Slogging through the backlog backstabs Yekhus’ profile
Progress Report #31: November 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 32, Yekhus: 2
Total play time: 17.5 hours
Completed or Beaten (2)
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Anna's Quest
9.9 hours playtime
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Mediterranea Inferno
7.4 hours playtime
Also Played (1)
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Metal: Hellsinger
3.6 hours playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (10)
- Alan Wake 2
- Death Fungeon (freebie)
- Cook, Serve, Delicious (SG Giveaway)
- Lightmatter (SG Giveaway)
- OneShift (freebie)
- Bulb Boy (freebie)
- Will Glow the Wisp (freebie)
- Wednesdays (freebie)
- Lunark
- Aaero (freebie)
Added to collection (GOG) (5)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Sun Series (pass)
- Fort Solis (pass)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Krynn Series (pass)
- Dream Tactics (pass)
- Gunslugs (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (9)
- Felix The Reaper (freebie)
- New Tales from the Borderlands (pass)
- Gas Station Simulator (pass)
- Songs of Silence (freebie)
- Zero Hour (freebie)
- Zoeti (freebie)
- Godzilla Voxel Wars (freebie)
- PlateUp! (pass)
- Universe for Sale (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (8)
- My Darkest Witch (freebie)
- Cemetery Warrior 4 (freebie)
- Halt (freebie)
- Street Karate 3 (freebie)
- Dark City: Kyiv (pass)
- Immortals Fenyx Rising (freebie)
- Espada de Sheris (free)
- Wordle 2 (freebie)
Progress Report #30: October 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 30, Yekhus: 3
Total play time: 16.8h
Completed or Beaten (2)
Picked Content to start the month with some horror vibes to fit the season.
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Inscryption
23.7 hours playtime
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Content
45 minutes playtime
No achievements
Also Played (3)
Picked Anna's Quest among my giveaway wins to try and beat, also because of the Psychological Horror tag. It does have some dark and sinister tones, but not completely sure it reaches spooky season level. But well, close enough, and I tried.
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Anna's Quest
3.4 hours playtime
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Quake II
33 minutes playtime
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Borderlands 3
68.3 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up with, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
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Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
11 minutes playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (7)
- Train Sim World 6 (free)
- Zomborg (freebie)
- Monster Hunter: World (SG giveaway)
- The Next BIG Thing (SG giveaway)
- Darkenstein 3D (free)
- Greed: Black Border (IG giveaway)
- Space Pilgrim Episode III: Delta Pavonis (freebie)
Added to collection (GOG) (5)
- DragonStrike (pass)
- True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1 (pass)
- Empty Shell (pass)
- True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 (pass)
- You Will Die Here Tonight (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (6)
- Nightingale (freebie)
- Albion Online (free)
- Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York (pass)
- Fear the Spotlight (freebie)
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit (freebie)
- Bendy and the Ink Machine (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (12)
- Pixel Cafe (pass)
- Game Of Mafia (freebie)
- Wordle (freebie)
- Tormented Souls (pass)
- Sausage Hunter (freebie)
- Battle Ram (freebie)
- Best Plumber (freebie)
- Last Room (freebie)
- Mysterious House (freebie)
- Ancient Evil (freebie)
- Halloween Stories: Horror Movie (pass)
- Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Heart of the Forest (pass)
Progress Report #29: September 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 21, Yekhus: 3
Total play time: 34.2h
Completed or Beaten (2)
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Borderlands 3
62 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
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Ultimate Zombie Defense
3.3 hours playtime
Also Played (2)
I've been enjoying Inscryption a lot. But disappointingly, enjoyment has been sliding down as game acts progress: 1st was the best, then 2nd, and 3rd (which I am on now) is feeling like a bit of a slog. Still ok, but kind of looking forward to being done with it.
I've had a blast starting with Injustice 2. Was a refreshing change of pace: I suddenly realized it's been decades since I really last played a fighting game. And man, have they become more complex! But I'm having fun rediscovering this evolved genre, and I'm enjoying its narrative aspects more than I had expected. I don't know if I will be motivated to dig very deep into this genre, but I'm enjoying the ride for now.
