I was invited to play on a friend’s server with a bunch of other streamers this spring, and the time spent there turning clay into bricks literally made me appreciate the interconnected nature of modern civilization more. Eco is an early civilization simulator, originally designed to teach school kids about economics and labor, turned into a game/social experiment. If anyone ever invites you to play in a big game of Eco, stop what you’re doing, take time off work or school, ship your kids off to camp, and jump in. The character bits, the occasional horrifying extraction and the, ummm, payoff sequences between acts came together in one of the truly unique games of 2021. I’m glad I powered through to the big finish, but for me, the real high point of the game are the first-person head-to-head card battling sequences. The game opens and closes so strong that I am totally willing to forgive the intentionally obtuse and often frustrating middle act. Apparently they’re real, but I remain unconvinced.) (As an aside, I had never heard of a stoat before, so I looked them up on the Internet to find out if they were real animals, like elephants, or something made up, like manatees and unicorns. Inscription is simultaneously a game about the eternal struggle between good and evil, the weird pre-history of videogames, a meta-commentary about the dangerous state of the modern content creator economy, and a stoat. Maybe I should have italicized places too. If you haven’t played Inscryption yet, what are you even doing? Please play Inscryption. Each of these games brought me joy at different times this year and helped add some much needed variety to what was frankly a pretty depressing year.Īs always, I remain very grateful for good, good games. I tried to rank them and gave up, because while I love them all for different reasons none of them really stood tall above the rest of the pack. What I do have are the 11 games that made a real impact on me this year. So I don’t have my usual offensively long list of games to run down this year*. That’s just a long-winded way of saying I’ve been pretty busy this year. #Inscryption xbox series#(By the way, The Anacrusis came out in early access on Steam, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, the Epic Games Store, and Xbox/PC Game Pass on January 13. Of course, I also co-host Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod with someone you probably know, and have been streaming PUBG, Returnal, Inscryption, The Anacrusis, and the occasional LEGO build on Twitch. I’ve been helping Stray Bombay (the makers of The Anacrusis) with comms, which means I finally understand how the sausage is made. This is the year that I went from playing games and talking about games to actually making games.
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