The story of a girl who comes home from traveling abroad to find that her family has moved to a new house, Gone Home doesn’t exactly have a premise that would seem to work very well in the medium of gaming.
Gone Home is a game that bucks this trend almost effortlessly. With all the talk in more recent years of developers and publishers hoping to add a layer of emotional resonance to their games, very few games are able to actually achieve the kind of emotional response that players might get from some of their favorite films or television shows. Just make sure you set plenty of time aside. You make your own history in Civilization V, and it’s glorious. Perhaps Michelangelo will be born in Boston. You can build the hanging gardens of Babylon just outside of London, or the Pyramids on the outskirts of Paris. As your village grows into a city, you’ll form new settlements, deal with political unrest, spread your cultural influence, research important scientific discoveries, and try to build awe-inspiring wonders before your competitors. Civilization V asks for a considerable time investment, but the rewards it yields is abundant.Īt the start of each game you’re asked to pick a civilization – be it the English empire, the ancient Egyptians, or one of over a dozen more – and the aim of the game is to take their culture from a single settler looking for a place to hang their hat to a sprawling superpower that is considered enough of a cultural, spiritual, militaristic or technological marvel to win the game. It’s because this game, more than any other on this impressive list of titles, can cause you to look at your watch in bewilderment at 5 am when you could have sworn you’d only been playing it for an hour. It’s not because of the daunting array of systems one must navigate in order to play the game with any measure of success, and it’s not because of the various political and religious minefields you must negotiate in order to avoid your burgeoning civilization becoming little more than a footnote in the pages of history. The feeling we most commonly associate with Civilization V is confusion. Here’s to another year of doing what we love, thanks for being here for the ride. We hope you love these games as much as we do. Our writers and editors have pooled their votes, and the results are as follows. To say thanks, and, of course, to celebrate, we’ve crafted up this little list of our favorite games of the 21st century. You’ve helped to give us a voice, and though it may be something of a nerdy voice, it’s ours all the same. So if you’re reading this, then thank you.
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One full turn around the sun later, Goomba Stomp boasts nearly 50 writers across 4 continents, and we couldn’t have done it without that one little thing that gives us a reason to do this at all: that’s you, the reader.
That project eventually became Goomba Stomp. One year ago, a few intrepid young gamers took it upon themselves to start their own gaming website.
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