a local restaurant owner. Photography is strictly forbidden at the barbed-wire boundary, but I wanted to try my luck. It’s impossible to describe the ghostliness of the vacant buildings, once so desirable, now reclaimed by no one but nature, with hedgerows and vines tearing through brickwork and cement.

Standing on the beach, arm outstretched through the fence, I can touch the peeling paint of the high-rise hotel behind, once a luxury destination, now a derelict husk. If the inertia of Greek and Turkish leaders continues, this may well be the closest anyone gets to the city for another four decades.

In the meantime, the city continues to crumble, waiting for an agreeable solution to be reached by the rival Cypriot sides. Until this day comes, Varosha will remain a cityIncubation is a tactical turn-based science-fiction wargame. It is the fourth game in the Battle Isle series. This time the action takes place in the confined spaces of the colonial city of Scay Hallwa, as the players' space marines fight a desperate battles against the Scay'Ger (indigenous creatures turned into berserk monsters by a human virus), while trying to evacuate the remaining colonists.

The game uses a 3D engine, with several camera views available (3rd person or 1st person). Battles are turn-based, each soldier having a set number of action points to expend each turn. Each soldier has different statistics (which improve after each mission) and gear.

The game also includes a multiplayer game which allows up to four players to play together, each leading a different squad.