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ISSUE 4 · Oct 9, 2026

Ten rules from the same review band

Ten Steam listings from the October 9 review band. Each states a rule. None of these was played.

It's Fine

The last 24 hours of a dev crunch. Sleep earns Sleephours. Joe the dog is project manager. A botfarm, a kraken and Peanut the squirrel are stations that change what they do.

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Scapewatch: Idle MMO

Queue a task and leave. The listing says the character keeps working offline, and that raids are a separate fight for up to five players. The page says the game is in playtest.

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The Magus Circle

Spells are drawn by hand. A crude sigil still works, across 20 spells and 600 upgrades. Time can slow or freeze while you draw, or a button can cast.

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ForgeTax

A successful hammer blow raises a sword's value, and a bad one shatters it. Ten forges on the same blade open a window where the hammer need not fear the break.

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崇祯直聘:明末官场沉浮模拟器

Early access ships a county line and a border line. There is no good-and-evil score. The county treasury can be empty on day one. Border pay often arrives at sixty percent.

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高三最后300天

Three hundred days from the exam, a weekly plan changes which chances show up. Exams check more than the number, and the planner says the written direction still has to be lived.

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Cozy Farm: Tidy Up!

More than 2,500 crops go onto shelves in seven greenhouses. A combo survives a change of fruit, pays money, and the listing prints no deadline. You can also sleep through the day.

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Doggy Don't Care

Charlie is home alone. Mischievous badges are puzzles. The printed examples are a toilet-paper trail and oily paw prints, and the page also sends you into his dreams.

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Chomp Garden

You play a lamp looking for a pup. Chomp Plants grow toward the light, Thief Plants move away, and Hidey Bushes can hide it.

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Bloodspill

A retro PvP shooter with one-hit combat. Deathmatch counts bodies, capture the flag counts captures, and conquest counts held ground.

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