Frostpunk is such a great steal (at any price) I concede the fact that lacking replayability may be a negative factor to some but I have to say the first time through the campaign was a VERY stressful (in a good way) white knuckle-teeth-grinding-full-on-despair mode. I have to say I seldom if ever got that emotionally invested (and drained) in a “mere” strategy game.
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I should probably try it, I have had it on Epic for free for a while now.
edit: I hate Epic, I should pick it up for free this other way instead.
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While gog has a launcher as well it is optional not mandatory like steam or feckit. That game is really a worthwhile waste of 1-2 afternoons, especially now with winter around the corner to set the right mood… (probably should play it on your laptop (running on batteries) in your wood cabin during a blizzard for full immersion 
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Yup, I just picked it up on GoG. POE has endless delve running for 10 days right now, which is my favorite POE mode, but will look at this when that ends.
Does anyone have any inside info from a newsletter or anything about the state of Unmatched for mobile? Last I heard it was supposed to come out this year…
Paging @RachetAcram
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Not sure about Unmatched but it looks like Maracaibo is in a couple weeks on iOS and Android.
“Local pass and play is also supported for up to 4 players.”
Can’t say I am surprised at the lack of online multiplayer.
Do/have any of you ever played a game pass & play? Something longer than, say, Lost Cities? I don’t see how this is a popular way to play, but maybe I’m truly in the minority.
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Absolutely. It’s a great way to play Pandemic while traveling (and nicely avoids quarterbacking). We’ve done it a few times at home just to skip setup, but that’s rare, and I think I’ve only tried it once with information that genuinely needs to be secret. Seems like someone always messes up and sees someone else’s hand.
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Maybe it’s included because it’s an easy feature to add? I’m making an assumption, but presumably hotseat mode exists for testing before the ai is coded, so it’s literally built into the game anyway
North Star Games have released the expansion to evolution - Climate!
Auto download for me - kids and I regularly play pass and play on this one
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Looks like $7 currently, though I don’t know if that is a sale price or permanent.
I think the app is pretty good though the async development was a master class in how not to do it. I think it’s fairly functional now, though, if not as highly polished as it could be.
One nice thing about the game is that only one person actually needs to own the full version in order to set up async with friends. I wonder if Climate works the same way.
I can set one up if you want to try?
Nope, you need climate, I can’t add you
h/t for the legit lol at this
My wife and I’ve play Sagrada and Potion Explosion pass and play when we are out and looking to pass the time.
I first got introduced to board gaming on an iPad while waiting for a delayed flight home (that got cancelled). Developers of Haunted Hollow were playing and it caught my eye, and that of my son. We played that game a bunch using pass and play. It didn’t have async and my son didn’t have an ipad at the time so it was perfect.
I think pass and play is a great way to get to know a game (rules enforced) without having to do setup and allows for games to be played where there is no space for them.
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Fitting that the developer capable of the best presentation is adapting a game with great presentation. This seems up Dire Wolf’s alley.
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How is Everdell, design-wise? No one in my gaming circles has played it.
I literally just play tested Everdell today and was thinking about buying it tomorrow here at Pax.
It’s like an engine-building, worker placement hybrid game. Essentially gather resources with workers in order to build parts of a village that become part of an engine and also score victory points.
I was going to try to find a full game of it tomorrow instead of just the partial game demo I played.
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