May report

I am really happy with the progress for May. Got quite a considerable amount of games done, lets hope June is just as good.

Completed SG wins

Riddle Tower

Playtime: 12.5 hours
Achievements: 17 of 17 (100%)
Review: The developer never heard of "quality over quantity". You can find my full review on Steam here.

TOHU

Playtime: 3.2 hours
Achievements: 21 of 21 (100%)
Review: Lovely artstyle, with cool but extremely slow animations and mainly not so great puzzles. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Dordogne

Playtime: 5.2 hours
Achievements: 31 of 31 (100%)
Review: Stunning artstyle, but lacking exploration and story. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Red Lake

Playtime: 1.8 hours
Achievements: No achievements
Review: No, just no. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Hexagon World

Playtime: 10 minutes
Achievements: No achievements
Review: Not even a game really. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Orbital Racer

Playtime: 36 minutes
Achievements: No achievements
Review: Cool idea for a game, however it gets let down by terrible controls and performance. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Lost Words: Beyond the Page

Playtime: 4.9 hours
Achievements: 21 of 21 (100%)
Review: A fantastic story game with some very simple platforming and puzzles. But it doesn't need hard platforming or complicated puzzle because the story and artstyle carry the game through. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse

Playtime: 5.2 hours
Achievements: No achievements
Review: Not terrible, but boring and repetitive. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Hentai Jigsaw Girls 3

Playtime: 20 minutes
Achievements: 3 of 3 (100%)
Review: Bad jigsaw game with bad images. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Erotic Jigsaw Puzzle 4

Playtime: 13 minutes
Achievements: 3 of 3 (100%)
Review: Bad jigsaw game with bad images. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Cozy Aquarium

Playtime: 13 minutes
Achievements: No achievements
Review: There was a small attempt there to make it an idle game, but nah, not good. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Beacon Pines

Playtime: 9.5 hours
Achievements: 11 of 11 (100%)
Review: A great story game with lovely, charming graphic about trying to solve a mystery. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Fabledom

Playtime: 37.2 hours
Achievements: 22 of 22 (100%)
Review: An ok chill city (more village in this case) builder with lovely artstyle. It is extremely easy even on the hardest difficulty. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Other completed games

Stray Cats in Cozy Town

Playtime: 19 minutes
Achievements: 10 of 10 (100%)
Review: A cute and nice hidden object game where you gotta find 150 cats and 50 water fountains. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Pure Logic

Playtime: 9.8 hours
Achievements: 13 of 13 (100%)
Review: It is a nice logic gate puzzle game with 230 levels to solve. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Doors: Paradox

Playtime: 6.6 hours
Achievements: 30 of 30 (100%)
Review: It is an aesthetically great but really easy puzzle game with 58 (52 across 3 chapters and 2 bonus ones at the end of each chapter) differently themed levels to solve. You can find my full review on Steam here.

April report

I am still not making enough progress to reach my goal by the end of the year, however I made some pretty good progress this month I think.

Completed SG wins

inbento

Playtime: 3.8 hours
Achievements: 15 of 15 (100%)
Review: Really cute puzzle game. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Pesterquest

Playtime: 7.5 hours
Achievements: No achievements
Review: Needlessly quirky way of writing some of the character text makes a lot of chapters unreadable. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Rock of Ages 2

Playtime: 16.4 hours
Achievements: 21 of 21 (100%)
Review: Fun but also infuriating boulder rolling game. You can find my full review on Steam here.

InfraSpace

Playtime: 44.8 hours
Achievements: 32 of 32 (100%)
Review: Laggy with extremely frustrating traffic management. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Voltaire - The Vegan Vampire

Playtime: 22.1 hours
Achievements: 44 of 44 (100%)
Review: Good for the first hour before all the flaws become extremely obvious. You can find my full review on Steam here.

