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Ongoing Challenges
ABC Challenge 2.0 masterpost
ABC Screenshot Challenge
Retro Challenge masterpost
Tag Challenge masterpost
20/22 Challenge

Past Challenges
ABC Challenge masterpost

A year of backlog fight in review: 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021

= SG win - = Gift or Other Win - = Game Pass - = Nintendo Switch - = Retro

June’s Stats

aka. Holidays means not much progress is made

Happy Summer, fellow assassins! I hope you all had a good June and made progress with your backlog (or at least had good things going on IRL). I took about 2 weeks of holidays with no gaming happening so not much progress was made but I kept on schedule with the 20/22 challenge and managed to not get many additions to the backlog so the balance is still ok. So far I resisted to the summer sales, but they’re not over yet. Have you caved in and bought anything interesting ?

Played	Finished	Completed	Backlog+	Achievements
8	5	1	3	161

EvilBlackSheep

Backlog of Doom

20/22 Challenge Progress (11/22)

Finished this month: 2

50% unfinished

50% beaten

Most Satisfying Finish

Most Exciting Addition

Cozy Grove

93 hours playtime

62 of 70 achievements
Out There: Oceans of Time

14 hours playtime

47 of 66 achievements
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

25 hours playtime

13 of 63 achievements
Vampire Survivors

44 hours playtime

120 of 120 achievements
Tinyfolks

4 hours playtime

16 of 25 achievements
Dead In Bermuda

13 hours playtime

27 of 36 achievements
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu

11 hours playtime

40 of 61 achievements
Witch Strandings

30 minutes playtime

1 of 15 achievements

Out There: Oceans of Time

14 hours playtime

47 of 66 achievements
Tinyfolks

4 hours playtime

16 of 25 achievements
Vampire Survivors

44 hours playtime

120 of 120 achievements
Dead In Bermuda

13 hours playtime

27 of 36 achievements
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu

11 hours playtime

40 of 61 achievements

Tinyfolks

4 hours playtime

16 of 25 achievements
Witch Strandings

30 minutes playtime

1 of 15 achivements
Stacklands

0 minutes playtime

0 of 16 achievements
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= SG win - = Gift or Other Win - = Part of the Xbox Pass - = Nintendo Switch

May’s Stats

aka. The status is more or less quo

Hello hello fellow assassins! I hope you’re all doing well and that May has been nice with all of you. On my part, I managed to make progress on the 20/22 challenge (but haven’t caught up the one behind the schedule from last month), played quite a lot of things and managed to revive an addiction AND create a new one, both thanks to a certain anonymous octopus that I suspect is trying to sabotage my 20/22 progress. :glares:

Other than that, I at least managed to keep the balance neutral despite a lot of unplanned additions to the backlog. Let’s see how it goes in June when I’ll be away half of the month. :sweat: Til next report, stay safe, have fun and keep gaming!

Played	Finished	Completed	Backlog+	Achievements
11	6	0	6	211

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Backlog of Doom

20/22 Challenge Progress (9/22)

