Rally Point: Crop to Selection

Sometimes, readers, it's tempting to do the popularity thing, and ask what you're playing, or thinking of buying. There are countless popular games I never mention, surely I should be doing those? What if I am terrible actually and should write about the things that are making a big splash instead?

But that way lies Views Brain. You can already get that everywhere. Moreover, I suffer a curse where if you chose a game I hated or found dull, it would ruin my life. Especially given the time investment that even lightweight strategy games so readily demand (I don't get paid for the 6-hours-in "Oh, this is really limited/bugged/regurgitated" games, you know).

My compromise was a shortlist you could pick from, and I'd do a piece on the winner. Naturally I'd have to play them a bit first to be sure, and you already know what happened, don't you. We're doing a roundup, and it won't be the last. There are no rules in the Rally Point.

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