- The creators of What Remains Of Edith Finch are making a weird and alarming biology game inspired by Ghibli and Attenborough - 28 October 2024
What Remains Of Edith Finch is a very upsetting collection of interactive short stories about the brief, tragic lives of a cursed family who live in a monstrous treehouse. It's also a wonderful show of experimentation , switching genres from story to story - one minute you're a playable bestiary on shuffle, the next you're beheading fish in a cannery as the worktable disappears beneath your scrolling daydreams. The developer's next project seems to be pursuing a similar balance of whimsy and darkness. It's another anthology experience, which casts you as a field biologist studying "the strangeness of organic life". Also, chicken-legged houses. Read more
- Annapurna announces a collector's edition containing 12 of their best games, but should you buy it? - 25 October 2023
Two months from today it'll be Christmas Day, which is a terrifying realisation. But merch company iam8bit are hoping they have you covered if there's a big Annapurna fan in your life. They've just announced the Annapurna Interactive Deluxe Limited Edition Collection for the Nintendo Switch, which is such a mouthful that the title alone feels like it justifies a $200 price tag. Yes, the Annapurna Interactive Deluxe Limited Edition Collection for the Nintendo Switch will set you back $200 — equivalent to roughly £165 if you live in the UK, and that's not counting some potentially hefty international shipping fees if you live outside of the USA. Alright, that's not actually out of the ordinary for Limited-Special-Collector's-Ultimate-Editions these days, but I suspect it still feels quite steep to most of us. I'm not here to be snarky; I love Annapurna's curation of excellent indie games,…
- Xbox Game Pass is losing some brilliant games soon - 16 August 2022
The latest titles to come to Xbox Game Pass have been announced, and while there's some good titles on the way, it's also that time of the month again where we commiserate the great games that are soon to be leaving. Amongst the titles leaving is NBA 2K22 , Two Point Hospital , and Elite: Dangerous . So, I've bad news for both avid space explorers, basketball pros, and hospital managers alike, as all three will be bidding farewell to Xbox Games Pass on August 31. This isn't all, either. There's truly a cracking line-up of titles leaving in just a couple of weeks, which consists of a few quaint but enjoyable indie titles. These include Spiritfarer , Twelve Minutes , What Remains of Edith Finch , and Signs of the Sojourner . Read more
- Outer Wilds and What Remains of Edith Finch upgrades on PS5 and Xbox Series X will be free - 29 July 2022
Annapurna Interactive announced yesterday during its games showcase upgraded versions of both Outer Wilds and What Remains of Edith Finch are coming to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Both games will see a 60fps upgrade on the consoles, while Edith Finch will also benefit from 4K on PS5 and Xbox Series X. The Outer Wilds upgrade will be made available on September 15, and it's a free download if you already own the game. Read more
- Someone should make a game about: bookshops - 3 February 2021
Back in the 1990s, in that long-ago Pleistocene era when I was at secondary school, we were taken on a trip to the small Peak District village of Cromford. There, aside from pulling strange faces at bemused locals, we were regaled with stories of noted industrialist Richard Arkwright, who in 1771 snapped up a modest section of land in the village and built a cotton mill. People a lot smarter than me argue this was the birthplace of modern manufacturing - triggering a centuries-long chain that led to the creation of... well, pretty much everything we buy today. But its significance to the industrial revolution is not why I love Cromford. I love it for something much more prosaic: its fabulous little bookshop. What a place. Read more
- What Remains Of Edith Finch hits Xbox Game Pass this month - 6 January 2021
Xbox Game Pass for PC is starting off the new year strong by adding the mysterious What Remains Of Edith Finch . It’s a first-person exploration game poking round the strange, sprawling house built by the possibly-cursed Finch family over generations. It’s a bit of an RPS fave, and will arrive on Microsoft’s subscription service on January 14th. This is one I’ve been meaning to get my hands on for ages, so now I truly have no excuse. (more…)
- What Remains Of Edith Finch hits Xbox Game Pass this month - 6 January 2021