Finished this month: 2

59% unfinished

41% beaten

Most Satisfying Finish

Most Exciting Addition

Knights and Bikes

11 hours playtime

21 of 36 achievements
Curious Expedition

21 hours playtime

20 of 63 achievements
Princess Farmer

8 hours playtime

50 of 59 achievements
Oaken

3 hours playtime

2 of 29 achievements
Nobody Saves the World

26 hours playtime

29 of 34 achievements
Sonority

5 hours playtime

18 of 20 achievements
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

81 minutes playtime

3 of 21 achievements
Vampire Survivors

14 hours playtime

54 of 105 achievements
Out There: Oceans of Time

8 hours playtime

no achievements
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

11 hours playtime

6 of 63 achievements
Cozy Grove

85 hours playtime

60 of 70 achievements

Knights and Bikes

11 hours playtime

21 of 36 achievements
Curious Expedition

21 hours playtime

20 of 63 achievements
Princess Farmer

8 hours playtime

50 of 59 achievements
Nobody Saves the World

26 hours playtime

29 of 34 achievements
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

81 minutes playtime

3 of 21 achievements
Sonority

5 hours playtime

18 of 20 achievements

Princess Farmer

8 hours playtime

50 of 59 achievements
Oaken

3 hours playtime

2 of 29 achievements
Sonority

5 hours playtime

18 of 20 achievements
Out There: Oceans of Time

8 hours playtime

no achievements
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees

81 minutes playtime

3 of 21 achievements
Crown Trick

0 minutes playtime

0 of 48 achievements

= SG win - = Gift or Other Win - = Part of the Xbox Pass - = Nintendo Switch

April’s Stats

aka. Yearly backlog disaster

I clearly didn’t manage much this month backlog wise, IRL keeps being very busy. I still managed to finish a few games but only one counting towards the 20/22 challenge (hopefully I catch up with that next month as another one is in progress of being beaten). Apart from that, from a mix of cakeday happening and being very lucky on SG, the backlog took kind of a hit.

I hope you all had a great April. Stay safe and game on!

Played	Finished	Completed	Backlog+	Achievements
5	4	2	8	67

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Backlog of Doom

20/22 Challenge Progress (7/22)

Finished this month: 1

68% unfinished

32% beaten

Most Satisfying Finish

Most Exciting Addition

FixFox

14 hours playtime

37 of 37 achievements
Party Hard

10 hours playtime

12 of 27 achievements
Peglin

8 hours playtime

9 of 15 achievements
Life is Strange: True Colors

13 hours playtime

40 of 40 achievements
Knights and Bikes

8 hours playtime

17 of 36 achievements

FixFox

14 hours playtime

37 of 37 achievements
Party Hard

10 hours playtime

12 of 27 achievements
Peglin

8 hours playtime

9 of 15 achievements
Life is Strange: True Colors

13 hours playtime

40 of 40 achievements

Impostor Factory

0 minutes playtime

0 of 1 achievements
Cleo - a pirate's tale

0 minutes playtime

0 of 24 achievements
Vampire Survivors

0 minutes playtime

0 of 88 achievements
OMORI

0 minutes playtime

0 of 84 achievements
Papetura

0 minutes playtime

0 of 10 achievements
Life is Strange: True Colors

13 hours playtime

40 of 40 achievements
Peglin

8 hours playtime

9 of 15 achievements
Nobody Saves the World

0 minutes playtime

0 of 34 achievements

= SG win - = Gift or Other Win - = Part of the Xbox Pass - = Nintendo Switch

March’s Stats

aka. Late report

I was out of town so this report is late. March was busy IRL so backlog progress has gone a bit down, but I managed to keep up with the 20/22 challenge, so there is that.

Played	Finished	Completed	Backlog+	Achievements
6	5	0	6	105

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Backlog of Doom

20/22 Challenge Progress (6/22)

Finished this month: 2

73% unfinished

27% beaten

Most Satisfying Finish

Most Exciting Addition

Hero's Hour

5 hours playtime

9 of 61 achievements
TUNIC

16 hours playtime

18 of 36 achievements
Loop Hero

52 hours playtime

44 of 50 achievements
Royal Frontier

3 hours playtime

no achievements
Moonlighter

46 hours playtime

49 of 67 achievements
FixFox

8 hours playtime

21 of 37 achievements

TUNIC

16 hours playtime

18 of 36 achievements
Hero's Hour

5 hours playtime

9 of 61 achievements
Loop Hero

52 hours playtime

44 of 50 achievements
Moonlighter

46 hours playtime

49 of 67 achievements
Royal Frontier

3 hours playtime

no achievements

Call of the Sea

0 minutes playtime

0 of 34 achievements
Hero's Hour

5 hours playtime

9 of 61 achievements
TUNIC

16 hours playtime

18 of 36 achievements
Royal Frontier

3 hours playtime

no achievements
FixFox

8 hours playtime

21 of 37 achievements
Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars

0 minutes playtime

0 of 48 achievements

= SG win - = Gift or Other Win - = Part of the Xbox Pass - = Nintendo Switch

February’s Stats

aka. Still doing fine

I hope all of you fellow Assassins are safe and well. Did some progress on the backlog front this month, including finishing 3 games on my 20/22 challenge and getting back on track with this. I also finally finished Days Gone, which was such a massive game that I felt that withdrawal when I was finally done. Anyway, I hope you all had a good month or at least that you’re all safe and well. Take care.

