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Counter Terrorist Agency

ActionIndieSimulationStrategy

Developer Play2Chill

Counter Terrorist Agency lets you fight international terrorism and prevent attacks all over the world. Use modern invigilation techniques, discover connections, interrogate suspects, eliminate threats and dismantle terrorist networks. From the Steam store page

190 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Sep 30, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

31
Rotten

58 positive · 132 negative
95% range 24–37%

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Steam's own rating
Mixed
241 of 542 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

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  • Steam user Steam user …2499Steam reviews · Jun 28, 2020 · 4 h played

    Full Game Review Graphics ☐ Looks more real than real life ☐ Fantastic ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Terrible ☐ Made with Paint.exe Gameplay ☐ Challenging ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's alright ☐ Sleepy ☐ Boring ☐ Frustrating ☐ Shouldn't even be played by anyone Audio & Music ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape Audience ☐ Beginner ☑ Casual Gamer ☑ Normal Gamer ☐ Expert PC Requirements ☐ Can be played on a toaster ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8864Steam reviews · Mar 7, 2020 · 4 h played

    It's hard to write a negative review, especially when I'm echoing other reviewers on here as I need to make sue I'm not being adversely influenced by their opinion. However, this game did annoy me in a way that means I wont return to it, It's all about the complexity and I'll try my best not to ruin it for anyone who may enjoy the game by only providing one example. On my first play through I came across one of the more basic scenarios - lets call it scenario A. One of the participants in…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7665Steam reviews · Sep 13, 2020 · 1 h played

    Too short, should just be included as a DLC in 911 operator.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1180Steam reviews · Aug 8, 2021 · 13 h played

    I can't recommend this game. Sure, the first few hours may be fun, but when you get the same event happening 3 times at the same exact time, it kinda ruins the immersion of it. Not to mention it's full of bugs. Last update was early 2020, and there's been little to no communications by the dev team since RE: this game. They said in the last update message that they were working on stuff for this, but it seems as though it's been abandoned, which is a shame because it had such a great…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8871Steam reviews · Jun 10, 2020 · 8 h played

    The idea is really interesting, however the execution did it dirty. The game is fun for the first couple hours, after that you just keep getting the exact same scenarios over and over. Same people, same roles, same places. Sadly, the game is so hard-coded it doesn't even provide the same scenarios in different locations or with different members/roles of the members. Not as important, but the UI is also pretty bad. For example, hitting save game, doesn't save the game; it gives you the classic…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6994Steam reviews · Oct 17, 2020 · 5 h played

    Being able to step into the world of Counter Terrorism operations is always a tricky concept, but I must say, for 6 dollars this is a good start. The art design isn't anything to write home about, and sometimes you have character portraits that don't align with the names on screen. And while the game goes at length to talk about religious terrorism, the networks themselves don't feel fully fleshed out, and lacking in personalities. For example, after leaving the tutorial, the first event that…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7823Steam reviews · Oct 23, 2020 · 5 h played

    As of 23.10.2020, there is still the bug that you can not close a pop-up that covers one third of the screen, no new content, nothing.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0625Steam reviews · Jan 8, 2022 · 2 h played

    This game is a great concept but the execution is so poor, even basic things like the UI is difficult and clunky to use (cant WASD around the map, saves are confusing, incidents are unclear). The voice acting is also just really poor, most of the voices sound like parodies and are constantly reused, much like the avatars which don't match the characters a lot of the time (i.e. a woman's avatar but a man's voice). The actual gameplay where there are events and you have to manage your…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3605Steam reviews · Apr 10, 2021 · 10 h played

    The game softlocks at random places, the checkpoint system is a piece of crap, the saves don't work, a few hours lost. I'll make sure to don't buy anything from this developer ever again.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3241Steam reviews · Jul 20, 2022 · 1 h played

    DO NOT BUY!!!!! Game was abandoned by the devs. Only the tutorial appears to load. Once you finish that, you're stuck. I saved and exited, then reloaded and it started me over. The save is corrupt and so is the loading. Read the other critical reviews that are recent. This game is really cool, very disappointed it was abandoned. DO NOT BUY

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  • Steam user Steam user …2688Steam reviews · Dec 2, 2021 · 1 h played

    A buggy unwinnable mess that has been abandoned by its developer. Read other reviews and the game's Community discussions for details. Don't buy at any price. Why does Steam allow this to be sold?

