The Best Games To Play For The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee

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The Queen of England has been on the throne for 70 years. In Great Britain, we get an extra day off work to celebrate. Cheers, Liz. But not everyone is a fan of her majesty, largely due to the fact that she avoids tax, taxpayers fund her palaces, she has an exemption from race and sex discrimination laws regarding employees, and has absolute power over an entire country just by being born into a specific, obscenely rich family. There’s also the whole ‘massive golden crown and procession through the streets in a golden carriage while the country is having a cost of living crisis, food banks are at their highest use of all time, and millions are living in poverty’ thing, too.

So while some people are out drinking prosecco, eating scones, and waving little union flags, you might want to do something a little bit different. Games are a classic way to escape the real world, so why not use this four-day weekend for a marathon session? If you want to give your gaming weekend that Jubilee flavour, we’ve got you covered.

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Just a quick note before we begin: don’t worry. This list won’t just be the full catalogue of games developed by PlatinumGames. While that would be a great joke, we’re a serious website writing serious journalism.

Want to relive the glory days of the British Empire? It seems everyone else does this weekend. Well, Civilisation 6 is your best bet for achieving your dreams of widespread colonialisation and subjugation. You can go for the proper British roleplaying experience and build your armies up to conquer the globe through bloodshed, or you can opt for the revisionist version of the country’s history by diplomatically expanding across the