June 2025

June was a bit iffy, I spent a lot of time traveling since my apartment is under renovation and the crew was here for a few weeks, forcing me to stow away my stuff (including gamepad), which made playing games a bit harder. Still managed to tackle two wins, one backlog game, and progress on Elden Ring, so that’s a plus. I’m nearing the final stretch of Elden Ring, now almost halfway throughout the Mountaintop of the Giants. It’s incredible how engaging and content-filled the game is, I’ve been playing it for almost 130 hours and it has not lost a lot of momentum, although it definitely gets more linear towards the end, both from an exploration perspective as well as from a build perspective.

Regarding wins, Agatha Christie: ABC Murders was fine, it relies a lot on gimmicky mechanics that lost steam very quickly. It was fine but I was done with it before it was over. The other win I beat was The Inner World, which is a cute point-and-click adventure game, that has an incredible artstyle and really charming world, characters and music. The puzzles start good and well-contained within small areas, and you don’t need to pixel hunt, which is a great addition. A bit before the halfway point, it starts relying on moon logic and that’s where I almost resented it, but the hint system is very generous and prevented the game from becoming a chore.

Finally, backlog! I played Unpacking. I had the key laying around for a while, and almost gifted it to PAGYWOSG, but decided to activate it and play it all in the same month. What a good decision that was. I loved every second of it. It’s so simple yet so addictive, and the game does absolute wonders with environmental storytelling, it’s really, really impressive. One of my favorite games of the year so far.

Last month I had hoped to play Abe’s Odyssey: New N Tasty and Batman Arkham Asylum as part of my SG Wins. Well, I couldn’t fit Batman, and didn’t want to play Abe’s without the gamepad. Since I still don’t have my gamepad back, I’ll focus on the FPS tag for this month and aim to beat one of two games: Golden Light or TRI Friendship and Madness, and Goat of Duty besides these two. If all goes well, maybe all three.

Not many new wins this month, but I ended up buying a few games on the Sale so here we are. Happy July everyone!