How Sanctuarynova looks at a game

Nothing is scored. A number would imply a railway network and a castle map can be measured together, which they cannot, and it would hide what helps you choose.

The time a game is given

A fortnight of real sessions minimum, extended wherever a game runs on multi-week clocks and a single evening is uninformative.

Unpaid accounts throughout, so a free route that ends at day nine actually gets found.

Four questions behind every entry

What the loop is with presentation set aside. What this game offers that the others do not. The honest length of a sitting. The machine it wants before enjoyment thins.

• Loads in a browser with nothing installed.
• The whole game is reachable unpaid.
• Servers are populated on a UK evening.
• It fills a role no other entry fills.

What takes a game off the page

Delay that exists to be sold back. Costs concealed until after a click. An event schedule that degrades a newcomer's opening week.