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  The best games like the Sims to play right now

  Polygon - Petrana Radulovic

  There’s still not a game out there quite like the Sims. For over 20 years, the life simulation franchise has dominated its genre. Some similar games have been in development for years (and some like Paradox’s Life By You didn’t make it), but the Sims remains the biggest life simulation series out …

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  Isles of Sea and Sky taught me it’s okay to move on

  Polygon - Grayson Morley

  Sometimes, turning a linear game into an open world just makes sense. Whether it’s Elden Ring or Breath of the Wild, plenty of franchises have found that their core gameplay loops map well to an open world iteration. With Elden Ring, you can disperse the intense FromSoft difficulty across a map that …

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  Mortal Kombat 1 year 2 DLC brings Scream’s Ghostface, Noob Saibot, and Animalities to the game

  Polygon - Michael McWhertor

  Mortal Kombat 1’s next year of content will bring six more characters, new story content, and a returning finishing move, the Animality, to the fighting game, developer NetherRealm Studios announced at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday. NetherRealm chief creative officer Ed Boon was on hand at SDCC 2024 …

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  The best video game documentary ever just got better

  Polygon - Chris Plante

  The greatest video game documentary of all time just got a 90-minute prologue and a special edition Blu-ray (including an 80-page booklet for which I wrote the intro). That’s great for dedicated fans, but for newcomers, I have equally excellent news: you can watch Double Fine PsychOdyssey, in its …

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  Flock shows us a gentler (and smarter) approach to creature collecting

  Polygon - Ana Diaz

  As a child, I owned a little encyclopedia of Pokémon. Each page of this handbook contained an entry for one of the many fictional creatures and shared information about its personality, type, and unique characteristics. I pored over its many factoids and scribbled them on lined binder paper with my …

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  Why can’t I skip puzzles that are too hard in every game?

  Polygon - Zoë Hannah

  The satisfaction of solving a puzzle is inherent. You learn the rules of the game, then you’re presented with a challenge that tests your knowledge of those rules. The predictability is calming, and hearing the game’s click or bell or ring when you’ve solved each puzzle is a serotonin bump I’ve …