SharkY’s profile
Hey! I am SharkY, happy to have you on my profile!
I play all kinds of games, but my favorites are:
- simulator games
- management games
- all kinds of indie games!
To be honest gaming is my favorite hobby! I really enjoy all aspect of it, especially collecting them!
I joined this site, to organize everything and get rid of my backlog list!
34th Week of 2021
Played Games:
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Twelve Minutes
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The Stanley Parable
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Madden NFL 21
3 hours playtime
no achievements
Twelve Minutes:
I’ve written a review about this on my profile, but long story short: I didn’t like it. If 6 years of development will yield this result….
The Stanley Parable
I actually don’t know why I waited so long for this one, because I absolutely loved the game! I didn’t finish it properly tho, as the game has 19 endings and I’ve only achieved 3 !
NFL 21
To be honest, as a European (and more specifically, as a Hungarian) I’ve never watched even 1 match of American football. But I thought, hey it might be fun, so I downloaded it - and indeed, it is! I’m currently playing the story mode in it, and I actually really enjoy it, it has the kind of tactics and difficulty I like! I was never a sports game, but this game caught my attention!
Next Weeks Plans:
Yesterday I’ve started Life Is Strange 2, and I plan to finish it this week. I would also like to continue playing Tank Mechanic Simulator, which I got from a really nice friend!
Good luck to your backlogs, and have a nice week, as always ^^!
Gaming Report - Twelve Minutes [Number: #42 ]
Okay, so let me start with saying, that I have played this title through Xbox Game Pass. Because of that, I don’t quite look on this as a 25€ title.
So, I’m a huge fan of Annapurina Interactive’s games. I really liked What Remains, Journey, Outer Wilds… But I don’t quite like Twelve Minutes.
The first problem is, that this game is falsely advertised in my honest opinion. Nowhere, on any page isn’t mentioned that this game is a roguelike - because it is.
Of course, I won’t spoil anything but as you know this title involves a time loop. Now as we know, in most films and games that involve something like this, the protagonist doesn’t know why is it occurring or how could they break out of it. These are the questions that most stories of this kind rely on, and it isn’t a big problem in my eyes - at least we will get an explonation. But no, not in this title.
Twelve Minutes shows us how not to tell a story, or better said how to ruin an excellent story. You see, we play games to entertain ourselves. And for this, we usually need something to happen, like the story to move forward.
But here? After going through the 5th identical loop, I was looking clueless, what should I do now. I had to look to a Steam guide, to find out that I have to do things IN ORDER. Yes, it doesn’t really matter if you have done the correct things, if they aren’t following the pattern they have to.
The story was somewhat cryptic for me the whole time, might be that I’m just dumb but I hope it isn’t the case (:P)
I have said too many negative things about it, but actually, the game isn’t bad at all: it has unique art style, incredibly good animations, nice characters, and also really cool voiceover!
But I think that the story is like just any other time-loop thingy. I’ll need to replay a few times to get a full view.
6.8/10
Backlog Reboot: Back on track
Hello everyone!
My last post was more then 3 months ago… 3 months, can you imagine?
If I weren’t gaming at all in this time, I think it would be totally acceptable to pause this site a bit… But sadly I was in fact playing, just didn’t really find the motivation to track my backlog-list… But now I got passionate for some reason, so I decided to make backlog posts again :D
So, as a reboot I would like to write some numbers for myself: (Note: I’ll use my numbers and note the ones that are provided by other sites - simply because I don’t count free / removed games, but I count limited games.)
- As of today, I have 1328 games, from which I’ve beaten 34 and completed 46. The rest is unplayed / just tried out. This is a pretty bad ratio, I won’t lie to you :-D
- If we count tried (unbeaten) games, I’ve played about 20% of my games.
My goal is to the end of the year, to make this number up to 5%! Also, I would also like to get to 50 completed and 50 beaten games as well!
