People play games in Vatican City just like they do anywhere else, but what they’re into might surprise you.
Natural Selection 2 is abnormally popular in the home nation-state of the Catholic church, according to Steam Spy — a site that tracks player data from PC gaming’s most popular digital-distribution platform. The team-based multiplayer game is all about alien animals taking on a squad of space marines where each team gets a commander that research upgrades that enable the teams’ strategies to evolve. Of course, this is really interesting because the words “Natural Selection” and “Vatican City” evoke and instant oil-and-water response.

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