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Mountain at my gates

I like to binge. Be it a podcast, Netflix series or a game, I like to immerse myself completely in fictional worlds – and to do that, there has to be something to hook me. With a series, it has to be a premise. With a podcast, it has to be about something I know nothing about. But with games, it is something different. Some games are seductive in a way they give you little dopamine bumps, like your guns in Borderlands or Destiny getting stronger. Some games reward your intelligence, your ability to solve a problem, and others just give you the thrill of the win. A few which call you back because of the thrill of discovery. Yet very few games (or books or series) really nail the thrill of adversity, which brings me to the game I actually want to talk about, and that is

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