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I’ve beaten Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram (~22h, 7.5/10) on my friend’s account (Yeah, thanks, I’m not buying Elite to get it). It was a pretty good spin-off that delves just a little deeper into the characters. Doesn’t bring anything really new to the table, but it’s still great to spend more time with your favourite characters. The story that was done by Kotaro Uchikoshi surprisingly turned out to be the worst one and a waste of time overall.
Have been playing Borderlands 2 solo for the most part last month. Still good.

Report 8: Still alive (no, really)

    Portal

    Portal

    8/10
    5 hours playtime

    Steam replay. I guess it’s already a classic at this point. Still great and funny, but really short.
    Done with all the six advanced maps, it was really nice to wrack your brains about something for a change, since, let’s face it, main game is pretty easy. That said, the challenges seemed like a pain in the ass (especially speedruns. hate’em. ugh.), and so did tuning all the radios and breaking all of the cameras, so I draw the line here. Might come back to complete it later.

    Little Briar Rose

    Little Briar Rose

    5/10
    4 hours playtime

    Meh The Game. My main problem with it is that it’s not particularly interesting and it’s not particularly funny, combined with pretty weak puzzles, it’s just there. It makes me wonder why do we need this mobile port at all.
    That fishing minigame can go eat a dick.
    To get all of the achievements, you have to beat the game at least three times, which was a pain in the ass.
    Well, the artstyle looked neat, I guess.

    99 Levels To Hell

    99 Levels To Hell

    5/10
    12 hours playtime

    It’s a pretty subpar “roguelike” that kinda works, but it’s still pretty rough (not only around the edges, more like inherently rough) and it has minor gameplay mechanic flaws that soil the experience.
    It was somewhat fun for a while and I definitely was more invested than I was with Little Briar Rose, but the latter felt far more competent on the technical level.

    Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered

    Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey Remastered

    7/10
    20 hours playtime

    It’s an enchanced version of a word game by the same name. One of the main additions is Endless Mode, which is exactly what you’d expect and it’s not very interesting, actually. The game gets kinda repetitive if you aim for the achievements and all stars, since by the time you reach post-game, you’ll be powered up enough through upgrades so that nothing poses a real challenge for you. But it’s still a pretty good timekiller.

Arbiter Libera

It’s a pretty subpar “roguelike” that kinda works

I have a feeling this could apply to about a third of Steam’s library at this point. Replace roguelike with “platformer” and you probably have another third. ;)

petpasta

Well, yeah. At least I don’t have to play them all, only the ones that somehow ended in my library, and get a taste of just a few subpar things for a change, so I could appreciate the good stuff even more.