By its nature, we here in guidestown can feel a bit isolated from the rest of RPS.

Our guides aren’t very visible to our regular readers.

No one hops onto a website like this and says to themselves, “Well now!

A Barbarian in Diablo Immortal, Godrick in Elden Ring, and a soldier in Warzone 2, with the heads of each member of the RPS guides team photoshopped on top.

I wonder what guides have been written today that I can spend my time reading through!”.

Starting with the hulking demonic poleaxe-wielding elephant in the room:Elden Ringwas absolutely huge for guides this year.

So I’ve picked out two instead.

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And it was worth it.

Want a fun fact?

That one boss locations guide accounted for over a quarter of RPS’s entire guides traffic in March.

A section of the Elden Ring map with the locations of some bosses marked.

Another amazing achievement of this year is Hayden’sElden Ring walkthrough.

It’s definitely one of the most essential guides we ended up writing for the biggest game of 2022.

140 guides, folks.

A regal mutant with many, many limbs and a giant hammer in an Elden Ring screenshot.

That’s a whole lot of words, and a colossal achievement in itself.

FIFA 23was another big success for us in 2022.

In this guide she skillfully lays bare every aspect ofDiablo Immortal’sinfamously predatory monetisation model.

The player inspects the M4 in their hands in a Warzone 2 match. On the left is superimposed the in-game stats of a modified M4 loadout.

It’s a truly great read.

But why stop with just one example?

Build guides are something of a speciality of ours here in guidestown.

Fifa 23 screenshot showing Havertz and Grealish on the pitch, as other Man City and Chelsea players run closer from the background.

One of the most comprehensive guides we published this year was Rebecca’sGenshin Impact Traveler build guide.

Oh go on, one more.

Sometimes writing guides can be a chore, for sure.

The Crests tab of the in-game store in Diablo Immortal.

Just ask Rebecca about her work writing endlessRoblox codesguides, or any of us about writing ourdaily Wordle guides.

The enthusiasm shines through, I think, in ourbeginner’s guide to The Cycle: Frontier.

Next year is already looking very exciting to us.

A render originally released to demonstrate The Sims 4’s new gender customisation options in 2016. It shows seven Sims with a wide variety of gender expressions reflected in their hair, clothing, and body types.

We’ve gotStarfield, of course, as the big new game on the horizon.

Next year’s Elden Ring, you might say.

It’ll be a lot of work, but the guides team has never been stronger.

Project Zomboid house surrounded by fences and other fortifications, covered in a blanket of fog

We’ll get it done, and we’ll more than likely have a lot of fun doing it.

Both male and female versions of Genshin Impact’s starting Traveler character standing side-by-side.

An ammo inspect screen for the m80 round in Escape from Tarkov

Concept art for The Cycle: Frontier depicting one prospector sneaking up on another.