9/23/2023 0 Comments Subterfuge crosswordI’d been amazed by stories of players waking up at 4 AM just to sneak a few ships under the enemy’s nose. I would read anything anyone wrote about these games, but I could never see myself enjoying them myself. I’d read Rock, Paper, Shotgun’s rollicking seven part account of a treacherous game of Neptune’s Pride years ago, and immediately swore I’d never play it or anything like it. The idea is that you log in when you have a few moments, look at the state of the board, send a few messages to other players, consider your options, and put plans into motion that will take days to resolve. Think Civilization, if moving units from one side of a continent to the other took 72 hours. These are real time multiplayer 4X strategy games, with the “real time” in question being weeks and weeks long. It promised to be a more refined, accessible take on a the intriguing concept laid out in Iron Helmet’s Neptune’s Pride and its sequel, Triton. I’d been watching Subterfuge for a long while now.
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