My current waitlist indicates the following games:
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Cyberpunk 2077
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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord
1.7 hours playtime
no achievements
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Dreadlands
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Deadly Days
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Snowtopia
0.8 hours playtime
no achievements
I will try to complete the 3 smaller titles by next week and I hope I can be consistent in terms of backlog hunting :-) !
Stay safe and good luck to your lists too :-) !
17th Week of 2021
Introduction
Hello :) My last week was… interesting. In one hand it was really good but in other quite bad. After 4+ hard months I was able to read again, I was in a “reading slump” till now, I don’t know what caused this but nevermind, I’m happy I can enjoy books again :-D But on the other hand I somehow loosed interest in games, I played some but not that amount I played in the last few games… Life is like this, I’ll enjoy what is currently giving me joy ^^
Completed Games
(Main Games)
As I said last week, I'll complete one HOG every week! This game was OK I guess, but the game I played before (The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan) was waaay better.
The setting of this game was really good, we play as a detective investigating the disappearance of a girl in a small town called Maple Creek. But and here comes the twist, we are deep into this investigation when something happens and we forget everything we found till that! How cool is this? I mean, in the terms of game design, we as a player don't know anything about the case - just like the detective !
So I started the game with high hopes because I really like crime stories and thrillers, but I almost immediately felt a bit let down, because I'll say it, the graphics are outdated! I had really hard time finding thing in HO scenes, yes it can be because I'm a noob, but my eyes literally started to hurt after an hour of playing… These scenes will also get a negative from me because they were reused many times! It happened some times that I completed an objective then checked the map to find out I have to go back - where I was like 3 times already ?!? Is this "mechanism" common in these games? (as I'm writing this I feel like that 90% of my reviews are actually rants xD)
I finished the game about 5.5 hours (idk why Steam didn't count it that way) and wasn't really satisfied with the ending. I like games more that have an ending, more like games that "force" you to play the sequels.
But I won't give up, I'll play HOG every week, one bad-ish game won't take away my will to play :-D !!
(Smaller Games)
Strange Night
Not bad horror game, way better than the first game I played from this developer.
If I would need to categorize this, it has elements from FNAF games and from P.T. Interesting choice.
We play as a guard, who is watching the video cameras that are placed in some kind of apartment. Of course, thing aren't that easy (why would anybody play then xD ?)
Alarms will get triggered, lights will start to flicker and a really nice girl will great you some times. No, I'm not kidding, she is really friendly!
Yes, it has some cheap jumpscares but it also has a really, really hard (thick) atmosphere, and that is what I mainly like in these kind of games!
I have started some games this week but didn’t succeed to actually finish any of them (aside from these two)… I hope this week I’ll find some kind of balance between playing playing and reading :D
What have I acquired during the week
Some games from the VR bundle, some from the HOG bundle, but nothing really much. I’ll stop collecting a bit and actually play what I have :D
I wish to all of you a nice and productive week, as always ^^!
16th Week of 2021
Introduction
Hello ^^ ! Last week was pretty hard for me in terms of school and other works, I had an exam almost every day, but it came to an end, and that matters only :D I still had some time to play games, I completed my second HOG of my life and I hit 1k games on Steam. Yaay :D
Completed Games
(Main Games)
Pretty solid walking simulator with puzzle & horror elements. I got into the game blindly, judging by the store page I thought this is gonna be a simple “walk from A point to B, solve this then that” style game but oh boy, I was really wrong!
The first thing I noticed was the heavy atmosphere. Then as I made my first steps I immediately got a nice little jumpscare, and that is when I realised that this is a horror game! I like horrors, it’s not that but why don’t they show as a tag that this is horror? Anyways I enjoyed the game quite a lot. Personally I like Tesla’s work and I also like alternative-history games, so the story was top-notch for me! But the game have it’s flaws too….
The biggest issue for me was the bad optimization. I have gone into game development a bit in the recent years, so I know that the fact that this game was made only by 6 or 7 people is truly amazing, but I feel like they wanted to put AAA element’s into their game but in the end the forgot the most important: doesn’t matter if your game is good or bad looking, if there are scenes where it will run only by 20 FPS then how should I enjoy it ???