NAIRI: Tower of Shirin

Playtime: 3.6 hours
Achievements: 20 of 20 (100%)
Review: Flawed, but generally nice point and click. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Etherborn

Playtime: 2.9 hours
Achievements: 13 of 13 (100%)
Review: I don't know why exactly (and it is not even the platforming I usually don't like) but this perspective puzzle platformer game just didn't quite click with me. I just didn't really care for it and didn't really enjoy it.

Other completed games

Coconut Simulator

Playtime: 100.8 hours
Achievements: 5 of 5 (100%)
Review: Coconut. You can find my full review on Steam here.

March report

Still not making good progress with the amount of games, but hey, at least I have finished some longer games so I am counting it as a win.

Edit: added a game I forgot I beat.

Completed SG wins

Farming Simulator 17

Playtime: 36.5 hours
Achievements: 17 of 17 (100%)
Review: It shows its age, but definitely still enjoyable if it is your kind of thing. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Boxes

Playtime: 3.5 hours
Achievements: 12 of 12 (100%)
Review:Really easy but visually impressive puzzle game. You can find my full review on Steam here.

Other completed games

One More Island

Playtime: 56 hours
Achievements: 57 of 57 (100%)
Review: Screw everything about this game. You can find my full ranty review about it on Steam here.

Greyhat - A Digital Detective Adventure

Playtime: 11.4 hours
Achievements: 26 of 26 (100%)
Review: An enjoyable story game. You can find my full review on Steam here.

February report

Wow, this is one sad end of the month post with only one short game. I spent most of my time working on my side project (here it is if anyone is interested) and a couple of longer games. Hopefully next month is better.

Completed SG wins

Venba

Playtime: 2.4 hours
Achievements: 15 of 15 (100%)
Review: You can find my full review on Steam here.

January report

I haven’t beaten enough SG wins to be on track to complete 50% of them by the end of the year, however I beaten some so I guess at least it is progress. In the end I got stuck on trying to 100% Invaders Tower Defense Online. If anyone got any advice for that one or wants to do the online achievement together let me know.

Completed SG wins

Sakura Swim Club

Playtime: 2.7 hours
Achievements: No achievements
Review: My full review is on Steam here.

Station to Station

Playtime: 16.4 hours
Achievements: 81 of 81 (100%)
Review: My full review is on Steam here.

Heal

Playtime: 2.8 hours
Achievements: 14 of 14 (100%)
Review: My full review is on Steam here.

A New Beginning - Final Cut

Playtime: 6.2 hours
Achievements: 28 of 28 (100%)
Review: My full review is on Steam here.

Survive in Angaria TWO

Playtime: 42 minutes
Achievements: No achievements
Review: My full review is on Steam here.

Other completed games

Timberborn

Playtime: 26.5 hours
Achievements: No achievements
Review: An absolutely fantastic colony sim where you are trying to help a bunch of cute beavers droughts and bad water floods. You gotta build up food production, deal with water supply, build up industry, entertainment, energy production,... and you can pick between 2 different factions of beavers. It is still in early access, but it does seem to get updated regularly and I am looking forward to play it more. Works fine on Linux with Proton (9.0-4).

Goodbye 2024

Happy New Year everyone! :)

This year I have completed 68 games (not counting simply beaten games here, so close to having a funny number too :( ) which is 29 games less than last year. 2024 was a great year, just maybe not for gaming. I did however hit 1200 games completed in total which is a pretty good achievement. Hopefully 2025 will be a bit better in that respect.

Completed games in 2024

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

Goal I had for 2024

I had no goal this time around :)

Goal for 2025

I would like to have 50% of my SG wins completed (currently 39%). This would mean completing 131 amount of wins without winning anything else at all which I am not sure its even remotely realistic, but I will try. Having a goal should make me a bit more motivated completing more wins I hope.

December report

I am a day early with the end of month reviews, but I am not planing to play anymore games this year and I will be in Italy for new years that I thought I might as well get it done now.

