Activities
Yesterday
UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Small review:
The game is beautiful, very scenic and vibrant colors. You just want to take the picture of the view. Story is good and interesting, though unrealistic but hey it’s an action treasure hunting game, of course it’s not that realistic. But let me tell you, they really lucky to survive or even find/understand clues and always find a path… even in a rubble. As for controls, they were alright, though sometimes, had to turn to keyboard because dualsense at least didn’t let me do some peculiar parts (not that many times). Because of the camera and what not, had to redo a scenario multiple times (even with keyboard) because controls didn’t work for me as I thought they should, maybe a skill issue but I doubt it… Overall great and beautiful game and the little flaws or frustrations can be forgotten easily.
Ame no Marginal -Rain Marginal-
A short visual novel. Extremely short. But also extremely sweet and sad.
February 2026 results
| Priority | Backlog | Added this month | Beaten | Removed |
| High | 123 | 1 | 1 | - |
| Medium | 220 | 1 | - | - |
Feb 24 2026
November… a month that just passed really, my moms birthday, felt a little weird, still bought games…
Games added in November 2025
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Botany Manor
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The Spirit and the Mouse
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Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
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Marsupilami: Hoobadventure
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Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™
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Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood
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Carefully Stamped
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Rusty Lake: Roots
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Verne: The Shape of Fantasy
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Braid, Anniversary Edition
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Projected Dreams
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As Dusk Falls
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Cats & Cups
Games added: 13 (7 less than last month)
Games won: 0 (1 less than the month before)
Also got some DLC’s for Jigsaw Puzzle…
Still only 1 cat game.. thats wild :D As always interested to hear recommendations :)
Feb 22 2026
February Assassination #2 (SG Win / PoP Pick)
Pumpkin Jack is an extremely mid game - it does what it does well, which is not much. As a 3D platformer and collectathon, it's pretty decent. There's platforming, exploration, combat and some puzzles, with no area being excellent but all being serviceable.
Platforming sometimes require a level of precision the games does not provide, with Jack's jumps being floaty and slippery. Exploration is mostly okay, you'll be on the lookout for crow skulls but other than that levels are extremely linear and there's nothing else to look for. Combat is basic and hectic with no skill involved, just button mashing, but the game keeps it fresh with enemy variety. Puzzles can be fine or awful, but they never go for long enough to bother you. Levels are mostly uninspired, dialogue is unnecessarily bad, graphics are generally good and the music starts off well and gets worse as the levels go by.
All in all, it would be a decent game to spend one or two afternoons with if you paid no more than $15, which means at least 50% off. That said ….
It gets a thumbs down for how poorly optimized/ported it is. My rig is not an incredible rig, but I can play Elden Ring, The Last of Us and Red Dead Redemption without hitches. Pumpkin Jack on minimum with all possible effects disabled barely went over 38 FPS for me, all the while frying my GPU. If you die and the level has to reload, or during cutscene transitions, it changes resolution, which can go from fullscreen to borderless to windowed without you ever asking for it. I play on a BenQ projector and it would cut the video output for 2 or 3 seconds as it did so, only to return with a wonky resolution. I don't expect AAA graphics, I just expect a game to run after being installed without requiring over an hour of tinkering.
And for that reason alone, it gets a thumbs down. As a dev, you cannot release a product in this state and call it a day.
Memo:
| Tag | Description |
|---|---|
| W2P | = Want to play. Use to distribute games to all other lists |
| Main«100% | Very big difference between main story and 100%, reminder for myself |
| ->100% | Want to get 100% |
| FE | = Finished elsewhere. Low prio, since I already finished the game on Epic/gog/etc, but I don’t mind to play it again if I don’t have any other games to play for specific event |
| f2p | Free to play. Used to be paid before? Might use for some events |
| iciao | Games that were given away by iciao. For events |
| HBC | Games that were a part of Humble Bundle Choice before. For events |
| Set | Game series, want to play these games in the right order |
| ▲ | Top tier. Games I really want to play |
| ■ | Mid tier. Games that can be picked for events if there’re not enough games in ▲ |
| ▼ | Low tier. Played and didn’t like or just not interested at the moment, but might change my mind in the future. Games that can be picked for events if not enough in ▲ and ■ |
| Extra |
| If the game is in 2+ lists, like Short and Long, then most likely I’m aiming 100% |
| Unfinished games I count as not played, because I will start a new game. |
| All short games are mid tier ■ by default unless specified otherwise |
Feb 18 2026
Vertical shoot-em-up. A shoots your regular guns, B fires a laser, and X uses your limited, screen-clearing bombs. The laser is kinda awkward since it starts off slowly moving away from your ship when the button is first held, but it instantly disappears entirely as soon as the button is let go, and on top of this, I didn’t notice much difference between it and the normal shots besides piercing (rarely useful) and slowing your ship’s movement, so I stuck with the regular guns for most of the game. I won’t call this a bullet hell because, besides one moment during the final boss on the hardest difficulty, there was always an obvious ship-wide opening to get through the bullet waves, so getting hit rarely felt unfair.
