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#36 of 2026
August 2, 2026

Report #28 July

Slow month again(guess there will be no normal months; sigh). No ending of new work poping up, want to be a kid again xD.

Starting again with the usuals idles. Firestone again there eating or scripting all the time. Some new variants added to idle champions from which I managed to get few. Also managed to get one of the previous two missing achievements in Idle Slayer, but no idea when the next one is going to be as I kinda sidelined it towards the end of month.

Back to normal games. Managed to finish with the achievements in 007(still have some leftover stuff in tacsim but postponning it til later), and enjoyable experience, but no way I would’ve got it full price even with how much I enjoyed it. Probably if next one would be made by IO would throw a bit more than what I got this for, but till then waiting for the new missions. Almost finished with the solo achievements during my work breaks with DOOM(2016 one), and mostly have MP ones left and to my surprised, at least in the evening, you can still find matches in it. Also started Spec Ops: The Line, Pixel Puzzles 2: Christmas and finished with I commissioned some bees and InfiniPicross.

• Idle Slayer
  

  664.3 hours playtime

  650 of 651 achievements

• 007 First Light
  

  25.8 hours playtime

  37 of 37 achievements

• DOOM
  

  27.9 hours playtime

  27 of 54 achievements

• Spec Ops: The Line
  

  3.6 hours playtime

  9 of 50 achievements

• Pixel Puzzles 2: Christmas
  

  4.7 hours playtime

  9 of 27 achievements

• InfiniPicross
  

  8.6 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

• I commissioned some bees
  

  1.8 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

See you next time and happy gaming in the meantime!

July 2026 Report!

Another month, another slay! It was a good month gaming-wise.

If you want a fast-paced and not too long FPS, SPRAWL is your game! It lists Quake as inspiration, but I found it much more enjoyable than the only Quake game I played. (Which was Quake II) Also has some Doom 2016 in it. Recommended!
Sayonara Wild Hearts is a great experience! Though it kinda depends on your taste in music as well.
Reignbreaker isn’t a bad game. Short and enjoyable roguelike, but it gets very repetitive if you go for 100%. A bit above average.
No Straight Roads: Encore Edition has an excellent art style, nice soundtrack and fun story, but falls short on level design and gameplay. Both I found quite basic. A sequel will come out soon, hopefully devs will fix its shortcomings!
Lil’ Guardsman was one of the best games I played this month! Super funny, nice story and characters and casual Papers Please-ish puzzles. If you have it, play it!
Idols of Ash is very short, but it excels at what it does! Very good atmosphere and sense of tension, grappling is well-designed and story’s minimal, but nicely told!
Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments was better than I expected! A detective game with actual investigation and deduction! It was very fun.
Loved the Dread X Collection version of Sucker for Love, so naturally I loved Sucker for Love: First Date too! Engine’s a little wonky though but it won’t affect your experience much.
The Crush House is sadly too buggy to play. Every bug softlocked the game, couldn’t even finish Day 1! Too late for a refund, oh well.

Stats!
Number of games finished this month: 15
Number of games added to account: 32

Completed

• SPRAWL
  

  8.5 hours playtime

  31 of 31 achievements

• Sayonara Wild Hearts
  

  7.6 hours playtime

  24 of 24 achievements

• Terror of Hemasaurus
  

  5.7 hours playtime

  30 of 30 achievements

• Windy Meadow - A Roadwarden Tale
  

  5.6 hours playtime

  12 of 12 achievements

• Downwell
  

  4.4 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

• ILA: A Frosty Glide
  

  3.8 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

Beaten

• Reignbreaker
  

  14.7 hours playtime

  27 of 30 achievements

• No Straight Roads: Encore Edition
  

  12.6 hours playtime

  43 of 47 achievements

• Lil' Guardsman
  

  13.1 hours playtime

  41 of 48 achievements

• Idols of Ash
  

  8.3 hours playtime

  4 of 5 achievements

• Sherlock Holmes: Crimes and Punishments
  

  19.5 hours playtime

  21 of 25 achievements

• Desta: The Memories Between
  

  7.2 hours playtime

  26 of 35 achievements

• Sucker for Love
  

  5.1 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Blanc
  

  2.5 hours playtime

  12 of 13 achievements

• DoronkoWanko
  

  0.7 hours playtime

  no achievements

Unfinished

• Occlude
  

  6.1 hours playtime

  6 of 16 achievements

• Thumper
  

  5.2 hours playtime

  8 of 19 achievements

Won't Play

• The Crush House
  

  1.0 hours playtime

  2 of 30 achievements

July ‘26 report

🏆 SG Wins Progress Bar

🕹️ Overall Progress Bar

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• ⚔️ Beaten/Completed
• 🎮 Made progress
• ➕ Added to library

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• ⚔️ Beaten/Completed
• 🎮 Made progress
• ➕ Added to library

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What do you mean July is over 😭

It was a very slow month for gaming even though we had our winter break the second week. To be fair, I was only free for a week and I spent the entirety of it with a cold that wouldn't go away. Second chance at July, maybe? Please?