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Inscryption
17.2 hours playtime
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Injustice 2
2.7 hours playtime
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up with, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
After months with an eye on this win, I gave it a try, and it started off very weakly, so I had strong doubts of following through. But then the story, and the more brainy side of the puzzle-play ended up hooking me enough to keep going, despite the "stealth horror" aspect, which never felt dangerous, easily dealt with, and was rather just some really annoying and constant mild harassment which made the actually interesting gameplay (the exploration and puzzles) slower to try stuff on and solve. But then, honoring this series bad reputation, came the bug. Just one, but a big one, on level 3/5. I spent a very boring and frustrating hour, spinning wheels with most of it solved except for the last beat. Until I looked up a walkthrough, and eventually found out that I had done everything right, but my game was simply bugged stuck, and I would have to restart a whole new playthrough again to have a chance of fixing it. No thanks. Uninstall forever.
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Hello Neighbor: Hide and Seek
3 hours playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (8)
- Broilers (freebie)
- Moonglow Bay
- What the Fog (IF giveaway)
- Puzzle Chambers (freebie)
- Nettle (free)
- Cybarian: The Time Travelling Warrior (freebie)
- Googunners! (freebie)
- Snake Eyes Dungeon (freebie)
Added to collection (GOG) (3)
- Spelljammer: Pirates of Realmspace (pass)
- Residual (pass)
- FATE: The Cursed King (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (4)
- Monument Valley 2 (freebie)
- The Battle of Polytopia (freebie)
- Project Winter (freebie)
- Jorel’s Brother and The Most Important Game of the Galaxy (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (6)
- Subterrain: Mines of Titan (pass)
- Afterimage (pass)
- Build Battle: Block Craft Wars (freebie)
- Blacklist Mafia (freebie)
- Whiskey.Mafia. Leo's Family (freebie)
- Bad cat Sam (freebie)
Progress Report #28: August 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 33, Yekhus: 2
Definitely been a low-gaming month, with summer time away, projects around the house and garden, etc... But to make the numbers look a bit less dramatic, keep in mind that I'm almost a week late on this update, so the backlog additions include the first week of September, and include more than the usual exact month. This should help the next update to be better right? Just wish me luck and strong will to fulfill my part. :)
Completed or Beaten (1)
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Karma City Police
3.4 hours playtime
Also Played (5)
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Inscryption
11.4 hours playtime
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Nightmare Kart
83 minutes playtime
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Hero's Hour
72 minutes playtime
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Hellstuck: Rage With Your Friends
11 minutes playtime
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Borderlands 3
? hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up with, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog: I liked the idead of a short investigation murder mystery, but it proved a bit too light on the gameplay (more like a disguised interactive novel). But when the action levels came in and started to need retries to get past, I knew that I was really not in the mood for this bipolar-disorder of a game.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
34 minutes playtime
No achievements
Added to collection (Steam) (15)
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (freebie)
- Dracomaton (freebie)
- Kitchen Wars (freebie)
- Ruby and The Lost Crystals (free)
- Trifox (SG giveaway)
- Guntouchables (freebie)
- The Dungeon of Naheulbeuk (SG giveaway)
- Summer in Mara (freebie)
- Cartoon Survivor (free)
- Dead in Bermuda (free)
- Taina's Cursed Legacy (free)
- Injustice 2 (SG giveaway)
- This Means Warp (IG giveaway)
- Shadowgrounds Survivor (IG giveaway)
- AquaNox (IG giveaway)
Added to collection (GOG) (8)
- Heroes of Loot (pass)
- Necroking (pass)
- Tin Hearts (pass)
- FATE: The Traitor Soul (pass)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Ravenloft Series (pass)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Fantasy Empires (pass)
- Dungeons & Dragons: Silver Box Classics (pass)
- Heroes of Loot 2 (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (4)
- Road Redemption (freebie)
- Filthy Animals: Heist Simulator (pass)
- Strange Horticulture (freebie)
- Kamaeru: A Frog Refuge (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (6)
- Toree 2 (freebie)
- Toree 3D (freebie)
- Game club "Waka-Waka" (freebie)
- Carlos the Taco (freebie)
- Labyrinth City: Pierre the Maze Detective (pass)
- The Brave Little Cloud (freebie)
Progress Report #27: July 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 18, Yekhus: 3
Total play time: 15.2h
