February 2026 summary

February 2026

• Indika
  

  3.4 hours playtime

  4 of 16 achievements

  

• The Henry Stickmin Collection
  

  4.3 hours playtime

  50 of 82 achievements

  

• Q.U.B.E. 2
  

  7.1 hours playtime

  14 of 29 achievements

  

• The Loopler (demo)
  

  3.9 hours playtime

  no achievements

  

• Book of Hours
  

  161.9 hours playtime

  23 of 95 achievements

  

• Indika: A game about a nun who can hear the devil in an alt-universe Russia. The nun is likely schizophrenic, and what is real and what is not – and to what degree it is not – is unclear, particularly once another character joins. The game design is also somewhat schizophrenic, and bounces between 3d cinematic adventure and 2d retrogame. I guess the ending was probably intended as an artistic decision, rather than being a case of “fuck it we’re done/out of funds”, but it does leave things on a real anticlimax. 7/10 or 8.5/10
• The Henry Stickmin Collection: A remaster of a series of old Adobe Flash choose-your-own-adventures, which get progressively more elaborate as they go along. Funny and absurd, but replayability (to see all paths and collect all stick figures) is made more annoying than it should be by not being able to advance quickly through seen scenes, particularly where stick figures are only briefly shown in a long scene. 7.5/10
• Q.U.B.E. 2: A post-Portal puzzler. Its first half is very unpromising, as things are so very straightforward where you can only interact with particular specified locations with your limited abilities. It does get better halfway through where puzzles open up to better require combinations of abilities, and the final couple of levels really do require thought. 7.5/10
• The Loopler (demo): A roguelite/semi-idler with a very generous demo. You have a racing car that goes around a track. Things may well change by the final game (and with unseen unlocks), but it feels like there’s currently a golden path strategy, with many of the other offered mechanics unable to scale as needed.
• Book of Hours: Be an occult librarian - researching books, making items to help you research books, and exploring the rooms of the library. I finished the game with the baby ending (screenshot, very mild spoiler warning) – the Cultist Simulator equivalent is far easier to get to. Real endings require more work, so I may be reporting having beaten this another 1+ times at some point. As for the playtime… I spent a lot of time both in restarting the game, and paused (but still playing much of the time). At its core it’s a crafting game, where some of your inputs are time constrained. Funnily enough, one of the closest games mechanically in feel is the Logistical series. What finally cracked it for me was to use the exact correct colours in my spreadsheet: I was using approximates, and that added enough friction/confusion. But the game is more than just its mechanics; it’s also a game where you get snippets of lore, to piece together the secret histories of the world, and to provide hints as to what you can craft and how. I really – really – like Alexis Kennedy’s approach to writing these here as well as in Fallen London/Echo Bazaar, Sunless Sea, and Cultist Simulator, but less so his approach to game design which can tend towards the grindy. Book of Hours is, however, his most approachable work so far (Travelling at Night is likely to be even more so), and there are a bunch of systems in the game I have barely scratched the surface of. 9/10++

February 2025 Main recap

Since i play 30+ games each month, here a main recap :

Top 3 Playtime Games beaten

Tower Unite
13 hours this month – 13 hours in total – Nice arcade game with 3 main mini-games : Racing / Golf and Monkey Ball, game completed.

Squirrel with a Gun
11 hours this month – 11 hours in total – Nice 3d platform game, game completed (all 80 golden items collected).

Star Racer
5 hours this month – 11 hours in total – Really nice F-Zero like, game completed.

Top 5 Playtime Game unfinished

Sonic Rumble
11 hours this month – 49 hours in total – Nice little battle royale, playing daily on current season 3, at score multiplicater x22,75.

Turbo Sloths
6 hours this month – 8 hours in total – Nice arcade racing game, around 89% of the game completed.

Guardian’s Oath
6 hours this month – 6 hours in total – Ok tier hack’n’slash, at character level 44.

UFO ROBOT GRENDIZER – The Feast of the Wolves
5 hours this month – 5 hours in total – Ok tier 3D beat them up, around 84% of the game completed.

Faaast Penguin
5 hours this month – 53 hours in total – Nice free game, mix between mario kart x SSX series, 92% of the season 9 completed

Top Playtime Game Abandonned :

Mushroom Wars
1 hour this month – 1 hour in total – Nice litlle strategy game, but rage quit on timed leved …

Some others backlog game i will try to beat : Stop Dead / Sky Oceans: Wings for Hire / 77p egg: Eggwife / Reality Rash / Etrian Odyssey II HD

Goals for March 2026

Here is the list of games that I plan to beat and hopefully 100% this month (it’s already March here). Dredge is the only one here that I already have some progress on, so I hope I can beat it by next week. Although I have played Choice of Robots before in my phone. It’s one of the better games of its niche genre (interactive fiction and specifically Hosted Games/Choice of Games) so I’m very much looking forward to playing it again. I am not however looking forward to playing Amnesia. I’m too much of a wuss when it comes to horror games but I hope I can actually push through and beat it this time.

• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  

  3 hours playtime

  1 of 18 achievements

• Choice of Robots
  

  2 hours playtime

  1 of 72 achievements

• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
  

  5 hours playtime

  0 of 38 achievements

• DREDGE
  

  14 hours playtime

  35 of 60 achievements

Alright. February is pretty much in the books. I don’t anticipate finishing anything else today. Decent month overall. I had knee surgery on the 18th, which opened up a bit more gaming time, but I also slept a lot more, lol. Lies of P was the standout title this month, and I almost played NG+ after finishing it, but I thought maybe it would be better to wait a little bit so I don’t end up quitting halfway through due to Soulsborne burnout, which can easily happen. However, the game I enjoyed the most was actually Riddlewood Manor. I closed out the month playing Atomfall, which I’m still playing. I could probably finish the base game in a couple more hours if I really focused on that, but I’ve been exploring a bit. Plus, I have the first expansion to play as well, and Atomfall expansions are attached to the base game, essentially just adding new areas, gear, and some alternate endings. Of which, I count four or five potential endings already based on my interactions in the game.

February Completions

Currently Playing

February Retirements

1. Echoes of the End - Enhanced Edition - The combat and world building in this game are cool. The fact that the game continually stops to throw pointless puzzles at you was immersion breaking though. Didn’t want to continue with that start and stop pacing.
2. Hex - Can this even be called a game? I think not.
3. Jingjie: Signals - This is for people who think differently than I do. Super cool concept. Just doesn’t…resonate…with me.
4. Last Group Out - A meh Zero Sievert/Tarkov-like. It’s really designed more for co-op than SP, unfortunately. And I don’t think I know anyone that owns it. The controls didn’t really hit for me either.
5. RailGods of Hysterra - Not a bad builder survival game where you live on a RailGod (an eldritch horror train). Camera controls suck ass though, and it’s also abandoned in early access. There is a definite playable game here despite that fact, but for me it felt pointless to continue, especially with the annoying cameras.
6. Encased - This CRPG is a weird mix of awesome and boring. Super cool story, effective RPG and combat systems. Pacing is sooooo slow though. I do intend to come back to this at some point and finish it, but not right now. I’d had my fill after about 20 hours. Paused rather than retired.
7. Legend of the Wargod - This is a pretty simple and yet also pretty fun semi-open world JRPG. It’s very early in early access with a solo dev, and so I’m just gonna wait for its full release before playing fully through it, but it’s worth a look. Paused rather than retired.

Plans for March

I’ll finish Atomfall over the next few days I imagine. I would like to play Sector Unknown and Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon this month. I also have The Seance of Blake Manor, The Case of the Golden Idol, and Dispatch on my list for March. Some maybes include Triangle Strategy, Uncle Chop’s Rocket Shop, Kreed, Schedule I.

But who knows. I could just as easily shake things up. :)

February 2026

Still a good month of gaming time! I’ve quite enjoyed all the games I’ve played, they were great and I wanted to finish one more or two but couldn’t. The progress is still there and I’m enjoying and having fun playing games I want to play, so let’s continue like that in March!

• Finished
• Played
• Added

My least favorite month of the year for reasons
played some of the new dlc for diablo 2 resurrected as well this month… was kind of a big distraction tbh… and a path of exile league is upcoming to as another big distraction.

being lazy on reviews again

What I finished playing in february, one of my most active months ever.

Mostly completed or played - February 2026

• Disappointed by TR-49, usually Inkle makes strong scenarios with many open paths, but this one was mostly linear, puzzle oriented and really hard.
• Organized inside was short but really chill with a light-hearted scenario in background.

February/March theme - All Aboard

• An amazing full arcade submarine game created by a single dev ! Easy to learn and super fun, will probably continue playing it occasionally.

Won on steamgifts

• Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop - proof Angel Shores and proof Seaside Valley : Angel Shores (35h) is a large densely populated city with varied buildings in each neighborhood (commercial or residential area, planetarium, stadium, beach, highway, etc.), pedestrians everywhere, heavy traffic, and dynamic weather make this part of the game very enjoyable. Seaside valley (15h) in Europe was mostly a pain like a totally different game, industrial ugly zone, rural empty zone, and empty first city ; with fortunately in the end 2 pretty small towns + a cute village at top of a mountain. I followed a steam guide to quickly get the collectibles on both maps. But tbh after these 50h and 730km and now that i finished both scenarios, i feel no more motivated driving on a loop to get the last achievement “reach 1000km”. Still overall despite the pedestrians erratic behavior and the bad rural map, i had some great hours of relaxing fun, especially on the awesome urban map with Iveco Urbanway Articulated bus. Relaxing and fun like Euro truck 2. I also liked a lot : the choice of different bus (simple, articulated, double deck), the possibility to customize the external appearance of buses and the color and name of bus routes, the possibility to drive any bus on any road on a whim while passing by a bus stop and select any time of day or night, the dynamic weather was also really well made with gradual changes (rainfall, rainstorm, even by night).

In progress - plan for next month

• Occasionally : CoH3 (still intend to slowly finish this one), Swat Commander (on stand-by as it’s an early-access)
• Last month my priority was fully on Bus sim 21 as it was a recent SG win. I tend to lose focus but haven’t given up on any of these games, i’ll see the end with time

Have fun for next month !

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.