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Feature: Celebrate an extremely ordinary week
There's a coat in a window on my way home and I want it. Or possibly a blazer, I was in a hurry. It is purple and the shop had put a sign saying "VAMPIRE" over it, but I don't need to use the cover of the worst holiday as an excuse. Which reminds me: when did we agree that Halloween was an entire bloody…
Feature: Spaghetti masonry and tidy hovels
The skeletons don't care about the storms I'm lobbing around the place. They're marching onward, through the maze of walls and gates I've constructed, and a little bit of rain isn't going to deter them. I was hoping for skull-splitting bolts of lightning but instead I've just made everyone a bit damp. Rise to Ruins is a village-building simulator that's somewhere between the complexity of…
Retro-Pixel Castles [official site] is a game I'd been meaning to play for a long time. It's still moving through Early Access, with regular and meaty updates, and is often described as one of those fabled 'Dwarf Fortress with a neater interface" games, a select group in which Rimworld is the undisputed master (disputes to take place in the comments!). I fired Castles up this…
When I was but a boy, I used to draw little top-down worlds on paper and then systematically destroy them with imagined earthquakes and lots of eraser shavings. Now that I am a man, all hair and forgotten hope and sagging flesh, the nearest I get to those innocent joys is turtling up in strategy games and hoping the bigger boys - I mean, men…
