in the worlds you can…

Tagged with feature, Frontier Developments, Have You Played, Planet Coaster.

Whew, Thursday already? How did we get here? For those of you who enjoy our video matinees, or for those who didn’t even know we had a YouTube channel (you can subscribe here, by the way), here’s this week's. Yeah it’s a bit late, but we’ve been pretty busy -- you’ll see why on Friday -- and Matthew’s off trying not to get killed in…

Tagged with Cyanide Studio, Devolver Digital, feature, Focus Home Interactive, Michael Lasch, Microsoft Studios, No More Robots, Playground Games, Tendershoot, ThatWhichIs Media, Turn 10 Studios, Vile Monarch, Call of Cthulhu, Forza Horizon 4, Hypnospace Outlaw, Weedcraft Inc.

I don’t want to go on about my age here - it makes certain members of the team a bit annoyed - but Batman Vengeance came out when I was 7, nearly 8, years old. It’s a game I remember fondly playing with my dad at a computer that looked a lot like a microwave, getting stuck trying to traverse corners, and making a very…

Tagged with feature, Have You Played, Ubisoft Montreal, Batman Vengeance.

In case you live under a mossy rock, or aren't subscribed to Rock Paper Shotgun on YouTube (if not, why not?), I've got you covered. It's the weekly round-up of everything that happened last week on our channel. We do have our very own video corner on the site, so be sure to check back to that throughout the week to see what we're up…

Tagged with Chris Hecker, Curve Digital, Devolver Digital, feature, inXile Entertainment, Mode 7 Games, Techland, THQ Nordic, Weappy, Dying Light 2, Frozen Synapse 2, SpyParty, The Bard's Tale IV, This Is The Police 2.

Have you been checking in on the Rock Paper Shotgun Video Department? It has its very own video corner on the site where everything is collected. But in case you missed it, I'm going to round up our moving picture delights from the last week. From life-consuming RPGs to fish prisons, we covered a lot of bases.

Tagged with Chris Hecker, Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal, feature, Square Enix, Toxic Games, Twice Circled, video, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, Megaquarium, Q.U.B.E. 2, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, SpyParty.