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  • Steam user Steam user …5548Steam reviews · Jul 8, 2021 · 1 h played

    No. Sorry, but no! Silent crashes, bad English, UI does not always work as intended ... The idea was there. The execution ... still a long way to go It looks like a very EA game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5947Steam reviews · Feb 27, 2022 · 2 h played

    This could be a good game, but unless you spend time on 1 play through without stopping, you'll never find out. The thing that destroys this game is the save bug. The game just doesn't save or load correctly. You save to a slot, but when you continue to play the save, it wipes your progress to an earlier state, so it's impossible to play

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  • Steam user Steam user …3908Steam reviews · Jan 19, 2021 · 4 h played

    The store page makes it look like you're getting a lot more, and a more complex game than what it actually is. The first impression I got from the tutorial left me with a bad taste in my mouth, and that bad taste didn't go away once I started to actually play the game. Too many bugs, too simple and repetitive gameplay, bad UI design. It feels unfinished. The tutorial in this is probably to date the worst tutorial I've ever seen. If you do 1 thing out of sequence in the tutorial it will bug…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7274Steam reviews · Mar 9, 2020 · 1 h played

    I was really looking forward to this game after 911 Operator, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to play it yet due to a game-breaking graphics bug several players (including myself) have encountered and complained about that makes it impossible to complete even the tutorial mission. During the course of gameplay, you are able to purchase upgrades that do... things (not sure what, as I can't get that far due to this bug). Unfortunately, the game's UI zooms in on the upgrade screen so much…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6448Steam reviews · Jan 12, 2025 · 5 h played

    Not Recommended

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  • Steam user Steam user …1569Steam reviews · Dec 24, 2024 · 18 h played

    You need to finish the game in one session because your save will disappear for no reasons.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0460Steam reviews · Dec 3, 2021 · 9 h played

    dead game no new updates still has bugs

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  • Steam user Steam user …6294Steam reviews · Sep 17, 2021 · 2 h played

    Counter Terrorist Agency is a good game, but it cannot make it over the long distance.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2758Steam reviews · Apr 25, 2021 · 4 h played

    Do not recommend. Game has been abandoned by developers, they did this with their previous games too; they release 2-4 micro patches, some super low effort dlc and move on to the next idea. I kickstarted this because even though they had a bad track record, they usually had good fundamental ideas for games so I had hoped this would be different, but the game is still buggy right now, not polished, weird graphical glitches or design choices, unclear UI and as usual, they abandoned it since…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5752Steam reviews · Apr 20, 2021 · 2 h played

    Game is abandoned in a buggy state. If you can get it to run, its a shallow game experience. Neither the devs nor the publisher PlayWay seem to care about their reputation or their customers by at least attempting to fix anything. Don't waste your money on this.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5389Steam reviews · Nov 30, 2020 · 1 h played

    You play as the good guys and you have to stop the bad guy from doing no no stuff

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  • Steam user Steam user …4647Steam reviews · Oct 4, 2020 · 5 h played

    I really enjoyed playing the game and although it tends to repeat itself, I kept playing. Looking forward to the next update.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0598Steam reviews · Apr 27, 2020 · 3 h played

    I really wish I could recommend this game; I love the concept of it and really enjoyed 911 Operator as well. The problem is where in 911 operator I could progress through different cities and feel like I was advancing and growing, in this game everything feels like more of the same. Sure, it gets more difficult over time, but it's not got the same sense of progression. Very quickly the groups you find out about start to feel same-y. Where in 911 operator after a few hours I felt like I…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4862Steam reviews · Dec 10, 2024 · 3 h played

    ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☑ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1190Steam reviews · Jan 3, 2024 · 11 h played

    Save system is bad

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  • Steam user Steam user …8467Steam reviews · Dec 18, 2023 · 2 h played

    I have no idea how this game has positive reviews. I rarely write a negative review about a game, but this one is just poorly made. The game expects you to extrapolate to much information while giving you almost nothing. If this was anywhere close to how the world handled terrorism then the entire global capitalist system would have fallen in two years. 3/10 Lost reputation for not arresting a man for being mean while owning a knife as a counter terrorist organization.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6592Steam reviews · Feb 14, 2022 · 7 h played

