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"textContent": "Some people like to ease into the week, as though dipping toes into a frigid northern sea, and some people Monday Hard by wrapping their arms around an iceberg. Are you the latter kind of bather? Try this on for size, then: Riftborne is a real-time sci-fi grand strategy game that's controlled using an old-fashioned, \"terminal-style\" interface.\n\nSeize your silly computer mouse and feed it unto the dog. Where you're going, there shall be no drag-selects, cursor animations, right-click menus, and all the rest of that piddly frippery you are accustomed to in these modern SO-CALLED \"best strategy games\", with their cosseting, 32+ colour visuals that even your dog might be able to understand, assuming you didn't just kill your dog by feeding her a piece of plastic.\n\nRead more",
"title": "\"It is meant to be lived in\" - grand strategy game Riftborne offers \"months\" of galactic scheming and no actual graphics"
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