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What you should play this weekend

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By Graham Smith
A skeleton basked in red light reaches from the darkness. "You recognise its horrible, mangled visage. It's still alive! How could it still be living?"
A games journalist who used to work in print, yesterday.

It's another long weekend here in the UK, which means more time than ever for either playing videogames or thinking about how you could have been playing videogames if only you'd made significantly different life choices.

In either case, there remains time for talking about what you're playing this weekend with your fellow commenters, on Jank, the only website that permits such things.

Bus Bound

I have a real soft spot for driving simulators - as distinct from racing sims - that let you pootle around a city while obeying traffic laws and exploring side streets. Bus Bound offers that alongside another weakness of mine: a management layer in which you're setting down the bus routes yourself to efficiently meet the needs of the population. It doesn't look to have the atmosphere of OMSI's 1980s East Berlin (what does), but I'm tempted to board.

Forbidden Solitaire

A "card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed." I have no particular nostalgia for '90s CD-based horror games, but I did play a lot of Windows 95 Solitaire, and this is from Grey Alien Games, the makers of Regency Solitaire and Ancient Enemy, so they have a lot of experience bending the format to strange ends.

Monster Crown: Sin Eater

A creature collector with art clearly reminiscent of Pokémon's Gameboy era, but with a darker tone and a crossbreeding system that lets you smoosh your mons together to make hybrids. This is a sequel and the first had a rough reception due in part to the number of bugs, but Sin Eater has been better received, and I dig the haunted look of its pixel art.

Or you could (deep breath) run over swarms in a self-designed tank in Survivors-like TerraTech: Legion, sneak-and-sell in Goblin Vyke: The Thief Tycoon, run a Japanese convenience store in inKonbini, reunite a family of boars in Adorable Adventures, co-op some wizard mischief in The Spell Brigade, farm some cards in Cropdeck, photograph birds with friends in Flock Around, or lead an autobattle party in Legionbound. Games.

As always, tell us what you are playing in the comments, the best and surprisingly only comment section on the internet.

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Graham Smith

Graham is a former editorial director of Rock Paper Shotgun and editor-in-chief of PC Gamer. He has now been a games journalist for over twenty years, and retains a bottomless appetite for playing new games and tinkering with old ones.