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Palpable Tension

Scopique July 20, 2021

I’m just writing to report that I am still mired in that weird space between not caring much about any new game that is scheduled to drop, and being faced with several cases where new games or updates to games are scheduled…

The First 25% of Crowfall

Scopique July 11, 2021

After a successful Kickstarter and years of post-MMO-Kickstarter development, Crowfall, the “throne-war simulator” has finally launched. Wait! Come back! I know my audience is primarily PvE players, and Crowfall’s reputation as a PvP game probably means that it’s easily dismissible, but because…

Star Traders: Frontiers

Scopique June 22, 2021

Left to my own devices, I would write a wall of text. When I know that my subject deserves a wall of text, though, I know that I have to keep it simple lest I turn a post into a test of…

Slipways

Scopique June 9, 2021

Slipways is not a 4X game, despite what it might seem when you look at screenshots. I’m not really sure how to classify this game, because on one hand if I were to describe it as a “mobile-esque” game I’d consider that…

Star Citizen – A Bounty-ful Harvest

Scopique May 5, 2021

For all of the time I have been playing in the Star Citizen Alpha, actual space-based dogfighting has been one of the top three activities I have been avoiding (the other two being general FPS and, of course, random PvP, when I…

Star Dynasties – You Haven’t Seen The Last of Me!

Scopique May 4, 2021

Back in mid March I wrote up my initial impressions of Star Dynasties, an Early access Grand Strategy game from Iceberg Interactive. I had hoped that this game would pan out to be right up my alley: a deep, immersive strategy game…

Guilded – Roles and Permissions

Scopique April 29, 2021

After my original post on the difficulties of switching from Discord to Guilded, I decided that in order to make an informed decision (i.e. to see if it was worth selling to my friends and neighbors) I decided that I needed to…

Evil Genius 2 – Evil Harder

Scopique April 1, 2021

I really like building games. Back when my wife and I were dating we would play Caesar III a lot, and still joke about some of those mechanics to this day (“Neighbors moving out, eh? Desirability must be low.”). I think it’s…

Guilded – Are We REALLY Doing This Again?

Scopique March 31, 2021

I could sit here and recount my feelings on the rumor that Microsoft is thinking about acquiring a few million gamer accounts by purchasing Discord for a supposed $10 billion dollars, but I won’t do that since The Eloquent Belghast has written…

Star Dynasties – Every Family Has That One Relative

Scopique March 16, 2021

I have had Star Dynasties on my Steam wishlist for a while now, and it has just released today into Early Access. If you like “grand strategy” games about ruling houses filled with dozens of interesting, conniving family members who use and…