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(on Epic – on Steam)
https://www.galciv3.com/
A space expansionist 4x game.
The interface is generally sucky, making it hard to figure out what’s going on.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180610001951/https://wftogame.com/
An awkward dungeon management game, with walls you can’t dig out, rooms you build but don’t know how much of or what size, and an interface that could only be inspired by a 1980s DOS game.
Absolutely not recommended.
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Inspired by Dungeon Keeper – (1997 game)
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A spoiled little girl loses her rich parents and is sent away to live with her reclusive heartbroken (rich) relative.
The story is fairly awful to me, though I can see how this was popular at the time. It has definitely aged, not just in its period but in its language and writing style.
I’ll class this as “liked”, but I only see this as being good for historical reasons and wouldn’t recommend it. I’ll also class this as child-friendly, except it’s child-friendly in its context: A parent reading to their child in the early 1900s.
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17396
- https://archive.org/details/secretgarden00burn
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was https://www.gratuitoustankbattles.com/
A tower defense game, but with tanks and more upgrading.
I tried the demo and didn’t give it much of a chance. For example, I didn’t customize units. I prefer the more sandbox-style of Gratuitous Space Battles.
- From the makers of Gratuitous Space Battles.
- The scroll wheel to zoom in/out is backwards.
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Abandoned – The website is dead.
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(on Wikipedia)
was star-made.org
An ugly and awkward space game I tried a little while ago.
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2023-04-29 – Abandoned; the website is gone.
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https://www.mobygames.com/game/saints-row-2
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024918/
saintsrow.com
Be a gang member, run around in a sandbox world and shoot stuff, I guess.
It’s alright.
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Note that the original Saints Row – (2006 game) was only released for the Xbox 360.
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https://store.steampowered.com/app/61310
A connect-four type bubble-pop game, using a hexagonal board.
Not bad, but not my thing.
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Properly titled Fractal: Make Blooms Not War
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2189221/
was defiance.com/en/series/
In a world ruined by an alien invasion and terraforming, an ex-military turned scavenger and his alien adopted daughter take refuge in one of the few reasonable settlements: Defiance.
Although it has elements I like, it doesn’t have anything that actually grabs me. In a world where there is so much else of better quality, this is not recommended. There are a couple of characters who are really well acted, but again.. it’s not worth the trouble.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2654580/
was https://www.fox.com/almost-human/
A buddy cop show with an android, set in the near future.
It’s great all around, especially the acting from the lead characters. Once the initial interest wears off, it lacks the good writing to give it either an episodic groove or an overall story arc. It’s especially poor with an arc which could last it into another season, trivially-justifying its cancellation.
Recommended only for fans of “loose” science fiction who would be interested in the robot buddy cop angle. Watch one episode, then decide. Others can give it a pass, unless they like Karl Urban, who plays a cop played by Karl Urban.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1119644/
https://www.facebook.com/Fringe
When investigating unusual crimes, a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation agent is brought into a United States Department of Homeland Security task force that investigates such things.
It took a while to like it at all, but ultimately it was lacking an aggressively-pursued over-arching story arc. It was so damned episodic and boring. Also, the lead actor’s constant grimace is incredibly disturbing.
I gave this a good long shot, and by the half-way point of season two, I just had to abandon it.