One thing I really like about this game is that, unlike a lot of other arcade-style shmups, this one actually saves your progress between stages, and getting game over only makes you redo the stage you’re currently on instead of having to start the whole game over.
One thing I didn’t like so much is the fact that the enemy waves thrown at you during the levels are randomized. Even before I realized this, I noticed the last couple levels started getting kinda repetitive and longer than they should have been, but it became obvious when I briefly started new games as the other playable ships to see how they played (their descriptions don’t really explain this) and the game kept throwing different enemies at me as the first wave. Plus, there are times where the randomizer doesn’t spawn any enemies and you’re just flying through an empty field for several seconds. Still, despite this, there is an actual difficulty curve here as well, with the enemies being spawned closer together and maybe shooting more frequently, too. I think the higher difficulties even affect this as well (and sometimes give bosses a new attack), but it’s hard to tell since there’s no description of what’s different between difficulties, and on top of this, I also feel like the higher difficulties increase the number of hits it takes to kill enemies and bosses as well, so between this and the aforementioned repetition, I’d only recommend beating the game once and not replaying it, not even on higher difficulties.
Lastly, although the game is mostly fair with its bullet patterns, there is one attack that’s a cheap hit: the last two or three bosses have laser attacks of their own that spawn instantly, and the only warning for where they’ll show up is an orange reticle against the red/orange background at the edge of the screen, so you won’t see or even know to look for it until after you’ve been hit by it a couple times.
Still, this is a pretty decent game overall, and I can easily recommend it for its base price of $2 (even moreso if you already have it from one of those itch.io bundles). You can buy it here: https://cosmiccrystal.itch.io/hellstar-squadron
February Assassination #1 (SG Win / PoP pick)
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It's so good that you wonder why no one has done it before
Sleeping Dogs might look slightly dated from a graphical perspective, but it still plays like a good wine. You have the open world formula popularized by GTA (in particular Vice City and San Andreas) with a location that is more charming and full of character than anything that Rockstar was ever able to pull off. I've been to Hong Kon 12 years ago, and it was uncanny how many memories were brought back by the setting alone. Sure, it's not always fully realistic from a geographical perspective (I thought it was a bit weird that you don't have Hong Kong Island separated from Kowloon by the Victoria Harbour), but if it fails on that it succeeds entirely on the way it captures the vibes. I of course don't remember specific streets from my time there, but I remember the feeling of being there and Sleeping Dogs captures that feeling exquisitely.
Other notable differences from GTA are the focus on melee combat instead of mostly guns, and the acrobatic nature of movement (in particular considering earlier GTAs barely allowed you to jump). Driving and gunplay are as good as you'd imagine, and the world is peppered with fun side-activities to keep you busy when you need a break from the main story. Speaking of which, it is so good. It's a good mix of The Departed with Infernal Affairs, and most characters carry their weight in the plot and in the worldbuilding. The story is serious and deals with some serious trauma, such as drug addition, double life, cold-blood murders, etc, but all the while keeping things light on the side with some dating missions as well as missions where you escort celebrities for a night out. It's a good mix that keeps things fresh, moving and interesting.
Some of the side content can get a bit repetitive, but at least you have tools to keep them more manageable (such as location trackers on your map). Driving can be slippery until you get used to it, and once you start unlocking the fancier cars and tougher races, it's so satisfying. The auto-aim (playing on controller) made shooting good enough that it kicks Max Payne's ass while delivering blows and environmental kills that put Batman to shame. And don't get me started on freaking jumping from a moving car onto another just because we can.
Sleeping Dogs is an extremely solid open-world game owing nothing to the games that came before or after it
Then came October and I were finally able to come home and live again = more time to game
Games added in October 2025
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Nine Witches: Family Disruption
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Farewell North
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Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy
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South of the Circle
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7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover
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Dead Island 2
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STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town
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Fruitbus
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Caravan Sandwitch
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Staffer Case: A Supernatural Mystery Adventure
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Maggie's Movies - Second Shot
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Bejeweled 3
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Garfield Lasagna Party
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Ace Attorney Investigations Collection
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Still Wakes the Deep
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Cook Serve Forever
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Kulebra and the Souls of Limbo
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ORDER 13
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Flowers And Favours: Florist Simulator
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FIND ALL: Halloween
Games added: 20 (5 more than last month)
Games won: 1 (1 less than the month before)
Also got the Scooby Doo DLC for HF2, hope to try it soon :D
Different type of games, not much in the cat department this time… any opinions on the games would be lovely :)
Feb 17 2026
#395
#5 of 2026
February 17, 2026