#1 - May Games
This is the my first post here and therefore I would like to share with you how happy I am to be part of this community. Reading through your posts is a very nice experience for me, I love how much care each of you put into formatting and sharing your personal experiences related to the games you recently played.
For me May hasn’t been such a wonderful month in terms of completing games. As compared to the previous two months, in which I managed to have around 45 games overall completed, this month I managed to 100% only 7 of them. Being away from my PC for a week, combined with some other personal issues and my decision to invest more of my time into Steam-related organisatorical activities, I had less energy to play games to completion.
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Odyssey - The Next Generation Science Game
6 hours playtime
7 of 7 achievements
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My Name is You
3 hours playtime
14 of 14 achievements
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The Dark Tales of Katarina
5 hours playtime
27 of 27 achievements
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Happy Empire
59 minutes playtime
10 of 10 achievements
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Exteria
2 hours playtime
8 of 8 achievements
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Project:surviving
2 hours playtime
1 of 1 achievements
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The Last Photon
2 hours playtime
388 of 388 achievements
Odyssey - The Next Generation Science Game - I was excited to play this game, since I am a huge fan of the Myst series. But like every other game that advertises itself as a 'Myst-like game', it turned out to be only a very pale immitation of the original. The feeling that being the lone survivor on an island gives you, the graphics, the music and the style are somewhat similar to Myst, however the puzzles and the whole gameplay is quite different. It's not a bad game per se, but it's just not the Myst experience I was hoping for. If you decide to play it, you need to know that 90% of the time will be spent on reading a journal which will provide all the necessary information to solve the puzzles – it is even highlighted in yellow, so that you can skip the story parts and scientific explanations. However, skipping these ruins the whole game experience because the game's main purpose is to thoroughly explain a few science concepts like planetary rotation, astronomical concepts, pendulum theory, physics concepts. If you're a person that loves to find out the inner mechanisms of the universe, then this game is right down your alley, since it explains all of these in a very nice and understandable way, and in addition to that gives you puzzles to solve using the new-found knowledge, which sometimes are merely machines that exemplify these theories.
My Name is You - I'm not sure if this should be called a visual novel or not. On one hand, there's no gameplay apart from reading and choosing story branches. On the other hand, there aren't any backgrounds or pictures that change, and definitely not anime chicks with big... let's say eyes. Nevertheless, the game offers a variety of possible endings, some of which have an achievement associated. One playthrough takes around 10 minutes and always ends with a unique song. For me, it was really nice to listen to all of them.
Happy Empire - A pretty bad attempt at making a time management game, the only nice thing about it being the cute graphics and easy achievements. It has potential, but in its state it's pretty boring and buggy.
The Dark Tales of Katarina - I'm not even sure what this is or where the story goes... Probably not gonna touch it again, even if they decide to add new achievements.
The Last Photon - This game encountered a lot of bad feedback after the devs decided to jump on the trend of 'cheap & easy cheevos' and replace the hardcore platforming achievements with 300+ achievements obtainable at the cost of only holding down a button. It's a game I've always wanted to try, so it seemed to be an appropiate moment to try it. Conclusion: the achievements ruined the whole game; however I wouldn't have had the skills to finish it 100% anyway.
Exteria - Awful. Don't touch it please. Bad graphics, bad controls, bad gameplay.
Project:surviving - In its state, a joke of a game. 1 cheevo for spending 10 minutes cutting trees and crafting stuff from the wood.
A few days ago, I wanted to make a giveaway of Creature Clicker - Capture, Train, Ascend!, therefore I decided to give it a try first. Most of the achievements flow like crazy (I managed to get the majority of them in a few hours of playtime), but it's the last bit that worries me to no ends – I wonder how long it will take me to get the last few achievements...
Clouds & Sheep 2 is such a sweet game! I'm definitely gonna continue playing it.
Everything and Thimbleweed Park are really nice games, I've played them during a Steam group event and streamed them for the audience. I will most assuredly come back to them in a few weeks.
Hidden Folks is not a HOG per se, but it still requires you to find all sorts of entities based on their descriptions. I plan on integrating it in the June challenge and hopefully complete it this month.
Tumblestone seems to me like a game that will never end. So many levels! ...and not easy at all. It will probably take me a lot of time to finish, but it's a nice time waster when you have nothing else to do.
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Creature Clicker - Capture, Train, Ascend!
93 hours playtime
471 of 480 achievements
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Clouds & Sheep 2
2 hours playtime
7 of 25 achievements
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Everything
3 hours playtime
13 of 36 achievements
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Thimbleweed Park
6 hours playtime
4 of 33 achievements
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Hidden Folks
5 hours playtime
2 of 5 achievements
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Tumblestone
20 hours playtime
6 of 28 achievements
HOGs!!! HOGs everywhere! Being a HUUUGE fan of HOGs, imagine my joy when I saw the monthly theme. Right away, I hopped into selecting a few HOGs to play this month. It seems that I overdid it a bit in my excitement, since in the end it turned out to be a pretty big list. I will definitely not manage to complete all of these, but I'll keep the list as it is for future reference.
