Well Played
Reviews and other articles about video games and other things you can do in front of a screen.
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Assassin’s Creed II is better than I thought it would be
I played Assassin’s Creed II in preparation for my trip to Florence this year and it was almost as good as Florence itself.
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Oblivion Remastered works like a Charm on GeForce NOW
Oblivion Remaster is the same janky game as the 2006 original, but with a fresh coat of paint and some welcome gameplay improvements.
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Revisiting Caesar III (almost) three decades later
Caesar III remains the same game it was three decades ago, but the world — and its expectations — have changed.
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Segregation by colour is a good thing (but only in Mini Motorways)
Mini Metro’s spiritual successor may be better-looking, but is it also a better game?
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Try to score more than two points in Two Point Campus
I went to summer school at Two Point Campus, the spiritual successor to Theme Hospital’s spiritual successor Two Point Hospital.
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How to run Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 on Windows 10 and 11
Red Alert 2 has been available on Steam since March this year, but sadly the 24-year old RTS game no longer works out of the box.
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Nothing is final in Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy VIII is a classic JRPG in which everyone (including its developer) makes plenty of questionable decisions.
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Fight and commit crimes as an undercover cop in LEGO City
LEGO City Undercover is an underrated action-adventure game where you get to play an undercover cop in a major city.
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I built a theme park in OpenRCT2 based on things that are wrong in tech
RollerCoaster Tycoon and its spiritual successors are timeless classics that never get old, unlike messages from tech recruiters.
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Conway’s Game of Life: Creating complex patterns from simple rules
This game is an absolute best-celler.