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Fading Suns: An artistic experience sold by the cover
Sometime around the year 2000 I stumbled upon a computer game in the discount bin of a Software Etc [anyone remember those?]. Now normally I don’t go in for science fiction video games, but this one caught my eye because of the box cover. At the time, I didn’t recognize it as a Brom, but nonetheless it was enough for me to shell out the $4.99 for Empire of the Fading Suns. When I tried to play it, no matter how dedicated I was to learning the mechanics, I just couldn’t find any rhyme or reason to how things worked...