THEODOLITE is an incremental game about surveying: you raise trig stations on high ground, read the angles between them, and ink a county onto the map sheet by sheet before the fog rolls in. The tagline, "by sight, by angle and by error," suggests the slow build-up means working carefully, not just clicking. The screen looks like an old Ordnance Survey sheet, with red triangles, hachured hills and small village names, and few games have ever taken mapmaking as their theme.
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Quick pickTHEODOLITE— An incremental game about mapping a county: you raise trig stations on high ground, read the angles between them and ink the map sheet by sheet before the fog comes in. It has a handsome old-map look
Already found by plenty of people this week — not our picks, just what everyone else was playing.
Passed over today: articles and talks about game development, spectator-only AI arenas, straight clones of Minecraft, Counter-Strike and Pokémon, and a crowd of generic endless runners and clickers.
