Knights of the Old Republic II

Play it on: An Android tablet
Current goal: Actually play it

I’ve half a feeling I might have listed this as my weekend game a month or two back, but as I’ve previously established, these entries are all somewhere on the border between wishful thinking and outright lying. The reality is I’ll play Fortnite with the boy and Balatro at night when he’s asleep. But I have actually started playing KOTOR2 on Android this week, and am impressed with how not-actually-unplayable it is with a touchscreen.

It’s not great. I think it might have been designed for that one guy in Total Recall with the third arm in his chest, given how I need to tap the middle of the screen as well as hold either side. (Or maybe that lady with the three boobs, now that I think about it.) But Obsidian’s writing and the mostly solid voice acting is a joy to revisit, encouraging me to push through its slightly wonky controls. Perhaps I’ll finally get my Xbox controller hooked up to my Pixel Tablet, as ridiculous as that will feel when I could just be playing this on Xbox. — John Walker