January 1st to 14th 2k19
9.4 hours playtime
12 of 12 achievements
oh goodie, let’s look in on the crew members currently using the shower why don’t we.
traded for this cos i wasn’t subscribed to the Monthly yet when it featured. i really like these “discover the story by being a dirty rotten voyeur” games and i do not know why. in this game in particular the characters were really well fleshed out– yes, they were objectively Good People, but holy crap some of the pettiness and Janus Bits floating around the background.
Deffo RECOMMENDED if you enjoy themes of characters being shitheels just like in reality but still not deserving to die like they do in Hollywood.
5.9 hours playtime
16 of 16 achievements
snuff film simulator, but it’s the complete edition full of pinkish hues.
this one is marked free in my client so i guess i got it out of a promotion or something. the graphics did a good job of being spooky dooky without infringing of dumb territory, and i never had to look up what to do next so yay for straightforward storytelling, but uuuuhhhhhhhh you can absolutely tell it’s a Dude who Possibly Went to Liberal Arts College who made this game cos only the DWPWTLAC who think this kind of story is Dramatic and Horrifying.
if i go into more detail i’ll be sauntering all over spoilers so gonna stop here, but generic conclusion is i guess if you want a semi-easy 100% in a couple of hours then this is your game, but don’t put much stock in the horror tag cos it’s really really not.
2.3 hours playtime
22 of 22 achievements
wherein Osiris got swole and everyone is super jealous about it.
ahahahahahahahaahhaah. don’t play this if you had any interest whatsoever in mythology as a kid cos you’ll spend your entire time going “wtf????” as you play. i mean, easy 100% now that they include a glowing indicator if you haven’t found the morphing object in the scene yet, but still! they just grabbed a load of names off the list of Egyptian Gods and made their own quasi-BDSM saga out of it, it’s totally ridic.
2.8 hours playtime
13 of 13 achievements
don’t look now but that elf who attempted to genocide your kingdom thinks you’re cute
(covers face with hands) whyyyyyyyy. whyyyyy whyyyy whyyyyyyyy. whywhywhywhy whyyyyyyyyyy.
easy 100%, but the story will turn your brain to mush with how rubbish it is so possibly fortify yourself with liquor before playing.
3.2 hours playtime
20 of 20 achievements
someone should make a hog rip-off of robocop so the head-punching survivibility rate is actually believable.
the amount of times the player-character gets punched in the head for a convenient time change means he should be dithering in Concussion City for years to come, but okay, maybe he has steel plating already installed over his skull and he isn’t much affected. i’ll suspend my disbelief. (lol, no i won’t.)
another easy 100%, made easier by snarling YOU DIRTY RAAAAAT off and on throughout.
7.4 hours playtime
20 of 20 achievements
they can keep upgrading their building but they can’t hire on additional waitstaff? really??
eh, i finished most of the achievements a couple years ago but the save is local so when my old computer died so did my progress, and i only now just began anew to finish the story and cheevos. it’s an okay time management game but nothing about it is really wonderful or stands out.
ALSO in this two week timeframe i completed two Zup games (Zero 2 and S, respectively) and the fourth qop installment. they’re not recognized by Steam in the stats tho, so they shall totter off into the vastness of space, unremarkable and forever young. IF I CAN TURRRRRRN BAAAAACK TIIIIIIIIME, IF I COULD FIIIIIIND A WAAAAAAAAAAAY~!
Next Batch Intended—
finish these so i can finally uninstall them aaaaaaaahh
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Batman - The Telltale Series
5 hours playtime
12 of 30 achievements
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Orwell
4 hours playtime
14 of 27 achievements
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Goosebumps
55 minutes playtime
6 of 40 achievements
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Portal of Evil: Stolen Runes Collector's Edition
4 hours playtime
13 of 20 achievements
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Burly Men at Sea
79 minutes playtime
17 of 25 achievements
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The Walking Dead: Michonne
2 hours playtime
7 of 21 achievements
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Kairo
2 hours playtime
3 of 11 achievements
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Samorost 3
3 hours playtime
13 of 30 achievements
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Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders
9 hours playtime
44 of 50 achievements
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Dead In Bermuda
13 hours playtime
28 of 36 achievements
I have Tacoma in my library, but not very high up on my play list. What you wrote sounded interesting enough - can you comment on the gameplay at all though?
I enjoy your posts btw, they are very well-written! (Naturally :P)
it’s a first person exploration game. the premise is a space station with an AI installed and that records everything, so you linearly go from section to section watching recordings of the crew members during the final day they manned the station in order to record what happened. you can rewind recordings, follow different characters as they go from place to place, and basically just be a creepy creepy voyeur in the grand scheme of things. there’s no item collection except for the occasional instance of picking up item A to stick in place B for an achievement, and there’s no need to take notes or fuss over details because the game does it for you. you’re also allowed to backtrack if you feel like you’ve missed something, and while i personally did take advantage of that it didn’t feel laborious or grindy.
and thank you! i try to be entertaining while also say what i really think about the games, but sometimes it feels like i’m just screaming about bad HOG mechanics all the time, which is probably v boring to read. i appreciate the note that you enjoy my reviews regardless :)
Ah okay, thank you for the explanation! Doesn’t sound all that difficult or labour intensive then :P And yeah, being creepy sounds like my kinda game! FBI OPEN UP
That was a pretty fun read, thanks. :D
thank you! glad it entertained xD