Completed or Beaten (2)
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Machinika Museum
2.2 hours playtime
No achievements
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Steamworld Dig
12.1 hours playtime
Also Played (1)
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Inscryption
6.3 hours playtime
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up with, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
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Super Meat Boy Forever
4 hour playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (10)
- Ampersat (freebie)
- Fabledom (SG giveaway)
- Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew
- Dráscula: The Vampire Strikes Back
- Fantasy General II (freebie)
- Caribbean Crashers (freebie)
- Dogwalk (free)
- Oil Sheik (free)
- To the Kingdom (freebie)
- Barro GT (freebie)
Added to collection (GOG) (2)
- STAR WARS Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (pass)
- Venba (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (4)
- Backpack Hero (freebie)
- Sky Racket (freebie)
- Legion TD 2 (freebie)
- Keylocker (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (2)
- Hotel Greenwood (freebie)
- Brütal Legend (freebie)
Progress Report #26: June 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 34, Yekhus: 1
Total play time: 19.2h
Completed or Beaten (1)
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Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2
4 hours playtime
Also Played (3)
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Steamworld Dig
5.4 hours playtime
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Borderlands 3
48.22 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
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Harmony's Odyssey
5.5 hours playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (20)
- Blue Prince (friend gift)
- Honey, I Joined a Cult (bundle)
- Hellslave (freebie)
- What the Pak?! (freebie)
- Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six® Siege X (free)
- Down the Rabbit Hole Flattened (free)
- ROTA: Bend Gravity (free)
- Space Pilgrim Episode II: Epsilon Indi (freebie)
- NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics (freebie)
- The Third Pig (free)
- Awkward valley (free)
- Zui's Witch Academy (free)
- The Last Oath (free)
- The Children of Clay (free)
- Muffles' Life Sentence (free)
- Incarnation (free)
- Costly Adventure (free)
- Moldbreaker: Rise of the Loaf (free)
- ReSpaced (free)
- FootLOL: Epic Soccer League (IG giveaway)
Added to collection (GOG) (6)
- Death Squared (pass)
- Tomb Raider I-III Remastered (pass)
- FATE: Undiscovered Realms (pass)
- Dark Envoy (pass)
- Jupiter Hell (pass)
- Thief: Deadly Shadows (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (5)
- Ogu and the Secret Forest (freebie)
- Two Point Hospital (freebie)
- The Operator (freebie)
- Paquerette Down the Bunburrows (freebie)
- Boxes: Lost Fragments (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (3)
- The Abandoned Planet (pass)
- Station to Station (pass)
- Pieces of Me (freebie)
Progress Report #25: May 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 37, Yekhus: 4
Total play time: 14h
Completed or Beaten (4)
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Harmony's Odyssey
4.7 hours playtime
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Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island
43 mins playtime
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Gorogoa
3 hours playtime
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Escape From Mystwood Mansion
4.3 hours playtime
Also Played (1)
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Borderlands 3
26.2 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Added to collection (Steam) (16)
- XLarn
- Amnesia: The Bunker (SG giveaway)
- Max Payne
- Asterix & Obelix XXL (freebie)
- The Flayed Man (free)
- Escape from Mystwood Mansion (SG giveaway)
- Cast & Spell (freebie)
- Bioprototype (free)
- Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun - Words of Vengeance (free)
- Game of Thrones: Kingsroad (free)
- Classified: France 44 (bundle)
- King of the Castle (bundle)
- Conscript (bundle)
- Founders' Fortune (bundle)
- CodeStrike - Python Practice Adventure Game (freebie)
- A Story About Farting (free)
Added to collection (GOG) (9)
- Styx: Master of Shadows (pass)
- STAR WARS Galactic Battlegrounds Saga (pass)
- LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga (pass)
- Hypnospace Outlaw (pass)
- Blood Omen 2: Legacy of Kain (pass)
- Mail Time (pass)
- Tief II: The Metal Age (pass)
- Fate (pass)
- Golf With Your Friends (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (10)
- Super Space Club (freebie)
- Dead Time Defenders (freebie)
- Touch Type Tale (freebie)
- Dead Island 2 (freebie)
- Happy Game (freebie)
- Deliver At All Costs (freebie)
- Gigapocalypse (freebie)
- Chessarama (pass)
- Liberté (pass)
- Jennifer Wilde:Unlikely Revolutionaries (pass)
Added to collection (Other) (2)
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (pass)
- Trinity Fusion (pass)
Played Demos (1)
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Tiny Bookshop demo
