Bought in 2016, I have no idea when I last played this. I stopped because it's difficult, very difficult.

The good news is I beat the game. The bad news is, it was on 'new school' difficulty rather than 'old school' so I don't get the achievement! It took me over 2 hours to kill the final boss, so there's no way I'm doing that again! If I had known before, I would've taken a screenshot at the end of the game or during the credits. I picked up a very low 16% of achievements, but it seems that the game is not popular or considered difficult by others too as they are very rare with the most common being 10% of players and most are under 5%. So, glad I beat it but a bit annoyed that it's not reflected in the achievements.

Another game that I enjoyed but got stuck on. Bought this in 2017 and hadn't played for a few years. I persevered this time and got past the tricky levels.

This is a bit like a cross between Hotline Miami and Gunpoint. Slower than HTM and faster than GP, I guess the gameplay is more like HTM. A side view puzzle-shooter. You can go in guns blazing or try to do things more quietly. I got stuck on a few levels and had to replay them a lot, but finally got through them all. 70% of achievements, which is pretty good for me, I think I could get 3 more if I stuck at it but no way I can get all of them so I'm marking this as beaten and moving on.

Fairly recent game for me. This was in a Humble Monthly pack in 2018, I didn't really want enough of the games to warrant buying that month, but I managed to pick this up cheap. Visually, it look great both the art and the general style of the game really appealed to me.

It's a twin-stick shooter, a genre I'm not really into. I guess the closest game I've played is something like Nuclear Throne or Enter the Gungeon, both are games I really like but I'm not very good at. How Ruiner differs is there isn't as much freedom and somehow the gameplay isn't as engrossing. A lot of the movement is down corridors and battles are in larger closed off rooms, but even in those battles there didn't feel to be space to move around. The speed of movement in the other games isn't evident in Ruiner but that's not to say it's slow as you have a 'rush' skill. There are a lot of skills that you can unlock as you work through the levels and I guess this is one of the issues I had with the game. There was too much to think about and do at once! This is probably down to my age and I don't imagine most people would have the same issues as me. You can equip a lot of these skills at once, some of them are passive but a lot are active skills mapped to keys/buttons. I got pretty far in the game (maybe 3 boss fights from the end) on medium but had to drop it down to easy at that point. Ultimately, the game just didn't grab me. The setting, story, and atmosphere of the game were great but the gameplay just didn't click with me and I was never really invested in it, rather than persevere at medium I dropped down to easy just to get it finished and wipe it off the backlog.

Got this in 2014, I'm pretty sure it was in a bundle. It's a rhythm game, but the movement isn't strictly limited by music which is why I was able to complete it (unlike Bit.trip Runner and Crypt of the Necrodancer!). The music helps you time some actions and the enemies movements are often in sync with the music, but for most of the time it's not important. .

It was okay, fairly steady progress, music was fine, enjoyable gameplay, puzzles not too difficult so fairly pleasant overall. It looked a little like a mobile game, but it would be difficult to control on a tablet or mobile, I think. Okay in a bundle, but I wouldn't recommend anyone to but it. Beaten and a fair number of achievements without really trying :).

Got this cheap in 2018 as I quite like the odd game of poker. The game is okay, but it's annoying that you can't turn the characters chatter and animations off. You see them all after an hour or two and it gets very repetitive. I got most of the achievements a year or two back, but there were two I struggled with. Total winnings of 1 million and the final prize item. I got the final prize item this week, but I don't think I'm consistent enough to get the 1 million. I hover around 5-600,000 and have never got close in 15 hours of play. It's a shame I can't get the last achievement to make it 100% but I've had enough of it now!

I know the original portal got a lot of love and kind of has a cult status. I played it, thought it was okay but wasn't that impressed. So, this is another game to remind me that I shouldn't just buy things based on good reviews because that's the only reason I bought the sequel! Is it a good game? Yes. Did I enjoy it? No, not really. I mean, it was okay. I finished it. Got through a lot of it by trial and error and checked a few parts towards the end when I got stuck. Feels good to beat another game and knock it off the list. Poor percentage, but never mind.

