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Grissallia 🏳️‍⚧️ · @grissallia

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July 24, 2023 - Day 205 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 224

Game: Ozymandias

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Apr 17, 2020
Library Date: Jul 18, 2023
Unplayed: 6d
Playtime: 74m

Another day, another late review.

I'm on call this week, which means that it's a little bit trickier to fit in a game and a review, and I had to write yesterday's review. I had enough time to squeeze in 15mins of the second last game in the Humble Bundle.

74 minutes later, yeah...

After the last two games, I didn't have a lot of hope for Ozymandias. At least it wasn't pixel art?

Turns out that Ozymandias is a "stripped down 4X". The first 4X game I tried to play (and failed at) was Reach for the Stars, and I just haven't had a lot of luck since then.

Generally, I find there are too many moving parts to keep track of, and I end up stressed out instead of relaxing. Not the good kind of stressed out where I get to through the stress to a win state.

The bad kind where I hate every minute of it.

Herein lies the surprise with Ozymandias: I had no idea it was a 4X until after I finished playing it, and read the precis for the game on Steam.

They've stripped out the bit I dislike, and left me with something that got me hooked and kept me playing *far* later than I should have.

The framing is an early 20th century expedition, where you're introduced to the "world" of Ozymandias. The game introduces you to each piece of the gameplay in a single level, and it all comes together into something very playable.

It's a top-down strategy game, and the graphics work for the playstyle. Not too simplistic, not overly complex.

I just have to make sure I don't start playing again now, because I have somewhere I need to be for dinner.

Ozymandias is:

4: Good

#Ozymandias #4X #Strategy #HumbleChoice #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

#Ozymandias #4x #strategy #humblechoice #mastodongaming #gaming #project365ong #project365 #newplay

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Philip Wilson · @PhilipVWilson

18 followers · 136 posts · Server aus.social

RonDeSantiAss

I met a traveller from a frantic land,
Who said—“Two vast and charmless knobs of bile
Stand in a desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered campaign lies, whose style
And audience reach, and high-tech free-speech brand,
Tell that its planners, lacking for a clue
Yet forged ahead, launched on the Dying Bird
That coughed its feeble streaming breaths to few;
And on the launch review, these words appear:
‘My name is RonDeSantiAss, The UnWoke Word;
Look on my Works, ye MAGAs, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of Musk-encrusted dreck, heartless and bare,
The dank and viral memes stretch far away.”

#DeSantis #Musk #BirdSite #uspol #Ozymandias #Shelley

#desantis #musk #birdsite #uspol #Ozymandias #shelley

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Passed Wonder · @passedwonder

100 followers · 79 posts · Server mastodonapp.uk

Open media

I met a #flaneur from the big smoke
Who said: Two vast and trunkless spheres of #snow
Stand on the pavement. Near them, by the docks,
Half sunk, a melted visage lies, whose frown,
And coal-dark eyes, and nose of pointed sneer
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed
(Continues…)

HTs: #LondonSnow #poetry #ozymandias #London

#flaneur #snow #londonsnow #poetry #Ozymandias #london

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Peter Fiennes · @pfiennes

27 followers · 4 posts · Server zirk.us

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‘Live well, and cherish what is beautiful’. Plato
#Greece #cop27 #ozymandias

#greece #cop27 #Ozymandias

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Paul Roy · @paulroy

6 followers · 5 posts · Server mastodon.ie

Open media

Thought it was appropriate… #twitter #shelley #ozymandias #elon

#twitter #shelley #Ozymandias #elon

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JRR Jokien · @joshcarlosjosh

1288 followers · 171 posts · Server mastodon.online

Look on my Toots, ye Mighty, and despair!

#toots #Ozymandias

#Ozymandias #toots

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liam · @slisne

756 followers · 3660 posts · Server merveilles.town

And on the icebox note these words appear:
"I ate the plums: delicious, sweet, and cold.
Look on the shelf, ye Hungry, and despair!"
Nothing inside remains.

#plums #ozymandias

#Ozymandias #plums

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