fernandopa

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!


SG Wins

Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders

9.6 hours, 42 of 50 achievements


The Inner World

10.0 hours, 15 of 23 achievements


Backlog

Unpacking

3.5 hours, 14 of 25 achievements


SG Wins

Keys received as a gift

Purchases

Freebies

June 2025

4% (9/241)
19% (46/241)
2% (4/241)
72% (173/241)
4% (9/241)

May 2025

4% (9/240)
18% (44/240)
2% (4/240)
73% (174/240)
4% (9/240)

Apr 2025

4% (9/234)
18% (41/234)
2% (5/234)
73% (170/234)
4% (9/234)

Mar 2025

4% (9/229)
17% (40/229)
2% (4/229)
73% (167/229)
4% (9/229)

Feb 2025

4% (9/226)
17% (38/226)
2% (4/226)
73% (166/226)
4% (9/226)

Jan 2025

4% (8/221)
16% (36/221)
2% (4/221)
74% (163/221)
5% (10/221)

Dec 2024

3% (7/216)
16% (34/216)
2% (4/216)
75% (161/216)
5% (10/216)

Nov 2024

3% (7/214)
15% (33/214)
2% (4/214)
75% (160/214)
5% (10/214)

Oct 2024

3% (6/201)
15% (31/201)
2% (4/201)
75% (150/201)
5% (10/201)

Sep 2024

3% (6/201)
14% (29/201)
2% (5/201)
75% (151/201)
5% (10/201)
Zelrune

Congratulations on your assassinations!! ᓚᘏᗢ
I’ve heard a lot of good things about Unpacking, I’ll have to play it sometime in the future now. I hope your apartment renovations finish quickly so you can get back to a more stable schedule!

fernandopa

Thank you! The original estimate was that it would take 4 weeks, but I’m at the end of week 4 and the current estimate is between 6-7 weeks hahaha it’s fine, I’m sure it’ll be worth it once it’s done. No more playing beautiful games on a 15’’ laptop screen, welcome 100’’ 4K projector!

Unpacking can (and I would argue should) be finished in a single sitting. Playing it all in one go really helps to connect the dots on the narrative. It’s a quick game to check off your backlog if you already own it!!