This happened here too: there was a particular chase sequence where I had to lower the settings from the highest to the lowest to even get 30 FPS! That’s ridiculous !
Sorry about this little rant, I’m a bit overwhelmed of this, I was super pissed off that I had to try that stage 3 times….
Other than this the other biggest issue for me was the animation’s quality. I’ll say it straight: they are terrible.
Overall a nice little game with an interesting story, but from technical aspects, please dev fix your game!!
As I mentioned this was my second HOG game I ever played and after playing it I came to the conclusion: from now every week I have to play over one BECAUSE THESE ARE COOL!!!
I loved this because of many things, but I’ll start with the most important: it was made by Hungarian devs :D!! I always love seeking games made by people from my country, there are quite a lot games you wouldn’t even think was made by us :-D !
Sorry, back to the game, I sadly like to speak too much about things….
The story of this game is magnificent, we play as a Detective who travels back in the time to find one of his lost colleagues. The time setting is 1920th years and the place is Italy.
As we investigate and progress in the story we will face many Gods and other people from tales, we will learn a lot about Roman history, particularly about the god named Vulcan.
The HOG scenes and the minigames were really fun, I think I really like the aspect that the game rewards my logic skills, because if we take an FPS for example it will heavily be based on our skill rather than our thinking (of course there are games that are out of this boundary, I’m just speaking of FPS games as a collective).
The only negative for me was the voice acting, I felt like they are speaking out of a box… The characters were a bit cliché-ish for me too, but overall they were fine.
In the end, I’m happy that I found this game, because it’s my starting point of my HOG journey :-D !!
Smaller Games
- Endless Ski
8 minutes playtime
- Instant Farmer
1 hour playtime
- Don't Let Go!
10 minutes playtime
no achievements
Really cool puzzle game, if you have an hour try it out :-D The mechanism itself isn’t really complicate it is just a simple block sliding game (if this thing exists xD).
I remember playing this in ~ 2017 maybe when I got a VR headset for 1 day :D
This game is what people 100 years ago called a pioneer. This was made when we could count the amount of VR games released on 1 hand xD (bit too dramatic but you get the point).
The mechanism is simple: you have to sit in your chair and hold your fingers on two buttons until the game is over. Things will start happening with the time, spiders will get into your brain, a velociraptor will appear from nowhere, you know just casual things.
The game looks a bit bad, the mechanism is too simple - but I cannot give a bad review for this game :-D
Aside from this, I have played I Expect You To Die, I have 1 more level to beat so this will go into this week’s games :D
Also, I have played Beat Saber on my Quest 2 and…. I’m addicted, that’s all. (8 hours spent, I bought it on Friday)…..
What have I acquired during the week
I don’t even want to list this anymore. According to my “BoughtBundles” sheet I bought 25 bundles this week… 25 CAN YOU IMAGINE ?!?!?!?!
I wish to all of you a nice and productive week, as always ^^!
15th Week of 2021
Introduction
Hey everyone ^^ My last week was so good, I cannot even believe it was true! I have turned 18 on Thursday and I was able to buy an Oculus Quest 2 which I wanted a long, long time ago! It is amazing, I really enjoy it even if I only tried 1-2 games :D
Completed Games
YEEEEES I wanted this game I don’t know maybe since 2017??
It was an amazing experience, it was a bit short, but it isn’t a problem because the game features an endless mode too, so I’ll play that for some more hours for sure :-D
Job Simulator is in my opinion an essential game to VR, the best thing in it was that is showed why is VR soo good, you can press any button, grab and inspect things and totally feel like you are in a restaurant/shop etc….
The game is really humorous, the main idea that we, as a human explore what it was to be.. well human is hilarious itself!
I’ll play one the developer’s other game, Vacation Simulator once for sure!
