• Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena
  

  4 hours playtime

  no achievements

Report #380: Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena

Life of Daerphen Challenge Year 2008

Did a quick exchange in the list. Got interested to play something that not necessarily required audio output. Looked nice and not too long. Old hidden object game, the screen resolution has not aged well, but the puzzles are good enough to keep me interested. After about 4 hours the story was already done.

• The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
  

  29 hours playtime

  10 of 11 achievements

Report #379: The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe

Life of Daerphen Challenge Year 2022

Well this is a very stupid thing to do as an (honest) achievement hunter. Starting a game you know you will not finish in the next 10 years :D
At least I can count it as beaten. Did a lot of endings in the progress, most of them are identically to the original game, just there is a chance of getting some extra content with funny twist of commentary. The 24h idle part is also not too difficult. Especially because you can do that in multiple sessions, not like for the previous one where you have to do it in one session.
Now I have to wait until June 2033 to start the game again and get the 11th achievement. Lets hope Steam still exists then.

• Lamplight City
  

  29 hours playtime

  41 of 41 achievements

Report #378: Lamplight City

Life of Daerphen Challenge Year 2018

Picked this up even before starting my lifetime challenge. Bought it a while ago in a sale. Looked interesting and was not disappointen. Looks very much of an old style point and click adventure. Graphics are indeed inspired. Gameplay is a bit different. You just have left click as interaction and will have a lot of dialogs. Right click just opens your case book with some notes, documents and suspects.
You are a detective and have to solve 5 cases. You can suspect the correct one or can get misleaded by some information.
Had to play maybe 5-7 times to get all the achievements. In theory you only need at 2-3, but that depends heavily on your choices in the game.

The end of Batch #37

• aMAZE Classic
  

  3 hours playtime

  200 of 200 achievements

Report #377: aMAZE Classic

A small game for in between finished. Usually I try to have a game installed which I can play while watching a series or in between tasks where I want to make sure to be able to quit anytime.
This is one of them. 100 levels to play with increasing complexity (not necessarily difficulty). A bit too much achievement span, but okay.

Monty Python pun intended

So here comes another idea of organizing and digging through my backlog. After doing the Bingo Challenge this year and finishing quite early I was thinking about the next theme for my backlog. From time to time I have a look at my library via https://www.lorenzostanco.com/lab/steam/. Its actually a nice way to filter you library by many different kind of filters, not just by name.
So I was playing with the filter “Release year” and noticed that I have quite a long list of years selectable.

The idea: Go through each year since I was born, pick a game that was release there (according to the Steam Store page) and play that game.
Its all about finishing games from different genres and years. But also getting a bit nostalgic. For example with games like Monkey Island of course.

Rules:

• Steam Store page is the source
• Game cannot be completed/beaten/finished before 23.04.2023
• No yet decided if I will add more years and treat this like an endless challenge. Will be decided once all years are played until then
• Years might be missing, in case no year in my library available
• Games can be swapped, especially for later years with many more published games.

My List

So here is my preliminary list

• Call of the Sea
  

  10 hours playtime

  34 of 34 achievements

Report #376: Call of the Sea

Nice gem that I got with a HB choice. Story driven and puzzle oriented game. It plays a bit like a combination maybe of The Witness, a walking sim like Find Esther and a Visual Story. A lot of things are read loud, but then there are also a lot of things you can just read for yourself. Its a typical story, nothing too unexpected, when it goes into the last chapters, but still worth playing.

Bingo progress

Challenge is successfully completed. Was hesitating if I will count Call of the Sea for the “Manual save” tile, since you do not have to use manual saves, as the game frequently auto saves. But as I was using two manual saves I made throughout the story, I decided to count that. It helped me not to replay two whole chapters.

If you wonder, what do you mean with Bingo progress, please read the first post

With Call of the Sea finished I found 2 tile to fill.

• C2: Manual save
• B4: First person

	A	B	C	D	E
1
2
3
4
5

• Assassin's Creed Valhalla
  

  104 hours playtime

  no achievements

Report #375: Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Another addition to the Assassin’s Creed series. I did not want to play it, because it was UPlay exclusive. But then they decided to make it available via Steam and purchased it in the Christmas Sale.
Not really sure if I like the changed gameplay they introduced in the last few games. Liked the stealth focused games more. Again here there are a lot of situations, where you can go full stealth, but then you are faced with hack-and-slash boss fights where you really have issues, when your gear is more stealth focused.

Bingo progress

Challenge is successfully completed, but I want to fill all tiles. Now only 2 tiles left.
If you wonder, what do you mean with Bingo progress, please read the first post

With Assassin’s Creed Valhalla finished I found 3 tile to fill.

• E1: Additional launcher required
• C4: No steam cloud savegame
• B5: Vehicles/Mounts

	A	B	C	D	E
1
2			Manual save
3
4		First person
5

• Poly Bridge
  

  23 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

Report #374: Poly Bridge

From all the bridge building games, this has been the most challenging and the most times I was rather building some rollercoaster than an actual bridge.
Without some guides I would have not made all achievements, extremely complicated constructions towards the end.
A bit late but this gets me another item down my 20/22 list :D

• Hamilton's Great Adventure
  

  23 hours playtime

  26 of 26 achievements

Report #373: Hamilton's Great Adventure

Here we go, once more a game finished that was started a while ago, but I lost track of it. It crashes sometimes to the desktop and also some of the puzzles are just annoying. And the parot you have as a companion is hard to navigate in that 3D level because sometimes it selects a wrong location next to your cursor. But anyway finally finished including the DLC levels. So another one perfectly done in the library.
A bit late but at least that is 10/22 from the 20/22 challenge. So you could say I am halfway through :D

Bingo progress

I am done, got two bingos actually. Column A and Row 3. Was fun, will still complete the remaining tiles.

If you wonder, what do you mean with Bingo progress, please read the first post

With Hamilton’s Great Adventure finished I found 3 tile to fill.

• B1: DLCs
• A3: Low rating
• A4: Companion

	A	B	C	D	E
1					Additional launcher required
2			Manual save
3
4		First person	No steam cloud savegame
5		Vehicles/Mounts

• Fueled Up
  

  11 hours playtime

  24 of 24 achievements

Report #372: Fueled Up

After a longer break of coop game session in our 4-player playgroup we picked up Fueled Up recently in a sale and started it few weeks ago. Gameplay was looking very interesting to us as we previously played games like Overcooked and enjoyed it. We were not disappointed. Levels are between piece of cake and wtf is this chaotic.
Took a few levels until we actually found out how to get many points for getting 3-stars in each level.
The devs missed out on the opportunity to also have achievement for getting all the bonus tasks in all levels.
Also you do not need to beat the final boss level to get 100% achievements. No idea why the last level does not count to world 1-5

Bingo progress

If you wonder, what do you mean with Bingo progress, please read the first post

With Fueled Up finished I found 1 tile to fill.

• E4: Has multiplayer

	A	B	C	D	E
1		DLCs			Additional launcher required
2			Manual save
3	Low rating
4	Companion	First person	No steam cloud savegame
5		Vehicles/Mounts