Weeklyish Roundup

Well it's gone a bit pear shaped this week but you can find out why in the details below .. However, I did find time to join the BLAEO Discord Channel as I've been using Discord for a while anyway. Originally I joined Discord for the weekly chats Quadro Delta have about their upcoming title Pixcel Privateers, which I am very interested in.

I finally downloaded and fired up Dwarf Fortress as I wanted to see what it was all about having heard the rumours over the years .. I fired up a basic guide, sat down to play and after about an hour I had to go and lie down in a darkened room. It's scope genuinely scared me. I suspect if I really got into it I might never leave my computer again. Suffice to say it's on hold for now.

Good job on the web site update mandrill - I think the new styling is an approvement and the new recently played list a useful addition

Current Batch

• The Witcher: Enhanced Edition
  

  14 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Outland
  

  11 hours playtime

  3 of 12 achievements

• Blockwick 2
  

  18 hours playtime

  6 of 14 achievements

• Conflicks - Revolutionary Space Battles
  

  7 hours playtime

  2 of 44 achievements

• Jolly Rover
  

  32 minutes playtime

  0 of 16 achievements

• Light
  

  13 minutes playtime

  2 of 13 achievements

• Star Sky - ブルームーン
  

  2 hours playtime

  13 of 18 achievements

• LEGO® Star Wars™: The Complete Saga
  

  0 minutes playtime

  no achievements

• Space Engineers
  

  52 minutes playtime

  no achievements

• Of Kings And Men
  

  11 hours playtime

  no achievements

Witcher continues to be enjoyable. I've back tracked a bit and am still mopping up some side quests. Only a couple of hours played since the last update but the important thing is to keep this one ticking along

Blockwick 2 is getting pretty difficult but I aquired another achievement, solve every puzzle in chapter 7, although I had to look up how to do part of it as one puzzle had me stumped for weeks

I managed another couple of achievements for Star Sky although I'm not sure how I managed to get them - it seems a bit random to me .. However, I find it quite relaxing just playing a single play through when I have 5 mins to spare, usually just before I go to bed :)

Jolly Rover replaces Year Walk, which I enjoyed very much. One of my work colleagues has warned me Jolly Rover is one of the worst games he's ever played but I quite enjoyed the short test play I did and think my two boys may enjoy it too; we'll see ..

Space Engineers is a new addition to my current batch and was on my wish list for what seems like forever. I played it over the free Steam weekend a while back but found it just too involved to do it justice in such a short time frame. My hand has hovered over the buy button several times, particularly when GMG did the dual pack with Medieval Engineers but somehow I never pressed it. I tried to win it on SG without any luck. I finally bought it from the recent Humble Bundle, mainly because an old college friend of mine also bought it and said he was having great fun playing it with his son. I've made a start but the learning curve is vertical so I imagine this is a game I am going to slowly get into ..

Of Kings And Men is another new addition to my backlog. It was released on early access. I succumbed. It's awesome. I'm really rubbish at it and it's still awesome. Since getting it on Thursday the only other game I've played is Mount And Blade (the game OKAM came out from via the Warband cRPG mod) and only during OKAM server resets. The rest of my backlog has gone onto hold. I was up until 02:00 playing this game and I start work at 07:00. I've already written a review. I need some serious help peeps to get back onto my backlog .. I'm using an acronym, OKAM, for a game name that's only 13 characters long. HELP ME PLEASE!