ABC Challenge - 10th update

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Abyss Odyssey 🎁 - in progress
Not touched since last update…

Dishonored 🎁 - completed (base game only)
Wow, this one is amazing. Set in steampunk plagued world, you become an assassin and are given a lot of freedom on how you want to go through your missions - you can just try to kill everything around you or pass through the game stealthy without killing anyone. How you’ll do it will then take some effect on the world and environment. Same goes with side missions. Great level designs, nice story, cool skills. Recommended for multiple playthroughs. Wanted it to be my last ABC Challenge game - cherry on the top 😋- but I still couldn’t get back to AO and wait longer…

Next ABC Challenge update should be my last - crossing my fingers :P

Other games

Ticket to Ride - beaten
It’s an implementation of a popular board game that many of you already know. Without DLCs I’d access to just one map variant (USA).
I’ve spent one nice evening with it playing against the bots and trying to get non-grinding achievements, which was fun.

The Whispered World - completed
I’ve chosen it as I intend to play Silence (it’s sequel) soon. Fun point-and-click adventure from Daedelic. Great dialogues, lovely protagonist (other characters were fun too). The hand-drawn graphics was really cute, but it resulted in not-so-cute low framerate animation. The ending twist was a bit surprising, in a weird way, felt unnecessary, but overall I enjoyed the game :).

Crazy Machines 🎁 - beaten
Puzzle game, The Incredible Machine clone. Fun thing - I’ve installed it with an attitude that I probably won’t like it, quickly resign, throw it to “Won’t Play” and move on. But I did like it - most of the time at least. Many of the puzzles had good difficulty - not too easy, but solvable after some thinking - Unfortunately one of the last levels got me pretty frustrated when I had to be pixel precise with one of the items to pass the level. That’s where I decided I’ll just finish main campaign and leave other additional levels.

Samorost 3 - completed
Point-and-Click adventure. More like exploration than puzzle game, stunning visuals and beautiful music - another original experience from Amanita Design. Maybe not as charming as in Machinarium but it’s still a very enjoyable game.

OLDTV - beaten
Cool Free-to-Play game. The rules are simple, there are a lot of similar games on mobile devices: you see a colored text - Left-click if the color fits the name, Right-click otherwise. And be fast. Every chapter in the main game mode brings new traps. Later on you can unlock some skills and endless mode. Game has a nice stlye and is pretty immersive.

Ironclad Tactics🎁 - unfinished
Card Strategy game from Zachtronics, much diffrent than other games from this studio - didn’t absorb me like Spacechem. Art style and sound was ok but there is no much tactics in there. Also I’m not a big fan of card games and I’m far from finishing it. Maybe I’ll come back to it later.

Some stats

Few months ago I started gathering some stats of my progress, here’s a chart of how my backlog was changing during last months: Red bar means my backlog got bigger comparing to previous month, Green means my backlog got smaller (more games beaten/completed/definitely abandoned than newly added to account).
My plan for upcoming months is to constantly lower my backlog and have only green bars :)