Played	Finished	Completed	Backlog+	Achievements
7	6	0	3	53

EvilBlackSheep

Backlog of Doom

20/22 Challenge Progress (4/22)

Finished this month: 3

82% unfinished

18% beaten

Most Satisfying Finish

Most Exciting Addition

Days Gone

73 hours playtime

45 of 61 achievements
Moonglow Bay

32 hours playtime

27 of 37 achievements
DYSMANTLE

71 hours playtime

29 of 34 achievements
GNOSIA

6 hours playtime

3 of 26 achievements
Ghost on the Shore

4 hours playtime

8 of 20 achievements
Submerged: Hidden Depths

7 hours playtime

5 of 14 achievements
Ticket to Earth

34 hours playtime

36 of 50 achievements

Days Gone

73 hours playtime

45 of 61 achievements
Ghost on the Shore

4 hours playtime

8 of 20 achievements
Submerged: Hidden Depths

7 hours playtime

5 of 14 achievements
DYSMANTLE

71 hours playtime

29 of 34 achievements
Moonglow Bay

32 hours playtime

27 of 37 achievements
Ticket to Earth

34 hours playtime

36 of 50 achievements

Black Book

0 minutes playtime

0 of 50 achievements
Ghost on the Shore

4 hours playtime

8 of 20 achievements
Submerged: Hidden Depths

7 hours playtime

5 of 14 achievements

= SG win - = Gift or Other Win - = Part of the Xbox Pass - = Nintendo Switch

January’s Stats

aka. Slow start and lots of zombies

Hello fellow Assassins! I hope you had a good start of the year, gaming and otherwise. Been putting a lot of hours into Days Gone so not much more progress was made apart from a few shorter games and some time into the 20/22 challenge. I’ve been having a blast with it though, despite the plethora of bugs I’m encountering. I’ve been doing pretty good at not adding much to the backlog too, so I’m starting the year on a small victory over the backlog. Did you guys bought anything during the Lunar New Year sales?

Played	Finished	Completed	Backlog+	Achievements
11	4	1	1	82 + 8

EvilBlackSheep

Backlog of Doom

20/22 Challenge Progress (1/22)

Finished this month: 1

95% unfinished

5% beaten

Most Satisfying Finish

Most Exciting Addition

DemonCrawl

370 hours playtime

115 of 175 achievements
A Way Out

5 hours playtime

no achievements
Lake

6 hours playtime

8 of 10 achievements
Assemble with Care

82 minutes playtime

14 of 14 achievements
Wolfstride

19 hours playtime

19 of 20 achievements
Days Gone

53 hours playtime

29 of 61 achievements
Moonglow Bay

23 hours playtime

11 of 37 achievements
DYSMANTLE

41 hours playtime

17 of 34 achievements
GNOSIA

3 hours playtime

3 of 26 achievements
Out There: O Edition

18 hours playtime

45 of 64 achievements
Out There: Oceans of Time

4 hours playtime

no achievements

A Way Out

5 hours playtime

no achievements
Lake

6 hours playtime

8 of 10 achievements
Assemble with Care

82 minutes playtime

14 of 14 achievements
Wolfstride

19 hours playtime

19 of 20 achievements

GNOSIA

3 hours playtime

3 of 26 achievements

= SG win - = Gift or Other Win - = Part of the Xbox Pass - = Nintendo Switch

20/22 Challenge

Shamelessly stolen from Inspired by Skatr's 20/22 Challenge

As I was saying in my yearly backlog fight review, I have drifted back into the bad habit that had brought me to BLAEO in the first place: I’ve been playing a lot of games but not finishing most of them. And it’s not by a lack of enjoyment but just because I’m somehow getting distracted by another game and then failing to take the time to go back to them. This has to stop.

That’s why Skatr’s challenge seem such a good idea, including the “punishment” clause at the end because I keep failing to stick to lists even tho I put games in it I REALLY wanna play. Hopefully I manage to stick to it this time.