It's an old one! Bought this in 2012. This is another 'good game that I didn't really like' it's a bit of a theme this month. I didn't really like the art style or the constant narration. The game play was ok, but I think I got stuck and kind of gave up on it. The part I got stuck on was more where to go next rather than a difficult section. Reinstalled this month and worked out what I should do. It didn't take me long to finish actually, just a few hours, so I probably should've come back to this earlier. I did the last section twice to get both ending achievements, but won't be trying for more. A 'not particularly good' 41% achievements and it's going into the Beaten category.

I have most of the Puppygame releases but hadn't finished any of them. This is the oldest in my collection, bought in 2013, it's basically space invaders. Tried and tested game format, nothing too fancy. I got to the final stage but couldn't beat it and stopped playing. You carry through all your powerups, so this time I started the game from scratch and got better powerups to help me. As well as beating the game, I picked up quite a few achievements. I spent a few extra hours to see if I could get to 100% but it's unlikely so it'll stay in the beaten section with a respectable 82% of achievements.

Another very old game, this one was a SteamGifts win back in 2012. I think I beat the main campaign that year, but quite a lot of DLC has been added since then, so I went back to play through it. I think this was the first tower defence game I bought. I like it a lot more than other games in the genre and put quite a bit of time into it, it does feel like it's aged a bit. I've picked up a decent number of achievements and am adding this to the beaten pile.

Another puppygames title, I picked this up in 2013. I've played it before, but did not remember it at all. Like Titan Attacks, there's a final boss in this game but once you beat him the game starts again from level one with more difficult enemies. So, there isn't really an end to the game. I beat the final boss, so calling it beaten. I'm surprised I managed to do it actually, it was very difficult to see what was going on. It's a twin stick shooter with lots of neon colours and flashes, so difficult to see where your ship is with all the action on screen. Thankfully, there weren't as many levels as in Titan Attacks! I played a little longer to get a few extra achievements after beating the main boss but I'm done now.

I had a feeling that I got stuck in this game, so I reinstalled it expecting to be a bit lost. I was, and ran around the city a bit aimlessly at first. It was only after checking a guide and my achievements that I realised I had already beaten the main story. Rather than just recategorizing the game, I played through the Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC mission. Didn't take very long and I picked up a few more achievements. Pretty easy assassination, there are lots more achievements there but 45% is fine for me!

Picked this up with a 2014 Humble Bundle. Simple game, but very difficult. Not one I'd recommend but playable and I'd put enough time in to want to finish it. I got stuck on the game and gave up a few years ago. Took a lot of tries to get through the final two sets of levels but I finally made it! Pretty good at 66% of achievements too. Another one for the beaten category of games.

A 2013 buy that was just based on the fact that I'd played a few other Puppygame releases and enjoyed them. Coming back to this after a few years, I didn't remember it at all. It's tagged as a tower defence, but the enemies don't stick to definite paths and it felt like a cross between TD and RTS to me. Not my favourite of the games from this developer, but it was decent. I like the style, but prefer the other game genres I played this month. I think I have two more Puppygame titles in my library to beat.

Another old game. Released in 2010 and I picked it up in 2016. This was when I decided to try some more traditional RPGs and JRPGs (I still have Ys I and Ys II to work through at some point). I played this in windowed mode as the graphics looked pretty bad in full screen. Also, once I started focusing on running the shop rather than dungeons it got repetitive and a bit boring so it was good to have a small window so I could watch something else at the same time as playing. The dungeons were okay and I guess there may be a way to finish the game by focusing on them, but for me it seemed like you got much more profit in a short space of time by focusing on the store. I had played about 7 hours and got stuck in the past as I just couldn't meet the repayments in time when doing dungeons. Spent about 10 hours on it this time, trying different techniques and saving a lot until I worked out the best way to do things. Interesting, a challenge, but a bit dated and repetitive. No achievements, so here are a couple of screenshots from the end of the main story.