BLAEO — Backlog Assassins Extraordinaire

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Personal gaming thoughts

Having given up on the idea of playing through the entire backlog, I’m just going to try to play the best games I have and be judicious about the titles I add. My standing goal is to finish at least one SG win every month.

Off-Steam Game Library

Title	Status	Platform
Assassin’s Creed II	Beaten	Uplay
Bulletstorm	Beaten	Amazon DL
Crysis	Beaten	GOG
Dragon Age: Origins	Beaten	Origin
Driver San Francisco	Beaten	Uplay
Fallout	Beaten	GOG
Fallout 2	Beaten	GOG
Far Cry 3	Beaten	Uplay
Full Throttle Remastered	Beaten	GOG
Gone Home	Beaten	Amazon
Grand Theft Auto V	Beaten	Rockstar, Epic
Indigo Prophecy	Beaten	GOG
Jade Empire	Beaten	Origin
Mass Effect 2	Beaten	Origin
Mass Effect 3	Beaten	Origin
Medal of Honor Pacific Assault	Beaten	Origin
Metro Last Light Redux	Beaten	Epic
Mirror’s Edge	Beaten	Amazon DL
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time	Beaten	Uplay
Saints Row the Third Remastered	Beaten	Epic
The Saboteur	Beaten	Origin
Trine	Beaten	Amazon DL
Valiant Hearts	Beaten	Uplay
Velvet Assassin	Beaten	Amazon DL
The Whispered World	Beaten	GOG

Title	Status	Platform
STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl	Unfinished	Amazon DL
The Witness	Unfinished	Epic
Torchlight	Unfinished	GOG

