Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MARCH 2025?

As always another slow month of gaming for me but I have managed to play two games.
Legend of Grim Rock
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I've had this for ages but never got around to seriously playing it. I've now put at least a few hours in and considering it's basically Dungeon Master with better graphics it's surprising fun.
Hunting around finding loss rocks or switches and then listening for the opening of a gate. What's not to like. One thing I didn't do was put it into classic mode as however much I have fond memories of mapping out the dungeon, even when you realise you've missed out a square somewhere, I kinda preferred to have the convenience of auto-map.
Chaos Reborn
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Another remake to more modern standards of the classic Julian Gollop game Chaos. It's quite fun but the bit I'm missing is that I think the real reason it's a classic is it could be played as a social game with friends - ha ha that is a real dragon! Still worth a look though and it was dirt cheap.
Next month I may have some more to report on as I finally gave in a bought a Retro Spectrum from their latest production run. I know, I know it's just an Raspberry Pi in a Spectrum case (dead fly keyboard and all) with some weights in it but there's something magical about having that physical device that you just can't get using an emulator on a PC. The other thing I like is that considering how cheap it is they gone to a lot of the trouble to make the packaging appealing/high quality including their version of a Crash magazine. I'm not sure if Crash ever got outside of the UK but it really revolutionised gaming magazines as it dropped the whole pretence of home computers where educational tools and not just for playing games.
As always there's also our on going Call of Cthulhu table top RPG. The story is progressing well even though the players did blind-side me with one of the actions which could potential skip half a chapter. In the end I thought I can work with that and as I had given the players the indications of where to go next I wasn't going to railroad them back on track to there. They probably regret it as they are now at the climax and have come fact-to-face with a cult of children which are killers in the town. Even I was questioning whether I should replace them with regular cultists but in the end thought this will be a fitting end to the campaign and quite possible both of the characters as their sanity is getting dangerously low.