Monthly Report - March 2020

Won : Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition
Free : -
From bundles/gifts/sales : -

Graveyard Keeper

66 hours playtime

62 of 83 achievements

Graveyard Keeper - beaten

Very good game. My first impression remain : there is a lot to do, so it can be overwhelming sometimes, but the game is pretty good to set goals and guide you into doing / unlocking what you need (although sometimes it is a bit confusing as unlocking things/quests might depend on other quests or characters), and if you take notes, everything will be fine ^^. Sometimes it feels a little bit grindy (especially for blue points, they are quite hard to get), but overall the game feels very satisfying.
The zombies help a lot to automate boring tasks, so this is a great addition to the game.
The main annoyance is the inventory/storage space. There are only a few locations where you can build storage, it would be great to be able to create them everywhere, as at the end of the game, you have a lot of things and it is a little bit annoying to run around just to put things in the right box, or worse, when you are looking for an object you had but don’t remember where you’ve put it :).
Also I was a bit disappointed that you are not required to create a great graveyard. The requirements are pretty low, and I finished the game with a graveyard only half filled, and with mostly pretty bad corpses (I started to replace/improve them, but at some point it becomes useless). At the end, you don’t do a lot of graveyard keeping in graveyard keeper :).
So : good game, well built (almost no bug ^^), quite well paced, and very satisfying (and a bit addictive with the “well I’ll play one more day, and go to sleep” ^^).
Achievements : No Speedrun :). I unlocked all achievements I could, the only left are the DLC achievements.
Nothing really difficult here, most of them were unlocked just by playing. Only real annoying ones are the grinding : catching the fishes (I barely fished as it is a bit boring) and drink potions (I drank wine to restore my life ^^). Also there is a bug with the collect X [red/green/blue] points as it seems that books can break it.
So I had to edit my save (the game is great but I didn’t want to replay it from the start) to reduce my amount of total points collected, to be able to get it.
And as mentioned, I was a little disappointed that there is no achievement requiring you to create a great graveyard (maybe not perfect, but at least higher than required to finish the game).

Return of the Obra Dinn

18 hours playtime

16 of 16 achievements

Return of the Obra Dinn - completed

Fantastic game. This was a christmas gift from a friend that highly recommended it. And in return, I also highly recommend it.
It’s hard to say that the game is beautiful, but in its own way it is… The visual style is quite stunning, and the scenes are often awesome to look at (thanksfully, as you’ll look at them a lot ^^).
The game is clever, challenging but not too hard, you feel smart when you solve a puzzle, it’s a nice feeling :). After finishing the game, I checked the wiki, because some deduction I did didn’t felt right (and indeed I missed a few things that would have helped me).
The only minor criticism I have, is that when you unlocked all the scenes and you are just running around trying to deduct who is who and what is their fate, it would have been nice to be able to load any scene, without having to run around the boat… At some point it can be (very slightly) annoying.
Also, fantastic music.
Achievements : Except two, they all unlock by finishing the game properly. Although one of the remaining ones is based on a fun idea, it is quite annoying to unlock : you need to replay the game, and this is when you notice that the game is very slow… When you are thinking and searching, you don’t see it, but when you just want to go forward, it becomes obvious. So, completing one of the achievement have surfaced a flaw I didn’t notice, bad design ? :)

Trailmakers

3 hours playtime

1 of 18 achievements

Trailmakers - unfinished

I played it a few hours, and so far I’m not convinced. I liked the base idea (I played a lot of Lego when I was young ^^), but there don’t seem to be that many interesting things to do in the world, I’m not really into creative game that are JUST creative… I usually need things to do, or goals. But I didn’t explore everything yet though.
Moreover, I only played the exploration mode, so maybe I should try the other modes.
The building part seem to work quite well. Building things in 3D is not always easy, and here it is quite intuitive.
I’ll probably keep playing this one.

Two Point Hospital

9 hours playtime

3 of 45 achievements

Two Point Hospital - unfinished

Nice game, quite fun, but I’m worried it might become a little bit repetitive. I already built several hospitals and did a few challenges.
They are nice, but starting new hospitals already feels less interesting. I’m not sure there will be that many interesting things to unlock.
But I don’t think I played it enough to already give an opinion, so we’ll see !