Half assed update for the new year.

Today's check. (1st of Jan 2023)

Last check. (14 March 2022)

• Batman: Arkham City GOTY
  

  25 hours playtime

  42 of 64 achievements

• The Battle of Polytopia
  

  15 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Batman: Arkham Origins
  

  23 hours playtime

  19 of 60 achievements

• Path of Giants
  

  2 hours playtime

  9 of 17 achievements

• TSIOQUE
  

  2 hours playtime

  28 of 31 achievements

• Going Under
  

  41 minutes playtime

  1 of 23 achievements

• Escape Simulator
  

  8 hours playtime

  12 of 25 achievements

• 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
  

  18 minutes playtime

  no achievements

• Cuphead
  

  35 hours playtime

  13 of 42 achievements

• Ghost of a Tale
  

  70 minutes playtime

  1 of 20 achievements

• Voidigo
  

  31 minutes playtime

  0 of 95 achievements

• The Henry Stickmin Collection
  

  9 hours playtime

  79 of 82 achievements

• LEGO® Batman™: The Videogame
  

  4 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Iconoclasts
  

  21 hours playtime

  10 of 11 achievements

• Main Assembly
  

  33 minutes playtime

  3 of 21 achievements

• The Survivalists
  

  19 minutes playtime

  2 of 42 achievements

• Skul: The Hero Slayer
  

  2 hours playtime

  6 of 62 achievements

• Mindustry
  

  27 hours playtime

  22 of 88 achievements

• Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
  

  3 hours playtime

  5 of 102 achievements

• Alice: Madness Returns
  

  17 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Super Fancy Pants Adventure
  

  2 hours playtime

  5 of 16 achievements

• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  

  64 minutes playtime

  0 of 18 achievements

• ELDEN RING
  

  46 hours playtime

  10 of 42 achievements

• Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy
  

  45 hours playtime

  55 of 74 achievements

• Secrets of Grindea
  

  11 hours playtime

  8 of 28 achievements

• THE CORRIDOR
  

  37 minutes playtime

  5 of 10 achievements

• Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.7 Minagoroshi
  

  12 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

• Kingdom Two Crowns
  

  14 hours playtime

  17 of 36 achievements

• We Were Here Too
  

  2 hours playtime

  8 of 20 achievements

• Aperture Desk Job
  

  35 minutes playtime

  no achievements

• Super Meat Boy
  

  11 hours playtime

  3 of 48 achievements

• Bloons TD 6
  

  36 hours playtime

  23 of 144 achievements

• Greak: Memories of Azur
  

  9 hours playtime

  14 of 24 achievements

• The Past Within
  

  2 hours playtime

  18 of 24 achievements

• Horizon Zero Dawn
  

  10 hours playtime

  15 of 79 achievements

• Pumpkin Jack
  

  5 hours playtime

  24 of 33 achievements

• Super Meat Boy Forever
  

  42 minutes playtime

  1 of 36 achievements

• The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
  

  2 hours playtime

  19 of 30 achievements

• Still There
  

  37 minutes playtime

  1 of 23 achievements

• 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
  

  26 minutes playtime

  2 of 44 achievements

• Aragami
  

  44 minutes playtime

  7 of 51 achievements

• The Jackbox Party Pack 8
  

  18 hours playtime

  10 of 20 achievements

• It Takes Two
  

  15 hours playtime

  9 of 20 achievements

• Monster Prom 3: Monster Roadtrip
  

  2 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Cult of the Lamb
  

  15 hours playtime

  16 of 37 achievements

Minor stat check from a dead assassin.

Today's check. (14 March 2022)

Last check. (13 Augest 2019)

Random Stats V2

Today (13 Augest 2019)

11 Months ago (16 September 2018)

Earliest snapshot I can find of my profile (15 August 2017 to be exact)

Should probably wait so its 12 months but I wanted to post it now.
This past year I embraced marking a much higher percentage of games as "wont play"
If I continue at my current gaming rate I should beat my backlog by next year... \o/
once that happens I'll remove the restrictions I've imposed on myself (and let me buy games for myself on steam/non bundled)
I'll still be working on going back to some of the stuff I've dropped and trying to complete stuff I've beaten but it will be a glorious time.

Bendy and the Ink Machine

6.2 hours, 29 of 60 achievements

Bendy is a horror game with a unique and well done art style. It does a good job of creating a creepy atmosphere with unsettling points (every time you leave and come back a new cutout appears for example) or twisted cartoons and every time you see shadows start to curl and gather you know to hide somewhere and hope you don't get found.
However the game is overly fond of tedius mechanics...80% of it is fetch quests with some of them get through area x to object y and bring it back then return to y and get a second copy then bring it back then return to object y and come back to the point where you've mapped out the path between the start and the destination and can avoid most monsters.
Or fetch quests in mazes that leave you searching around and around unstil you finally find the last hidden object down path xyz.
I still liked it but in comparison to say soma (a horror game I really liked) I found it lacking.

