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April 23: What to Play This Weekend
Something martial, something masculine
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April 17: What to Play This Weekend
Into the unknown
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Get in the mood for a spring clean with a new zen puzzler
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Virtual pets get the creepy game they deserve
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Here’s a tip: Break games to find new ones
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An online chatroom isn’t where you’d expect to find a platformer
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SHENZEN I/O is here to make you code like it’s the 1980s
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Rearrange a world of typography in unWorded
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New platformer wants you to know the environment is screwed
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Tyranny is an RPG about being properly evil
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Dating sims don’t get much more awkward than One Night Stand
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Sara is Missing is some good text-message horror
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