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Embark on some town planning in a game that certainly isn’t square

SQUARING CIRCLEVILLE

Nostalgia can be debilitating. A fetishization of the past can lead to a life stultified by past glories and stymied by regrets. A little bit though, just a dash sprinkled over your life, can add a warm melancholy that is as reassuring as a bowl of vegetable soup.

One way of tapping into this brand of nostalgia is by playing Squaring Circleville. It is a game that evokes a different time in board gaming. A time when the mechanical clarity of a game wasn’t obscured by gaudy components or diluted by endless content. It is a game that harkens back and while it doesn’t confirm that things were better in the past it reminds you that progress must live with what came before – rather than finding your bathwater has altogether too many babies in it.

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