Acquisitions

Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Dead Age
Blood Bond - Into the Shroud
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
The Invisible Hours
The Lion's Song: Season Pass
Downfall

Kathy Rain

11.8 hours playtime

20 of 20 achievements
Black Sales - The Ghost Ship

6.7 hours playtime

0 of 0 achievements
Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle

17.1 hours playtime

0 of 0 achievements

Kathy Rain

Decent point and click that seemed to have a few nods and references to the Nancy Drew games despite playing differently. The story is related to family and local/town mysteries. To be honest, I waited too long to write about this (I finished it in July).

You can smoke in this game. I endeavored to be rude about it, and the game rewarded me.

The game has unique dialogue for a lot of invalid item combinations, such as taking your lighter to all sorts of things, like the church brochure a minister gives you.

Black Sails - The Ghost Ship

German Voice Acting Ghosts Halloween and Horror Pirates, Hacking, & the High Seas Victorian Won on SteamGifts

This one I beat in August. It could have been better and creepier than it was, but ended with a contrived story. The best part was the end, when you could effect the outcome to some extent and talk some mad shit. I played through that part a few times just to see where it went.

Barrow Hill: Curse of the Ancient Circle

"Archaeology" and Anthropology Detectives! Mystery! Murder! England, My Lionheart Folklore & Mythology German Voice Acting Halloween and Horror

I played this one in October, at least. Though I didn't really play it anywhere near 17 hours. Maybe it took 5 hours or so. I always think of this game in association with Rhiannon. They're made by different developers, but they have a similar look and gameplay and both make a mystery based on local folklore (Wales in the case of Rhiannon, and Cornwall in Barrow Hill). I posted about Rhiannon last year here.

I like the feel, setting, and set up of Rhiannon more (the house-sitting instructions). In Barrow Hill, it seemed like I spent half the game at a gas station, though there are several adjoining areas. My favorite location in Barrow Hill was a roadside well you pass within the first minutes of playing. In "The Making of Barrow Hill," the developers discuss features of Cornwall that inspired their creation of the game and reveal that the well was based on St. Keyne's Well in Cornwall. Robert Southey, the guy who wrote Goldilocks, also wrote a poem about the Well of St. Keyne