Progress Report #6: October 2023

Monthly tally - Backlog: 24, Yekhus: 1 (ish)

Honestly, an absolute disaster of a month, backlog-wise. I had relatively little time for gaming, and spent most of it on replaying Desperados III to completion, which is still in progress but very very close to done. Once that's done, I'll be able to focus on some other game(s).

Another "failure" of the month was my attempt to participate in this this site's Spooktober event. I was craving a more social way to participate here. At least I picked a couple of theme-appropriate games, but just didn't even start them. Mainly bad timing, because I was in the middle of a couple of games already. I've come to realize that, to make any progress on my backlog, I need to focus on only 2-3 games until I'm done with them. Spreading my attention and scarce time among many games is a bad idea. At most, when I want to play something fresh for a bit, I fish into my list of demos to play, which only takes a few hours to complete. Hence why I gave up on the idea of starting a more significant horror game for only a few hours play time, without any hopes of making any real progress before going back to my current games in progress.

Completed or Beaten (1)

I saved a whole afternoon to finally play through the third and last part of the Sea of Thieves / Monkey Island crossover, considering that trilogy beaten, and letting me put SoT on the shelf for a while.

• Sea of Thieves
  

  4.5 hours playtime

  17 of 17 achievements (The Lair of LeChuck)

Also Played (2)

Book of Hours is all that I hoped it would be. Has an engaging game loop and sense of progress. But it's one for the long haul, which I save for those evenings when I want to really relax and wind down before bedtime.

Almost done with completing Desperados III achievements. A couple more mission replays with highest difficulty and stacking challenging badges, and then a handful of Baron challenges, and that will be it. A week, or two at most. And about time, because as much as I love the game, and enjoyed pushing its gameplay in these difficult replays, it's starting to feel a bit rote and mastered by now.

• Book of Hours
  

  16.5 hours playtime

  2 of 78 achievements

• Desperados III
  

  75.8 hours playtime

  32 of 36 achievements

Beaten Demos (3)

Demos are a short, self-contained way for me to freshen up and switch my gaming gears without compromising my long-haul main-game focus. And a way to find new candidates to fatten my backlog. The Quasimorph demo really hooked me, especially the first two missions. I loved the game's concept, and hope that devs finish the game well and take it to its full potential.

• Quasimorph
  

  4 hours playtime

  1/2 Achievements

• Le Château
  

  0.5 hours playtime

  No Achievements

• Brickmasters
  

  0.3 hours playtime

  No Achievements

Added to collection (Steam) (9)

All the sales this month! I've become fairly good a not buying too many games, but I had to pick up these 3 that I'd like to be playing soon.

• Spiritfarer
• Intergalactic Fishing
• Inscryption
• Moonring (free)
• How Fish is Made (free)
• Through the Woods (trade)
• SuchArt! (Steamgifts giveaway)
• Cryptark (freebie)
• Forgive Me Father (trade)

Added to collection (GOG) (4)

• Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok (free)
• The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters - Deluxe Edition (pass)
• Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp (pass)
• Doom 3 (pass)

Added to collection (Epic) (5)

• Godlike Burger (freebie)
• Ghostwire: Tokyo (pass)
• Blazing Sails (freebie)
• Eternal Threads (freebie)
• The Evil Within (freebie)

Added to collection (Other) (6)

• Decrypting Fear (free)
• Grunnd (pass)
• Mumps (freebie)
• ConflictCraft 2 (freebie)
• Golden Light (pass)
• Super Adventure Hand (pass)