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Several months ago, on a rainy evening in Birmingham, I loaded up Discord and called my university friends. The answer was: very little. With our group split between Xbox and PlayStation owners, the obvious answers were out the window. Fortnite, Rocket League, even Minecraft – all were impossible due to the great console divide. We ended up playing hours upon hours of Civilization 5, which was the only thing everyone could run on their laptops. It’s a great game, to be sure – but there’s only so much Civ one can take.