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    August 21, 2020

    Android Gaming Weekly 'What have you been playing?' thread - 08/21

    Weekly 'What have you been playing?' thread - 08/21

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 06:11 AM PDT

    This weekly thread is for discussing the games we are playing this week! List any games you are playing and include any extra information like what the game is about and why you are enjoying playing it.

    Make sure you provide a link to the Google Play Store page when suggesting games. Play Store Links Bot can be used to make this easier. To use the Play Store Links Bot simply put the following in your comment: 

    linkme: nameOfGame, nameOfSecondGame, nameOfThirdGame.

    Click here to see the previous weekly threads.

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    Does anyone know the name of an old Android game that looks like zombie age 2 in style but you play as Dracula/vampire and each night after slaughter you can upgrade your weapon and shield ?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 12:14 AM PDT

    I hope to live until somebody decide to create an android version of this (capture the flag 1993)

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 08:37 AM PDT

    Democratia: The Isle of Five - Nice local multiplayer game

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:31 AM PDT

    What are the best platformer games developed for android?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:52 AM PDT

    I know that you can emulate and play retro games and that ports of console games exist (i.e. Dead Cells, Sonic, Downwell) but are there any games exclusively/started on Android that are worth a download? Can be f2p or payed.

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    Tom and Jerry Chase is now available in 10 countries and worth a try!

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 11:03 AM PDT

    Based on the popular TV show Tom and Jerry, Warner Bros Entertainment partnered with NetEase to develop an asymmetrical 4v1 casual battle game called Tom and Jerry: Chase. Players will be able to either go for Cat or Mouse. Most of the iconic characters are available in the game with the variations of skins that will add value to the stats of the character.

    Previously the game was available in China for more than 2 years. But finally, it is being available in the other regions. Currently, the game is available in Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, East Timor. However, you can still download it on Android and play without any issues even if you do not belong to any of those mentioned regions. One thing to note that since it is made by NetEase, there are pay 2 win elements, but you'll definitely feel nostalgic because of the quality of the game. If you have ever watched Tom and Jerry Show, then you should check out this game for once!

    To know more and how to download the game, you can check here.

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    Research shows that the Best Parents are the ones that play Video Game with their Kids (includes android games)

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:46 AM PDT

    tl;dr 1 - I often post guides to new android games, but this time I got super passionate about healthy gaming in general and how most parents in the boomer generation viewed video games so bad it caused huge societal problems. So I did a ton of research on gaming and found that the healthiest parenting style is to play games with your kids.

    tl;dr 2 - I made an extremely condensed and high quality version of this in video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_lcG0xx4Is

    But for those of you who don't like video, here is my video script and sources:

    I grew up in a traditional home out in the country and was not exposed to video games for the first 10 years of my life. Then around the age of 11, I played my first video game called civilization 2 and I was immediately obsessed with the game. I'm not sure if I was attracted to the thrill of the challenge, the stimulation of developing strategies or just the lack of boredom in my life, but video games were instantly my first choice of pass-time and my parents hated that. I think they immediately regretted allowing video games to be part of my life and the decision they made at that moment scarred me for years and I'm still healing from it, but sadly, it was the same decision that most parents make.

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    If you are a parent and you have no concerns about video games. If you have no worries at all about the effects they might have on your kid, you are a bad parent in this area of life. I don't mean that condescendingly. If we are honest with ourselves, we are all bad parents in some aspects of life, but what makes us successful parents in the long run is how quickly we identify those areas we are weak in and work to improve on them. I made this video partially to help you guys. However, I also made this video for those of you parents on the other side of the spectrum because parents that are worried about their kids playing video games often make decisions that are even worse than the ones made by parents that don't care and end up producing the opposite results to what they were wanting. So this video is also for you.

    Whether we like it or not, video games have taken over. Last year there was approximately 2.6 billion gamers in the world and with the current pandemic, that number has now likely increased to over 3 billion gamers. This number is even higher with the younger generation who on average play over 10,000 hours of video games by the time they hit 18 years old.

    To put this in perspective, it generally takes around 380 hours to become trained in a skill profession, 480-720 hours to learn a language, an undergraduate at tier 1 University generally takes about 1900 classroom hours and an additional 2-6000 hours of studying and getting a master's degree generally takes an additional 2-3000 hours.

    Now I am not saying that if we did not play video games, we'd have a bunch of 18 year olds running around with their masters at major universities, but what I am saying is that video games consume a ridiculous amount of our time so we need figure out how to do video games in a healthy way and most parents are approaching this subject the wrong way.

