Hello, everyone. I am Rowan Kaiser, and you are listening to Three Moves Ahead. Today we have an ambitious and big show on city builders and early access, so we recruited all of our friends, Rimworld Style, for one of the biggest shows ever. First up, we have our resident shield-baited and producer, freelance writer, Leona Hafer.

Hello, hello.

And Scottish mascot and online editor, PC gamer, Fraser Brown.

Hello.

Then we have chief researcher of 3MA Labs and Monkey Wrangler, Mike Gillis.

Hello.

Our special guest, freelance writer and exotic European vampire, Sin Vega.

And one of the key people for starting up this episode, number one, early access and city builder super fan, John Bolding.

You're half right.

So the origin of this show was sort of discussions that John and I and some other people in the 3M my Discord have regularly been having about early access being a pretty notable issue and common theme in city builders specifically.

I kept noticing, hey, here's an interesting looking city builder that popped up on Epic

or Steam or whatever, and I would link it in the chat.

And John would reply in, it's early access, it's not ready yet. And I think going medieval came out

a couple weeks ago, and I was like, you know, this looks pretty sweet. And John said, yeah,

it's not ready yet.

And I was like, fuck it, man.

We just have to do a show about all these games and the concept of early access that John actually claims claims to despise, except in cases of city builders.

And, you know, get this all out in the air instead of in the Discord and just like really have it out early access, good or bad.

You will have an answer by the end of this show.

Turn it into sweet, sweet content.

Yeah.

I'm legally binding as well.

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