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Supporters only: Moons Of Ardan is a vibes-based space colony game
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Moons Of Ardan is a vibes-based space colony game
Purple people yeeters
If I ever achieve immortality, there might be time to sit down and work out exactly why some building games grab me and some don't. I fear I am too often left with a page of notes that are just variations on the word "vibes".
Perhaps some taxonomy would help. Moons Of Ardan is a space colony building game that's mostly about balancing production rates …
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The 25 best simulation games on PC
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Moons Of Ardan is a vibes-based space colony game
Purple people yeeters
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Eastshade devs reveal a new witchy RPG mixing magic, music and gardening
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Blink Planets is secretly an excellent urban planning game
The tiles they are a-changin’
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Absurdle is a Wordle variant that hates you - while Sweardle curses you
Spins in the popular word game
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In WorldBox, I am a terrible scientist studying the collapse of fantastical nations
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From The Archive
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Fates Of Ort is a clever action RPG mashup
My son is also named Ort
There was a time when actual arguments were had over the validity of "real time with pause" as a design choice. A foolish time we ought not to revisit. I bring it up because I've been playing Fates Of Ort, a light-hearted action RPG that's more like "pause with real time".
Everything is frozen in time until you move, swing a sword, or cast a …
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Big Makoto Shinkai energy
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Build better worlds in Imagine Earth
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An ode to Doom Eternal's meat hook
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I once again invite you to join me on team Mass Effect: Andromeda Was Good
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