    Unfortunately, there is a lot of misinformation about video games. When video games first became popular, a lot of parents were worried that violent video games would make their children more violent. This was a common belief, but after 10s of 1000s of dollars gone into researching this, we have found 0 correlation between violent video games and real violence. In fact, counter-intuitively, a lot of research is starting to imply that video games have been a big factor in decreasing crime rates, drug use, and unwanted teen pregnancies keeping our teens at home satisfied playing video games rather than bored and looking for trouble.

    Now this does not necessarily mean that we should encourage violent games because there might be other negative effects that studies have not yet supported, but it does mean that our initial intuitive response was in fact incorrect and that video games as a whole have actually had an opposite effect on violence.

    Another concern held by parents is that video games are contributing to the skyrocketing levels of depression and anxiety in our current world. This is a logical concerned because this increase in depression and anxiety is connected with more developed countries which is also where more video games are being played, but in a groundbreaking research project done last year by Jama Pediatrics on the effects of four different types of screen time, they found that while social media and surfing the web are huge contributors to the increase in depression, that video games and TV are not. You will see here that not only is Social media five times more likely to be correlated with depression, but that increasing social media time correlates to 20 times as much depression as increasing time spent playing video games. That being said, the study did show that video games do contribute to a lower self-esteem, again not nearly as much as social media, but it is enough to note that it has an effect.

    Other parent's have been concerned about video games affecting the sleep of their children since video games are so stimulating. This is another great and logical concern, but so far the research has seen minimal to no effect of videogames on sleep. Even in the most extreme example of playing video games right up until the moment someone tries to go to sleep, it had little effect with some of the stats even improving when playing video games right before bed.

    Lastly, some parents blame video games for the increased cases of the failure to launch or peter pan syndrome phenomenon where upon arriving to adulthood, people simply have no interest in taking on the responsibilities of an adult and live without jobs and no interest in finding one. This phenomenon is almost exclusively related to males and in the last decade, the cases of this phenomenon has increased by 25% to where now over 7 million american men have neither jobs nor an interest in finding one. Even though I did not have a problem leaving my house at the age of 18, this one does resonate with me personally because I have often noticed that I find a greater sense of achievement in video games than I do in real life. Strangely enough, even though video games have experienced an even larger spike in women over the last decade, it does not seem like the Failure to Launch syndrome is affecting them nearly as much. Rather it seems almost exclusive to men and not exclusive to those that play video games.

    So basically, even though most parents are aware that something is wrong with videogames, research continues to argue the opposite. Which I imagine probably only frustrates parents more because they know something is wrong with it.

    Fortunately, I have something much more important to communicate to you guys than statistics about video games. If we go back to my story about my parents, at that moment that my parents regretted their decision to introduce video games into my life, they made the same bad decision that most parents choose and it scarred me for years. Just like many of you are scaring your kids without knowing it.

    You see, when my parents' realized they didn't like videos games, they didn't choose to take video games back out of the house. They still allowed me to play them. They put limits on them, they warned me against addiction, they punished me for breaking their rules and everything else that a good parent normally does, but just like many things in life, only instructing someone on what not to do can often distract us from what we should be doing. And just to clarify, I have really great parents. They made a lot of amazing decisions, but since they never played video games as kids, they weren't great in this area.

    We got so focused on how to avoid playing video games in an unhealthy way, that we never thought about how to implement video games into our lives in a way that improves our life. We just hoped that it would come naturally. And while some of that does come naturally, I would argue that most does not. Or at least not as quick as it should.

    Furthermore, while all of the rules that my parents set up were great in theory and I still use many of them, I realize now that those rules by themselves subtly and subconsciously communicated that video games were inherently bad. My parents didn't say they were bad and they kept letting me play them, but if you think about it rules by themselves intrinsically lead to punishing your kids when they played too many video games and praising them when they refrain from playing video games which again subtly and subconsciously communicates that videogames are inherently bad. So not only were their rules distracting me from pursuing healthier habits, but they were also subtly telling me that videogames were inherently bad. Which if something is bad and we keep doing it, we don't usually try to pursue the healthiest way to do that thing because we think it is inherently bad.

    I, of course, could not have voiced all of that when I was a kid, but I have learned a lot in the last 23 years of gaming. When I first got to college and was finally free and on my own, my parents limitations immediately went out the window and I played so many video games that I eventually started doing bad in school and ended my first semester with a 2.4 GPA. In many ways this semester was good for me because for the first time in my life I experienced the negative repercussions of giving into video game addiction. My parents rules had protected me from these consequences so I never got to experience those negative repercussions, but it was still mostly bad.