Completed SG wins

Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator

Playtime: 32.9 hours
Achievements: 37 of 37 (100%)
Review: It is an ok, chill flower gardening game. It however has some issues: the plant limit is way too low, the amount of space you have to actually plant things is way too small, you only have flower you can plant, no bushes, tress, vegetables or any other plants, inventory management is not ideal, there is no way to mark what plants are which once they are planted, the plant book is just annoying to use. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton.

Other completed games

Gnomes Garden 2

Playtime: 9.8 hours
Achievements: 23 of 23 (100%)
Review: My review is on Steam here.

Doodle Harmony Idle Merge

Playtime: 25.6 hours
Achievements: 40 of 40 (100%)
Review: My review is on Steam here.

Overcooked! 2

Playtime: 62.6 hours
Achievements: 54 of 54 (100%)
Review: A really fun co-op (you can also play single player, but that is a lot less fun) cooking game with a bunch of levels and decent amount of different food to cook. It has some bugs here and there but overall it is a great time with 1-3 other friends and I would highly recommend it, just be sure to expect some yelling. And if you enjoy the base game I would definitely also recommend picking up the season pass. Linux version works without any issues.

Hidden Cats in Berlin

Playtime: 1.5 hours
Achievements: 61 of 61 (100%)
Review: A cute hidden object game with great art where to have to find 900+ hidden objects (mainly cats) across a main and 7 bonus levels. On the main level each section gets colored as you find all the cats in it which is really satisfying to see. On the bonus levels also get colored, but only once you finish the whole level. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

A Tower Full of Cats

Playtime: 3.7 hours
Achievements: 70 of 70 (100%)
Review: A cute game where you have to find 1400+ cats scattered around a tower. Some are hidden in plain sight, for some you have to interact with items for them to show up. In addition there is also some other items (bolts and nuts). Has 2 issues: there is sometimes no indication as to which items you can interact with and on Linux you can not full mute the music/sounds in fullscreen. Except for that the Linux version of the game works fine.

November report

I am a bit late with this post, but better late than never I guess and I have made a decent bit of progress too. I really need to redesign my reviews tho, because I write much longer reviews on Steam now which they never godamn fit in my boxes anymore.

Completed SG wins

Jigsaw Novel - Sexy Job Interview

Playtime: 31 minutes
Achievements: 3 of 3 (100%)
Review: My review is on Steam here.

Dr Livingstone, I presume? - Reversed Escape Room

Playtime: 2.8 hours
Achievements: 25 of 25 (100%)
Review: My review is on Steam here.

Smoke and Sacrifice

Playtime: 13 hours
Achievements: 32 of 32 (100%)
Review: My review is on Steam here.

Other completed games

Lucius

Playtime: 40.5 hours
Achievements: 58 of 58 (100%)
Review: My review is on Steam here.

Castaway Paradise

Playtime: 19.2 hours
Achievements: 38 of 38 (100%)
Review:My review is on Steam here.

Mini Motorways

Playtime: 72.7 hours
Achievements: 140 of 140 (100%)
Review:My review is on Steam here.

Island Cities

Playtime: 4 hours
Achievements: 22 of 22 (100%)
Review: It is basically the same game as Island Farmer from the same developers, just with a different look. It is kinda a 3D puzzle with 22 levels. You get shown an island made out of blocks and then you get a scrambled island and you need to put the island back together how it was shown at the beginning by swapping blocks. It requires 0 skill and it is more like something to do with your hands while watching something. Works fine on Linux with Proton.

Polimines

Playtime: 1.7 hours
Achievements: 4 of 4 (100%)
Review: It is a puzzle game with an interesting concept which mixes up minesweeper and nonograms. I like the idea, but the execution leaves a lot to be desired: there is no way to mark multiple fields at the same time or which numbers you have already solved, it is sometimes really hard to tell which outside numbers belong to which fields. There is 30 levels in total. The Linux version starts up in a weird resolution with back bars, but it is 100% playable.