At least it's warming up enough that I can finally drink iced coffee... the little things, you know?

Ninglors Log 437

July Progress:
7
PPU monthly:
done
July Additions:
13

Games finished this month:

Won/Gifted Games:
Farewell North – Ty Volpe <3
Dispatch – Win \o/
AC Origins – Ty Sky <3
Elton Manor: Requiem of the Cursed Roses – Ty Sky <3
Staffer Reborn – Ty Yamara <3
Palindrom Syndrome: Escape Room – Ty Limosa <3
Akash: Path of the Five – Ty Moony <3
Winter Burrow – Ty Moony <3
Cats & Pandas – Ty Sam <3
Between Time: Escape Room – Ty Vinro <3
Wanderstop – Ty Bruteforce <3
FIND ALL: Bunker – ty Adam <3
FIND KITTENS 2: Crafts – Ty Adam <3
Bought Games:
Currently playing:

So much from me :3
Have a lovely week!
Queen Ninglor

#31 JULY 2026

Note: I’ve beaten all the content available for Alabaster Dawn at the moment, but I marked it as unbeaten still, since I plan to play it again after its full release.

Stats End of July

Overall

Overall statistics

Monthly change

Completed	+5
Beaten	+18
Unfinished	+-0
Unplayed	-17
Won't play	+-0

Overall wins statistics

Monthly change

Completed	+2
Beaten	+9
Unfinished	+-0
Unplayed	-5
Won't play	+-0

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Yearly Challenges

Yearly Challenge 2026 - Simulations

Finish all games on the Secret Santa 2025 list

Beat all least 50% of the games on the Runs on a Toaster list

Beat all least 50% of the games on the Fantastic Beasts and Where to Play Them list

Beat all least 50% of the games on the Trust Issues list

Beat all least 75% of the games on the Old wins list

Beat all least 50% of the games added in 2025

Alright. July is in the books. We had the Willow Fire threatening the town I live in for a chunk of July, but it’s no longer as close by and is largely contained until the snows come and completely put it out. Anyway, decent month for gaming overall. Eriksholm was definitely the standout title, and Decade was super interesting. It was also nice to close out the Avadon series.

July Completions

July Retirements

1. The Underground Man - The dialogue here was an f’in embarrassment
2. Within the Backrooms - It’s got a decent liminal spaces concept, but is also a buggy mess
3. Nothmere - The UI was so terrible with this game, I didn’t want to continue, despite there being a real game here.
4. Wasteland With Robots - Unplayable mess.
5. Underrail - I really want to play this, but it had some issues with the game not recognizing the game borders in windowed and full screen mode that made it unplayable currently.
6. The Lonely Helmet - Pretty meh platformer. Delisted.
7. Liminal - Not actually a liminal spaces game. Not really. It’s more like an anomaly game. But also abandoned and broken.
8. Aliens: Fireteam Elite - Also a buggy mess. It’s actually a fun game, but the bugs just got cumbersome, so we retired this n favor of other co-op games. Maybe I’ll go back at some point and solo the remainder of the campaign. But maybe not.

Plans for August

I’m currently playing a couple games: Mistfall Hunter, FatalZone, and Goblin and Recipes: Match-3 Adventure. Plus, my co-op friends have moved back to Serious Sam for now, lol. So that as well (Serious Sam 3). FatalZone is a decent bullet heaven. Not sure how long I’ll play it, but it’s fun for now. Mistfall Hunter is a PvPvE extraction medieval game. So far, it’s almost straight up a Dark Souls clone outside of the aforementioned extraction aspect, but also decent so far. GnR is pretty meh, but a couple levels at a time is a decent way to kill some time. So, I’ll continue with all of the above. after that, IDK. We’ll see.

July 2026

No completions but continuing on multiple games at the moment. JA3 is starting turn into a grind.

Ongoing

Progress

July 2026

A weird and uneventful month. New job, lots of travel for work, lots of in-person office days, which all in all means less gaming. Not bad, just weird based on the previous months.

But at least I was able to keep the plan I had set for myself in June, if nothing else. Bayonetta was a bit all over the place - while I enjoy individual elements of it, and still like it as a game, the cutscenes were way too much and too frequent, and the camera made the combat too janky to feel good. I’m glad I experienced it, but somehow, I’m also glad it’s over. Black the Fall had less overall variation, which is a plus since the lows weren’t so low, but also a minus since the highs were not so high. It’s a competent but extremely forgettable game. It was hard to get excited with these games. I also put a few extra hours into 2024 Mosaic, now around a third of the way to beat it. Luckily, with three days to go in the month, I started Crown Gambit and so far it has been a very pleasant surprise. I think I’ll beat it in the first week of August, fingers crossed.

The plan for August is to beat Crown Gambit, and possibly then focus on Dishonored, which has been sitting on my priority backlog for almost a year. I beat 2 games and won 2 games on SG, so again the balance was kept. One of these wins was The Witness, which also has been on my priority wishlist for so long!

Happy gaming!

• Beaten Games
• New Games
• Progress on SG Wins