    They have been working hard for two years on the patch that everyone is patiently waiting for. It really has to be a complete game overhaul since it is so much work. I can't wait, because I'd love to go through the campaign with pleasure. What hurts me the most is that the game is so interesting

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  • Steam user Steam user …9589Steam reviews · Jan 25, 2022

    Game is very repetitive and lacks any replay value by throwing you the same enemies just reskinned and at different times. Only buy if ur looking for an hour or two to kill at a good discount.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8417Steam reviews · Dec 10, 2020 · 10 h played

    A great idea badly executed. Who doesn't want to lead an anti-terrorist task force after decades of movies and tv shows like '24', right? I was curious to see how this would pan out and although the first hour or so was entertaining it soon got bogged down in missions being repeated over and over and the simple fact the rules make no sense, lol. You are in charge of protecting the worlds countries from terrorists, and yet it seems the countries who want your protection don't want to help you…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5738Steam reviews · Sep 22, 2020 · 2 h played

    Unfinished, broken, buggy, pretty clearly abandoned.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0033Steam reviews · Jun 22, 2024 · 1 h played

    The game has an amazing concept, and it does have its charm. However, the game is also very buggy and cannot speed up. Additionally the game will frequently get stuck and not progress. All and all, Great concept, but poor development.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3681Steam reviews · Jun 7, 2024 · 2 h played

    Buggy and feels incomplete. Great concept, horrible execution.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4896Steam reviews · Oct 31, 2023 · 1 h played

    Here I will leave the cat, friends who pass by can pet it and give it a thumbs up       />  フ       |  _  _ l       /` ミ_xノ      /      |     /  ヽ   ノ     │  | | |  / ̄|   | | |  | ( ̄ヽ__ヽ_)__)  \二つ

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  • Steam user Steam user …4583Steam reviews · Apr 7, 2022 · 11 h played

    I'll start by saying this a clever game, and has a pretty unique premise. At first it seems like your given massive responsibility and the daunting task can seem exciting, but unfortunately it gets old very quick. It falls short on even the smallest details, Such as female voices on a telephone matching up to a male profile, and vice versa, the hammy voice acting (in some cases), and the content repeats itself a lot, I'm only 11 hours in I have heard a lot of telephone calls repeat themselves,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7516Steam reviews · Dec 1, 2020 · 3 h played

    It becomes boring quickly.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9297Steam reviews · Jun 19, 2020 · 7 h played

    It was fun for a while, but it gets old fast. Devs promised a big update that was aimed to fix a lot of game elements and to make it more playable, but that was months ago and nothing has changed. The only communication they give us now is to try and get everyone to buy their new games, which they somehow have time to keep working on. This one had a lot of potential, but it looks like it's been abandoned. Don't buy it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8679Steam reviews · May 23, 2020 · 4 h played

    It's a cool concept. Interesting, but it get's repetitive after 2/3 hs of play. I had fun with it and it's cheap to buy so i'm ok with that.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2214Steam reviews · Jun 2, 2025 · 3 h played

    Game has glitch that causes the game to not progress. Additionally, another bug that causes the game to not save properly, and forget your progress.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5023Steam reviews · Apr 13, 2024 · 1 h played

    Terrible game, you get bored of it after a while because of the repetition and the lack of content. They make the game look better than it is. DO NOT BUY. I instantly asked a refund after an hour playing.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9033Steam reviews · Jan 13, 2024 · 1 h played

    Lost all of my progress. The game is fun, but is lacking. Do not get your hopes up.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1353Steam reviews · Jan 20, 2023 · 2 h played

    A game with real potential that could have been interesting if it had not been abandoned and if it had been developed further. I don't understand why it was left like that. What a shame!

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  • Steam user Steam user …5154Steam reviews · Sep 1, 2021 · 2 h played

    I wanted to like this game but now I just want it to be gone forever....The concept is cool. The potential is there. The gameplay is not. The "characters" have recycled avatars and there is no rhyme or reason to matching the names and faces. Some of the avatars look like children, but have big husky man voices. The phone/message scenarios are often formatted weird and cut off words, making it difficult to read. The grammar/spelling is bad, which would be fine if it was intentional (like…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0019Steam reviews · Aug 28, 2021 · 4 h played

    Tons of glitches in just the first few minutes of the game, including the tutorial. Pop-up windows that you can't close in regular game, and delays in giving info after making selections during the tutorial. I would recommend if they cleaned this up, it is rather fun when it is not glitching.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8557Steam reviews · Aug 22, 2020 · 3 h played

    Lots of major bugs. Cases being stuck permanently open despite extracting every bit of information and arresting all involved. The UI bugging out and being tiny and unreadable. Just genuinely frustrating off the back of a super promising idea! Spelling mistakes in the UI too. Originally thought this was a early access game...

