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Have You Played Rune?

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.

With Rune 2 out very soon, what better time to ask this?

I used to describe Rune as “sort of like an FPS but with swords”, and that’s a terrible way to describe it. But it sort of felt like that somehow. You’re a Viking warrior named Ragnar whose village is blatted by an evil sorcerer, who effortlessly kills you and everyone on your boat for dessert.

Then Odin appears. Yer actual man Odin, with his massive head, resurrects you and rumbles that you must basically run across the underworld and the earth and murder absolutely everything in your path.

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