Fourth week of November progress

I have finally managed to finish a decent amount of games again after weeks and weeks having only completed a game or 2. I actually had to write my thoughts on the games as I was finishing them as it was too much for my brain to keep it all in my mind. I will probably finish another game today, but I will slap that into the next post EDIT: I have completed 2 actually. I don’t know what it is with me and being super productive when in Germany… must be the efficiency in the air :P Anyways I am currently very limited as to what I can play due having potato spec almost 6 years old laptop running Linux so all the folowing are games that would probably run on a toaster (if the toaster is running Linux, which if its some fancyass toaster chances are it is). Enough rambling about nonsense, lets get to the games.

Challenge progress

Completed SG wins

• Sakura Spirit
  

  6 hours playtime

  no achievements

Sakura Spirit - Way too much boobs in my face, like waaaay too much.

Other completed games

• Namariel Legends: Iron Lord Premium Edition
  

  3 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Doodle Devil
  

  3 hours playtime

  9 of 9 achievements

• Doodle God: 8-bit Mania
  

  3 hours playtime

  9 of 9 achievements

• Doodle Kingdom
  

  10 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

• Doodle Mafia
  

  4 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

• Tenrow
  

  2 hours playtime

  4 of 4 achievements

• Two Digits
  

  8 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

• Hook
  

  3 hours playtime

  1 of 1 achievements

• The Beginner's Guide
  

  2 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past
  

  6 hours playtime

  15 of 15 achievements

• Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered
  

  3 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

Namariel Legends: Iron Lord Premium Edition - Average HOG. There is nothing that it is bad, but nothing wow about it either. Not sure if puzzles differ between difficulties, but the ones on the easier of the 2 difficulties are really really easy.

Doodle Devil, Doodle God: 8-bit Mania, Doodle Kingdom, Doodle Mafia - The Doodle God games are mostly the same, with different themes and some different combinations of elements you can so I am just bunching them all together. They can have some additional game modes you can play additionally to the base game, but they are nothing to write home about. I would just like to add that a lot of people seem to have problems with Doodle Kingdom crashing every 10-15 minutes but I had no such problems on Linux (I did have it crash twice at start up out of the 15 but it is far from the first game I had such problems with)

Tenrow - Neat little puzzle game where you have to highlight a certain amount of boxes depending on the numbers on the grid. The difficulty of the levels is mixed - while it starts with easier levels you can still find some of them in the middle of more difficult ones. What I also really liked about it is that it doesn’t force you to solve one level after another. It gives you the option to skip and go solve a different one in the same or next the next row (there is 50 levels divided in 6 or 7 rows if I remember correctly).

Two Digits - Another neat puzzle game that made me do some mental math and entertained me for a while with its 250 levels. The idea behind it is simple - you have 9 numbers and you have to divide them in 2 groups so that their sum is identical. You don’t have to use all of the numbers nor to the groups have to be the same size so sometimes a single level can have a few different solutions. Only complaint I have about it that to put a number in the first group you have to click the number once and to put it in the second group you have to click it twice instead of using a way more elegant solution of using left and right click for the groups. Warning: if you have to kill the game because you steam overlay decided to completely froze your game (thanks Steam) you will have to redo all the levels you did since you started the game, at least on Linux where the game is apparently one build behind since 2016. Yay for competent devs.
I have started Three Digits too, but that game is bullshit hard compared to this one. Should hopefully be included in the next post.

Hook - Yet another neat puzzle game where you need to figure the order in which you have to remove the hooks and in later levels (there is 50 in total) also manipulate the path to get to those hooks. I played some levels of it years ago on Kongregate but I very much enjoyed coming back to it and completing the standalone game. While the later levels at first look can look really daunting, with a little bit of patience and logic are really really satisfying to solve. I loved it, I wish there was more of it :(

The Beginner's Guide - This game caught my eye because it was made by the guy who made The Stanley Parable. It is nothing like it but I found it really entraining. Sadly it is one of those things you can’t really explain, you just have to experience it I think. I will say tho that it really made me wanna pick up my keyboard and some paper and pencils to doodle with and make some games again. Too bad I won’t be able to in a while….

Queen's Quest 2: Stories of Forgotten Past - Artifex Mundi HOG, I don’t think I need to elaborate further.

Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered - Another Artifex Mundi HOG. This one is really really easy if we ignore the hidden object scenes where I had to find way too many spoons.