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  • Steam user Steam user …3967Steam reviews · Apr 19, 2020 · 7 h played

    The game looks interesting, but it still have too many bugs. It is not very clear if you tag wrongly a person, what are the consequences. Also, if you interrogate people, you don't get updated status for people who you simply tagged as suspicious... Global PR restarts progress on every single click on the button, Global resources are working for some countries, and not working for others. I gained a high reputation, and a lot of points - nothing changed and got bored from the game - when does…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1897Steam reviews · Mar 21, 2020 · 7 h played

    Seems like there is a really good game there. But so many bugs that i could not finish the game. No auto save so crashes lose you a lot of progress. Saving ends all abilities (reputation and resources etc) and makes events dissaper. But the worse was that i cant look at suspect history and thus also cant change their role unless they come up somewhere. Would def recommend if they get the bugs in check

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  • Steam user Steam user …0961Steam reviews · May 10, 2024 · 3 h played

    doesnt work properly, at some point you cant go further in campaign

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  • Steam user Steam user …2854Steam reviews · Nov 23, 2022 · 3 h played

    It is trash. Do not buy it. The saves do not work, the tasks do not show up for months after some time and in general there are too many bugs. Best thing you can do with the game is to get a refund. The idea is awesome but sadly the devs didn't deliver.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5704Steam reviews · May 22, 2021 · 1 h played

    I wasted an hour on this game. No realism, and nothing to keep my interest in the game. The full potential of the game is not available from the beginning; you will have to play many hours to unlock it. I certainly will not waste the time.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3679Steam reviews · Mar 16, 2021 · 11 h played

    Counter Terrorist Agency starts out with interesting and varied dynamics, but it gets repetitive after a while. I saw the same dialog rehashed dozens of times. The removal of defeated terrorist groups also seems confusing, as some groups remain listed even after interrogation reveals that no more group members exist. The in-game navigation has lots of problems too, like forcing very slow use of the scroll wheel in some panes and drifting on the world map in a confusing way. Furthermore, the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4307Steam reviews · Dec 5, 2020 · 5 h played

    This game has a great concept but it has a lot of bugs that need fixing. It is really frustrating because it would be an awesome game if they fixed these things. Probably won't play again until they do.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6422Steam reviews · Apr 19, 2020 · 1 h played

    Definitely not worth $20. It's like a bad version of Rebel Inc Escalation except the controls are confusing and it's boring.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9959Steam reviews · Apr 18, 2020 · 4 h played

    This game feels unfinished and not fully-featured.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8758Steam reviews · Apr 12, 2020 · 5 h played

    Horrible game save bug kills gameplay and KILL and ARREST options get stuck partway thru the game. Can't recommend until these are fixed.. a shame and the game itself and the concept are intriguing.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3799Steam reviews · Apr 10, 2020 · 1 h played

    Very buggy and save game corruption. Unfinished game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2421Steam reviews · Jan 15, 2024 · 2 h played

    > Guy blows himself and 500 people up. > "Good job, we averted the attack!"

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  • Steam user Steam user …2649Steam reviews · Jul 16, 2023 · 9 h played

    many bugs, cant save the game

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  • Steam user Steam user …3496Steam reviews · Jun 25, 2023 · 8 h played

    there was potential in this game. After a few hours the scenarios would repeat and become repetitive. Some of the conversations are just hard to understand with bad grammar. If the game thinks that your decision to kill or arrest someone was without enough evidence or rash you will get your resources removed by a country. Sometimes this would happen when for no reason. A terror attack happened so i sent a SWAT unit to kill the terrorist but the game took my resources for it?

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  • Steam user Steam user …8455Steam reviews · Jun 24, 2022 · 2 h played

    Actual gameplay is fairly good and the concept is great, however I did not really enjoy it, something about the implementation or the mechanics made it seem a bit repetitive after an hour or so

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