Rustbelt Rally 2 patch fixes online lobbies; our verdict stays at Wait
Version 1.2 stops the lobby drop-outs, but the career mode still stalls in season 3 (sample).
This week's reviews, played to the end
Three new reviews from Slot Three (sample). Each one shows our save file: how long we played, how much we finished and whether the credits rolled, then the verdict in plain words.
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3 saves this week (sample)
Slot
1
Saltglass Keep
Credits seen, then the post-game tower to floor 12
Played on PC
41:07
80% complete
Play it now
Slot
2
Paper Orbit
Credits seen, every hidden star found
Played on a handheld
12:40
100% complete
Play it now
Slot
3
Rustbelt Rally 2
Career season 3 of 5, credits not seen yet
Played on a home console
23:15
60% complete
Wait for a patch
Play time and completion come from the reviewer’s own save file (sample). The cursor marks the lead review.
Latest news
Six local co-op games to play with a friend this autumn
Two controllers, one screen: the split-screen games worth a sofa evening (sample).
What the accessibility menus in this month’s games get right
Remapping, subtitles, assist modes: we checked the options screen of every game we reviewed (sample).
How to read a save slot
No scores out of ten. A slot tells you what a score hides: how much of the game the verdict is based on.
Play time
Hours and minutes on the reviewer’s save when the review was written.
Completion
Ten cells, one for every tenth of the game the save file says is done.
Credits
Whether we saw an ending. If not, the slot says where we stopped.
Verdict
Play it now, Wait for a patch or a sale, or Skip it. Nothing in between.
Out in the next two weeks
Release dates as the publishers give them (sample), and where our review stands for each game.
Tue 20 Oct
Lanternwake
Action adventure. PC and home console
Reviewing now, 14 h in
Thu 22 Oct
Copperline Express
Management. PC
Code arrives on launch day
Fri 23 Oct
Glimmerstep
Platformer. Handheld
Review up: Play it now
Tue 27 Oct
Moth and Meridian
Role-playing. PC, home console and handheld
Reviewing now, 31 h in
Fri 30 Oct
Hollow Market
Shop sim. PC and mobile
Preview up, review after launch
Reviews by genre
Pick what you like to play. Every genre page lists its reviews as save slots, newest first.
Role-playing
Long games, big choices. We tell you how many hours the story takes and how many the extras add.
Strategy
Turn-based and real-time. We play at least two full campaigns before we judge the balance.
Platformers
Jumps, timing and level design. We say how hard it gets and whether there is an assist mode.
Everything else
Racing, horror, puzzle and life sims: reviewed with the same save-file rules.
The sofa is back: why local co-op games are selling again
Split-screen nearly vanished ten years ago. This autumn six new games ship with two players on one screen (sample). We asked three small studios why, and played all six with a friend on the other controller.
By Mara Lindgren (sample), features editor. 14 minutes to read.
The Friday round-up
One email a week: the reviews, the patches that changed a verdict and the games out next week. Five minutes to read, no adverts in it.
How we review
Four rules every review on Slot Three keeps (sample). If we break one, the review says so at the top.
- We finish the game, or the slot says exactly where we stopped and why
- We buy our own copy, or the review says who sent the code
- No publisher sees a review before it goes up
- When a patch changes the game, we play it again and update the slot
Know something we should?
Leaks we can confirm, studio news, a bug that breaks a game: write to the newsroom. We protect our sources.