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I don’t know if Sunderfolk can replace tabletop RPGs, but its smartphone controls feel like a great alternative if your DM’s too exhausted to run a campaign

Sunderfolk is the latest attempt at an experiment that’s never quite succeeded. Secret Door’s co-op-centric tactical RPG aims to capture the fun of tabletop roleplaying in a more approachable format by using smartphones as controllers for the party’s actions on a central screen. Sunderfolk makes an impressive showing. Secret Door seems like it’s carefully considered…

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Yes, Stardew Valley’s newly announced update will probably slow down work on Haunted Chocolatier, ‘but not as much as you might think’

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone, who said in April that he’s “committed to not working on Stardew Valley until I’m done with Haunted Chocolatier,” announced last week that he’s working on Stardew Valley again. Well, hey, these things happen. But the good news (aside from more Stardew Valley) is that while Haunted Chocolatier might take…

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RoadCraft isn’t just another demanding offroad sim for petrol heads – it sated my desire to micromanage production lines too

I didn’t think natural disaster remediation would be this relaxing. When I first booted up RoadCraft, a game about performing clean-up jobs with heavy vehicles, I was plunged into a reflective mood by the plangent, melancholy guitar licks that better evoke crackling campfires and copious whiskey than they do mud and exhaust fumes. The mood…

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All Totem of Revelations locations in Avowed

Hidden amidst harsh sands and deadly dreamthralls, the Totem of Revelations locations in Avowed‘s third major region of Shatterscarp are much harder to stumble upon than their counterparts in Dawnshore and Emerald Stair. However, the Eyes of the Obscured provides some of the best perks of the bunch, especially for mages, so it’s worth finding…

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Embark dispels myths about Arc Raiders’ aggression-based matchmaking: ‘We don’t make any value or moral judgments … it’s a bit of a blunt instrument’

When an extraction shooter comes out and says it’s matchmaking people according to how much they decide to shoot, folks naturally have a lot of questions. Embark recently revealed that Arc Raiders is now using an “aggression-based matchmaking” system, as well as other unspecified parameters, to join players with similar playstyles. “So if your preference…

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