Progress Report #1: May 2023

Hello all! I just joined this friendly community a couple of days ago, and I’m eager to start exploring and participating in the collective backlog-slaying effort. So here’s a first report of my recent progress.

Beaten (5)

• Regions of Ruin
  

  29.7 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

• DuckTales: Remastered
  

  6.3 hours playtime

  14 of 20 achievements

• Pony Island
  

  4.5 hours playtime

  12 of 20 achievements

• The Invisible Hand
  

  4.5 hours playtime

  12 of 31 achievements

• Kid Dracula
  

  3.2 hours playtime

  1 of 14 achievements

Started (2)

• Castlevania III Dracula's Curse
  

  0.5 hours playtime

  1 of 14 achievements

• Outer Wilds - Echoes of the Eye (DLC)
  

  2.5 hours playtime

  15 of 31 achievements

Beaten Demos (6)

• Halls of Torment: Prelude
  

  13.1 hours playtime

  No achievements

• Inscryption (Demo)
  

  1.5 hours playtime

  No achievements

• Alina of the Arena (Demo)
  

  1.5 hours playtime

  No achievements

• The Last Campfire (Demo)
  

  1.5 hours playtime

  No achievements

• Luck be a Landlord (Demo)
  

  0.5 hours playtime

  No achievements

Added to collection (Steam) (9)

• Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold - Episode 1
• The Invisible Hand
• Dungeon of the ENDLESS
• Halls of Torment
• Field of Glory II
• Tell Me Why
• Nihilumbra
• Reventure
• Hotshot Racing

Added to collection (GOG) (4)

• Fiendish Freddy's Big Top o' Fun
• Bloody Hell
• Ultima Underworld
• Ultima Underworld 2

Added to collection (Epic) (5)

• Fallout: New Vegas - Ultimate Edition
• Warhammer 40,000: Gladius - Relics of War.
• Midnight Ghost Hunt
• Against All Odds
• Kao the Kangaroo

Added to collection (Other) (5)

• Tandem: A Tale of Shadows
• The Almost Gone
• Lake
• Agatha Knife
• Deep Despair 2

Crafting this report has helped me realise that I have beaten more games (and in general, done more gaming) last month than I was aware of. As usual, it is easy to focus too much on the endless “to do” list, and forget to take a good look at everything that one has actually “done”.

Visibly, I am lining up several retro 2D NES games. Mainly because they are nice to relax and play through steamlink on the couch/TV. I like to get away from the computer, where I work all day, as much as possible, so I always have a couch-prone steamlink game at hand. Also, they are relatively short to beat, which helps with the backlog-slaying.

Also, as my list of collection additions shows, the insane amount of free game giveaways nowadays is a bane for backlog-conscious gamers like us.