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Agent Walker: Secret Journey
0 minutes playtime
0 of 16 achievements
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Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt
2 hours playtime
0 of 22 achievements
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Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
2 hours playtime
0 of 19 achievements
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Dark Angels: Masquerade of Shadows
82 minutes playtime
0 of 30 achievements
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Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope
0 minutes playtime
0 of 25 achievements
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Alchemy Mysteries: Prague Legends
2 minutes playtime
0 of 15 achievements
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Chronicles of the Witches and Warlocks
0 minutes playtime
0 of 13 achievements
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Contract With The Devil
0 minutes playtime
0 of 19 achievements
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Demon Hunter: Chronicles from Beyond
1 minute playtime
0 of 28 achievements
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Demon Hunter 2: New Chapter
2 minutes playtime
0 of 15 achievements
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Demon Hunter 3: Revelation
0 minutes playtime
0 of 24 achievements
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Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala
1 minute playtime
0 of 34 achievements
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Eventide 2: The Sorcerers Mirror
11 minutes playtime
0 of 30 achievements
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Fairy Tale Mysteries: The Puppet Thief
0 minutes playtime
0 of 17 achievements
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GRAVEN The Purple Moon Prophecy
0 minutes playtime
0 of 19 achievements
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Grim Legends 3: The Dark City
1 minute playtime
0 of 36 achievements
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Inbetween Land
0 minutes playtime
0 of 27 achievements
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Hidden Folks
5 hours playtime
2 of 5 achievements
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Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery
2 hours playtime
0 of 12 achievements
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Queen's Quest: Tower of Darkness
0 minutes playtime
0 of 22 achievements
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Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past
2 hours playtime
0 of 15 achievements
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Queen's Quest 3: The End of Dawn
2 hours playtime
0 of 18 achievements
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The Dreamatorium of Dr. Magnus 2
0 minutes playtime
0 of 15 achievements
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Shtriga: Summer Camp
2 hours playtime
0 of 8 achievements
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The Secret Order 2: Masked Intent
0 minutes playtime
0 of 24 achievements
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The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times
0 minutes playtime
0 of 26 achievements
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The Secret Order 5: The Buried Kingdom
10 hours playtime
0 of 31 achievements
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Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered
0 minutes playtime
0 of 10 achievements
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Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova
1 minute playtime
0 of 10 achievements
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World Keepers: Last Resort
2 hours playtime
0 of 8 achievements
Welcome to BLAEO!
You’ve got a very big month ahead ^_~
Uffff. yes. I’m not gonna play them all, that’s for sure. But I’ll do my best to clear as many as my free time allows :)
Welcome! Hope you enjoy your stay! Congrats on finishing all those games and good luck with your backlog! :)
Thank you for the kind words. Your posts and profile have an impressive amount of completed games, especially SG wins (I have WLed you for that). Keep up the good work!
Thanks! I’m sure you’ll also have an impressive amount of completed games in no time! HOGs are a great start. Have fun with them! :D
Welcome to BLAEO and congrats on your progress already!!
It’s nice to see somebody who played Hidden Folks, I’ve been following the game for quite a while but didn’t jump into buying it yet. Would you recommend it?
And nice program for June, happy backlog hunting o/
It’s hard to say if one would like to play this or not. It requires a lot of patience and attention to detail. The items/people are very small (even at max zoom) and in general they are very much alike, therefore you’ll have to really look up close. Most of the levels have very big and very very detailed maps, which means you’ll have to scroll a lot in order to find something. However, the items always have indicators to give you an idea of what map corner to look at.
One can interract with most of the objects; some of the objects that one has to find can be uncovered only by these interractions. They also make very funny sounds when clicked :)
All in all, it’s a nice game but the player needs endurance, good eyes and to derive enjoyment from searching for the needle in a haystack.
The levels are not randomly generates, therefore it doesn’t have much replay value. In terms of price vs. time, I’d suggest waiting for a discount, since the time is mostly spent not actually ‘playing’, but more in learning where everything is located on the map and admiring all those tiny details that they put in the game.
Thanks for the feedback, I’ll keep an eye open for it during the sales ;)
Welcome to the group! I see you’ve found your way with formatting as well, this post is so neatly organized. Hopefully June will treat you better and you can spare more time and energy for your planned games!
Hello, it’s nice to meet you!
Yeah, I found the post that explained how the formatting works. I edited my post in plain HTML but I’m yet to find some online editors that have these kind of markdown templates already set. Do you recommend any? What do you use for formatting your posts?
I really love your idea of the icon tabs table.
I’m not aware of any online editors, I use HTML too. At least in tab layouts I do, because markdown doesn’t seem to work inside html.
I’ve learned a lot about HTML during my time on this site, and I’ve often looked up the source code from other members’ posts and found ideas for my own experiments. Everytime I’ve needed to learn what a certain attribute does, I’ve checked it out from W3Schools. I also recommend checking out Akantha’s profile box, she has collected some templates and links there. :)
edit: Now that I linked that profile, I found html.am in there. Those HTML generators look helpful!
Welcome Lilly, it’s so nice to see another friendly face here. You’re the first person that came to my mind after reading the current monthly theme :) I’m sure you’ll have a blast :D
Yay, I’m happy to see you here!
I’m also deeply honored that I was the first person who you associate with HOGs. I’ll do my best to live up to my “reputation”! :D :D :D
“I managed to 100% only 7 of them” – so modest! :D
I’m sorry you’re having to play some of the… less-than-stellar… games on Steam to get that sort of stat, but glad that this month’s theme seems to be a perfect fit!
Welcome to the site! (from a fellow newbie to the site!)
Welcome to BLAEO and I’m glad the theme is right away something for you :)
And maaaaaan, that’s a long list! I’m curious to see how many you actually manage to beat! :D
Have a great month!
Looking forward to reading more of you :)
Happy backlog killing!
Thank you for the warm welcome. I’m also curious, I would probably aim at 5-6, knowing how much time I have on my hands :)
I wish you a great month ahead as well!