Challenges

• The Inner World
  

  17 hours playtime

  23 of 23 achievements

Report #419: The Inner World

Started my first run in March on the Steam Deck, as it was advertised to be very compatible. But lost track after a while.
Picked it up yesterday and was first a bit shocked, because no cloud save, so I had to restart from the beginning. But not even finished the first chapter. No big lose.

Was fun getting through. Was not so funny getting the “talk to everybody” achievement as I played three times. Always forgetting someone.

• Moonlight
  

  5 hours playtime

  12 of 12 achievements

Report #418: Moonlight

Another short and nice game done. Although it says “5 hours played” it was in fact much shorter. Must have idled the game in the past for the trading cards.
Anyway, nicely done. Its very short even if you read through all the dialogs. At the end there is (Spoiler Alert) funny twist, where the NPCs are summoning the game developer (their master) and they are getting explained why the main char has its goal and that they are part of a video game

Unfortunately you cannot buy it anymore on steam.

• The First Tree
  

  6 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

Report #417: The First Tree

Wanted to play something that looked easy to follow and not too much fast gameplay. So this one looked interesting. More or less a walking simulator, but not like a 100% decided path. You have big levels where you can find collectible and story items.
Getting 100% is then a bit challenging, because you need to collect all collectibles within a single run. Also you need to chase 13 rabbits, which is a bit annoying.

But overall worth a playthrough.

• Submerged: Hidden Depths
  

  8 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

Report #416: Submerged: Hidden Depths

Lovely medium length game. Played some years ago the previous game and was not disappointed by this sequel.
Basically a walking simulator on a boat. Exploring parts of a long sunken civilization.

• Syberia - The World Before
  

  20 hours playtime

  30 of 30 achievements

Report #415: Syberia - The World Before

Is this the grande finale?

Well, well. The fourth and (currently) last game of this series just finished. Someday this year the first game of the series gets a remaster and I remember buying this one last summer. So time to finish it.
Compared to the others I found it way more casual. It was too complicated to progress through the story and there were no game breaking/savegame breaking bugs except one. Sometimes when starting the game the quest log is frozen. If you then reload you can finish the scene, but the quest log will not recognize it as completed. Its annoying, because this invalidates the achievement to get all side actions done. Had to start over about half way through the game.
But anyway, a nice fourth game.

• Dying Light
  

  115 hours playtime

  78 of 78 achievements

Report #414: Dying Light

Do not play solo

What a ride this game has been. In 2015 I first started to play this alone. Did not have too much fun with it, but recently a friend and me decided to jump into the game in 2-player coop and we really enjoyed that. So for the last 10 months we played it 1-2 times per week and today finished the last achievement in the last DLC.
During that journey we discovered a lot of annoying bugs and frustrating time runs, but it was worth the time at the end.

Now installed Dying Light 2 and we will start playing that soonish.

And since I started playing that in 2015, this kinda puts at least some progress to the long forgotten 20/22 challenge

• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
  

  49 hours playtime

  47 of 47 achievements

Report #413: Tiny Tina's Wonderlands

Good, Bad, Buggy

Finally done with Tiny Tina Wonderlands. I like and dislike the game more or less at the same time. Its definitively a nice and different concept of having a Loot Shooter combined with Pen & Paper / DnD elements. Story telling also was in most cases very funny. But once you rushed through the main story and side quests the game suddenly gets super annoying.
For example there are 4 DLCs, which just adds 4 Portals where you fight a couple of enemy waves, kill a boss and do that 4 times each to reach the highest difficulty. Cann’t get more boring. Then you have those Chaos Chamber Runs, which are also very repetetive.
But we sticked to it in a group of four.

• Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
  

  3 hours playtime

  11 of 11 achievements

Report #412: Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping

Very similar to the previous one. See my post here.
Again a very quick completion from my family library. There is one area at the coast which was a bit annoying as the colors of the symbols above the characters is misleading, if you can talk to them about a new topic or not.
But besides that very fun game.

The end of Batch #40

• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
  

  2 hours playtime

  7 of 7 achievements

Report #411: Duck Detective: The Secret Salami

A nice, short game for some time killing. Not really sure it should count as backlog removal, as I just played it because its part of my family library :D
Anyway was a pleasant game and already installed the second installment.
Basically more or less a point & click game combined with sherlock detective work. You need to deduckt a crime and find the culprit.

• Mass Effect™: Andromeda
  

  35 hours playtime

  16 of 55 achievements

Report #410: Mass Effect™: Andromeda

Wow, this has been a long time I actually “finished” a game. Have been playing a lot of coop sessions and other endless games.
Anyway had this for a while on my bucket list. Enjoyed the previous games and was okay with this one. Although I kind of rushed the story at the end, the additional mechanics and exploring just felt a bit too repetetiv.

Off to new adventures!