Five of the Best: Night skies

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Do games still boast about having day-night cycles? I certainly remember that being a thing, like it was the next frontier in achieving a believably simulated world. I'm not belittling it, by the way. It is an impressive thing and it does make a world feel more real, to see time passing around you, a sun setting and then rising again, both in the game and out - wink wink nudge nudge. And an inevitable part of it was having a night sky.