Fifth-ish week of November progress
I usually put any games I have played between the last weekly post and the monthly post, but this time there are just too many games to do that. I will be putting together a monthly post later today after I get some sweet sweet sleep, not that anyone cares but I like them so I can look back and compare months.
Anyways I am still very much limited as to what I can play (games that run on toasters running Linux) but this time I actually have 3 games that I played on my boyfriends PC - 2 would just completely freeze my laptop up when started, one is a PA game without Linux support and doesn’t work in Wine.
Challenge progress
// currently on pause
Completed SG wins
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Bayou Island - Point and Click Adventure
60 minutes playtime
no achievements
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Heaven Forest NIGHTS
3 hours playtime
24 of 24 achievements
Bayou Island - Point and Click Adventure - Really short and quite easy point and click adventure. The story is kinda weird, but what really annoys me about this game is HOW DAMN SLOW EVERYONE IS WALKING kriugfriubvsiudfsbiufsgiudfsiudfs.
Heaven Forest NIGHTS - I would mind playing a game located in this world, but this thing has no game-play whatsoever and the pop-in is absolutely awful - there is stuff appearing a meter in front of you. And when I say a meter, I mean a meter.
Other completed games
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Strata
11 hours playtime
24 of 24 achievements
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Three Digits
8 hours playtime
14 of 14 achievements
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The Deer
2 hours playtime
no achievements
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Heaven Forest - VR MMO
5 hours playtime
24 of 24 achievements
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Heaven Island Life
2 hours playtime
no achievements
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Queen's Quest 3: The End of Dawn
5 hours playtime
18 of 18 achievements
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Lines by Nestor Yavorskyy
87 minutes playtime
590 of 590 achievements
Strata - I finally got around getting the last 2 achivments after 2 years… It is a really nice puzzle game and the only issue with it being that there are so many damn levels (I don’t even know the exactly now many, it is just an absurd number) that chances are you are going go get bored of it waaaay before you are anywhere close finishing it.
Three Digits - Very similar to Two digits from last week, but with bigger numbers and way way way harder. I basically had to help myself with a walk-through for the whole game and at some point after reaching the second half of the game (total of 300 levels) I just said screw it, I still have many more games, some of which are way better then this one, to go through and just solved the whole thing using that walk-through.
The Deer - Took me longer to figure out how to skip the Unity configuration screen (was too big for my screen and I could not see the confirm button - alt + ž if anyone with a Slovenian keyboard cares lol) than to finish this game. No seriously, the game is about 2 minutes long. The game it is adorable, has 3 mini-games and it presents you some facts about a time long long ago, it is just way too short. The Steam store page itself tells you that the game is meant to be “educational interactive experience for children” so I obviously shouldn’t be playing this, but it is really just too goddamn short.
Heaven Forest - VR MMO - Exact same game as Heaven Forest NIGHTS above, just during the day and a tiny bit less pop-in.
Heaven Island Life - Marking this as complete since I have completed Heaven Island - VR MMO while back and it seems to be the exact same game just not available without VR.
Queen's Quest 3: The End of Dawn - As what I always say with Artifex Mundis games: it is an Artifex Mundi HOG, nothing more needs to be said.
Lines by Nestor Yavorskyy - Ugh, I didn’t realize this was one of those annoying achievements spammy games till I went to install it. The game itself is exactly what you can expect from looking at the screenshots on the store page. Including the free DLC there is 100 levels in total to solve. Personally I have some artifacting going on while trying to connect the dots, but chances are the issue is on my end and the game was still completely playable. Other than that no complaints. It does what it is supposed to well.
Strata does look interesting but can definitely see it getting old after a while.
And thanks a bunch for the heads up about Lines! I had no idea either about the achievements, just removed it from account. I’d installed it on a whim after someone said it was alright but meh.
With Strata I think if you play a handful of levels here and there it should be completely fine, but if you try to complete the whole game in one go (especially without a piece of paper where you can doodle on to help yourself solve the levels) you are going to have a bad time.
I bought a bundle just for the game, so I was really disappointed when I saw those achievements, but decided to play it anyways since I couldn’t refund it anyways. It is definitely alright, but ugh the dev is apparently planing to add even more of them. Are there people out there who actually fall for this nonsense and buy games just because of achievements?
Yeah I find I get burnt out by puzzle games like that when doing it in 1-2 sittings but I also never pick up games on PC for just 5-10 minutes gameplay?
I know it seems like more and more games are going down that path. :/ At least make quality games that focus more on the actual gameplay *gasp* haha if you’re gonna add a million achievements.