Friday Foxer #210
This week’s handmade co-op puzzle won’t defox itself. If you’re a dab hand at quizzes, lateral thinking, and search engine sleuthing, why not help out.
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Year Four
Apologies, I was too busy glugging Lemsip and mopping up snot in late December to put together the usual end-of-year digest. As my sinuses no longer feel like treacle-soaked sponges, my throat like a frogspawn-filled flute, here’s a belated look at some of the more substantial things posted on Tally-Ho Corner during Year Four.
Praise the Titanic?
What the ongoing struggle between RMS Titanic and the Atlantic Ocean lacks in kineticism and pyrotechnics, it more than makes up for in atmosphere and pathos. While Early Access ROV sim, vROVpilot: TITANIC only managed to distract me for around an hour, it was a haunting and influential hour.
Look, Mum, no hands (games that make great screensavers)
Your gaming room is so perishingly cold, removing hands from pockets is unthinkable. You’re cradling a dozing infant or pet and don’t wish to wake them by operating a keyboard or controller. You’re cohabiting with a petulant poltergeist who’ll trash the place unless distracted 24/7 by moving images… There are many reasons why you might want to ‘play’ a video game without actually playing a video game. Here are four current THC favourites that double as splendid animated screensavers.
If I show you mine…
…will you show me yours? My Steam ‘Year in Review’ for 2024 contained a few surprises. For instance, I was somewhat taken aback to discover that I’d fired up Tabletop Simulator 208 times last year, and, for 49 consecutive days during the summer, played something Steamy every day.
Railway modelling for the cash-strapped and space-poor
Mean old Santa Claus didn’t bring you that longed for train set? Dab away those understandable tears and download the demo of 3D Train Studio V9. Deutschland’s answer to Rolling Line has just pulled into Steam Central, coupled to an improbably generous trial.
Where am I?
Using the following clues (the map above is purely decorative) in combination with Street View, work out my location.
Dusty But Trusty: Deer Hunter 2005
To qualify for a Dusty But Trusty article, a game must be old enough to vote in Nicaragua, buy tobacco in Djibouti, and make the beast with two backs in Nepal. More importantly, it must be demonstrably super, smashing, great, ace, wizard, bonzer, the knees of the bee, the testicles of the dog, and the whiskers and pyjamas of the cat. You don’t need rose-tinted pince-nez or a cutting-edge pixel pump to enjoy 24 karat golden oldies like… Deer Hunter 2005.