Well…
This was first (or the second I don’t know) my-daily-indie-game I have played. This thing means that I play through 1 indie/smaller game ever day, with this I can lower my backlog and discover new gems! Well, this wasn’t exactly a gem…
It is an easy puzzle game which features hentai style drawings of women. The gameplay is fine, features different images with different difficulties, the sound was a bit much too, The artwork, well it was well made but to be honest this isn’t a kind of thing I’m into, to be honest. I just wanted to play this game, to “test” a bit my taste and other stuff…
Enjoyable little racing game, but it has a really dumb AI system, most of the times they will bump into you randomly. It isn’t hard, if you play a bit you will get the hang of it!
A nice and short adventure game, with tons and I mean TONS of references.
The game is really funny, we control a man called Angelo who is an influencer, and one day the death itself arrives at him to take him to hell.
The game is showing is this journey through different places in hell, it features funny character and dialogues, lots of beautiful hand-drawn environment and a silly little story. I personally liked it, but as I see from the reviews the game is heavily divisive.
Short little horror game based on a famous creepy pasta. The game itself won’t be bad if it wasn’t only 10 minutes long (even shorter if I didn’t look at everything). Interesting idea but really short.
Don’t really have an opinion here. I clicked and got achievements, that’s all.
The game can be translated to “The nonsensical life in another world” or something like that, the story is about us, the player, who is dead and have to complete several tasks to obtain a free choice. This task is to get the “‘essence” from several women….
It wasn’t bad, really easy visual novel with some pretty good graphics. I liked it!
Alchemy Garden
3 hours playtimeNo achievmentsMore
It was a really great experience but sadly it was heartbreakingly short.
The game itself is an easy farming simulator, with the small twist that we can make potions, we get money by selling them.
The graphics are pretty good as well as the mechanics, the sound - everything. The only problem is that the game is only 3-4 hours long, or it doesn’t really have an end goal I just got bored here… I’ll keep my eye on this for sure!
Rogues Adventure
20 minutes playtimeNo achievmentsMore
Funny little platformer game with cute graphics and simple mechanics.
A surprisingly good walking simulator. We play as a wolf who is trying to get back to their family in well-built forest.
I liked the game, it was easy and short, my only problem was that the game doesn’t have any sounds at all, that could really boost the overall experience.
The game is from the same developer as Mighty Forest, I liked this puzzle too, it featured some really good levels.
Same problem here, this game have some sounds but nothing like background music, wind, etc.
My first game from this developer and I really liked it! It was a nice and relaxing piece of game, I had fun with it!
What have I acquired during the week
Hugh, this week was though for my bank account! In this week I have bought the following bundles: DIG Weekly Bundle 441 - 438 - 435 - 445 - 446 - 440, Inide Gala Hidden Arts, Fanatical Mega Bundle 4, Humble Bundle: Down To Eath. I have also bought these games: The Walking Dead: Saint’s and Sinners, I Excpect You To Die, Cosmic Trip, Raw Data, A-Tech Cybernatic VR.
I’m really happy I could play through this many games, I’ll continue this tradition in the future, for sure!
I wish to all of you a nice and productive week ^^!
14th Week of 2021
Introduction
New week, new format, new me :-D The last week was a bit different for me because a loads of thing have happened in my personal life, but I had time to play, happily!
From now, I won’t list all the games I have tried, only the ones I have finished, because that is the main purpose of backlog killing, right ?
Completed Games
It was a simple, chill game which I liked ^^ It’s only a short walking simulator without any story, with survival elements added to it, it was relaxing to play for a couple of minutes!
OMG, I’m in love with this game!
Just a personal note about myself, I was always a bit “weird” regarding romantics, despite I am a boy I’ve always been fascinated with romantic books and films, yes they can be a bit “cliché” but it feels so good to know, there will be a happy ending every time!
I have recently came across a particular game genre on Steam, called adult-visual novels, which I haven’t played before. I wanted to give this a try, because it was free and it had decent review, and I’m so, so happy that I played it!