    Then in my second semester, I experienced a pretty radical transformation when joining a church group and at first, I pretty much sweared off video games. I was enjoying being healthy and having healthy friendships and because of my upbringing, I viewed video games as inherently bad.

    But after a little while, some of my friends from this church group invited me to play video games with them and these people had a much healthier view of video games. By playing with them, I got to see how video games have some of the most incredible potential for bolstering community bringing people together in ways that can often exceed even sports. I got to see healthy competition with people that wanted to play their best while genuinely wanting me to play my best as well and even rejoicing with me in my victories.

    I learned so much from that group of people about the beautiful potential of video games and how viewing them correctly could actually bring health into my life. They didn't teach me everything I needed to be healthy, but they started something that I'm still working on and for the last 10+ years, I have been getting healthier and healthier in the area of video games slowly healing many of those scars and bad habits that I gained as a child.

    I started this YouTube channel 3 years ago as an extension of my video game hobby and ironically YouTube is not only a more difficult game to play, but it is also more difficult to do healthy because of the social media aspects of the platform. But I'll talk about that in another video. Currently I have three kids, an 8 year old, 6 year old and a 4 year old and I have already been putting a lot of thought and effort into how to slowly and healthily introduce my three kids into video games in a way that will create healthy habits. I'm still very early in the process and make mistakes often, but this is what I've learned so far.

    Step 1. I tried to keep my kids from playing any video games for as long as I could. I knew that once I introduced them to video games, it would be a central focus to what they wanted to do so I wanted them to first have several years of learning how to have fun outside or with real toys. Sadly, in our current world, it is not possible to go as long as my parents were able to go for me. Sometime around last year, my 7 year old son told me that one of his friends showed him how to play a game on his friends iPad. This is when I called an audible and decided that it was time to introduce my kids to video games. This is because I don't want my kids to learn how to play video games from some other 7 year old as I am skeptical that that seven-year-old will have the health of my children has his main focus. Rather, as their parent I am most likely to balance the fun that I'm having with my interest in them learning how to play video games with healthy habits.

    Step 2. When you are ready to introduce your kids to video games, I have made it to where the only time they could play video games is if they played with me or my wife. There are two reasons for this. The first is so that my kids have an outlet. Telling your kid that he can't play video games with their friends, but having no alternative will at best start the scarring them that videogames are bad and will at worst start a trend of disobedience and hiding gaming from you. But if videogames are implemented into family time, not only is there an outlet, but a new source of discipline if your kids decide to play video games with their friends. This of course does not work when your kids are older, but at a young age, it is most likely that your kids would rather play video games with you then they would to playing them illegally with their friends. But the second and most important reason is that it allows you to teach your kids how to play games healthily.

    Now some of you parents might be thinking that this video is not for you because you are not a gamer like I am. This is not true. My wife did not consider herself a gamer, but by engaging with the kids in gaming, she has found something beautiful and healthy in it. Regardless of whether or not you are a gamer or if you have never touched a video game in your life, just by being older, you will still be able to teach your kids how to play video games in a healthy way. In fact, if you've never played a video game it might actually help you start with healthier habits because you never formed bad ones. As long as you are intentional about trying to create healthy gaming habits, it will be more natural than you realize. For example, one thing you will notice almost immediately is that video games give you a strong sense of accomplishment often superseding the sense of accomplishment that you get from real life. But yet as an adult, you know that you still have to make money to provide for your family or get things done around the house so that your life does not fall apart. When that happens, your kids will see you choosing to give up fun because the other things you need to do are more important. In fact, they will feel some of your pain because if you follow the step they will also have to stop playing so that you can accomplish that thing. Surprisingly, my kids have even offered to help me with some of my responsibilities around the house so that I can get them done faster which will allow them to play more. Often they can't help me with what I need to do, but when this happens, I praise them for this attitude and explain to them that that is often how life works. That by problem-solving on what needs to get done, it allows for more room in our life for the things that we want to do. And that when they get older, there will be more and more things that I need to get done that they can help me with. I'm still too early in this process to prescribe this as a remedy, but my hope is that that very lesson will counteract the aforementioned problem of the increasing cases of the Failure to Launch syndrome.

    Step 3. The first trick to developing healthy habits is picking the right game. The absolute best game for a family and my first recommendation is playing Minecraft together. Minecraft is the ultimate family game because it allows everyone to go at their own pace while still interacting with each other. One family member can mine resources while another works on the house while yet another explores. All of these interactions affect each other which creates quite the bonding experience. And then after you guys have played for a while and know what you are doing, there are some really fun challenges that you can take on as a family which will create some pretty amazing bonding experiences. That being said, Minecraft is especially nice for my family because we are able to play split screen on an Xbox and because the Xbox has been our preferred family platform, many of the other games we have used are also for the Xbox. So I did a little bit of research and here are some great family games for other platforms. This channel is an informative channel so if this video does well, I will do the research to give more in depth information on what games would be best for families on each platform in a playlist here.

