Anti-Backlogging Strategy 2.0 Daerphen’s profile
It’s about time to get rid of all my backlogged games… Ok I will be serious, I will try to get rid of some of them. So here is how I will try to manage that.
Challenges
- Done: ABC Challenge
- In progress: 20/22 Challenge
- Done: The Bingo Challenge
- In progress: Life of Daerphen
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.
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
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.
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
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The Forest Quartet
2 hours playtime
no achievements
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Bud Spencer & Terence Hill - Slaps And Beans 2
6 hours playtime
6 of 33 achievements
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The Talos Principle 2
64 hours playtime
87 of 87 achievements
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SUPER CRAZY RHYTHM CASTLE
30 hours playtime
26 of 27 achievements
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Syberia 3
20 hours playtime
40 of 40 achievements
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Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
8 hours playtime
34 of 34 achievements
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The Curse of Monkey Island
7 hours playtime
no achievements
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Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition
35 hours playtime
16 of 55 achievements
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Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
2 hours playtime
7 of 7 achievements
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Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
3 hours playtime
11 of 11 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.
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!
Report #409: The Curse of Monkey Island
Life of Daerphen Challenge Year 1997
Played a bit of a nostalgia game. Not really sure which of the Monkey Island games I played at a friends place back then. For sure not right after release but a few years later.
Its a nice game, the graphics of course are not too great compared to current point & clicks, but its solid. And it had no weird game closing bugs as other modern games.
Report #408: A Plague Tale: Requiem
Game crashing bug
Been a while that I marked a game as broken/not playing anymore.
The game itself was really cool. Until it crashed to desktop after a cutscene. And is not startable again. As soons as the game loaded the checkpoint it stops again. Without error messages. A shame of error handling. Really glad it is “just a HB choice” game
Report #407: Nanotale - Typing Chronicles
Learning to type very very fast
This is this kind of games where I midway through the game think “why the hell am I playing such games”. Typing a lot throughout my work day I then go in the PC in my free time to run around a beautiful world and killing enemies, collecting lore by typing words above their heads.
It is similar from the gameplay as Epistory, but it has some new modificators and elements that you can use to either kill, heal or build something.
Report #406: Syberia 3
Here we go, number 3 of the syberia series done. Somehow I thought I already completed this part, when I purchased the forth game (Syberia: The World Before) in the summer sale.
The story is nice and was happy to play it. But the controls sometimes made me hate the game. I soft locked myself twice. First time was a real bummer, because I did not know of the soft locking possibility and the game only has one autosave slot. So I lost about 4 hours of progress.
The second also was annoying, almost at the end but forgot to backup my autosave for maybe 2 hours and had to replay those.
But with a guide I managed to get all the achievements and happy to continue with the next part sooner or later.
4438 | games |
80% | never played |
5% | unfinished |
5% | beaten |
9% | completed |
1% | won't play |
- Batch (#41) - work in progress 3
- Keep up to date 3
- #Sale - Winter Sale 2017 17
- #Sale - Summer Sale 2018 14
- #Sale - Winter Sale 2018 16
- #Sale - Summer Sale 2019 16
- #Sale - Winter Sale 2019 45
- #Sale - Summer Sale 2020 15
- #Sale - Winter Sale 2020 30
- #Sale - Winter Sale 2021 25
- #Sale - Winter Sale 2022 4
- #Sale - Winter Sale 2023 10
- #Sale - Summer Sale 2024 6
- #Sale - Winter Sale 2024 3
- #Sale - Summer Sale 2025 5
- Revisiting 15
- Coop Games 26
- 20/22 Challenge 22
- Challenge: Life of Daerphen 36
- Dead games 2
- Multiplayer 7
- Won on SteamGifts 1951
- Very Short (<2h) 679
- Short (2h-8h) 932
- Medium (8h-15h) 621
- Long (15h-25h) 444
- Very Long (>25h) 1060
- Unknown 27
- HumbleBundle - Monthly/Choice 840
- Todo List 35
- Steam Deck 0