20/23 Challenge

After last year’s successful 20/22 challenge, I was thinking about a similar but “reversed” one for this year. I want to tackle some of those great games that are sitting in my backlog, that I’ve been really wanting to play yet not giving them the attention they deserve. Hence for this year, the list will be made of games added before 2023 and still untouched.

Here is the very loose ruleset. Basically only rules 1 and 2 are important.

Rules:

I have to finish 20 of the 23 games on the list.
The games must have been added to the backlog before 2023 and yet untouched
They must be games I'm excited to play. As for last year, I'm doing mostly this to go back to the unfinished games that got distracted from for whatever reason, but that I loved in the first place. Of course I'm doing this in an attempt to make progress with the backlog, but I don't want it to be a "let's pick whatever would be the fastest to finish and call it a day". My intention is to fully enjoy this challenge, not make it a tedious task.
I can replace games as I see fit, but I am of course still limited to games that fit to rule number 2. The current list might actually be subject to quite a few changes as it was hard to narrow it down to 23, so it'll depend on what I feel like playing as the year goes on. Stolen from Skatrzoo, I'm giving myself 3 possible swaps of games that will be added in 2023, just in case. Might or might not need it.
And finally, I only have this year to finish it - if I don’t, I will be feeding somebody else backlog with one of my favourite game of 2023.

And that’s about it. Of course, I’ll be playing other games during the year but that will be my main side quest for the year, and I’ll do my best to stick to it. I hope I manage to finish this one too.

The List

9% never played

70% beaten

22% completed

Game Title	Time played	Achievements	Status
AI: The Somnium Files	13h	29/45	Beaten
Backpack Hero	36h	24/35	Beaten
Call of the Sea	7h	34/34	Completed
Cleo - a pirate's tale	4h	4/24	Beaten
Cult of the Lamb	18h	27/37	Beaten
Dying Light 2	68h	34/67	Beaten
Eastward	30h	19/30	Beaten
Hollow Knight	44h	45/63	Beaten
Last Resort Island	20h	36/36	Completed
Little Nightmares II	11h	35/35	Completed
Outer wilds	22h	7/31	Beaten
Return of the Obra Dinn	8h	14/16	Beaten
Roots of Pacha	53h	35/53	Beaten
Sail Forth	25h	36/47	Beaten
Sniper Elite III	28h	24/77	Beaten
Sniper Elite 4	38h	27/85	Beaten
Sonic Mania	8h	5/18	Beaten
The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark	8h	30/30	Completed
The Last Campfire	6h	22/22	Completed
The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game	11h	37/50	Beaten
The Unfinished Swan	3h	5/10	Beaten