RPS Game Club will return again in January 2024
06.11.2023 - 17:19
/ rockpapershotgun.com
/ Will
Hello folks. A small bit of RPS Game Club news today. Since it's starting to get toward end of the year season, Game Club will be taking a short break for the next two months. That means we won't be running it this month (November), or next month (December). We will, however, be returning with a fresh set of monthly game selections in 2024, so you can look forward to more group play-a-longs and liveblog chats early next year.
In the meantime, though, we hope you've enjoyed this first year's outing of the RPS Game Club, and we'd love to get some feedback on it for how we can improve next year. Regardless of whether you're a regular Game Clubber or have only ever watched it from afar, please come and join in the discussion below to help us make it even better.
When I first outlined RPS Game Club at the start of the year, I said we were going to focus primarily on free or cheap games in order to make it as accessible to people as possible. We mostly stuck to that initial rule, but we also ended up picking a lot of stuff that was on Game Pass as well. A lot of us on the team have Game Pass subscriptions, and even a month of PC Game Pass is often cheaper than picking a game that's, say, £15 as a one-off purchase.
Here's the full line-up of everything we played this year:
Would you like us to focus on more Game Pass games next year, to give you an excuse to finally get round to playing some of them? Or would you rather we stick to standalone games on Steam - and if so, what would you say is "too expensive" for you to consider joining in?
Obviously, cheaper games tend to go hand in hand with older games, rather than shiny new releases. Our mix this year still ended up being quite recent games (ranging from 2019 to present day), but would you like to see us go further back in time? And would you prefer for us to publish a schedule in advance so you can keep an eye out for games in sales etc, rather than them being announced on the first of every month? All feedback and comments on a comment postcard below!
It can be hard to make a community-focused project like Game Club stand out when you've got cascades of other posts going up every day, but to help foster that feeling of 'playing a game with everyone over the course of a month', we wrote a handful of extra features on our pick each month to help keep the discussion going, and also give you some extra things to think about between the announcement post at the start of the month and the liveblog discussion at the end of it. This varied between 2-4 articles each month, as that was about as much as we could manage between all of our other responsibilities, and my question to you is: would you like us to continue with this next year?
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