The weekly digest

One email on Friday mornings. The games sitting at the top of the board, what they cost, and whether they are worth an evening — ninety seconds to read, and the call has something to play by nine.

What an issue looks like

Read off the board just now

slopranks weeklySample issue

1
Lethal Company$9.99 · 716 points
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
2
R.E.P.O.$6.49 · 650 points
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract t
3
PEAK$7.99 · 607 points
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of resc

Two more picks follow, then one sponsored block — always below the five, always labelled.

What is in it

Ranked, not curated: The five are whatever the board has scored highest. Nobody picks them by hand and nobody can buy a place in the list.
Priced and placed: Every entry carries the price on its listing and the score that put it there, so the group can decide during the call instead of after it.
One ad, and it says so: A single sponsored block sits underneath the five and is labelled. No key giveaways, no listicles padded out to ten.

The sponsored block under the picks is the only ad in the email, and it never displaces one of the five. See advertising formats