2025 Retrospective

Last year I…

• Beat 68 games - 44 Steam, 23 PC Gamepass, and 1 Epic (and played quite a lot more)
• Won 32 games on SG
• Gave away 57 games on SG
• Bought 32 games. 15 were in the first half, and 8 in the second half (though second half was slightly more expensive than the first because first half had some cheap bundles)
• Added 30 keys through 3 months of Humble Choice
• Added 8 keys through 1 Humble Bundle
• Activated 49 keys, some quite old. (Humble is starting to time limit some keys and run out of others, so I’ll continue activating or giving away the older ones while I can)
• Was subscribed to Gamepass for 11 months and tried a bunch of games through that (including some which I have unactivated keys for).

My current ratios for are 19% completed, 32% beaten, 21% will not play further, 19% unfinished (although some of those are really likely to also be DNFs), and 8% yet to play, with an average Achievement percentage of 54%, 6.1 hours average per played win, and 774 hours total. Of those played, 39.7% (52/131) have more than 5 hours and 9.92% (13/131) more than 10 hours – though Gemcraft - Frostborn Wrath, Red Dead Redemption 2, and Mad Max really skew times

Looking forward…

• I still have about 350 keys to activate or give away – probably about half each
• I need to cut way down on the number of new games I buy. There’s a few that are definitely on my list, though. Obenseuer is in early access, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes looks intriguing but might not come to GP or HC, and Travelling at Night is a day one purchase (I love Alexis Kennedy’s writing and lore building … the gameplay not so much).
• I’ve been thinking that perhaps some kind of ratio is the way to go - maybe a ration of 1 per 10 games beaten (ie: not 100 cats).
• I really need to deal with some more SG games. Problem is, one’s feelings when entering doesn’t always survive past the win. Elex II in particular, since I was really unable to get into Elex. I have 39 unplayed or unfinished wins. Some of those are likely to turn Will Not Play for different reason (Orbi Universo I’ve played a bunch, Rain World is just too damn hard, Flashback and The Way the controls just shit me, …)
• I’ll continue with Humble Choice and Gamepass very selectively. With various changes, both have now gone from something I would just keep on regardless to something I’ll subscribe a month at a time for.
• Life is too short to beat games when one is really not having fun with them. It’s also too short to complete games for the sake of completing them, particularly when my Pile Of Shame is so large. Some games are great for a time, and then I hit a point at which I’m done, and that’s ok.