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Life & fun · December 7, 2016

Octal FM - 004 - RTS for short

We chat about six of our favourite real-time strategy games.

Octal FM - 004 - RTS for short launched on December 7, 2016 with 53 votes, #1,324 of 3,449 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches.

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