Good game for those with a heart condition

This is a game for someone who must avoid stress and has LOTS of time to play it. It moves very, very slowly. Everything you do takes time, way too much play time waiting for actions to complete. It loads and runs just fine on my latest/greatest Macbook Pro. There’s NO indication at all that the game is being held back by hardware; I feel sure that it would run the same on a top-end Mac Pro. It just moves slowly, everything moves slowly. Tell a unit of soldiers to move “over there”, and sit back and have a coffee while they do it. Tell two units to attack each other, and write a letter to the folks back home while they get themselves together and go at it. (And yes, I am double-clicking when that helps.)

I’m a veteran of well over a hundred hours playing a game called Age of Empires on the PC a few years ago. I thought this would be very similar, but the experience is made quite different by the glacial progress of many actions in the game. Glad I only paid $12 for it; after a couple of hours I’m bored and done with it.

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