Category: Other pieces
You are, for the purposes of your games blog, about to play 1986 life simulator Alter Ego, which takes you slowly through an entire life via a series of short text scenarios with multiple choices.
One of my favourite games ever and how it maximises the narrative strengths of the point and click adventure for a delightful package of stories within stories
A game of space, scale and freedom which I would have loved if only I had played it when I was six.
“Today’s racing spectators wanted power, excitement and… danger! The year is 2008 and this promises to be the fastest and most dangerous season of the lot.”
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