Alright folks, it's time for our actual Game Of The Year reveal. Do I actually have to do a tease for this? Do we not all know what it is? Fine. Roll for initiative.
]]>Christmas is a time for joy and togetherness, yes, but also lends itself to strange spirits, sacrifice, and Old Gods. So if you want the world to still be here in time for you to open your presents and stuff your face with turkey and potatoes, you're going to have to climb that scary lighthouse and open the Advent Calendar door at the top.
]]>Welcome to door 22 of the RPS Advent Calendar. To enter, you must prove your identity by answering a simple question. Who are you? A human... or a puppet?
]]>Before you open this door on the Advent Calendar, make sure you have enough batteries for your mega-powered torch. The environment be damned, throw those spent batts on the floor where you stand and open-palm slam the new ones in, because light is the only way you're getting out of here alive.
]]>Interesting. This door on the Advent Calendar has an instruction scrawled on it in blood: TURN THE DOOR KNOB. There's a remote recorder on the floor there, and if you press play a voice, coughing itself to death, says "You have to turn the door knob!". After a few minutes standing there, you think to yourself, "Maybe I should try turning the door knob?"
]]>Advent calendars are all about opening doors in search of wonderful treats, but you should probably leave this one closed.
]]>We've reached another day on our Advent Calendar, shipmates! Yo ho ho and a bottle of stealth!
]]>Time for day seventeen on the 2023 Advent Calendar! What's Christmas without a bit of nostalgia, eh?
]]>We come to the sixteenth door of the advent calendar, but unfortunately it's quite far up above you. You're going to have to climb.
]]>Gaze down the sights of today's Advent Calendar window and you'll find time is a tricksy, malleable concept that's all slow-motion power slides and extraordinary grenade explosions. Just mind the gibs on the floor there. Wouldn't want to stain your boots.
]]>We're over halfway through this year's RPS Advent Calendar now, and spoilers, but you can't leave now without seeing it through to the end. We've walled up the Treehouse and everything so you can't escape.
]]>What's that I hear behind today's Advent Calendar door? A sweet guitar riff and a sick drum beat that makes me want to snap my fingers forevermore? Man, I'm tapping my toes just thinking about it!
]]>You'll need to limber up and do some warm-up stretches before attempting to open today's door on the RPS Advent Calendar, otherwise you'll risk getting an instant KO from the burly brawlers waiting inside.
]]>This door to the RPS Advent Calendar is chrome-plated with a bright neon trim around the edges. It was all lovely and pristine looking until yesterday, when someone rudely broke out the graffiti cans and sprayed a big "Corpo 4 LIFE" tag on the front.
]]>Doors for the door God! Calendars for the calendar throne!
]]>Congratulations! You've opened another door on the RPS Advent Calendar! That deserves a reward. Head to our rewards screen to collect it! No, not that one. Not that one either. Look, just follow the exclamation marks.
]]>The eighth door on the 2023 RPS Advent Calendar leads, technically, to Hell, but the good news is that you don't have to go through it so much as stop anything coming the other way...
]]>This door on the RPS Advent Calendar is in fact not a door, but a portal. It could go anywhere - including nostalgia land.
]]>Do you like robots and being given challenges? Then is the sixth door on this year's RPS Advent Calendar is for you!
]]>The fifth game in our 2023 Advent Calendar is "future-proof" in a different kind of way.
]]>The fourth game in our 2023 Advent Calendar is really carrying the world on its back.
]]>It's door number three! This one leads to a night out. Can you pet a dog? No. But you can pet the rats.
]]>Time to open the second door on our advent calendar. No doubt some of you will argue this entry is some kind of cheat, but this is our treehouse and you're wrong.
]]>Let's open the first door of this year's calendar. Lock, load, and bring a buddy.
]]>Let's get ready ready, let's get ready ready, let's get ready to Christmas! Is it just me, or did 2023 seem like it had more games than ever before? But look, don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened - and make the smile extra big, because, as we do basically every year, the RPS staff have worked hard (read: voted and bickered) to bring you our games of the year in beautiful, numerical form. Digitally open a new door each day and enjoy the magnificent The RPS Advent Calendar 2023!
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