samwise84

Update 82: February 1st to 14th

February is halfway over. Another sale has started and I have not bought anything for myself so far. Don’t think it will change.

Half-Life 2

Snake Pass

6/10
11.7 hours
20 of 33 achievements

Finally was able to finish this one. Looks interesting, but after a while it gets really though to master. I rage quit this last year, because I tried to play it with kb & m, which was pretty much unplayable in my opinion. With a controller it is still hard, but doable.

Half-Life 2

Masquerada: Songs and Shadows

8/10
13.6 hours
27 of 27 achievements

A nice story heavy RPG, fully voice acted. Some people complain about the combat but I can't really complain about the party AI. Never had a problem with them. You can switch freely between several different characters that either use magic or different types of weapons and that each have their special abilities.
Overall a nice game that I can recommend.

Half-Life 2

Little Big Workshop

9/10
35.2 hours
36 of 49 achievements

Completed the main story of Little Big Workshop (sadly I do not own the DLC) and thouroghly enjoyed it. You are the boss of your very own little workshop. You need to buy machines, hire workers and design products to produce and sell, keep your workers satisfied and fight against rat invasions and sabotaging enemies, gnomes and brain slugs. It reminded me a lot of what I have seen of Two Point Hospital.

Half-Life 2

Dark Heritage: Guardians of Hope

5/10
6.4 hours
25 of 25 achievements

Mediocre HOG. Travel System not really good. Played it and will soon forget about it.

Half-Life 2

Vampire: The Masquerade - Shadows of New York

9.7 hours
14 of 14 achievements

I liked this VN. Have not played the prequel so can't really compare it to this one. Though it was a bit weird playing a game that mentions the current pandemic.



Overall Backlog Progress:-0,6% change to last times unfinished/never played games (68,46% unfinished games)

16.19% (174/1075)
13.21% (142/1075)
4.65% (50/1075)
63.81% (686/1075)
2.14% (23/1075)


Overall SG Wins Progress:-1,48% change to last times unfinished/never played games (42,49% unfinished games)

33.87% (106/313)
22.36% (70/313)
0.64% (2/313)
41.85% (131/313)
1.28% (4/313)
Here are the games I'm currently working on. Reviews will follow once I'm done with the games:
I've won 9 games, tough one of them won't be out until May, very much looking forward to that one. And I've beaten 5 games, so that makes a total of +4 for that timeframe and a +4 for February.

SG wins:
  • Taken Souls: Blood Ritual Collector's Edition

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Dreamscapes: The Sandman - Premium Edition

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Scarytales: All Hail King Mongo

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • Hidden Object Bundle 5 in 1

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements

  • The Secret Order 7: Shadow Breach

    0 hours playtime

    0 of 32 achievements

  • Train Station Renovation

    0 hours playtime

    0 of 54 achievements

  • Outward

    0 hours playtime

    0 of 72 achievements

  • Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut

    0 hours playtime

    0 of 60 achievements

  • Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition

    0 hours playtime

    no achievements



Games I want to play within the next few weeks:

BLAEO Monthly: nothing atm will be busy with other games

PoP: thanks to CalculonJones & Laura for challenging me

PAGYWOSG: :

Just for fun:
Cece09

Mass effect the win that cant be played for another 2 months. Alot of games done

samwise84

Yup. Though I am seriously looking forward to it. I absolutely love the trilogy 😍

And yeah I finished two games that I had rage quit before. So that is a really nice thing and I greatly enjoyed Little Big Workshop.

Charles Nonsens

With a controller it is still hard, but doable.

Thanks for this - this is one of only two wins that I have considered not finishing. Like you, I started this game with kb+m and pretty quickly gave up. Maybe I’ll rummage through the drawers for a controller and give it another go.

samwise84

It feels definitly more “natural” with a controller. Good luck.

ninglor03

Mass Effect! \o/
Sry, had to do this xD

samwise84

Totally agree 🥳
I just hope there won’t be any major bugs in it 🤞

ninglor03

Nooooooo, no bugs! Just keep your bug spray at hand and all will be fine!

Mskotor

Lol. You make me believe GA was made just so you have one more place to fangirl for ME :D

Py

Did you like the Music fort Masquerada? I loved it. It was one of the two big positive point for me (the other being the pretty good setting for the story).

samwise84

Oh yeah. It has a fantastic soundtrack 😍

Usually with RPGs I come to the point where it gets kinda grindy and I have to force myself a little to finish it but with this it was pretty well balanced and I never came to that point. Which means to me that thry did the storytelling very well.

Trent

Pretty good odds on that Mass Effect Legendary Edition win. ;-)

samwise84

Yeah, happens if your friends make a GA for you XD

Q09066930

Masquerada is a great game. I enjoyed it too. Nice list of games!