Naked War (PC)

There are sentences I never thought I’d write. Here’s a good example: My current favourite game is a turn-based play-by-email strategy game on the PC. Here’s another: I have fallen in love with a game with no single-player component and which I play against total strangers. Yet both those sentences are true. My current favourite

I am enjoying this an incredible amount. It’s really quite brilliant. Oh, yes, I’m losing, but I’m getting better, training my eyes to see in the right way. Blocking, that’s what I need to remember.

I’m currently play three games. One against an online acquaintance, one against a reviewer and one against someone I don’t know who picked up a challenge I posted on the web site. A good mix. It’s too early to tell who’s winning in two of them, but in one of them I’m already very much

Multiplayer turn-based strategy played over email. Only done a few turns so far, but the interface is nice, it runs on rubbish PCs and it’s got a nice style to it. Stay tuned for future updates, but first impressions are that it’s well worth a look. Could be an indie sleeper smash. Or something.