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Steam’s Turn-Based RPG Fest has discounts and demos you can download then play, in that order

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“Turn-based” games are, as we know, all derived from Turn, the strategy game about a dog digging for coins released for the BBC Micro in 1987. Prior to this, all actions in games simply took place simultaenously, as fast as the player or players could make them.

Fast forward to today and many games are now “turn-based”, from Tactics Ogre Reborn to Age Of Wonders 4 to chess. In celebration of their orderliness, Steam is currently running a turn-based RPG fest featuring discounts and demos for “turn-based games where you grow stronger with every battle”.

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How to order free rapid covid tests from the US government — again

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Autumn is here and once again there are warnings about the spread of the Covid-19 virus – along with the flu and the RSV or respiratory syncytial virus. To curb the increase, the US government is once again offering free rapid home antigen tests to every US household. According to the government website, orders will … Read more

Cold And Afraid is a PS1-style murder mystery aiming to be “Law & Order by Squaresoft in 1999”

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Indie developers love making retro-styled games that look like PlayStation games you rented from Blockbuster and blitzed through in a feverish winter weekend. I’m glad, so here’s another. Cold And Afraid is a murder mystery that aims to channel the 1990s with chunky characters and lots of lovely dithering. You play a detective out to stop a serial killer with a grisly pattern who’s preying on the young women of an unnamed US city. On top of the obligatory tank controls, it aims to have “consequential dialogue choices” and a “Time Event system where you must meet certain people at specific times to forward different story threads”. Ah, forgive me, you’re here to see the chunky limbs. Here’s a recent trailer that shows ’em.

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Car Parking Order 3D GAME

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Car Parking Order 3D GAME In this game you can grab the parking skills by learning few levels as practice Time consuming Puzzle Gameplay: Challenge your brainpower skills & parking ability with this car parking game designed to test your strategic thinking in a flexibility way. Various Parking Challenges : You can navigate through simple … Read more