Title	Status	Platform
10 Second Ninja X	Never played	Amazon
12 is Better than 6	Never played	Humble
2064: Read Only Memories	Never played	Epic
20XX	Never played	Epic
3 out of 10: Season 1	Never played	Epic
3 out of 10: Season 2	Never played	Epic
A Normal Lost Phone	Never played	Amazon
A Plague Tale: Innocence	Never played	Epic
A Short Hike	Never played	Epic
A Total War Saga: Troy	Never played	Epic
Absolute Drift	Never played	Epic
Adventure Pals	Never played	Amazon
Aegis Defenders	Never played	Amazon
Age of Wonders	Never played	GOG
American Fugitive	Never played	Amazon
Amnesia: Rebirth	Never played	Epic
Among Us	Never played	Epic
Anarcute	Never played	Amazon
Anodyne 2: Return To Dust	Never played	Epic
Antichamber	Never played	Humble
Antihero	Never played	Amazon
Ape Out	Never played	Amazon, Epic
ARK: Survival Evolved	Never played	Epic
Assassin’s Creed Chronicles China	Never played	Uplay
Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag	Never played	Uplay
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate	Never played	Uplay
Assassin’s Creed Unity	Never played	Uplay
Assassin’s Creed III	Never played	Uplay
Assassins Creed Syndicate	Never played	Epic
Automachef	Never played	Amazon
Aven Colony	Never played	Epic
Avicii Invector	Never played	Amazon
Axiom Verge	Never played	Epic
Aztez	Never played	Epic
Bad North Jotunn Edition	Never played	Epic
Barony	Never played	Epic
Batman Arkham Knight	Never played	Epic
Battle Chef Brigade	Never played	Amazon
Battlefield 1	Never played	Origin
Battlefield 3	Never played	Origin
Battlefield 4	Never played	Origin
Battlefield V	Never played	Origin
Battlefield: Bad Company 2	Never played	Origin
Bejeweled	Never played	Origin
Blair Witch	Never played	Epic
Bomber Crew	Never played	Amazon
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	Never played	Epic
Borderlands 3	Never played	Epic
Braveland	Never played	Humble
Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead	Never played	Epic
Broforce	Never played	Amazon
Broken Age	Never played	Amazon, Humble
Burnout Paradise	Never played	Amazon DL
Carcassonne	Never played	Epic
Cave Story +	Never played	Epic
Celeste	Never played	Epic
Chicken Assassin Reloaded	Never played	Amazon
City of Brass	Never played	Epic
Close to the Sun	Never played	Epic
Cluster Truck	Never played	Amazon
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3	Never played	Origin
Conarium	Never played	Epic
Consortium	Never played	GOG
Costume Quest 2	Never played	Epic
Crashlands	Never played	Epic
Creature in the Well	Never played	Epic
Crossing Souls	Never played	Amazon
Crusader	Never played	Origin
Crying Suns	Never played	Epic
Cultist Simulator	Never played	Amazon
Cursed Castilla	Never played	Amazon
Daemon X Machina	Never played	Epic
Dandara	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Darkest Dungeon	Never played	Epic
Darksiders 2	Never played	Amazon, Epic
DARQ	Never played	Epic
Dead in Bermuda	Never played	Origin
Dead Space 2	Never played	Origin
Dead Space 3	Never played	Origin
Death Coming	Never played	Epic
Death Squared	Never played	Amazon
Defense Grid: The Awakening	Never played	Epic
Deponia Doomsday	Never played	Amazon
Desert Child	Never played	Amazon
Devil May Cry HD	Never played	Amazon
Distraint	Never played	GOG
Double Cross	Never played	Amazon
Downwell	Never played	Amazon
Dragon Age 2	Never played	Origin
Dragon Age Inquisition	Never played	Origin
Draknek & Co Puzzle Bundle	Never played	Amazon
Drawful 2	Never played	Epic
Dubwars	Never played	Amazon
Dungeons 3	Never played	Amazon
Earthlock	Never played	Amazon
Elite Dangerous	Never played	Epic
Enter the Gungeon	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Epistory - Typing Chronicles	Never played	Amazon
Etherborn	Never played	Amazon
Europa Universalis IV	Never played	Epic
Faeria	Never played	Epic
Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon	Never played	Uplay
Farming Simulator 19	Never played	Epic
FTL Faster Than Light	Never played	Epic
Figment	Never played	Epic
Football Manager 2020	Never played	Epic
For The King	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Fractured Minds	Never played	Amazon
FRAMED Collection	Never played	Amazon
Frostpunk	Never played	Epic, GOG
Furi	Never played	Amazon
Galactic Civilizations III	Never played	Epic
Gato Roboto	Never played	Amazon
Ghostbusters	Never played	Epic
Ghostrunner	Never played	GOG
GNOG	Never played	Epic
Godfall	Never played	Epic
Gods Will Fall	Never played	Epic
God’s Trigger	Never played	Epic
GoNNER	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Grim Fandango Remastered	Never played	Humble
Guild of Dungeoneering	Never played	Amazon
Gunpoint	Never played	Amazon
Headlander	Never played	Amazon
