A Year of Backlog Fight in Review
I finally assembled all the stats and put some images together to make it prettier, here comes my yearly summary. 2021 was way more brutal than expected on so many levels, and it took a toll on the backlog fight for a few months. However, the stats are less awful than I initially anticipated.
If I had to reduce my favourite games to a top 3, I’ll keep Alba, Death’s Door and The Wild at Heart. Still, I loved all the games that made the top 15 and I strongly recommend them.
Finished: 67
Beaten: 41
Completed: 26
Added to the Backlog of Doom: 74
Best month: January (-7)
Worst month: December (+10)
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Like I said in the intro, the stats are less awful than I initially anticipated, because I somehow still managed to control what I added to the backlog. Still not a victory over the backlog, but a better ratio than last year.
That being said, I'm not really happy in the progress I made in the challenges I had set for myself or with the way I went back to old bad habits of starting a lot of games and not finishing them despite loving them. More on how I intend to try and fix that in the next section.
Progress in 2021
Won on SteamGifts
Jan 1st (173 games) vs Dec 31th 2021 (175 games)
Gifts & Other Wins
Jan 1st (395 games) vs Dec 31th 2021 (428 games)
As I said, I've gone back to the bad habit of not finishing what I start, not because I don't like the game but because I get distracted by something else. As a direct consequence, some of my favourite games I played this year didn't make it to my Top 15. I think Skatr's 20/22 challenge is such a great idea. I am definitely gonna adapt it to my needs (and probably only pick from my unfinished games). I'll post about that in the next days and insert a link here when it's ready. The masterpost has been made.
My other pet peeve about how the backlog fight went is how little progress I made in the Tag Challenge despite picking games I really wanted to play soon. I'm gonna try to focus more on those and make better progress on it than this year. We'll see how it goes, but I have to be able to do better than 2, right? RIGHT ? *sweats*
State of the Targets on January 1st 2022 (for tracking purpose)
Won on SteamGifts 175 games
Gifts & Other Wins 428 games
Added in 2021 80 games
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I’m so glad you could grab it before the end of the sale. Alba is such a heartwarming little game (and really my favourite I’ve played last year despite it being a lot shorter than the other 2 in my top 3) that definitely deserves more love. I hope you enjoy it <3
There’s a mistake in the battle plan, it doesn’t seem to include “receiving lots of games”
Smh now sheep remembers monster sanctuary exists but not for the blaeo game awards nominees.
Wait, that’s illegal. I actually had exactly 15 picks to sift through for my top 8 list as well, but I definitely wasn’t as excited about the entire list
Fair enough, I thought it was 2020 :sweat
Also you need to start playing good games (or at least that you enjoy) to be able to make an ez top.