Hi Everyone,

I have been doing a small bit of slaying of my backlog over the past while. I was in Covid isolation this past couple of weeks, so got a bit of gaming in then too. I was only feeling sick for 2-3 days. The rest of it was just cold symptoms. It finally got me after I managed to not get it over the past two years. I was playing games, or watching Netflix so much that in the end I didn’t really know what to do with myself. Haha!

Overall though, I am doing so much better since my last post. :D

SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech
I really enjoyed this game. The humour is great too. It’s basically a turn-based RPG with cards. It’s definitely strategy based rather than RNG since you can only have a limited number of cards in each characters deck. You must choose wisely. A little bit of trial and error, but once you get going, it’s not too difficult.

I’ve played Steamworld Dig as well, (different kind of game completely) but didn’t find it anywhere near as funny as this one.

Shadow Hand
It’s an interesting Solitaire game. Something along the lines of Faerie Solitaire, except that it has a better story, and there are battle sequences where you face off against different NPCs taking turns to remove cards from the board. You get combos so that you can use your weapons against them. I missed out on one achievement by not playing the game on expert mode from the beginning. I’m half way through playing through the levels again just to 100% it. lol.

Letter Quest (old version)
I’ve played the remastered version before. This is basically the same game with minor differences. I just enjoyed getting all the achievements again, I guess.

Black Book
This wouldn’t really be my kind of thing story wise. I’m not really into all that dark devil stuff. It doesn’t rise my mood. But, I do enjoy card based games, so had some fun with it. Don’t think I’ll pick it up again though. It’s a bit too dark for my tastes.

Aeon’s End

Pixplode
This was okay. It’s a puzzle game. Now, I completed all of the puzzles blind, but it seems that they don’t behave the exact same way each time, which is a flaw in the game’s design. I did go back through a second time with a guide so that I could get all the stars for the achievements.

Adventure Mosaics: Small Islanders
Nonogram game. There’s a lot of puzzles so might take a little while to get through the rest of them.

Mystic Vale

Monster Sanctuary
This game was so fun. They are releasing a free DLC at the end of the month, so I’m looking forward to that. It’s a creature collector game with just the right level of difficulty to be fun and not rage inducing. The end boss was really hard though. However, after losing a few times, you do realise that you need a specific strategy in order to beat him. You don’t need special monsters, just choose the ones with the right abilities. No spoilers haha. I like to play games completely blind myself, unless i am doing a second run to get achievements for collectable items or something.

She Remembered Caterpillars
This is a very clever and unique little puzzle game. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys puzzles.

Evan’s Remains
It was alright. The puzzles were fairly easy though. The story was annoying at first, (like it was written by an angsty teenager) then it got a little interesting to the point where I wanted to see how it ended. Oh boy. The ending didn’t make any friggen sense to the rest of the story. Devs thought they were being clever, I guess. After completing the game, I find out that you could basically have skipped through everything and still got all of the achievements. Like… what’s the point in that. Kinda cheapens the game in a way.

Path of Giants
Minimalist puzzle game. You have to move through levels by using your little characters as steps. It’s very cute and well done.

Iris and the Giant
Interesting card game, with a weird story.

Framed Collection
You are just swapping tiles to tell a story. There are two games here. Framed and Framed 2. Hilariously, in the first game, towards the end, they actually reuse several scenes. Okay, the solutions are different, but that was pure lazyness on the dev’s part. “Needs more content? Let’s just reuse some stuff.” For a while, I thought the game had gone back to the beginning, or something. The second game has no repeated scenes. Apart from that, it was an enjoyable little puzzle game. Okay to pass a few hours.

Lara Croft Go
Another very good puzzle game.

Evoland Legendary Edition
This is a really great game, if only I could finish it. I went back to finish playing the second game. I got as far as the Shadow Kuro fight. Now I know HOW to beat it, I just can’t. Every time I’m doing well, the game lags a bit, I fall down, and I get mauled. That fight really isn’t fun. lol. Think I’ll be abandoning it.