Heave Ho	Never played	Amazon
Hello Neighbor	Never played	Epic
Hellpoint	Never played	GOG
Her Story	Never played	Amazon
High Hell	Never played	Amazon
Hitman: Absolution	Never played	GOG
Hob	Never played	Epic
Horace	Never played	Epic
Horizon Chase Turbo	Never played	Epic
Hotline Miami	Never played	Amazon
Hotline Miami 2	Never played	Amazon
Hover: Revolt of Gamers	Never played	Amazon
Hue	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Hyper Light Drifter	Never played	Amazon, Epic
I, Hope	Never played	Amazon
InnerSpace	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Inside	Never played	Epic
Insurmountable	Never played	Epic
Into The Breach	Never played	Epic
Ironcast	Never played	Epic
Jackbox Party Pack	Never played	Epic
Jalopy	Never played	Humble
Joggernauts	Never played	Amazon
Journey to the Savage Planet	Never played	GOG
Jurassic World Evolution	Never played	Epic
Just Cause 4	Never played	Epic
Kabounce	Never played	Amazon
Keep in Mind: Remastered	Never played	Amazon
KID A MNESIA Exhibition	Never played	Epic
Killing Floor 2	Never played	Epic
Kingdom: New Lands	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Kingsway	Never played	Amazon
Knockout City	Never played	Origin
Layers of Fear	Never played	Epic
Layers of Fear 2	Never played	Epic
Legends of Eisenwald	Never played	Humble
Lego Batman Trilogy	Never played	Epic
Lifeless Planet	Never played	Epic
Lightmatter	Never played	Amazon
Little Inferno	Never played	Epic
Loop Hero	Never played	Epic
Mable & The Wood	Never played	Amazon
Madden NFL 08	Never played	Amazon DL
Madden NFL 22	Never played	Origin
Mages of Mystralia	Never played	Epic
Majesty Master Collection	Never played	Amazon
Manual Samuel	Never played	Amazon
Massive Chalice	Never played	Humble
MDK	Never played	GOG
Metal Slug 3	Never played	Amazon
Metro: 2033 Redux	Never played	Epic
Minit	Never played	Epic
Moonlighter	Never played	Epic
Mothergunship	Never played	Epic
Moving Out	Never played	Epic
Mount & Blade	Never played	GOG
Mr. Shifty	Never played	Amazon
Mudrunner	Never played	Epic
Mugsters	Never played	Amazon
Mutant Year Zero	Never played	Epic
My Time at Portia	Never played	Epic
Narcos: Rise of the Cartels	Never played	Amazon
NBA 2K21	Never played	Epic
Need for Speed Hot Pursuit	Never played	Origin
Need for Speed Most Wanted 2	Never played	Origin
Neverwinter Nights	Never played	GOG
Next Up Hero	Never played	Amazon, Epic
NHL 09	Never played	Amazon DL
Night in the Woods	Never played	Epic
Nioh	Never played	Epic
Nuclear Throne	Never played	Epic
Obduction	Never played	Epic, GOG
Observer	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Oddworld: New and Tasty	Never played	Epic
Offworld Trading Company	Never played	Epic
Old School Musical	Never played	Amazon
Orwell 2	Never played	Amazon
Outer Wilds	Never played	Epic
Outlast	Never played	Humble
Overcooked	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Overcooked 2	Never played	Epic
Overload	Never played	Amazon
Pankapu	Never played	Amazon
Pathfinder: Kingmaker	Never played	Epic
PC Building Simulator	Never played	Epic
Peggle	Never played	Origin
Pikuniku	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Pine	Never played	Epic
Planet Alpha	Never played	Amazon
Plants vs Zombies	Never played	Origin
Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville	Never played	Origin
Poi	Never played	Amazon
Prey	Never played	Epic
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands	Never played	Uplay
Prison Architect	Never played	GOG
Pumped BMX +	Never played	Amazon
Pumped BMX Pro	Never played	Amazon
Q.U.B.E. 2	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Rage 2	Never played	Epic
Railway Empire	Never played	Epic
Rayman Legends	Never played	Epic, Uplay
Rayman Origins	Never played	Uplay
Relicta	Never played	Epic
Remnant: From the Ashes	Never played	Epic
Republique	Never played	Amazon
Retro City DX	Never played	Humble
Rising Storm 2 Vietnam	Never played	Epic
Riverbond	Never played	Epic
Rocket Arena	Never played	Origin
Rocket League	Never played	Epic
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3	Never played	Epic
RUINER	Never played	Epic
Saints Row 2	Never played	GOG
Saints Row the Third Remastered	Never played	Epic
Salt and Sanctuary	Never played	Epic
Sang Froid	Never played	GOG
Sanitarium	Never played	Amazon
Second Extinction	Never played	Epic
Serial Cleaner	Never played	Amazon
Serious Sam: The First Encounter	Never played	GOG
Shadow Warrior 2	Never played	Uplay
Sheltered	Never played	Epic
Shenmue III	Never played	Epic
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI	Never played	Epic
Silent Hunter 5	Never played	Uplay
Slime Rancher	Never played	Epic
Smoke and Sacrifice	Never played	Amazon
