There’s a lot to be said for games that hone in on a core game play idea and ruthlessly pursue that without the additional cruft that seems to plague every…
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David Klemke
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I’ve had (and still do, for reasons that’ll become self evident) an itch to play a good city builder for sometime. There’s been a few decent candidates that have been…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
Ever since I played Auralux all those years ago I’ve been keenly interested in what I like to call “essence” games. They are, as their name would imply, extremely stripped…
David Klemke
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Is it just me, or did mobile games kinda fade into the background somewhat? Like, rewind say 5 years or so and I was getting mobile game recommendations from everyone,…
David Klemke
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I can remember getting into the custom Warcraft 3 map scene back in the day, churning through map after map just to see what people had created. This is where…
David Klemke
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Transport Tycoon has a very special place in my heart. It started back when I was a young lad, the game likely coming to me from my father who’d got…
David Klemke
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It’s not often that a developer simply explaining the mechanics sells me on the game. Usually if you can’t simply show how it works through a gameplay trailer or similar…
David Klemke
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I’ve very much come to enjoy the new breed of city building simulators like Frostpunk and They Are Billions. I think this is mostly due to their more relaxed pace…
David Klemke
6 Min Read
I couldn’t tell you why I never got into the Hitman series. It’s not something I’ve deliberately avoided, no I think it’s more that I’ve always had something else to…
David Klemke
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“Surely there’s no more games I helped Kickstart” I keep telling myself every time one pops up (7 more to go, it turns out). For the most part these are…