Family Mysteries 2: Echoes of Tomorrow

Playtime: 3 hours
Achievements: 24 of 24 (100%)
Review: Just as the first Family Mysteries HOG, this one also disappointing and suffers with some of the same issues. It is extremely linear, with only 1-2 scenes available to you at a time, the minigames are pretty much all really easy. It is however overall better. It also has the same Linux version issue of the game as the first one too. If you into the setting menu and try to save something the game just straight up crashes and your settings don't get saved.

Dolmenjord - Viking Islands

Playtime: 4.4 hours
Achievements: 10 of 10 (100%)
Review: A nice and interesting placement puzzle game with 60 levels to solve. They start up pretty easy, however they get more challenging with time and level 60 was absolutely brutal even with easy mode. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

My hidden things

Playtime: 1.4 hours
Achievements: 7 of 7 (100%)
Review: An interesting idea for a hidden object game where you have to combine objects to make the ones that fit the shape that the game wants from you. The problem is that the game wants pixel perfect positioning for 2 items to actually combine which is just extremely frustrating. And if you get stuck (mainly because of the pixel perfect positioning issue) then good luck as the game doesn't offer you any kind of help. Works fine on Linux with Proton.

Doodle Harmony

Playtime: 15 minutes
Achievements: 100 of 100 (100%)
Review: A puzzle game where you have to match a 100 black blobs to their colorful outlines. It is pretty simple, but it works fine and it is enjoyable. It only takes 15 minutes to beat however, so I would definitely wait for a sale to pick it up to get a better deal for you money. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

Doodle Harmony Ghosts

Playtime: 15 minutes
Achievements: 100 of 100 (100%)
Review: It is basically the same as the original Doodle Harmony just instead of black blobs you are matching 100 black ghosts to their colorful outlines. It is pretty simple, but it works fine and it is enjoyable. It only takes 15 minutes to beat however, so I would definitely wait for a sale to pick it up to get a better deal for you money. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

October report

October has been a pretty successful moth when it comes to gaming, especially when taking in consideration I been traveling for half of it and I actually re-100%ed a bunch of games again on top of the new completed games too.

Completed SG wins

aMAZE ABC

Playtime: 1.2 hours
Achievements: 100 of 100 (100%)
Review: It is less of a maze game (the mazes are incredibly simple) and more of a test in patience as if you touch any of the edges of the the maze with your mouse it will reset you back to the beginning of the level. It is honestly frustrating, especially since the hitboxes don't feel very accurate either. It wasn't worth the original 0,79€ and it sure is not worth the increased price of 1,99€ it is now. It works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

Nyasha Land of Elves

Playtime: 1.9 hours
Achievements: 32 of 32 (100%)
Review: It is a slider puzzle game with 3 different difficulties (3x3, 4x4 and 5x5) and 10 different images to solve. It comes with a few issues: bad English, each level starts with the image being scrambled step by step which takes forever and from what I could tell you can not skip it and nonsensical price increase. I don't really care about the images either, but that is a subjective thing. It works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

The Shape of Things

Playtime: 4 hours
Achievements: 23 of 23 (100%)
Review: The idea is that you manipulate pieces of an object till you manage to reconstruct it. I wish I could say I liked it as graphic and atmosphere are just lovely but it has 3 issues: bad controls, pixel perfect position hunting and I had it happen multiple times that the level literally just wasn't solvable because a piece wouldn't move in the right direction as it should. Luckily restarting the game fixes the last one. Works fine on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

Quadrata

Playtime: 2 hours
Achievements: 1 of 1 (100%)
Review: A nice movement based puzzle game with 90 levels to solve. Every 10 levels you get introduced to a new mechanic to keep the game fresh. Linux version of the game works without any issues.

Other completed games

URBO

Playtime: 4.9 hours
Achievements: 29 of 29 (100%)
Review: A decent and chill match 3 puzzle game where you build bigger buildings by matching. You have multiple different locations available (each have different grids or gimmicks) and cosmetic settings. On top of that you can also earn card power ups to help you. I wish there was some way of getting rid of buildings once they are built to the max level (8) and a way to back out of the card menu without actually using a powerup. Works fine on Linux with Proton.

