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limburger
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@woldenspoons : to me every game tends to become a ‘got to catch them all’ kind of thing real quick.
As such I kind of wish games only had just the one box with all you could possibly need instead of an endless list of expansions and new troops to collect/buy.

I know this makes sense from a business perspective (got to keep the punters buying stuff), but it makes it damn difficult to stay focussed or finish building even a single army.

@mage : I know … I gots to finish building something. 😀
Sometimes I wish I only ever liked one faction in one game. Kind of like how some people only ever play ‘Call of Duty’ and no other games.

Speaking of games … I got one that is borderline creepy : ‘Orwell’

link : https://store.steampowered.com/app/491950/Orwell_Keeping_an_Eye_On_You/

The idea is this : you’re a volunteer for a surveillance system and all you need to do is mark info for your bosses to process.
It starts with the destruction of a statue and a single woman as a suspect simply because she happened to have a previous encounter with the police.
Then it’s reading (fictional) newspapers, listening in on text conversations … and down the rabbit hole it goes.
I suspect there will be difficult choices to make as the bit I’ve completed felt like a tutorial.
She mentioned she stole a credit card … which I mentioned to my supervisor.
He blocked the card … except now her lawyer boyfriend is in trouble as he can’t provide stuff for his client/customer.
Need to dig deeper and see where it all goes.
First episode is free on Steam, so it’s one of those episodic games.
The presentation of the game is pretty cool as well, because it feels like you are signing up to be for an active system as opposed to just playing a game.

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