Games

Games I’ve enjoyed, from pure fun to the sneakily educational.

Worth a look

• Bitburner (Game) — a free, open-source cyberpunk incremental game where you progress by writing real JavaScript to automate hacking your way through a network. You genuinely learn to code by playing it.

Card & table games

Pagat (Website) — John McLeod's card game rules archive, running since 1995 and still being updated — traditional card, tile and domino games from around the world, written up properly rather than summarised.

• Alphabetical Index (Reference) — every game by name, with the number of players and the cards or tiles it needs.
• Classified Index (Reference) — games grouped by mechanism, by objective, and by equipment, plus a children’s section. The one to browse when you don’t know what you’re looking for.
• Regional Index (Reference) — games arranged by the country or region where they’re played.
• Player Number Index (Reference) — recommended games for two, three, four, five, or six players. Solves the actual problem most evenings.
• Solitaire Games (Reference) — the one-player patience games, kept separate from the rest.
• Domino Games (Reference) — Western and Chinese domino games, and other tile games including rummy tiles.

Watching

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Re-edit (Video) — Re-edit Studios recut Sandfall’s 2025 RPG into 16 episodes of roughly 20 minutes each, restructured as a television series rather than a cutscene dump, so the story runs continuously without the combat between. A reasonable way to meet the writing if you’re never going to play it.