Alec Meer
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United Kingdom
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A Fool In Morrowind, Day 3,557 – Tortured Metaphor
Find the story so far here. I've been in Vvardenfell for so long now, traipsing across its eerie volcanic plains, over its majestic fungal plateaus and through → Read More
The RPS OMeerbus: Alec’s least-worst writing
I am a strict adherent of Writer's Law, which means that I am duty-bound to absolutely despise anything I've written within five minutes of publishing it. Hence → Read More
Wot I Think: Islanders
City-building given a roguelikey, semi-competitive twist → Read More
Wot I Think: It’s Winter
'Winter' has always been a term with two meanings. The crisp, pure return to nature of a snow-settled world, but also the grey death of everything: the wistful → Read More
Generation Zero could be something special without the shooting
One day I suspect we'll hear the story behind why Avalanche's Generation Zero feels like being served a pizza that's all beautifully crisp sourdough base but no → Read More
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is a brutalist city-builder
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic is an astonishingly complex city-builder → Read More
Playing Morrowind for the first time? A little work makes it look wonderful
Playing The Elder Scrolls III for the first time in 2019? A few minutes installing these makes all the difference → Read More
Wot I Think: Tropico 6
Developer: Limbic Entertainment Publisher: Kalypso Media Release: Out now On: Windows (Mac to follow) From: Steam Price: £40/$50/€50 Islands change everything. → Read More
Have you played… XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen?
XCOM 2 is a pure and direct, no mess/no fuss modern-day remix of metagame-augmented turn-based tactics. But the War of the Chosen DLC is superheroic madness. → Read More
Beyond A Steel Sky: 90s cyberpunk adventure gets a sequel
The full 3D Beyond A Steel Sky is also due for console and mobile → Read More
Overland's long and winding road to release ends this autumn
After three years, we finally have a release window for the beautiful strategy game → Read More
XCOM 2 is free this weekend (and DLC discounts a-go-go too)
Standard-issue XCOM 2 is probably my least-favourite of the four different flavours of XCOM now available to us (i.e. including the Enemy Within and War Of The Chosen expansions), but that’s a bit like saying I don’t enjoy 29 degrees of heat quite as much as 26, 27 and 28 degrees. They’re all great! Make it like that all the time, please. Only, y’know, without the heat-death of the planet. And,… → Read More
When there's no more room in hell, a S.W.I.N.E. remaster will walk the earth
I've absolutely nothing against 2001 war-pigs vs battle-bunnies strategy game S.W.I.N.E., but by the point we're making HD versions of fair-to-middling RTSes → Read More
System Shock 3 first trailer: she's back (and so's he)
Devil’s advocate: I’d have been even more excited about Otherside’s System Shock 3 if it didn’t have revered murder-computer SHODAN in it. ‘Shock, traditionally, has been about pushing things forwards, not looking to the past, and what stronger statement could there be than to ditch its godhood-seeking figurehead? Make the big bad a disgruntled janitor named Susan instead, maybe. But I won’t… → Read More
Have you played… The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind?
Morrowind is the best Elder Scrolls. But that isn't something Alec wants to be saying forever. → Read More
Notmycar is battle royale but with gun-toting cars and a tiresome attitude
“Everything else is just a walking simulator” is just one example of the bug-eyed posturing with which Skybound Games announce Notmycar, their attempt to snaffle a piece of Fort-Legs pie with a free-to-play, automotive-based battle royale. Notmycar takes the attitude that, if the car-wrecks don’t bring all the boys to the yard, maybe being massively obnoxious will. “Are you tired of the same… → Read More
Semi-classic racer Grid 2 is free for keepsies
Codemasters’ 2013 racer Grid 2 is a fairly geriatric entry in the car-wot-goes-fast pantheon – so old that RPS’s prior coverage of it was written by the impossibly ancient likes of Rossignol, J. and Smith, A. – but we sure did like it back then. I’ve just been back in and, yeah, it still looks and feels dang good for a non-car-gonk like me. Its cheeseball blend of arcadey racing, ludicrous… → Read More
Noita is Spelunky as magical, melting nightmare
Playing a preview build of Noita, a wizard-starring roguelike with some of the most spectacular pixel-physics I’ve ever witnessed, from some of the folks → Read More
Mega-building game Satisfactory is shaping up to be far, far more than satisfactory
First-person, mass-scale production line building on an alien world → Read More
How did the hitherto unknown Dawn Of Man become a #1 bestseller on Steam?
How did a stone age city-builder outsell GTA 5 ? → Read More