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Tacoma ⭐️⭐⭐⭐☆

Walking simulator
3,3 hours playtime, 12 of 12 achievements (100%)

Pros:
- Diverse "ugly" characters
- Game doesn't follow terribly overused "AI theme"
- Nice graphic
- Huge step ahead in comparison to Gone Home
- Interesting retrospect memory mechanic
- Funny achievements

Cons:
- I really don't see any

Conclusion:

Next game from developers responsible for Gone Home. Gone Home was more... personal. As we were walking around someone's house, learning it's story. Here we are aboard space station on a mission to retrieve AI. Nothing is certain from the beginning, and only at the end of the game we learn what's all that about. I don't want to spoil plot, but I can say that it's not simple "rogue AI killed everyone" theme. And we learn what happened aboard by reading "ghost conversations" from crew members, that were stored in AI database.

Apart from that we can learn bits of background of all previous crew members, play in basketball with skeleton and re-connect Romeo and Julia. You may not like it if you don't like slow walking simulators, but if you like this genre I'm sure you will like it. Unless you're homophobe. As there is open f/f relationship.

Quantum Break ⭐️⭐⭐☆☆

Action
21 hours playtime, 41 of 42 achievements (98%)

Pros:
- Geeky physics plot background
- Good graphic
- Dynamic combat
- Checkpoint system which allows to easily go back to certain part of the game or movie sequence
- 3 different endings based on our choices

Cons:
- Huge system requirements
- A lot of jumping in time back and forth that resulted in me lost track of what's going around
- Really lazy editing of movie parts (in one scene bodies can lay in totally different positions than in scene that was 1s before)
- Building up alien-isolation like atmosphere to... end it with nothing
- Annoying last boss battle

Conclusion:

This game has really big requirements, when I started it on medium settings I had 5 - 10 FPS. So it was unplayable on R9 280X. I won't write about plot to not spoil things, but it was nice. Although I did lose track of what was happening due to time jumping, so it was bit messy.

But combat is enjoyable (with ability to slow down time, stop it in small area, cause time explosion or dash in certain direction). On top of that we can use pistols, machine guns or shotguns. Plus enemies are diverse and need a little different approach.

Dex ⭐️⭐⭐☆☆

RPG
15,1 hours playtime, 31 of 32 achievements (97%)

FlyBoy ⭐️⭐⭐☆☆

RPG
10,3 hours playtime, 8 of 12 achievements (66%)

The Whispered World Special Edition ⭐️☆☆☆☆

Point & Click SG win
1,3 hours playtime, 0 of 20 achievements (0%)

True gem. Unplayable mess where devs ported game from tablets and didn't even care to change tutorial screen to have there mouse controls instead of "swype with two fingers to do something". They didn't patch up this game since 2014, and when I could walk around 1st location, I couldn't click on anything to bring up action menu. -10/0, don't recommend.

- Earthlock - simple RPG with running around and jRPGs battle system. I like it, but controls are sometimes not intuitive, inability to assign any attack to keys you want is annoying, and camera work is not always best.

- The Walking Dead Season 2 - I already beat DRM-free version, but it's time to beat Steam one as well. And I think it will be my last game from Telltale. They are so similar to each other and not innovative I feel like I play in copy of a copy of a copy. Only exception was Tales from Borderlands which I loved because of it's humor.

- Styx: Master of Shadows - it was started 3 months ago and is currently "on hold". As like I said above - I'm over saturated with stealth games.

- Snake Pass - keyboard and mouse controls are not the best. Which make game focused on precise controlling annoying.

- Stories - Path of Destinies - just like with Snake Pass. I really liked this game, but inability to change pre-set controls on keyboard is lame. I will have to wait till I get controller at some point to play, even when I really liked it. Seriously, who though that using both left alt and control for combat along WSAD is a good idea?

I literally have now 11 games in my backlog. So games I want to beat. Sure, there are games like Worms Ultimate Mayhem or Hitman: Codename 47, but I don’t want to play in them. Either because I played in them long ago, or they were part of bundle I wanted to have for other games. There are also quite a lot of games I want to delete from my account, but they are part of some pack and I’d have to re-buy individual games to remove some trash that was added alongside them.

I’m also in state I don’t quite enjoy playing to begin with, so “ending” my steam backlog and not thinking I need to play in something to complete it (when I’m so close to it) will be something positive. And then I will be able to grab games I really want to play, and hopefully enjoy. That’s also one of the reasons why I basically stopped to enter in GAs on SG.

I was also quite close to get 2 more perfect games this month. But decided it’s not worth it to speedrun Quantum Break to get achievement for hard difficulty, or start Dex anew to sleep with every possible NPC there. And I’m happy with that, some time ago I would feel need to do it. Even when I wouldn’t enjoy it. Thanks to “100% achievement OCD” I had.

I also pretty much completed my driver course, so all I need to do is sign up for official exam and try to beat it. It was something that made me feel like I’m doing something useful for past 4 months, so I will need to find something else to do right now. Only problem is that I have no idea what that would be. Time will tell.