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‘Big Time Sports’ is not how you do mobile multiplayer

You don’t have to play this.

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‘BattleSky Brigade: Harpooner’ shows us how to ditch predatory mobile game behavior

Since I started No Escape I have tried hard to provide coverage of interesting mobile games.

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The Real Limits of ‘Agent Intercept’

If there’s one thing I really didn’t like about the game, something that elevates my distaste from mere indifference, it’s the game’s insistence on putting a strong gate between chapters of the story.

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Battle the Beats and Beat the Gods in ‘Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree’

In its opening moments, Atone: Heart of the Elder Tree seems to head in the direction of God of War or Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. But the choices it makes are much more interesting.

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‘Assemble With Care’ and the Right to Repair

The most interesting aspect of Assemble With Care is the tinkering.

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First Impressions: Spyder (Apple Arcade)

Sumo Digital has made a stealth puzzle game where players control a sentient mechanical spider working for a British spy agency during the Cold War. Its camera issues and resulting movement problems stop it from being great.

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First Impressions: Shinsekai Into The Depths

What am I doing? Oh nothing, just taking a nice refreshing dip in the ocean.

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Apple Arcade, three months later

The service has brought some interesting games to the fore, but what have we really gained?

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A Dangerously Righteous Kind of Guilt

Mutazione is an exceptional adventure game about colonialism and the guilt of privilege. Also, gardening and hot goss.

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What The Golf Turns Everything Into Golf And Destroys Golf In The Process

A game that reshapes reality around it, What The Golf? makes no sense and all of the sense and it’s beautiful.