Moonlighter

36.7 hours, 40 of 67 achievements
Challenge Me

Moonlighter was nothing special yet it managed to sync so much of my time. the gameplay loop of fighting and looting then switching to a shop and melo selling was the right kind of addictive. Even though the combat wasn't the best in comparison to straight combat oriented roguelikes (binding of issac, dead cells etc) and even though the selling wasn't as complex as straight management marketing games the combination was pleasant and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Other games I beat this past month

• Nurse Love Addiction
  

  10.8 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

• Portal 2
  

  29.1 hours playtime

  30 of 51 achievements

• Kathy Rain
  

  5.8 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

• The Darkside Detective
  

  1.9 hours playtime

  8 of 30 achievements

• 60 Parsecs!
  

  1.2 hours playtime

  8 of 40 achievements

Nurse Love Addiction: is a cute yuri vn about nursing school. The story is well written although after a few hours I started losing some of my intrest and just skipped through to get the last endings.
Portal 2: I start portal years ago and played through all the co-op content as well as a bunch of the single player campaign however its only recently that I finally went back and finished it.- real fun co op and while some part of me liked portal 1 better its defenitly a really good game.
Kathy Rain: free (for a time) point and click game that was funner than I thought it would be.
The Darkside Detective: (played most of it months ago offline with sis only recently played the last 2 chapters) This game has some amazing humor and asthetic I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone with a modicum of humor and a slight enjoyment of P&C games.
60 Parsecs!: Not at all what I thought it was 90% of 60 Parsecs is a chose your own adventure story/randomized choice based story. Defenitly going back and trying some more endings some time.

and a list of multiplayer games I played this past month (ask if you want to know more about any of these)

• TowerFall Ascension
  

  3.8 hours playtime

  6 of 30 achievements

• Tabletop Simulator
  

  24.3 hours playtime

  12 of 27 achievements

• Garry's Mod
  

  2.3 hours playtime

  2 of 29 achievements

• Streets of Rogue
  

  2.0 hours playtime

  4 of 50 achievements

• Wizard of Legend
  

  2.1 hours playtime

  2 of 19 achievements

• Wizard of Legend
  

  2.1 hours playtime

  2 of 19 achievements

• Manual Samuel
  

  1.9 hours playtime

  13 of 28 achievements

• Think of the Children
  

  2.0 hours playtime

  1 of 27 achievements

• Road Redemption
  

  1.7 hours playtime

  4 of 55 achievements

• Death Squared
  

  1.7 hours playtime

  7 of 25 achievements

• Love is Dead
  

  0.5 hours playtime

  4 of 36 achievements

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi

11.3 hours, 15 of 15 achievements
Games Nice People Have Given Me Play or Pay VN

Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.6 Tsumihoroboshi:
Trying not to write spoilers…
This is “officially” the answer arc to chapter 1.
however as the description as to what happens in chapter 1 is not nearly as exciting as the answer arc to chapter 2 and while it would be interesting to re do the whole arc like some of the other answers its not as story friendly. This arc chooses to focus on an entirely different plot/story using something that happens in it to answer the questions raised in Onikakushi-hen. It also answers some questions relating to the overarching plot-line (while bringing up more questions than it answers)
All in all this is one of the stronger arcs and one of my favorites.
also not really a spoiler but- This arc appears to be the first one with a happy ending…until you read one of the tips which reveal the true ending. “The manga has Furude Rika tease the reader that he had his “happy ending but decided to turn the page.”

Genital Jousting

5.5 hours, 9 of 28 achievements
Play or Pay

Genital Jousting:
I’m surprised I liked this as much as I did. I got it for the multiplayer but was challenged to play it in this months POP and went through the main story as well.

Bleed 2

1.2 hours, 2 of 33 achievements
Challenge Me

Bleed 2:
This game looks better than the first one but falls short to it in nearly everything. I really liked Bleed 1 and Bleed 2 is still a good game but its just a bit less fun the levels are too easy and other than 2 of the bosses I went through most of the game without dying/never had to restart a level and I didn’t care much for the story even though its just an excuse for the action.

Recently I got a few horror top-down/rpgmaker games for my GF to play/me to watch.

I’ve had this on my wish-list for years now but its never gone more than 30% on sale so I finally caved and used some humble store credits to make it cheaper…haven’t gotten very far into it (only beat chapter 1) but its real nice so far.

Creepy but the mechanics are slightly annoying/ having to check every single area before you hit the specific spot that makes the story progress.

Other than the rest of the crooked man series are there any other good games in this genre? does anyone recommend anything?

Sad Update about dropping.

I just went through my second ABC plan and replaced all the dropped games…in my first plan I just continued through anything dropped but I had already dropped like a third of the new plan…
since the start of this year I’ve been dropping quite a few games.
for various reasons I just dont want to play them anymore.
and some games are trash so I can safely drop them without any worry but other should be good games and its sad that I just can’t get in them…

A few games I’ve dropped recently.

Dreamfall Chapters

Challenge Me Play or Pay Won on SteamGifts

5.8 hours

1 of 59 achievements

Wings of Vi

Play or PayReal Hard Won on SteamGifts

2.1 hours

1 of 40 achievements

GOD EATER RESURRECTION

Challenge Me Play or Pay Won on SteamGifts

7.5 hours

7 of 33 achievements

Killer is Dead

Play or Pay

2.3 hours

4 of 48 achievements

Dreamfall Chapters: I’ve been challenged to play this 3-4 times now. Its a steamgifts win so I have another reason to want to finish this…but for some reason I just can’t get into it…I like story based games and this is popular but I just dont like it. I keep starting it and then 15 minutes later quitting it and doing something else.