Rules:

I have to finish 20 of the 22 games on the list.
The games must have been started before 2022
They must be games I enjoyed playing. As I was saying, I'm doing mostly this to go back to the unfinished games that got distracted from for whatever reason, but that I loved in the first place. Of course I'm doing this in an attempt to make progress with the backlog, but I don't want it to be a "let's pick whatever would be the fastest to finish and call it a day". My intention is to fully enjoy this challenge, not make it a tedious task.
I can replace games as I see fit, but I am of course still limited to my unfinished list. I don’t think I'll switch many of them, even though I've been struggling to not have included Darkest Dungeon in the list, so I might switch one of them for it later on. Plus I need a margin in case of a technical issue.
And finally, I only have this year to finish it - if I don’t, I will be feeding somebody else backlog with one of my favourite game of 2022.

And that’s about it. Of course, I’ll be playing other games during the year but that will be my main side quest for the year, and I’ll do my best to stick to it.

The List

50% beaten

50% unfinished

Game Title	Time played (Before/After)	Status
Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel	7h	Unfinished
Cloudpunk	4h	Unfinished
Curious Expedition	10h/21h	Beaten
Dead In Bermuda	4h/13h	Beaten
Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator	3h	Unfinished
DYSMANTLE	37h/70h	Beaten
For The King	9h	Unfinished
Hades	10h	Unfinished
Inscryption	9h	Unfinished
Hand of Fate 2	5h	Unfinished
Jenny LeClue - Detectivu	2h/10h	Beaten
Just Cause 3	4h	Unfinished
Knights and Bikes	5h/11h	Beaten
Loop Hero	37h/52h	Beaten
Moonglow Bay	13h/32h	Beaten
Moonlighter	10h/45h	Beaten
Party Hard	3h/10h	Beaten
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales	4h	Unfinished
Ticket to Earth	28h/34h	Beaten
The Long Dark	6h	Unfinished
Wasteland 3	49h	Unfinished
Wolfstride	5h/19h	Beaten

A Year of Backlog Fight in Review

I finally assembled all the stats and put some images together to make it prettier, here comes my yearly summary. 2021 was way more brutal than expected on so many levels, and it took a toll on the backlog fight for a few months. However, the stats are less awful than I initially anticipated.

If I had to reduce my favourite games to a top 3, I’ll keep Alba, Death’s Door and The Wild at Heart. Still, I loved all the games that made the top 15 and I strongly recommend them.

Finished: 67
Beaten: 41
Completed: 26
Added to the Backlog of Doom: 74
Best month: January (-7)
Worst month: December (+10)

EvilBlackSheep

Backlog of Doom

Almost but not quite

Month	Finished	Backlog+	Balance
January	12	5	-7
February	9	9	0
March	6	6	0
April	3	9	+6
May	3	6	+3
June	2	3	+1
July	12	11	-1
August	7	5	-2
September	5	0	-5
October	2	4	+2
November	3	3	0
December	3	13	+10

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure	The Wild at Heart	Ocean's Heart
Monster Sanctuary	Death's Door	Cozy Grove
Subnautica: Below Zero	Dorfromantik	Garden Story
It Takes Two	Mini Motorways	Omno
Marco and the Galaxy Dragon	Pathway	Supraland

Like I said in the intro, the stats are less awful than I initially anticipated, because I somehow still managed to control what I added to the backlog. Still not a victory over the backlog, but a better ratio than last year.

That being said, I'm not really happy in the progress I made in the challenges I had set for myself or with the way I went back to old bad habits of starting a lot of games and not finishing them despite loving them. More on how I intend to try and fix that in the next section.

Progress in 2021

Won on SteamGifts

Jan 1st (173 games) vs Dec 31th 2021 (175 games)

36% never played

3% unfinished

32% beaten

28% completed

35% never played

5% unfinished

32% beaten

29% completed

Gifts & Other Wins

Jan 1st (395 games) vs Dec 31th 2021 (428 games)

0% won't play

52% never played

11% unfinished

19% beaten

17% completed

0% won't play

51% never played

11% unfinished

20% beaten

18% completed

As I said, I've gone back to the bad habit of not finishing what I start, not because I don't like the game but because I get distracted by something else. As a direct consequence, some of my favourite games I played this year didn't make it to my Top 15. I think Skatr's 20/22 challenge is such a great idea. I am definitely gonna adapt it to my needs (and probably only pick from my unfinished games). ~~I'll post about that in the next days and insert a link here when it's ready.~~ The masterpost has been made.