I’ll say it without any further more: I clicked for the girls but actually stayed for the story. Before playing I thought this would be a linear something, without or with only minimal interactions. But the best thing was the feeling, that I have a choice, I can control the story and I can decide everything according to my hearth.
The story is fairly simple, we control a character who is going to start his first year at college. The game will guide us mainly though social life, who we want to be friends with, which frat will be choosing, and maybe even which girl will be dating…
The game was a bit short for me, because as the story started to escalate I was greeted with the end screen… Of course, because the game is free this is totally acceptable but still, I would like to play for a whole year!
I’ll play more of these kind of games for sure, because the ability to choose our own path is really interesting, and non the less the graphics are really nice too!
Descent - Silence of Mind
1 hour playtimeNo achievmentsMore
It was a rather interesting horror game, with psychological elements but sadly after all it only relied on jump scares.
We play as a guy who has some mental problems and goes to psychologist, where he actually has a “trip” or something like that. We go to different scenes, see different creatures and we even look back to our history.
The game could be really, really good but after 30 minutes the jump scare were too much. There was a 5 minute interval where if 5 screamers didn’t go into my face, then I’m a chicken….
In my opinion horror games are better when they build up tension, an atmosphere, which was here too, but for couple of minutes only….
Overall, it was a nice and rather “stock” horror game, but I’ll be keeping my eyes on this developer for sure!
Next Week’s Games
The next (or this, I’m a bit late) week will be a bit buffed for me, because on Thursday I’ll be celebrating my 18th birthday, and apart from that I won’t have much time because of school stuff but I’m planning to finish these games:
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The Myth Seekers: The Legacy of Vulcan
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Angelo and Deemon: One Hell of a Quest
I wish to all of you a nice and productive week ^^!
Weekly Report: 13th week of 2021
About this week
Whooo, these 2 weeks were busy for me! Sadly, I have skipped the last week’s summary, but that was because my week was stuffed and I didn’t really have time to play! But I’m here now, so these are the games I have played this week:
What have I played during the week:
Doki Doki Literature Club
2 hours playtime
Vector Race
7 minutes playtime-
Tell Me Why
It was an amazing game, one of the best games Dontnod ever made in my honest opinion. I think it get’s mainly negative reviews only because it features things, that are considered unnormal, like being a transgender person, I truly cannot understand why people still argue about this. The story is really touching, for me it was better then Life is Strange’s, the graphics and the overall atmosphere was top-notch once again. I recommend this to every story-driven, choice based game fans ^^
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Little Nightmares
I have played this game because of the “Challange Me”, and it was amazing! The whole game felt like a morbid dream to be which was awesome (yep, I’m weird), I’ll definitely pick up the 2nd one sometime :D
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Doki Doki: Literature Club
OMG, why haven’t I played Visual Novels before ? To be honest, I am in a bit of a reading slump right now, I would have books to read, but I don’t have the will to do it. But, while I was playing the game I felt like I want to read, so everything is nice now :D I really like this kind of gameplay, I do not have to do a lot of things, it is a game but my imagination still has got place. I’m looking forward to finish it!
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Colle Kings
hehe boobies
Other then this it is also a pretty enjoyable VN with a fairly good storyline, because it is free I can highly recommend it :D -
Kingdom Come: Deliverence
Same as the weeks before, I like it more and more ^^
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Street Karate 3
The game looks interesting, and I enjoy(ed) it someway, but sadly it crashes after a certain point :/
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Vector Race
It just look fun, nothing special, maximum 10 minutes worth of content :D
Games acquired this week
I have begun to make an Excel sheet, where I keep track all of the bundles/games I have bought. This week I have bought 3 (and a half) bundles: IndieGala Diabolic Cat, Daily Indie Game 411 & 429 bundle. I just found DiG some days ago, but I’ll be a regular buyer, that is for sure. The half bundle is the Humble Bundle Deep Silver BYOB where I bought two games!
Other then bundles, I have acquired: NASCAR Heat 5, Pathfinder: Kingmaker, Gods Will Fall: Valiant Edition.
This was the week for me, I wish everyone a happy Easter ^^ !