SNK Bundle	Never played	Amazon
Solitairica	Never played	Epic
Soma	Never played	Amazon, GOG
Sonic Mania	Never played	Epic
Speed Brawl	Never played	Epic
Splasher	Never played	Amazon
Splinter Cell	Never played	Uplay
Splinter Cell Blacklist	Never played	Uplay
STALKER Call of Pripyat	Never played	Amazon DL, GOG
STALKER Clear Sky	Never played	GOG
Star Vikings Forever	Never played	Amazon
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order	Never played	Origin
Star Wars Battlefront 2	Never played	Origin
Star Wars Squadrons	Never played	Origin
Starseed Pilgrim	Never played	Humble
Stealth Bastard	Never played	Amazon
Stealth Inc. 2	Never played	Amazon
Steamworld Dig	Never played	Amazon, Origin
Steamworld Dig 2	Never played	Amazon
SteamWorld Heist	Never played	Amazon
Steep	Never played	Epic, Uplay
Stellaris	Never played	GOG
Steredenn	Never played	Amazon
Stick it to the Man	Never played	Epic
Stikbold	Never played	Amazon
Still Life 2	Never played	GOG
Stories Untold	Never played	Epic
Strafe	Never played	Amazon
Stranded Deep	Never played	Epic
Stranger Things 3	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Strife	Never played	Amazon
Subnautica	Never played	Epic
Sundered Eldritch Edition	Never played	Epic
Sunless Sea	Never played	Epic
Super Meat Boy	Never played	Epic
Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery	Never played	Epic
Superhot	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Sword Legacy Omen	Never played	Amazon
Syberia II	Never played	Origin
Symmetry	Never played	GOG
System Shock	Never played	Amazon
System Shock 2	Never played	Amazon
Tacoma	Never played	Amazon, Epic
Tales from the Borderlands	Never played	Amazon
Tales of the Neon Sea	Never played	Epic
Terraforming Mars	Never played	Epic
Tharsis	Never played	Epic
The Alto Collection	Never played	Epic
The Banner Saga	Never played	Amazon
The Banner Saga 2	Never played	Amazon
The Bridge	Never played	Amazon, Epic
The Crew	Never played	Uplay
The End is Nigh	Never played	Epic
The Escapists	Never played	Amazon, Epic
The Escapists 2	Never played	Epic
The Fall	Never played	Epic
The First Tree	Never played	Epic
The Flame in the Flood	Never played	Amazon
The Jackbox Party Pack	Never played	Epic
The King’s Bird	Never played	Amazon
The Last Blade	Never played	Amazon
The Little Acre	Never played	Amazon
The Messenger	Never played	Amazon, Epic
The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor	Never played	Amazon
The Pillars of the Earth	Never played	Amazon, Epic
The Red Strings Club	Never played	Amazon
The Spectrum Retreat	Never played	Epic
The Swords of Ditto	Never played	Amazon
The Textorcist	Never played	Epic
The Hunter: Call of the Wild	Never played	Epic
Thimbleweed Park	Never played	Epic
Ticket to Ride	Never played	Epic
Titan Souls	Never played	Amazon
ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!	Never played	Amazon
Tokyo 42	Never played	Amazon
Tomb of Annihilation	Never played	Amazon
Torchlight	Never played	Epic
Torchlight 2	Never played	Epic
Tormentor X Punisher	Never played	Epic
Total War: Warhammer	Never played	Epic
Totally Reliable Delivery Service	Never played	Epic
Train Sim World 2	Never played	Epic
Transistor	Never played	Epic
Treadnauts	Never played	Amazon
Trine 2	Never played	Humble
Tropico 5	Never played	Epic
Turmoil	Never played	Amazon
Turok: Dinosaur Hunter	Never played	Amazon
Twinkle Star Sprites	Never played	Amazon
Tyranny	Never played	Amazon
Urban Trial Playground	Never played	Amazon
Uurnog Uurnlimited	Never played	Amazon
Valhalla Hills	Never played	Humble
Verdun	Never played	Epic
The Walking Dead: Michonne	Never played	Amazon
Wargame: Red Dragon	Never played	Epic
Wasteland 2	Never played	GOG
Watch Dogs	Never played	Uplay
Watch Dogs 2	Never played	Uplay
What Remains of Edith Finch	Never played	Epic
Wheels of Aurelia	Never played	Epic
When Ski Lifts Go Wrong	Never played	Amazon
Where the Water Tastes like Wine	Never played	Epic
while True: learn()	Never played	Epic
Whispering Willows	Never played	Amazon, Humble
Whispers of a Machine	Never played	Amazon
White Night	Never played	Amazon
Wilmot’s Warehouse	Never played	Epic
Windbound	Never played	Epic
The Witcher 3	Never played	GOG
Witcheye	Never played	Amazon
Wizardry 8	Never played	Amazon
Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap	Never played	Amazon
World in Conflict	Never played	Uplay
World of Goo	Never played	Epic
World War Z	Never played	Epic
Yoku’s Island Express	Never played	Amazon
Yono and the Celestial Elephants	Never played	Amazon
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair	Never played	Epic
Dungeons 2	Won’t play	GOG
Omertà	Won’t play	GOG
Sim City 2000	Won’t play	Origin
The Sims 2	Won’t play	Origin

