![]() Food, building materials, and energy aren’t just food, building materials, and energy instead they’re each a category for several different options. I especially like Imagine Earth’s creative take on the usual resources. You remember Settlers VII, right? Did you at least play Northgard? Part city builder, part competitive RTS, part colony management, with lots of asymmetrical angles to tailor your strategy and a boardgame-adjacent elegance. Okay, now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, I can get back to enjoying the boardgamey conventions of Imagine Earth, which is kind of like a sci-fi version of Settlers VII or Northgard. Let me take this opportunity to once again remind videogame designers that there is never a good reason to put something on a 3D globe, because now I can’t see half of the map despite the fact that there’s plenty of screen real estate where I could have seen more of the map if you hadn’t insisted on being cute and making me twirl a 3D globe around. Who knew the Nintendo Switch would be the exclusive platform to host Artdink’s revival slash reboot slash sequel slash reinvigoration of its super-serious train logistics simulator? And who knew it would actually work this well on a Switch? I’ve been dinking away at A-Train games for as long as they’ve been around, and I’m not about to stop now. You can listen to me talk about HuniePop 2 at the start of this podcast. And as anyone who played the first HuniPop knows, the Sex Fairy would be a fine guide through any game. You’re a matchmaker in more ways than one! I couldn’t care less about the weird anime porn you unlock - frankly, it’s embarrassing, as if I’d walked in on someone who neglected to put a sock on the doorknob - but I did end up caring about some of the characters. But it’s also a charmingly vulgar, well-written, and enthusiastically performed comedy about introducing women to each other and hoping they click. Speaking of popping bubble wrap, this match-3 is a fine enough way to while away some time. Crushingly mindless but curiously effective. It’s the gameplay equivalent of popping bubble wrap. Now you can drill deeper in more places to get more junk to make your drill even better. And then you spend all the stuff you collect to make a better drill. You drive a drill deeper and deeper, collecting all the junk you drill through. So, notice served, Galactic Mining Corps. ![]() At which point, I figure it’s a safe bet that I’d like it at least as much as Galactic Mining Corp. But as soon as they are, I intend to buy one specifically to play Ratchet & Clank: The Playstation 5 Only Edition. I haven’t actually played this, because it requires a Playstation 5, and there aren’t any available. So let’s take a look at the best game of 2021 that came out before midnight, June 30th. Note that anything that might have come out on or after July 1st, perhaps distracting me from other things, isn’t eligible. I hadn’t noticed that it was time to take stock of the best games of the year so far. ![]()
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