Five of the Best

A Chinese warrior in full battle gear and a demon-like mask lunches for the camera, holding two machete-like blades. I'd run.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Schools

It's a tie?

March 12, 2025 Robert Purchese

31 comments

A huge, spiny, tusked, toothed monstrosity faces the camera. Facing it and looking up from beneath is a small, top-hatted character with pointy ears. It's Baldur's Gate 3's demon butler looking upon the Slayer.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Monsters

Beast in class.

Feb. 26, 2025 Robert Purchese

24 comments

Sea of Thieves artwork showing mighty pirate Guybrush Threepwood stood heroically with hands on hips in the foyer of the Governor's Mansion.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Pirates

Ya rly.

Feb. 20, 2025 Robert Purchese

30 comments

Two characters on a 14th century ship sail towards a rocky island in the distance.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Islands

Sights to sea.

Feb. 14, 2025 Robert Purchese

28 comments

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Marketplaces

Wares the winner.

Feb. 5, 2025 Robert Purchese

32 comments

The interior of a train or tram in the opening of Half-Life 1. It's a small carriage with open sides - there are no windows - so you can see the interior of the Black Mesa research facility as Gordan Freeman travels through it. It's a mix of grey metal walls and seats and yellow posts and handrails.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Trains

Something to choo on.

Jan. 29, 2025 Robert Purchese

56 comments

Sandy landscape scene from Dune: Awakening

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Deserts

That Sandy.

Jan. 23, 2025 Robert Purchese

49 comments

A screenshot from the game The Falconeer. We see a giant falcon ridden by a small person, flying above a choppy sea in the deep orange of sunset. The sun almost silhouettes the pair as they fly towards it.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Underappreciated launch titles

Ryse, my pretties, Ryse!

Jan. 15, 2025 Robert Purchese

33 comments

A screenshot of the legendary browser-based sprinting game QWOP. It's a game where the keyboard keys Q W O and P control individual thighs and calves. It's bastardly hard to coordinate your limbs and moving forward with purpose.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Ragdolls

Figures.

Jan. 8, 2025 Robert Purchese

20 comments

The player uses Indy's whip to trip up a soldier coming down some stairs in the dark in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Whips

Crackers.

Dec. 11, 2024 Robert Purchese

19 comments

The mysterious tentacle-faced merchant Xur in Destiny. Here they are standing in a forest of pine trees.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Merchants or Shopkeepers

No refunds.

Nov. 27, 2024 Robert Purchese

47 comments

An image - it could be a photograph - a vintage TV sit sat on a surface in the dark, emitting a snowy static glow.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: TVs

LED it be known.

Nov. 13, 2024 Robert Purchese

12 comments

A stock image of a colourful fireworks display. Reds and blues and golds and myriad other popping rockets fill the sky. It's very bright.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Fireworks

Bangers.

Nov. 7, 2024 Robert Purchese

17 comments

A photograph of a classic person-wearing-a-sheet ghost, but the sheet is almost black and the eyes are shining.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Ghosts

Ooh do they think they are?

Oct. 31, 2024 Robert Purchese

6 comments

Resident Evil 2's Mr X - a huge, broad shouldered figure clad in black trench coat, black leather gloves, black fedora, black rollneck - black everything. He's reminscent of wrestling's Undertaker, come to think of it, only without the long hair.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Coats or Jackets

Zip it.

Oct. 9, 2024 Robert Purchese

16 comments

An Animal Crossing: New Horizon screenshot. A small toy-like Animal Crossing character stands in a golden yellow and orange wooded area outside a dinky little house. Autumn is here.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Autumns

Fall, guys.

Oct. 2, 2024 Robert Purchese

26 comments

A screenshot from The Curse of Monkey Island showing hero Guybrush Threepwood presenting a gigantic diamond ring to the camera - to Elaine. He is all smiles and blonde hair. Little does he know that the ring is cursed.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Rings

A weekly Gollum.

Sept. 25, 2024 Robert Purchese

22 comments

A screenshot from a dialogue moment in Baldur's Gate 3, in which the old and heavily armoured villain Ketheric Thorm points at lithe and more scantily clad villain Orin, whose back is turned, revealing her long, plaited hair.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Hair

Follicle suggestions, plus one.

Sept. 18, 2024 Robert Purchese

14 comments

A black and white illustration showing many grasping zombie hands reaching up. They are black and silhouetted against a white background.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Hordes

There's lots of them.

Sept. 11, 2024 Robert Purchese

21 comments

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Websites

Inside games.

Sept. 4, 2024 Robert Purchese

9 comments

A dark image simple but scary 3D character holding a club aloft in a dark room. They are Granny, the eponymous monster in a mobile game. They're coming to get you.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Scary grannies

Oh dear.

Aug. 21, 2024 Robert Purchese

14 comments

A masculine-looking character, viewed from behind, hunched over a computer in a dark, grey office.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Offices

Lift off.

Aug. 14, 2024 Robert Purchese

22 comments

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Sprints

Get set, go.

Aug. 7, 2024 Robert Purchese

20 comments

A masculine character bobs in blue water with a floating jar nearby. We see the character from the back and they are topless. The jar has a baby in. It's Death Stranding.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Places to swim

Splish, splash, splosh.

July 31, 2024 Robert Purchese

13 comments

The El Presidente protagonist character from the Tropico series of games. They're white-skinned with fairly bushy black beard, and they have aviator sunglasses and a military dress suit and hat on. Behind them, a tropical paradise has skyscrapers and power plants on.

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Supporters | Five of the Best: Presidents

The make-believe kind.

July 24, 2024 Robert Purchese

20 comments