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First Look: Unmess Co.: Rewind the Wreck Demo
I received an email from the two developers of “Unmess Co.: Rewind the Wreck” asking me to take a look at the demo if I liked. I did not receive any incentives for doing so! I often ignore such emails because the games suggested belong to genres I do not care about, but this one…
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Saying Goodbye to Big Ambitions
A while ago, I wrote that I would want to focus on Big Ambitions until Planet Zoo 2 arrives – the game that I got gifted for my birthday at the beginning of September. I actually managed to stick to that for the most part. Only in the past week or so did I switch…
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Random Game Night: Little Problems
This is the second post for this column where I want to give random games a try that I haven’t played before. The rule is this: Since I am a bit picky and cannot play everything due to motion sickness and my hand pain, I am using Playnite’s “Pick a Random Game” feature three times and…
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Random Game Night: Ynglet
We all know that evergrowing Pile of Shame, right? What with all the bundles and the free games that are thrown at us (on Twitch, for example, Epic Games and the like) plus the games that we actually did buy on purpose and end up just not playing. I want to dedicate this column to…
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Spoiled by Future Gifts, Reminded of My Backlog
I recently had my birthday and my husband’s cousin gifted me Planet Zoo 2 which was a real surprise! We sometimes gift each other games, but the fact that out of my very very long list of wishlisted games, he chose exactly the one I wanted the most – and that I would not actually…
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Looking Back at My Blaugust Month
Five posts. This is what I had set as a goal for myself when Blaugust started. And now I am looking at possibly 16 (if I manage to publish this post here today). When I started, I wasn’t sure whether I was clinging to a once-loved hobby that I had outgrown. It felt strange, foreign…
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Excited for Tropico 7
Kalypso announced the release date for Tropico 7: January 28, 2027. I was so excited when I saw that that I had not actually noticed that they pushed the release from 2026 to 2027. Then again, it is not a huge delay. They previously only said 2026 without giving any details. I like what I…
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My Thoughts on the Lego Skylines Announcement
LEGO Skylines has been announced at Gamescom. While watching the trailer, I had exactly one thought: “Why is this only coming out now?” This should have been done years ago! I never warmed up to any of the Lego games. I have not really played any of them and just given one or two a…
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Reflections on Different Types of Building Games
I always say that I love city-building games, but I am actually often not sure whether the game really is one or not. Where do we draw the line? Surely, Cities: Skylines obviously is one because you’re literally building a city. But what about a game like Islanders? Technically, you are at least building a…
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My Favourite Civ-Like Games
After writing about all the MMOs I have been playing over the years, I realized that I have also been playing a lot of “Civ-like games”. I decided to make a list. My first thought, fitting to the subject line, was to rank them. However, some of the games are so different from the others…
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From Civ VII to a Drunk Greek Queen
I hesitated to get Civilization VII because I did not like some of the changes they made. But with a recent sale, we decided to buy one copy of the game and use Family Sharing. Between my husband and me, it was rather cheap to get then. This happened when we were visiting family, so…
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Twenty-one years playing MMOs
I haven’t replied to a “Daily Grind” from Massively in ages, but this one immediately got me thinking and making a list: How many MMORPGs have you played to date? I know there were a few more that I tried, but my memory is rather fuzzy about them. So, my list includes the games that…
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It is a good time NOT to play an MMO…
…while still feeling like I do. While in general I prefer to play non-MMOs nowadays, I still get the urge to log into an online world once in a while. Sometimes, I jump into Lord of the Rings Online, because it never feels like I have missed out on anything. I can comfortably and slowly…
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Grids vs. Curves in City-Builders
I am always amazed when I look at the layout of US American cities – especially New York City. The streets are straight lines, like somebody drew them with a ruler and a triangle! German cities, due to the age of most towns, look completely different. So, when I am playing city-builder games and placing…
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My Ultimate Superpower
This week’s Group Project asks us to answer a fun question: Which magical power or super power would you like to have? I initially thought of the classic choice: invisibility. However, what’s the point? If I am invisible, I might hear things I do not want to hear. Ignorance is bliss – I have learned…
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