Progress Report #28: August 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 33, Yekhus: 2
Total play time:
Definitely been a low-gaming month, with summer time away, projects around the house and garden, etc... But to make the numbers look a bit less dramatic, keep in mind that I'm almost a week late on this update, so the backlog additions include the first week of September, and include more than the usual exact month. This should help the next update to be better right? Just wish me luck and strong will to fulfill my part. :)
Completed or Beaten (1)
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Karma City Police
3.4 hours playtime
Also Played (2)
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Inscryption
11.4 hours playtime
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Nightmare Kart
83 minutes playtime
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Hero's Hour
72 minutes playtime
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Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
11 minutes playtime
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Borderlands 3
? hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up with, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog: I liked the idead of a short investigation murder mystery, but it proved a bit too light on the gameplay (more like a disguised interactive novel). But when the action levels came in and started to need retries to get past, I knew that I was really not in the mood for this bipolar-disorder of a game.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
34 minutes playtime
No achievements
Added to collection (Steam) (15)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (freebie)
- Dracomaton (freebie)
- Kitchen Wars (freebie)
- Ruby and The Lost Crystals (free)
- Trifox (SG giveaway)
- Guntouchables (freebie)
- The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk (SG giveaway)
- Summer in Mara (freebie)
- Cartoon Survivor (free)
- Dead in Bermuda (free)
- Taina's Cursed Legacy (free)
- Injustice 2 (SG giveaway)
- This Means Warp (IG giveaway)
- Shadowgrounds Survivor (IG giveaway)
- AquaNox (IG giveaway)
Added to collection (GOG) (8)
- Heroes of Loot (pass)
- Necroking (pass)
- Tin Hearts (pass)
- FATE: The Traitor Soul (pass)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft Series (pass)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Fantasy Empires (pass)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Silver Box Classics (pass)
- Heroes of Loot 2 (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (4)
- Road Redemption (freebie)
- Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator (pass)
- Strange Horticulture (freebie)
- Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (6)
- Toree 2 (freebie)
- Toree 3D (freebie)
- Game club "Waka-Waka" (freebie)
- Carlos the Taco (freebie)
- Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective (pass)
- The Brave Little Cloud (freebie)
Pleaseee finish The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog… there’s an assist mode for the action levels!
I know about the assist settings, but even with them on, I would still need to go through action levels with an awkward isometric perspective, and which feel completely disconnected from the other (main) gameplay style. Am I really missing that much?
I don’t play great games all that often, so my perspective is more than likely skewed on this, and I don’t know if you’ve played any other Sonic games before, but… I dunno, I enjoyed it a great deal. If nothing else, you’re missing out on a short completion ^^;;
Ah, good point! Short completion is actually the main reason I picked it. But discards are worth as much as completions for me, as far as clearing games from my backlog goes. I made that conscious choice because I don’t want to force myself to play games I don’t actually enjoy playing. A minimal degree of enjoyment is an absolute prerequisite for me to spend time on a game. So, bottom-line, the discard made it even shorter :-)
We’ve got vastly different perspectives, then. For me, any amount of games in “won’t play” is too many.