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Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog
(www.leidenmedievalistsblog.nl)
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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Very much not. Reads more like "here's this interesting thing about old school towns and we're using video games as a hook to discuss them"