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It's a strategy game, a resource management sim, a shooter with a card battle minigame in a sprawling open world environment full of wise cracking NPCs. Honestly, I got kind of confused trying to get my head around all the stuff this game throws at you. So, I went and played the following five games instead. 

Advance Wars Dual Strike: 

I finished level 5 with an A rank; 1-4 I did all with S ranking. 

Farm Together: I created what I call "Diamond Town". I'm thinking it will be like Las Vegas. I put all crops, trees, flowers and fish that produce diamonds there and surrounded it all with railroad tracks and all my houses. I've got two farmhands working the trees,.flowers and crops. Come for a visit. I'll let you harvest it all. 
I'm also going for the monthly special quest completion achievement. Each month there is a new quest that awards you with new items. There are multiple levels to these quests which ultimately means growing thousands of a special new crop. I expanded my sprinkler fed fields and harvested them as often as I can. I'm not sure I'll get to the end of it, like my friend has. I only work on this stuff on the weekends. I can see how this quest encourages you to visit your farm every day, but I can't, and won't, do that. I'll unlock some new stuff in any case. 

Enter the Gungeon: I played it on Game Pass for rewards points. I really like it. It's a top view, 8-bit style shooter. The controls are excellent. It's a rogue-like, so when you die you start over, but the levels regenerate differently each time to make it seem fresh. It's challenging. I got my points but kept it installed to play it again later. 

Nowhere Prophet: Also played for Game Pass rewards points. I like this one too. It's a card battler that also reminds me of Banner Saga. You move a caravan of post apocalyptic survivors across a wasteland and battle bandits and whatnot. The card battle system is pretty neat in that it takes into account line-of-sight in certain instances. You play fighter cards on a field and shoot at the other side trying to take out their leader. There is a lot of stratgey here. You can also manage your crew, buy weapons and equipment for your leader and visit relatively safe locations to earn perks you'll use in battle. I got past the first major boss battle and opened a new area. I got my reward points and kept it installed for later. 

Borderlands 3, Krieg DLC: The latest story DLC has dropped, and I played a few hours of it. It's more of the ame zany dialog and frantic FPS battles I enjoy. I do feel fatigued at times with these fights. They are big long blast fests against many foes. I wipe my brow at the end of each one and finally get to the part I like best, exploration. This will be my new main game for a while, but I'll be bouncing back to Farm Together every few hours to harvest some crops. 

What did you play recently?