Completion Report #4 - Little Nightmares
I have finished this game right now, and I’m out of words….
This game is truly a masterpiece. We follow a little girl named Six along her journey in this beautiful yet really cruel world. I went to the game straight, without any prior knowledge and there wasn’t any problem understanding the story - yes, it isn’t clear, but I think still it is well made.
The graphics look amazing, also the gameplay itself is really good, I enjoyed thinking over strategies how to defeat certain enemies…
I’m really thinking about getting the 2nd one right now, because how good this was…
Thank you for the challenge ^^ !
Weekly Report: 11th Week of 2021
About this week:
This week I haven’t played much single player games, I mostly played only one game: Rainbow Six Siege.
I have quite some hours in the game, and I feel that the game wasn’t this good since many seasons, I really like to play right now!
I am really happy about the new Life Is Strange game, but there are some concerns in me. The one is, that is developed by Deck Nine games. I haven’t really played Before The Storm, it is on my backlog list, but I would be more happy, if Dontnod would develop this too. The other is the price. it must be a joke, if we look into LiS 1 or 2-s pricing they are all waaay more balanced, I don’t really want to pay 60 euros, 30 or even 20 would be much better…
Anyway, I have played some other games too ^^
What have I played during the week:
- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
21 hours playtime
- Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
2 hours playtime
- Warhammer 40,000: Dakka Squadron - Flyboyz Edition
2 hours playtime
- Tell Me Why
5 hours playtime
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
588 hours playtime
no achievements
- Beach Love Shop
24 minutes playtime
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Deep Rock Galactic
5 hours playtime
no achievements
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Kingdom Come, same as last week, played about 6 hours, I still enjoy it, but I won’t lie, I had to cheat in one mission, the combat is too hard for me, I am really struggling, the hardest part is that this isn’t really depending on me as skill, but more on Henry, the main character. I hope I will get better in it soon.
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Dear Esther, I think I picked this up on sale around maybe July or something like that, wanted to play it ever since then cause I’m a huge fan of “walking-simulator” type games. I quite liked it, I even wrote a bit of a review of it :-D
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Warhammer 40K: Dakka Squadron, this game is pure fun! I really enjoy it, I had quite some progress in it over the week, the missions were a bit hard for me in the beginning, but I got the hang of it now!
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Tell Me Why, I really wanted to progress in this game, or even finish it this week, but sadly, really really sadly my friend sent me a message: do you want to play r6??? I, the sufferer, installed the game, thought “hehe I’ll play for 1-2 hours then move on”….. Oh boy, I was really, really wrong. Anyway back to the topic, the game is still really, really good, I hope I’ll finish it next week!
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Rainbow Six Siege, it is my favorite tactical-FPS shooter game, I visited it because of a friend and because of the new season. I think it is really good right now, and I really enjoy the new operator, Flores.
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Beach Love Shop, just don’t ask please. I needed a game, for my lazy brain at 01 AM.
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Deep Rock Galactic, I left this to the end, because I haven’t played this on Steam, actually I have played this on Gamepass! It is one of the most funniest games I have ever played, the gameplay is amazing, the vibe is outstanding in my opinion. Also, if you play it too on Xbox or with Gamepass, I would be more then happy to play with you! It isn’t bad alone, but it would be better with someone!!
What have I acquired during the week:
This week I have acquired 2 games, Grand Theft Auto 4: Complete Edition, Warhammer: Chaosbane. The first was on sale, and I really wanted it a long time ago, so yeah :D The second, I sadly gave away a copy of mine, when I got it in the Choice, so I bought one now ! I want to go really deep in the Warhammer universe, so I even ordered White Dwarf: Issue 462, because I saw many game will be comeing with it!
Anyway, this was the week for me, I hope it was good for you too. I wish you a nice week :-) !!
| 1832 | games (+3 not categorized yet) |
| 85% | never played |
| 10% | unfinished |
| 2% | beaten |
| 3% | completed |
| 1% | won't play |