Xbox Game Pass for PC is starting off the new year strong by adding the mysterious What Remains Of Edith Finch . It’s a first-person exploration game poking round the strange, sprawling house built by the possibly-cursed Finch family over generations. It’s a bit of an RPS fave, and will arrive on Microsoft’s subscription service on January 14th. This is one I’ve been meaning to get my hands on for ages, so now I truly have no excuse. (more…)
- Thousands of Edith Finch assets are now free to use in Unreal - 12 November 2020
What Remains Of Edith Finch ? I’m not sure it’s the answer the devs had in mind when they first penned the script, but today’s answer is a whole lotta assets to download for your own Unreal Engine projects. If you fancy taking remixing your own take on the Finch household, you can now download a massive bundle of models, textures, and pre-built environments for free via Epic’s game development platform. (more…)
- Death and chaos with Edith Finch and The Unfinished Swan - 12 September 2020
A short while into What Remains of Edith Finch, you come to a beach. It's night, but you can still make out the silhouette of something, half sunk, against the horizon. You'll probably want to check that out, you think, but not now - no boat, no way to get there, too far out - so along the little beach you go. Waves wash and lap, lights from some other town star the stretch of distant coast, the moon lacquers the ocean, and a memory lingers of the last story you saw, grim and only just finished, in a black tunnel from which you've just emerged. Your diary wonders something aloud: maybe it would be better if this all died with you. It doesn't, and on you go, through some rubble and nonsensical debris - a totem pole? - through lingering memory, to the path off the beach at the other end. A flight of stairs made of stone, which leads to another flight, made of wood, which leads to wherever…
- The most satisfying architecture in PC games - 6 March 2020
One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. If it’s not baroque, don’t fix it. Little architecture joke for you there, just to kick off a dry topic with a giggle. You see, appreciating architecture is for people in beige cardigans. Folks who subscribe to magazines printed on paper so thick you can still calculate the tree s age. You know the type I mean. Spectacled couples with non-Ikea coffee tables. Thirty-year-olds. People like you! Here are 11 examples of very satisfying architecture in PC games. (more…)
- This YouTuber built What Remains Of Edith Finch in The Sims 4 - 19 February 2020
Alice L. was the person who really encouraged me to dive headlong into the pool of long build projects that is my fandom of The Sims 4 . She is both one third of the Council Of Alices and one third of the RPS VidBud team on YouTube, and she’s just started a new Sims 4-themed video series. In Can We Build It?, Alice L. attempts to build an iconic room from another game but in The Sims 4’s build mode. In this first one she’s had a crack at the twins’ room in What Remains Of Edith Finch , which should count as doing two rooms, really. Calvin and Sam shared a bedroom, but they had very different design sensibilities. Alice has done a really astounding job recreating it, as you’ll see via the screenshots and comparisons in the video, embedded below. (more…)
- The best games of the decade on PC - 6 December 2019
It’s been an eventful decade for PC games, and it would be hard for you to summarise everything that’s happened in the medium across the past ten years. Hard for you , but a day’s work for us. Below you’ll find our picks for the 50 best games released on PC across the past decade. (more…)
- Games of the Decade: What Remains Of Edith Finch is about ending well - 29 November 2019
Video games are famously awash with death yet disinclined to think it through, to explore what death means beyond failure and a restart or victory and the spoils. What Remains of Edith Finch is among the most powerful exceptions to the rule. Equal parts speculative fiction anthology and dynastic tragedy, it is the tale of a family destined to die prematurely, as retold by the last surviving member. Like Gone Home multiplied by 13, it gives you the run of a vast house apparently constructed by Dr Seuss, each room containing an object that plunges you into the final moments of its owner. It's not death that overtakes the Finches, mind you, but their fantasies about death. They are carried off as much by their attempts to imagine the approaching end as by illness and mischance. Sometimes these attempts feel like defeats - I think of Lewis the cannery worker, his chopping block a slowly flo…
- Podcast: It's a family thing - 6 September 2019
“Family is all”, a wise man once said . And then he half-drowned his nephew in a bucket of ice water, but let’s forget about that bit. The sentiment is what’s important. Families can be good and bad, dysfunctional or helpful. This is as true in videogames as in life. So that’s what we’re podcasting about this week. The brothers, mothers, aunts and cousins we have grown to like or who we watch with a wary eye any time we visit the local volcano. Come listen. (more…)
