Update 8 March
Progress on my book-game challenge:
- Playne: The Meditation Game
4 hours playtime
11 of 40 achievements
Still going strong here. Just hit the achievement for a 14 day streak. I can’t think of many things besides essentials that I do every single day without missing, so hopefully this is a good sign.
As an aside, the dev is very involved with the project and even thanked me for uploading screenshots from the game to Steam. This is a real passion project here.
As an FYI: previous months’ book-game wrap-ups are linked on my profile page if you’re interested.
BLAEO Monthly Theme pick:
- Tomb Raider
20.7 hours playtime
18 of 50 achievements
I have had more people on my friends list message me about this game while I’m playing it than I can recall about any other game. Pretty much it always goes something like, “Hey that’s an amazing game! It was so fun!” but apparently there’s some mixed feelings on the sequel which I put on my wishlist.
Otherwise played this week:
- Analogue: A Hate Story
3.2 hours playtime
5 of 14 achievements
So I’ve never had much luck with visual novels. Thanks to bundles and gifts I have a bunch of them and I’ve played a few, but despite liking story-based games and reading, none has ever made me think, ‘wow what a great game that was.’ I don’t know if what I tried was just crap or if it’s just a me thing. But I wound up cross referencing my Steam library with tsupertsundere’s tsuper VN list and decided I’d try to work through those when I get time.
After some waffling on what to play together next, my Conan Exiles buddy decided to download Destiny 2, which she got free when the devs gave away the vanilla base game for a short while to PC players.
Played a good while last night together. No idea if she’ll stick with it - I’ve never known her to be a FPS player - but she did pretty good last night in the short missions we ran together. Who knows.
Love to New Zealand ♥
Tomb Raider is also in my library, good to hear another recommendation. Or is it? Means there is another game I can’t wait to play :)
This is a real passion project here.
It’s always great to see people care about their games. It makes them just that bit more special. Looking forward to your report at the end of the month!
It’s got it all - story, puzzles, action, strong sense of adventure. I’m not done with it yet, but I’m pretty sure you’ll enjoy the ride too when you get around to it. :)
I really hope you get a chance to get through Analogue: A Hate Story. It’s definitely one of (if not my absolute) favorite VN series. Definitely a bit heavy on the text, but a great story none the less. Though, if it is not your thing, then it’s not your thing :shrug:.
As for the sequel of the reboot Tomb Raider, I was a little mixed about it, but enjoyed it overall. The first game is amazing, and the second is only really bad in comparison to the first but still pretty good. I still gotta find time to get into the third installment myself.
Good luck on your backlog and thank you for the post! ^_^
Thanks for the confirmations, friend. Chugging along with an open mind. :)
Aww, thank you for the shout out!
Sometimes genres you think you’d really like just aren’t up your alley, but even though it’s a niche genre it offers a LOT of variety. Analogue is a perfect place to start digging in!
Thanks for keeping up the reference list for schmoes like me. :)
The sequel to Tomb Raider is good, more actiony and less puzzley IIRC, but still worth playing IMO.
Thanks, definitely going to sit on it until a good sale.