Report #54: May 2025

Beaten This Month 🥳

Left 4 Dead 2

Made sure to finish all of the campaigns. Still a lot of fun after all these years!
Papo & Yo

A sad, personal story, but a fairly standard puzzle-platformer.

Also Played 👍

Hollow Knight
Persona 4 Golden

Added to Steam Backlog 🙈

1000xRESIST

So far this this year, I have reduced my Steam backlog by six games net. As usual, there will probably be less gaming over summer for me, but I’ll try to keep the streak going.

Report #53: April 2025 - “A Product of its time”

Beaten This Month 🥳

Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010)

More inventory puzzles. No wonder point-and-click shriveled up as a genre once graphics cards got good enough...
Fallout: New Vegas

Decent Fallout entry. I enjoyed traveling the Mojave but kind of hated the parts that involved New Vegas.

Also Played 👍

Nothing else, I was traveling for two weeks.

Added to Steam Backlog 🙈

Nothing. Net backlog change is -5 so far this year.

Report #52: March 2025

Beaten This Month 🥳

ENDLESS™ Space 2

Took a while to get into, but proved a lovely 4x
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Great storytelling, mediocre game design

Also Played 👍

Fallout: New Vegas
Hollow Knight
Persona 4 Golden

Added to Steam Backlog 🙈

Nothing. Net backlog change is -3 so far this year. Chipping away…

Report #51: February 2025

Beaten This Month 🥳

L.A. Noire

Long, layered detective game that catches fire over the last few hours.
Riven (1997)

Excellent world-building! As in Myst, some puzzles have not aged well.
Citizen Sleeper

Cool dystopian sci-fi VN with many storylines. Does a lot with a little.

Also Played 👍

ENDLESS™ Space 2
Hollow Knight
Fallout: New Vegas
Baba Is You
Persona 4 Golden

Added to Backlog 🙈

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition

Report #50: January 2025

Beaten This Month 🥳

Firewatch

The perfect walking simulator. So good.

Also Played 👍

L.A. Noire
Persona 4 Golden

Added to Backlog 🙈

Citizen Sleeper
Hollow Knight

Report #49: December 2024

Posting this monthly report a bit early, but I don’t foresee beating any games between now and January 1… Happy New Year assassins!

Beaten This Month 🥳

Dust: An Elysian Tail

Good Metroidvania. Art & story a bit childish, but combat was satisfying.
Journey

A wonderful game-adjacent experience. Will play again.
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition

Genre-defining classic. Certainly old-timey but still a good time.
Saints Row: The Third Remastered

A wild ride. Not crazy about the story, but it's mostly incidental anyway...

Also Played 👍

ENDLESS™ Space 2
L.A. Noire

Added to Backlog 🙈

Firewatch
Myst V
Persona 4 Golden

Steam Library Snapshot

End of 2024

12% (60/499)

30% (152/499)

2% (11/499)

49% (246/499)

6% (30/499)

End of 2023

12% (59/482)

26% (124/482)

3% (15/482)

54% (260/482)

5% (24/482)

End of 2022

12% (56/459)

24% (109/459)

5% (21/459)

55% (251/459)

5% (22/459)

End of 2021

12% (54/440)

22% (95/440)

6% (26/440)

55% (243/440)

5% (22/440)

End of 2020

12% (47/408)

20% (82/408)

6% (25/408)

57% (234/408)

5% (20/408)

Report #48: November 2024

Beaten This Month 🥳

Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo

17 hours playtime
31 of 31 achievements
Nice but glacial point&click
Dead Space (2008)

24.3 hours playtime
no achievements
Very cool horror shooter
Papers, Please

12.7 hours playtime
11 of 13 achievements
A gem!
War Mongrels

55.2 hours playtime
37 of 59 achievements
Shadow Tactics is better

Also Played 👍

Dust: An Elysian Tail

22.1 hours playtime
16 of 30 achievements
Left 4 Dead 2

4.2 hours playtime
2 of 101 achievements
Saints Row: The Third

3 hours playtime
no achievements (Epic)

Added to Backlog 🙈

Afterparty

0 hours playtime
0 of 23 achievements
OXENFREE II: Lost Signals

0 hours playtime
0 of 27 achievements

Report #47: October 2024

Happy Halloween fellow Assassins! Made good progress on the backlog this month.

Beaten This Month 🥳

Binary Domain

16.5 hours playtime
25 of 49 achievements
Blah story-based shooter
Company of Heroes

53.4 hours playtime
no achievements
Loved it. App runs iffily
Spiritfarer

55.1 hours playtime
34 of 39 achievements
Nice, but too long