What you should play this weekend

The half-term holidays have arrived, which in my neck of the woods means all the kids are off school for the next two weeks. This is going to do wonders for my progress in Pokémon Pokopia, and serious damage to my progress in manshooter Marathon. I'm OK with this.

Here's three games you could be playing this weekend, although tell us what is providing you with sweet relief in the comments below.

Nova Roma

Last week, both Going Medieval and Timberborn left Early Access, but here's another citybuilder entering it - and another which offers new ways to drown your population. Nova Roma is about constructing, well, Rome, and doing so in a manner that please the Gods as well as your citizens. Expect aqueducts and lots of games journalists using "wasn't built in a day" straplines.

Nutmeg!

I collected football stickers in the '90s, spent pocket money on issues of Match and Shoot, read sports scores on Ceefax and played Subutteo in my mate's loft. Nutmeg! might be a game for me, specifically. It's a football management game based around deckbuilding rather than spreadsheet maintenance, set in the '80s and '90s, and with a physical, desk-based interface that evokes the original, 1980s, pre-Sports Interactive Football Manager series.

Life Is Strange: Reunion

No Life Is Strange game has ever clicked for me, but it's one of those series where I'm fond of people's fondness for it. This latest entry returns to the story of Max and Chloe, the original game's protagonists, and it seems like people aren't immediately furious at it. It's also promising to wrap up the pair's story once and for all. Wouldn't it be nice if videogames were allowed to end?

Pokopia aside, I'll probably spend the weekend playing more racing reboot Screamer (and still more of Marathon when my kid isn't looking), although I am really hankering to give one of these new or finished citybuilders a try.

What about you? Tell us what you're playing in the comments.