Come and see what’s transcended to the higher plane of Capsule existence.

Rocket League

Ollie:Rocket Leagueis still the finest competitive game ever made.

From a spectator’s point of view, it’s perfect.

Screenshots from The Witcher 3, Metal Gear V: The Phantom Pain and Undertale for the RPS Time Capsule 2015.

I don’t think I ever got as good at another game as I got at Rocket League.

By my 500th hour, I was a Grand Champion - the highest rank in the game.

Thats a long time, but the memory of my initial playthrough hasnt faded.

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Of course, GTA V is a two-part package, and GTA Online has everything you could ask for.

It’s not just its tale of mischief and mayhem that makes 80 Days worth saving, though.

Little Party

Alice0:Little Partyis one of my favourite short days.

Promotional Rocket League art for Season 3 showcasing three cars next to each other speeding away from a goal.

The game is so beautifully put-together.

Time-skipping forwards as you do things around the home is pleasantly subtle.

The dialogue is sweet and thoughtful.

Trevor walking away from a fire with a can of petrol in a Grand Theft Auto V screenshot.

And the dog, oh what a perfect dog.

Had Little Party come out five years later, it would likely be claimed by “wholesome games”.

Let us be thankful that it avoided the discourse and can just be its wonderful self.

The globe showing your route from 80 Days

And those side quests - wow.

I like how you know that each side story will spiral out of control and itstillmanages to surprise.

I list it quite happily among my best games of all time.

A woman looks a table with cooking ingredients on it, with the words MAKE GUAC onscreen in Little Party.

It’s scarier, weirder, smarter in almost every way.

The walls are weeping.

It makes strange noises.

Geralt and Ciri pose back-to-back in The Witcher 3 artwork.

See in Undertale, you’re able to choose not to fight the monsters you encounter.

Alice0:I like the skeleton.

Its also a damned outstandingstealth game.

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Alice0:It’s amazing how good this game is despite so much being so bad.

Dying Light

CJ:I always feel slightly embarrassed for likingDead Islandso much.

and I instinctively turned around to respond.

‘You know what’s going on here, don’t you?’ asks Flowey in an Undertale screenshot.

I like queer romances; I like superhero stories in down-to-earth prefs.

Do you know the lengths you had to go to to build a little park?

To alter the amount of tax industrial buildings pay per quarter by a single percent?

Venom Snake licked by a wolf puppy in a Metal Gear Solid V screenshot.

Folks like me were desperate.

We were trading copies of Tycoon City: New York in local alleyways.

What else were we meant to do?

A screenshot of Dying Light 1 showing a knife-wielding, mask-wearing enemy.

Things were bleak, and it felt like the genre was gone forever.

That is, until Colossal Order releasedCities: Skylinesin 2015.

Did you want to micro-manage traffic flow?

Life Is Strange protagonist Max Caulfield faces her polaroid photo wall, which is softly illuminated by a string of hanging lights.

Build an aesthetically pleasing metropolis?

Create custom buildings - and custom features!

  • before sharing them via the steam workshop?

A screenshot of Cities Skylines showing a new train station at night added as part of the Train Stations content creator pack.

Cities: Skylines catered for it all.

I think it says a lot that the game is still receiving expansion packs as recently as this month.

Cities: Skylines is the best citybuilding gameever made.