Family Mysteries: Poisonous Promises

Playtime: 2.9 hours
Achievements: 24 of 24 (100%)
Review:A HOG with too many flaws. It is extremely linear with only 1-2 scenes available to you at any time and suffers really badly from the HOG logic syndrome. Some mini games quite buggy and they pretty much all are really easy. On Linux if you into the setting menu and try to save something the game just straight up crashes and your settings don't get saved. However other than that the game works without any issues.

Polyville Canyon

Playtime: 5.3 hours
Achievements: 73 of 73 (100%)
Review: I got pretty mixed feelings about this game. A city builder where you can not fail at all so it can get pretty boring as there is no challenge. There is multiple locations to build your city in, a pretty good amount of different buildings and decorations with 3 different color schemes. It would be a decent city builder game if you want just something extremely chill but the controls are just terrible and annoying. Works fine on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

Papers, Please

Playtime: 19.3 hours
Achievements: 13 of 13 (100%)
Review: A really good game where you are tasked with checking the documents of people who wish to enter Arstotzka via the Grestin checkpoint. It starts of simple but as the time goes on you get more and more things you need to pay attention to. It comes with a story, moral questions and get 20 different endings. It is really satisfying to play, however it can get a bit boring and repetitive if you try and get all the endings. Linux version works fine.

Forager

Playtime: 56.4 hours
Achievements: 103 of 103 (100%)
Review: I originally played the game in 2019 and I remembered really enjoying it. However now 5 years later I found it more annoying than not, but also poorly balanced and full of bad design choices (can't move buildings, having multiple of the same building gets stupid expensive, some things take way too long to craft,...). Also the developer behind it seems terrible. Works fine on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

September report

I actually got a lot more than this done, but it just doesn’t show up because its either me re-100%ing the game (My Time at Sandrock, American Truck Simulator, Grow a Carrot), I don’t have all the DLC needed for the 100% (Pixel Puzzles Ultimate, House Flipper) or they game that take a very long time to complete (Cookie Clicker, Train Valley 2).

Completed SG wins

aMAZE 2

Playtime: 1.3 hours
Achievements: 10 of 10 (100%)
Review: A decent enough maze game with 60 levels in total to solve. The levels start up pretty easy but they do get a bit more difficult down the line. The movement could be a bit better tho. Works without any problems on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).

Other completed games

Dorfromantik

Playtime: 49.1 hours
Achievements: 85 of 85 (100%)
Review: It is an incredibly chill and relaxing puzzle game with lovely graphic. The goal is quite simple - you have to score as many points as possible by placing down hexagonal tiles while trying to match their edges and complete quests which gives you more tiles to place. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-2).

Magic Lessons in Wand Valley

Playtime: 17.5 hours
Achievements: 31 of 31 (100%)
Review: A nice jigsaw game where you can solve 6 different jigsaw images with 5 different piece counts (135, 240, 375, 540, 735). My only 2 complaints I have about them are: - I wish there was more variety in the images and less in piece counts - related to the piece counts I wish solving a jigsaw at 735 pieces would unlock the achievements for the smaller piece counts as well. Other than that no issues and the game works perfectly on Linux with Proton (9.0-2).

Pupperazzi

Playtime: 3.9 hours
Achievements: 13 of 13 (100%)
Review: A cute and relaxing game where your objective is take photos of adorable dogs and that way fulfill quests given to you by other dogs/things/people. There is many different dogs that you can dress up and play with/give them items in 5 different locations during 4 different times of the day. There is multiple different effects you can give your photos depending on what lens and film you use to take them. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-2).

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery

Playtime: 3.1 hours
Achievements: 19 of 19 (100%)
Review: A beautiful short story game about 2 artists with some really simple puzzles and a stunning artstyle. Saying much more here would spoil it and I feel like it is better to just be experienced. With it only taking about an hour and half to finish with the free DLC included I would recommend picking it up from a sale/bundle as it is a pricey otherwise. Works without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).