What you could play this weekend

What a week it's been. You must be eight or nine months into the school summer holidays by now? Twelve or thirteen heatwaves, effectively one never-ending nightmare of sweaty necks and bleached grass? At least the weekend is here, when you get to put down childish things (the arbitrary strictures of work) and instead commit yourself to the pursuit of being human via the medium of videogames.

I'll tell you what we're playing this weekend if you tell us yours.

Repterra

I grew up watching Saturday-morning cartoon Denver, the Last Dinosaur (he's my best friend and a whole lot more). But what if Denver wasn't the last dinosaur? What if there were, in fact, too many Denvers? This is the nightmare scenario posited by Repterra, a "base-building survival RTS" in which you can ultimately turn dinos into your best friend and a whole lot more, where "more" means using them as mounts in your forever-war against their kin.

Hearth And Hamlet

Brendy Caldwell, Videogame Cop might have outlawed games that play themselves, but I'll continue to smuggle contraband incrementalism into the pages of Jank. Hearth And Hamlet promises "relaxing idle gameplay" paired with a townbuilder in which you upgrade tech, pass laws, and trade with neighbouring territories. My city will flourish. Take that, Brendy Scald-well.

Entropy

Ah, my nemesis. Tired of making my home messy, Entropy is now also a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic Final Fantasies, but here rendered with a mid-90s PC game aesthetic and arch tone familiar to anyone who played the developer's last game, Dread Delusion. It's in Early Access for now but already looks disgusting.

What we're playing

Graham: I'm going to be away this coming weekend and for most of the next, which means I may be playing pen-and-paper games with friends but very little in the way of videogames. If I was around, I'd probably still be playing Sandustry.

Brendy: I have downloaded Vholume and mean to plummet to my death multiple times in the quest for being the best brutalist architecture navigator.

Jonty: I am overwhelmed with work ahead of Gamescom, so it's going to be whatever I can cram into the Saturday night. Something short and possibly by Alan Hazelden, that's about as much as I can handle right now.

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