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City-builder 'Beyond These Stars' casts players as settlers atop a living Space Whale

Beyond These Stars is a city-building game where players construct and manage a settlement on the back of a sentient creature called Kewa as it travels through space. Players must terraform land, build production chains, research technologies, and maintain an ecosystem balance while encountering other species and uncovering lore about their ancestors.

Critic revisits Cities: Skylines 2's visual shortcomings in follow-up piece

A gaming writer continues a critique of city-builder aesthetics, focusing specifically on Cities: Skylines 2's flat, overly clean surfaces where sidewalks, buildings, and grass meet without natural transitions. The author contrasts in-game screenshots with more organic real-world or modded examples, arguing the base game looks lifeless without extensive manual decoration.