kiiroichi

October 2023 game summary

All I can say about October is “free time? never heard of her”. I didn’t even have time to put together a prettier summary post!
It has been a bumpy month with a lot of things to do and general life ups and downs. I have at least been working on managing my time better, so let’s see if it paid off.

Samorost 1

0.2 hours, no achievements

A 10 minute classic that I'm not even sure I didn't play at some point before. My idea was to play Samorost 1 and then pick the other two in the Amanita Design anniversary sale, but I completely forgot to do so before it ended. Oh well. Less backlog to take care of.


Tandem: a tale of shadows

6.4 hours, 24 of 24 achievements

A short, simple puzzle adventure that while not fully polished and without a very fleshed out story, still has its own charm. As a person who is naturally bad at puzzle games, this one walked the fine line between having me thinking for a few minutes and not frustrating me so I end up just finding a guide. I did use the guides to get all the secrets and get the 100%, though. Overall enjoyable enough.

And look at that! Finally playing SG won games, lol. Hope to keep at it.


Happy Game

2.8 hours, 11 of 11 achievements

Another of Amanita Design's… weird things. Happy game is less a game and more an audiovisual experience. It's pretty short (few hours), and there isn't a real puzzle element to the various scenes, you just click around until the next thing happens. Nonetheless, it was a very enjoyable experience, creepy and brilliantly animated, if a little tropey. The whole "smiley face" thing isn't exactly an innovation in horror, but I don't think that was the intention anyway.

The game is a little unpolished stability wise, which makes me think this was more of a little side experiment than an actual big project from Amanita. But some of the imagery genuinely made it hard for me to play with the lights off, and certain settings/compositions were nothing short of amazing.


I was only able to make some progress thanks to the monthly theme, in which I listed Tandem and Happy Game along with OMORI and Lust for Darkness. As you can see, I only managed to do the first two. But Tandem was a SG win, so I got that at least.

Baldur's Gate 3

32.6 hours, 5 of 53 achievements


Last month, I was tasked with playing and reviewing BG3 for SGM. I only started it this month, thinking I had more than enough time. It can't be that long, right? ,,boy :') This game has eaten all of my free time, which was none at all to begin with. And I'm not past act 1 yet.
Ok... that is... a lot. in my defense, there were two very nice bundles out this month, AND four of these games I won in a random key drop discord thing. I was not supposed to win that often :') (And this is keeping in mind that I'm not done redeeming some keys...)
Jekofob

I fell ya on nice bundles :D

Is there a premade design for the one you are using here with completed/started/shopping? It seems very cool, and I could def use something like that when I get up to speed with my bought games until this month :)

kiiroichi

I’m using some HTML codes that a friend gave me! You can find the ones I’m using in this post here, and you can find more in this profile, in the last tab of the bio :3

Trent

What is SGM?
Oh and thank you for the review of Tandem. It’s my kind of game, the kind I used to play with my kids who are now too old to play with Dad. Added it to wishlist.

kiiroichi

SGM is how we refer to the Unofficial Steamgifts Magazine, a project in which me and a bunch of other ppl put together a monthly digital magazine! We make giveaways on steamgifts, and the person who wins has to write a review of the game in question for it to be featured in the mag. If you want to see the end result, you can take a look through the latest issue!

And I’m glad I brought a new game to your attention! When I first won it I saw a lot of people complaining about various aspects of the game, but I had fun with it ^^

Trent

Oh neat…I hadn’t seen SGM before. Looks like some good work!

kiiroichi

thanks! we put a lot of effort into it! ^^

Zelrune

Congratulations on all of your assassinations! I see so many people playing BG3 it’s making me envious - maybe next year! I still want to get to Elden Ring.

kiiroichi

It really is a great game and I totally understand why it got so popular. I was very skeptic of it at first as it’s far from my kind of game, but it charmed even me!