    Step 4. The next thing that I've been doing is trying to verbalize to my kids the good things about video games. This may seem cheesy and if your kids are older, you may want to change this into a discussion instead of just talking to them, but it is incredibly important that your kids hear what good things that they should be striving for in video games rather than just hearing what not to do with video games. Here are some of the things that I have communicated to my kids:

    1. I tried to convey to them how much work has been put in the each video game they play. I might give an example of how a planned activity is often more fun than a non planned activity because of the preparation that that person put into planning it and then I explain that each game represents thousands of human hours preparing that experience for us. This not only encourages them to be thankful for the thousands of hours dedicated into making that time fun for them, but it also gives a perspective on how much work it takes to have that much fun.
    2. Sometimes I get my family to take deep breaths during loading screens or take water breaks. Anything that might slow down the process and then I point out that by slowing down while gaming, it can actually help us appreciate and enjoy gaming more while not losing track of the time as often.
    3. Lastly, I try to periodically stop early so that we have time to talk about what we did. This is something that I learned from my college group. After the end of each game, we would take the time to tell stories and celebrate the crazy things that happened during that time. Sadly, I have not always been faithful to do this, but every time that I do, I see my kids' faces light up as they tell stories about what they experienced or what they were thinking at that time or how they were being smarter than they normally are or whatever they want to share. I am always surprised that all of my kids, even the shy ones, have something to share because the experience was so meaningful to them. This not only gives me a chance to listen to something that is important to them, but it also lets me see more of their personality which is incredibly rewarding as a parent. Video games have helped create incredibly bonding common experiences with my kids. It is a valuable tool that most parents are not utilizing.

    So in conclusion, it is good and right to be concerned about video games. They are a big part of life and they are only getting bigger, but do not make the mistake that most parents make by instructing your kids only in what not to do with video games and not envisioning them with what they should be doing. Rather, engage with your kids in this process by choosing when they should be experiencing video games, who they should be experiencing video games with, what games they should be playing and what kind of mindset they should have while playing them. For some of you this will be easier than others, but I would argue it is part of your job as a parent to show your kids how to play videogames in a healthy way. It is a huge part of life and it is only getting bigger so it is worth it. And you might just find that by engaging in this, it will bond your family in a way you have been missing out on.

    Alright guys. I'll see you next time.

    Research Links:

    Games and Violence - https://www.theesa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/EFGamesandViolence.pdf

    Average Play Time and Number of Gamers- https://www.statista.com/statistics/502144/average-daily-time-playing-games-and-using-computer-us-by-gender/
    Center on Media and Child Health - https://cmch.tv/parents/video-games/
    Clearvuehealth - https://www.clearvuehealth.com/b/gaming-socialmedia-teens/
    Videogames and sleep - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6706260/#:~:text=Numerous%20studies%20have%20reported%20that,of%20day%20to%20day%20functionality.
    Great article on whey telling someone what not to do doesn't work - https://healthyleaders.com/telling-people-doesnt-work/
    Great Article about the Failure to Launch Phenomenon- https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/health-fitness/mental-health/failure-to-launch-syndromeGreat Article by Yourteen - https://yourteenmag.com/technology/benefits-of-gaming
    Other stats by ESA (not in video) - https://www.theesa.com/esa-research/2019-essential-facts-about-the-computer-and-video-game-industry/

    *Unfortunately, there are probably several articles that I forgot to reference, but luckily everything I said in this video is available to everyone so you can simply search for it on google and find it.

    tl;dr 1 - I often post guides to new android games, but this time I got super passionate about healthy gaming in general and how most parents in the boomer generation viewed video games so bad it caused huge societal problems. So I did a ton of research on gaming and found that the healthiest parenting style is to play games with your kids.

    tl;dr 2 - I made an extremely condensed and high quality version of this in video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_lcG0xx4Is

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    Awe: Mindfulness meditation game

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:41 AM PDT

    What did I miss?

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 12:01 PM PDT

    Just switched from IOS, been away from android for 6-7 years did I miss any must have games?

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    BangBang Rabbit | Early Access Today | Solid Rogue-like Game

    Posted: 20 Aug 2020 05:25 PM PDT

    I did not realize this was a Rouge Like game until I actually started playing it. I am enjoying this one so far. There is gear to farm for and are tons of rogue-like choices.

