A few of the things that have us hooked this week.
20th September
Hello!
This week I’ve managed to convice the wonderful Christian Donlan to write it all!
Look, he offered, OK?
We made a trade, a secret trade.
What have you been playing?
Catch up with the older editions of this column in ourWhat We’ve Been Playing archive.
Then I had to buy a new one, which was miraculously even less fun.
Is there anything more stressful than trying to pick a new PC?
To miss out on something as good as this, for example, would be a real loss.
Oxytone’s a sort of blend of those old Pipe Mania games and something likeDorfromantik.
You place hexes on the screen, all of which have a tangle of lines within them.
you’re able to learn the game and steadily improve just by playing it.
More than anything, I live for the combo system in this game.
There’s something slightly otherworldly about Oxytone, and I think it might be a work of genius.
If you don’t fancy it on smartphone, I think it’s available on PC and Switch too.
Party House is my favourite at the moment.
It’s a deckbuilding game that took me a long time to realise that it was a deckbuilding game.
Inevitably, though, I lose games because I get too drawn into the fiction.
I start creating house parties filled with my favourite guests regardless of how well they chime together.
Still, compulsive, strange and fascinating stuff!
