Challenges

• Unrailed 2: Back on Track
  

  44 hours playtime

  60 of 60 achievements

Report #437: Unrailed 2: Back on Track

What a nice coop game. Just like the first installment this has caused a lot of laughing, screaming and face palm moments in our four-seat gaming evenings.
I do not think this is meant to play solo, although it is possible, but its best played with a couple of friends.
Gameplay is simple, get some stone, wood and craft train tracks. Reach the next station without crashing your train. There are some nice new features compared to the first game, like special wagons that give you hexnuts to unlock customizations. Or a wagon that prints another wagon.

• The Bookwalker
  

  19 hours playtime

  37 of 37 achievements

Report #436: The Bookwalker

Lovely game I got in one of the Humble Choices in the past. The story follows an author and you explore different books. Real world is first person, in the books you have isometric bird eye view. Achievements can be a bit frustrating as you need to do certain actions across the game. I missed for example one fight and it was hard to find out what the problem has been.
But still I recommend playing it, if you like a bit of reading. There is hardly anything synchronized. Expect a lot of dialogs to read.

• Eastshade
  

  18 hours playtime

  18 of 18 achievements

Report #435: Eastshade

This one has been on my wishlist for quite some time. Looked nice and short. Bought it this summer. Did not know that it has such a huge story quest line. What I really liked that you are not flooded with quest markers. Basically you have no clue at the begining what to do. Just one goal: Paint 4 pictures in memory of your Mom.

• Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
  

  9 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

Report #434: Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet

And I squeezed in kind of short point & click adventure. Wanted to finish one sooner or later and saw that I bought this in on of the steam sales. Was very nice and funny.

• Escape Simulator
  

  14 hours playtime

  25 of 25 achievements

Report #433: Escape Simulator

Nice co-op challenge

Technically the game is not yet completed. But from a statistics perspective it has all done. We took our time to play the different escape rooms of the base game, also did the extra ones. Now what is left is playing through the remaining rooms of DLCs, but there is not an achievement for that. So playtime will slowly increase over the next weeks.

Really recommended, if you like puzzle solving with a mate

• Jusant
  

  7 hours playtime

  21 of 21 achievements

Report #432: Jusant

Don’t be afraid of heights

Played it after a friend recommended it a while ago. This game is relaxing and nerve fracking at the same time. Mostly because you constantly need to have one button pressed, either on controller or mouse. Because otherwise you will fall.
Setting is very beautiful. You climb up a very tall mountain, on your way you get introduced by a couple of mechanics. Your rope length is limited, and also you need to watch your stamina while climbing.
Thanks to chapter select, collectibles can be re-collected chapter by chapter.

The end of Batch #42

• Figment 2: Creed Valley
  

  6 hours playtime

  18 of 18 achievements

Report #431: Figment 2: Creed Valley

Lovely short game

I was very happy, when this was part of a Humble Choice month. Already played the first game and had it on my wishlist, once it was announced.
Very short and very funny. Actually some of the dialog puns I only noticed once I replayed some chapters for achievements. So the story took me around 4 hours, then some chapters replayed because of the collectible orbs. And most of the achievements for doing certain things can be obtained even without spoiling yourself. Just play as if you want to break the game mechanics

• Vampyr
  

  41 hours playtime

  28 of 28 achievements

Report #430: Vampyr

Bloody hell

This has been on my pile of shame for a long time. Played it soon after I got it in a sale in 2019. But then somehow dropped it soon after the tutorial mission.
Took me around 31 hours to complete the real playthrough. Playing on normal but helping all humans. This turned the normal difficulty one up. So after a chapter switch the enemies got so hard, I had sometimes flashbacks to Dark Souls. But in the end it got easier. Key thing to do is side quests 😯

Finishing the collectibles in Story Mode was quite fast, only 10 more hours. But the ending was very uncomfortable, letting everyone die 😒

• Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead
  

  8 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

Report #429: Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead

In principal just another Bridge Constructor. But I liked the mission variety more than in other versions. You don’t have just a car that is moving, but also you have to kill Zombies, destroy enemy cars or bandits. All that with different characters, that can lure zombies, throw granades, shoot rifle or slash through herds.
At the end only recommended, if you like Bridge Constructor games.

• Sherlock Holmes The Awakened
  

  14 hours playtime

  28 of 28 achievements

Report #428: Sherlock Holmes The Awakened

I am a fan on these kind of games. Just finished another Sherlock Holmes game, where you are trying to solve one big case, but on the way you need to tackle quite a lot of mini cases. Usually you need to investigate some scenes, find the interaction points and then get a lot of hints or non-hints and trying to figure out how the link together.
Never played the original, just this remake of The Awakened, so cannot compare.