April 2025
Aaand April is over. Won’t lie, it was a tough month gaming-wise. While I was able to put a lot of hours into Elden Ring (35+) and I’m happy I did, I ended up slacking a bit on SG Wins. Beat one of the two PAGYWOSG games I had set for myself, cleared one from the backlog, and played a lot of Abyss Chaser’s demo for the SG Magazine. At least the SG Win I didn’t beat this month, Monaco, won’t take long to beat in May, and I’m trying to set myself back on track with two additional wins. If I manage that, I’m happy.
I also abandoned two games. One if FTL, which I had been meaning to play for a while, but I just couldn’t get a good handle on the mechanics and the complexity curve, it just felt overwhelming and not fun at all. The other one was Picklock, curiously similar to Monaco but it’s crazy how a few gameplay changes turn the former so much worse than the latter.
SG Wins
Lethal League Blaze
9.6 hours, 3 of 15 achievements
Backlog
Hylics
3.3 hours, no achievements
milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk 
0.8 hours, 4 of 10 achievements
SG Wins
Deep Dungeons of Doom
3.0 hours, 0 of 46 achievements
A Tale of Paper
0 hours, 0 of 27 achievements
Children of Silentown
1.9 hours, 0 of 26 achievements
Journey of a Roach
3.0 hours, 0 of 18 achievements
Keys received as a gift
Windowkill
3.0 hours, 0 of 37 achievements
Fashion Police Squad
0 hours, 0 of 25 achievements
Prodeus
0 hours, 0 of 30 achievements
Purchases
None!Freebies
AtmaSphere
0 hours, 0 of 107 achievements
Shipwreck
0 hours, 0 of 14 achievements
Ascent DX
0 hours, no achievements
Dreams of Aether
0 hours, 0 of 15 achievements
Three Sisters
0 hours, no achievements
Congratulations on your assassination! ᓚᘏᗢ
Hey, you did something, and in the end as long as you had fun, you won.
Elden Ring is such a lovely game, I’m excited to get into it, eventually. Have you checked out Nightreign?
Yeah, that’s the issue with playing those large open world games. They take so much time that it makes you feel you barely touched your backlog. But lack of fun is definitely not a problem for me hahahaah
If I had spent these 35 hours playing games from my backlog, I don’t doubt I’d have been able to knock out a large game or two / three medium ones. That said, this is what it is hahaah
Haven’t read much about Nightreign, but from what I’ve seen there’s a strong emphasis in co-op adventuring. I’ve been playing Elden Ring in Offline Mode, so I’m skeptical whether it will work for me. But I’ll probably buy Shadow of the Erdtree once I’m done with the base game