My other pet peeve about how the backlog fight went is how little progress I made in the Tag Challenge despite picking games I really wanted to play soon. I'm gonna try to focus more on those and make better progress on it than this year. We'll see how it goes, but I have to be able to do better than 2, right? RIGHT ? *sweats*

State of the Targets on January 1st 2022 (for tracking purpose)

Won on SteamGifts 175 games

35% never played

5% unfinished

32% beaten

29% completed

Gifts & Other Wins 428 games

0% won't play

51% never played

11% unfinished

20% beaten

18% completed

Added in 2021 80 games

35% never played

18% unfinished

26% beaten

22% completed

December’s Stats

aka. A mediocre end to a mediocre year

Well, here we are. Happy New Year fellow assassins! We made it through 2021, which honestly was an achievement on itself. This year was even more cursed tha 2020 and I’m glad it’s over. Let’s just hope that the next one is a bit nicer with us all.

Backlog wise I didn’t make too much progress in December as I’ve scattered myself, but I managed to play It Takes Two and it was really a cool game. I didn’t like the backstory too much but loved the co-op experience and think it deserves all the awards its getting. A nice surprise to finish the year with.

The damage to the backlog has been done by the holiday season as it always happens. Did you pick up anything good during the final sales of the year? I’m not too sure what the year’s summary will look like but it’ll be coming in a few days. Until then, I wish you the best for 2022, lots of good games to play, but mostly stay all healthy. Take care.

Played	Finished	Completed	Backlog+	Achievements
11	3	1	13	34 + 1

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Backlog of Doom

Most Satisfying Finish

Most Exciting Addition

Inscryption

9 hours playtime

11 of 30 achievements
DemonCrawl

343 hours playtime

107 of 172 achievements
Moonglow Bay

14 hours playtime

7 of 37 achievements
Wytchwood

10 hours playtime

14 of 14 achievements
Wolfstride

4 hours playtime

3 of 20 achievements
Cozy Grove

77 hours playtime

55 of 62 achievements
Townscaper

15 minutes playtime

no achievements
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

16 hours playtime

no achievements
Animal Crossing: New Horizons

316 hours playtime

no achievements
It Takes Two

15 hours playtime

no achievements
Lake

3 hours playtime

1 of 10 achievements

Wytchwood

10 hours playtime

14 of 14 achievements
Townscaper

15 minutes playtime

no achievements
It Takes Two

15 hours playtime

no achievements

The Survivalists

0 minutes playtime

0 of 42 achievements
TOHU

0 minutes playtime

0 of 21 achievements
Not For Broadcast

0 minutes playtime

0 of 43 achievements
Wytchwood

10 hours playtime

14 of 14 achievements
Wolfstride

4 hours playtime

3 of 20 achievements
Sunless Skies

0 minutes playtime

0 of 31 achievements
TOEM

0 minutes playtime

no achievements
Eastward

0 minutes playtime

no achievements
Noita

0 minutes playtime

0 of 14 achievements
Townscaper

15 minutes playtime

no achievements
Days Gone

0 minutes playtime

0 of 61 achievements
Assemble with Care

0 minutes playtime

0 of 14 achievements
The Last Campfire

0 minutes playtime

0 of 22 achievements

= SG win - = Gift or Other Win - = Part of the Xbox Pass - = Nintendo Switch

November’s Stats

aka. Real life took over

The end of the year is getting so close, it’s crazy that it’s already December. I hope you’re all ok and gaming cozily from your home, especially with how the world situation is going.

On my side, I did quite a bit of gaming in the first part of the month and managed to finish both Diablo 3 and its DLC. And then I made a huge mistake and fell back into The Binding of Isaac. You can imagine how the rest of the backlog fight went this month, especially because I was away from home for the last third of November. At least I managed to keep the status quo with a neutral balance.

Have a nice December, stay safe and game on!