The dialog is dumb and simultaniously childish and adult…like it moves from stupid to dark at the drop of a hat. in the first chapter/prolog you walk past people having nightmares-a women crying about her aborted baby or someone trapped in a burning building and you just say “thats so sad, rest in peace dreamer” and the way you say it just sounds fake…
like there are dark themes and the way you say things is worse than alot of fanfictions I’ve read…it wouldn’t be a big deal but its a story based game and dialog is an important part of that…

GOD EATER RESURRECTION: I’m 7(?) hours in and I feel like I’ve seen all the game has to offer…this game reauses the same gameplay loop over and over again and even though there are varried weapons and monsters everything melds together and feels the same…I had fun for about a hour and then slowly lost intrest over the next few. Also remembering LastM’s review saying it made him dislike gaming for awhile I dont want to go through that.

Wings of Vi: This game is too hard…and not in a satisfying way. Super meat boy is hard but the controls are tight enough that if you die you feel like its your fault…this game is full of cheap unavoidable damage sources and the platforming looks fine at first glance but plays really annoyingly. After like a hour of playing it straight my hands started hurting and while people in fourms just state “git gud” but unlike Dark Souls it just comes off as “learn to deal with it” instead of “try and get better”.
I get that its marketed as a hard game but dead cells is hard while remaining fun and this game is just hard.

Killer is Dead: I honestly dont think I like hack and slash games very much…I loved Nier, and had loads of fun with DMC, but I think that was due to the story/graphics and movement/grappling hooks respectivly. This game has higher production quality than I thought going into it but its not enough to make me want to continue…its also making me reconsider other hack and slash games I’ve been wanting to try…

welp these past few days I’ve dropped two of this months POP games…no chance on me dropping the third I’ve been wanting to read higurashi CH.6 for awhile but I still feel kinda guilty…sorry LastM 🙏

mid year stats… skip if your eyes roll over at the thought of numbers.

of the games I’ve played in 2019 so far I’ve completed 8 games and beaten 19 (also dropped 11).
looking at the licenses page on steam (removing DLC) I’ve gained +28 games to my backlog…I barely feel like I’m making a dent in my backlog but hey if you include dropping titles I didn’t like I’m down 10 games. - progress!

Also if you take my unplayed+unfinished from September (171) and my current UP+UF (133) I’ve made a solid 38 game dent in my backlog.
Its not nearly enough and if I follow my current pace it will take years before my backlog is gone. :/ (~20% ~5 years?)
my gaming resolution for 2019 was to halve my unstarted and unfinshed games this year. (from 80 down to 40) and (66 down to 33)…and 5 months in I’m at (57 and 76)
soo… 58% of my unstarted goal and like -30% of my unfinished goal…

OOF.

The reason for this goal was to not just shove all my games into the unfinished category and to equally work on my unfinished stuff… I’m failing in that regard. maybe 50% was too optimistic but -30% is worse than even maintaining 0%… I guess I can look to the 18% overall decrease as a positive even if its againsed my goal…anyways on to games.

Played since my last post.

Detention

3.7 hours, 4 of 8 achievements
Challenge Me

Detention: is a horror point and click game with cool effects and graphics but a tendency to fail in the standard adventure game way…by making nonsensical puzzles and forcing you to break out a guide at times.
for example: At one point you need to read stuff scribbled on a desk…so you find a dead body hanging by his feet and slit his throat with a box cutter to fill a bowl with blood and use that to do a charcoal(blood substituted) print of the desk…thoroughly creepy but what? how was I supposed to figure that out

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy

0.3 hours, 0 of 3 achievements
Challenge Me

ahh…I thought I could do this game.
honestly Ik its the point of it but I reached a so called check point where a L ledge protected you from falling back down and then while trying to get up past it fell all the way back to the bottom and rage quit…

I haven’t read much in years and years.
I grew out of it a decade or so ago and while I’ve read a few novels since then (I read the Game of Thrones series a few years ago and read as much Brandon Sanderson as I could whenever a new novel came out cause I have to keep on top of my favorite author) I’ve mostly just read webtoons or VN and not nearly with the same sort of compulsion as when I was a kid.

So I recently went on a spree of obsessively adding all the books I remember reading as a kid to my goodreads account…so much time trying to find stuff and I’ve probably missed loads but I think I found most of the important books. 🡆goodreads account🡄

and I want to try reading more again.

but I’m quickly finding my tastes have changed…I reread dirk gently’s holistic detective agency and while it was okay I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as I did years ago…and I’ve dropped the two other books I was given for Christmas (Whiplash River and Possible Side Effects)

does anyone have any book recommendations? I’m excited to read Oathbringer as soon as I can but other than that I don’t know what my tastes are any more.

I’m going to try and read a book every month this year (screwed up the challenge on goodreads by reading a few short stories but thats my plan)