- Someone has built the What Remains Of Edith Finch house in The Sims 4 and it s incredible - 6 September 2019
  What Remains Of Edith Finch is great. Rolling a shark down a hill. Gutting fish while pretending to be a king. That bit with the Halloween soundtrack. What. A. Game. Such is the indie hit’s quality and influence, people have started recreating its iconic house in The Sims 4. Just look at the video below—be warned there are major story spoilers in there... YouTuber Jess Harts has recreated an utterly amazing version of Edith’s forest cabin. One of the most thematically complex hub areas in the history of games, the mansion acts as a portal to fantastical worlds.  Each member of the Finch family has their own room, and these boudoirs lead to consistently inventive fantasies. How you build that in The Sims 4 I don’t know. Yet somehow, Jess recreated the whole thing in 14 hours. The Sims 4 truly is an endlessly pliable, wonderfully creative tool. Jess…
- Someone has built the What Remains Of Edith Finch house in The Sims 4 and it s incredible - 6 September 2019
What Remains Of Edith Finch is great. Rolling a shark down a hill. Gutting fish while pretending to be a king. That bit with the Halloween soundtrack. What. A. Game. Such is the indie hit’s quality and influence, people have started recreating its iconic house in The Sims 4. Just look at the video below—be warned there are major story spoilers in there... YouTuber Jess Harts has recreated an utterly amazing version of Edith’s forest cabin. One of the most thematically complex hub areas in the history of games, the mansion acts as a portal to fantastical worlds.  Each member of the Finch family has their own room, and these boudoirs lead to consistently inventive fantasies. Jess recreated the whole thing in 14 hours. It's a prime example of why The Sims 4 truly is such a wonderfully creative tool. Also, you should absolutely buy What Remains Of Edith Finch…
- What Remains Of Edith Finch's house rebuilt in The Sims 4 is wild - 5 September 2019
As an inadvertent cowboy builder whose Sims face a much greater risk from incompetence than malice, I am in awe of players who manage to build beautiful homes. Case in point, YouTuber Jess Harts has built a recreation of the sprawling, unreal family home from What Remains Of Edith Finch inside The Sims 4 . Yes, the house that has a different style for every family member. The one riddled with secret passages. The one that’s more metaphor than building. She’s built that. All of that. In fourteen hours. It looks: wild. Come gawk at the sped-up building process. (more…)
- What Remains of Edith Finch is free on the Epic Games Store - 10 January 2019
What Remains of Edith Finch is a story about a young woman, a strange house, and a family curse, told in a slow, contemplative walking simulator-style narrative adventure. It's really good stuff—one of the best things I've played in years, honestly—and in case you missed hearing about it last week, from today until January 25 it's free on the Epic Games Store .  You'll need to set up an Epic account to get it, naturally, something Epic is working very hard to convince you to do . Set that up, download the launcher, go to the Edith Finch page, and voila, it's yours. As with previous Epic freebies, and the rest to come , it's yours to keep permanently as long as you grab it while the offer is live.  If you want to know more about Edith Finch, there's a good feature on the making of the game that you can dive into here . I'd r…
- What Remains Of Edith Finch free on Epic Games Store right now - 10 January 2019
Fantastic first-person walk-o-story What Remains Of Edith Finch ( don’t call it a walking simulator ) is free for keepsies right now on the Epic Games Store, and I highly recommend nabbing it. It’s a beautiful and melancholic tale with a magical realist bent, exploring the lives and deaths of the family who’ve lived in a strange and lonely house for generations. It’s one of the best PC games and all, says us. Epic are signing up all sorts of exclusives to get their store going, including having Ubisoft onboard with The Division 2 , but little excites more than free video games. (more…)
- What Remains of Edith Finch free next week on Epic Games Store - 4 January 2019
Top-notch narrative adventure What Remains of Edith Finch will be free to download from the Epic Games Store next week. Giant Sparrow's critically-acclaimed debut is set to be the next game offered free on Epic's marketplace, for two weeks beginning 10th January. It'll replace the current freebie, Super Meat Boy, which you have six days still to claim. Read more…