    Here is the Google Play link.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.actgames.amg.android.gl

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    If you'd like, I also provided a video of gameplay to see if this is something you would like.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exjnskiuprw&feature=youtu.be

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    How can you possibly play Jade Empire

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 03:32 AM PDT

    Always wanted to play the game for the longest time but never got around to it. So a while back I decided to play it but couldn't find it on the playstore, did a bit of research and it was removed because it had glitches on Android 8.0 my question is is it possible to play the game (my phone is Android 9.0) or is the game lost in time

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    [DEV] Galactic Nomad a space shoot 'em up game

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 10:43 AM PDT

    [DEV] Galactic Nomad a space shoot 'em up game

    Hi, I'm here to introduce my first Android game: Galactic Nomad. There's a free version (no ads) and a paid version ($0.99). I have also created a sub reddit r/GalacticNomad for any feedback you might have.

    Full version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.galacticnomad

    Free: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.galacticnomad.free

    https://reddit.com/link/ie1gir/video/g052gdic7ei51/player

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    Nowadays whats the safest and lightest android app emulator?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2020 04:54 PM PDT

    I can't seem to decide on any based online reviews

    Bluestacks (heavy duty, lag)
    NOX (Sketchy, with maleware worries)
    Memu (maleware worries)
    Gameloop (Focus on Tencent games don't know how other games perform)

    I just want to run 7ds and Exos Heros smoothly without it hurting my pc?
    My PC specs:
    intel i7
    8 gbs of ram
    geforce gtx 950m

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    Brawlhalla from Ubisoft is an Indie Game? What is the criteria to be considered as an Indie Game these days?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2020 09:06 PM PDT

    Anybody else still bummed out about ShadowRun?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2020 05:34 PM PDT

    I had ShadowRun DragonFall on my android a while back and finally got around to almost beating it when I had to reset my phone and re-download the game only to find out its not the store anymore. It really bummed me out cuz I paid for the damn game but what bothered me more was that I wrote the developers asking for an update and they said it's not coming back to the store (no intentions of doing refunds was implied) but I let it go. Just wondering if anybody else played it and had a similar situation...

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    [DEV] I've created a small puzzle game for android. Tricky Maze is in open beta on the Play Store. Please share your feedback with me! How many levels can you complete without hints? Challenge yourself :)

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 06:08 AM PDT

    [Request] role-playing pixelart game

    Posted: 20 Aug 2020 11:47 PM PDT

    Or any type of pixelart game with controller supported

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    A game like Legend of Grimrock or Eye of the Beholder

    Posted: 20 Aug 2020 07:02 PM PDT

    I'd like a game like Legend of Grimrock or Eye of the Beholder to play on Android. Something with grid based, first person dungeons and fun combat would be nice, but I haven't found anything like it bar a port of Dungeon Master which is in early access.

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    Looking for an Android game!

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 03:39 AM PDT

    So me and my friend want to find something along the lines of Ark of War type of gameplay. Something like a strategy in which me and him could cooperate and send each other resources and help each other in general. Doesn't necessarily have to be the exact type of gameplay, but the coop aspect needs to be there, doesn't matter what kind of genre it is zombie, medival...etc.

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    I decided to find good anime mobile games!

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 07:54 AM PDT

    Looking for kids games they can play together!

    Posted: 21 Aug 2020 02:46 AM PDT

    Hey Android gaming!

    I'm a gamer, with kids, so my gaming room was turned in to a pink kids room and I started playing Android games.

    I play multiplayer games like PUBG, and my kids really like the idea of playing together in teams. I have searched for games for kids with a option to connect with each other, but haven't found anything in the chaos that is the play store.

    Do you have any idea's? I don't mind paying for nice games and apps. They both have a powerful phone, and both are pretty tech savvy.

    They're in the age of my little pony and Toca games.

    Thanks in advance!

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    PvP games with controller support?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:14 PM PDT

    Title basically says it all. I play a ton of tft, cod m, and shadow gun games, looking for some non shooter competitive games i can play in samsung dex with my phone docked. Really either kb/m or controller support.

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    Recommend an Android game that isn't so Hand Holdy?

    Posted: 20 Aug 2020 06:08 PM PDT

    Are there any good games that don'e have absurdly long tutorials and take FOREVER to get going? Are there any that don't feel the need to constantly hold your hand? I don't mind paying.

    I did like Puzzle Retreat, but I'm having a hard time finding anything even close to that good. I appreciate your recommendations

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=thevoxelagents.puzzleretreat&hl=en_US

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