30 minutes playtime
No Achievements
Progress Report #24: April 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 22, Yekhus: 3
Total play time: 25.5 hours
Completed or Beaten (2)
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The Last Door: Season 2 - Collector's Edition
6.9 hour playtime
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Cureocity
1 hour playtime
Also Played (4)
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The Lamplighters League
10.3 hours playtime
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Harmony's Odyssey
2.4 hours playtime
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Teslagrad 2
25 mins playtime
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Borderlands 3
23.5 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
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Himno
20m playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (3)
- Avernum 2: Crystal Souls (SG giveaway)
- Frog Detective 1: The Haunted Island (SG giveaway)
- Granny Kick Neighbor (freebie)
Added to collection (GOG) (7)
- TUNIC
- Deus Ex: Invisible War (pass)
- Mafia 3: Definitive Edition (pass)
- Wild Country (pass)
- Berserk Boy (pass)
- Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (pass)
- The Last Spell (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (8)
- Let's Build a Zoo (pass)
- Session: Skate Sim (pass)
- River City Girls (freebie)
- Botanicula (freebie)
- The Last Show of Mr. Chardish (pass)
- Fashion Police Squad (pass)
- Chuchel (freebie)
- Troublemaker (pass)
Added to collection (Other) (4)
- Clouds and Sheep 2 (pass)
- Paleo Pines (pass)
- Minecraft Legends (pass)
- Alessia's Dollhouse (freebie)
Played Demos (3)
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Is This Seat Taken? demo
25 minutes playtime
No Achievements
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Deck of Haunts demo
1.25 hours playtime
No Achievements
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Half Sword demo
1 hour playtime
No Achievements
Progress Report #23: March 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 22, Yekhus: 4
Total play time: 25.8h
Completed or Beaten (3)
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Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories
1.7 hours playtime
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Arx Fatalis
34.7 hours playtime
No achievements
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The Booze of Monkey Island
3 hours playtime
No achievements
Also Played (2)
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Roboquest
6 hours playtime
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Borderlands 3
22 hours playtime
No achievements (not on Steam)
Tried and discarded (1)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
Mini Thief was fun for a while. But then it started becoming very repetitive and grindy and devoid of new things to discover, and thus became completely unfun. So long, and thanks for the good time.
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Mini Thief
2.1h playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (9)
- We Were Here Forever (friend gift)
- Isle of Jura (freebie)
- Screap Collector (freebie)
- Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning (freebie)
- Party Club (freebie)
- Ease Out (free)
- Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy (freebie)
- Excive A-1000 (IG giveaway)
- Cyberpunk 2077
Added to collection (GOG) (5)
- Mafia II: Definitive Edition (pass)
- Syberia: The World Before (pass)
- Amerzone: The Explorer’s Legacy (freebie)
- Mutazione (pass)
- Legacy of Kain: Defiance (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (3)
- Crime Boss: Rockay City (pass)
- Jurassic World Evolution 2 (freebie)
- Neko Ghost, Jump! (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (5)
- Naheulbeuk's Dungeon Master (pass)
- Madness Inside (free)
- The Black Within (free)
- Myrne: The Quest (free)
- Wolfenstein: The Old Blood (pass)
Played Demos (2)
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The Horror at Highrook
1.5 hours playtime
No Achievements
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Chambers
1 hour playtime
No Achievements
Progress Report #22: February 2025
Monthly tally - Backlog: 25, Yekhus: 6
Total play time: 11.6h
Not a bad month overall, despite the shorter month and scarce time dedicated to play. Guess that the odd shorter game, plus a couple of dicards do add up. Will look for more of those in the coming months to make bigger dents in the backlog.
Completed or Beaten (2)
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The Last Door - Collector's Edition
3.6 hours playtime
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TEST TEST TEST
2.1 hours playtime
No achievements
Also Played (2)
Played Roboquest with a friend. Great fun! I'm saving it for more co-op sessions. Hope they happen soon and often. Mini Thief surprised me, being deeper and more fun than I initially thought. Will try to beat it next month, in short bursts, if it doesn't become too frustrating in the higher levels. The permadeath component makes me a bit too tense when difficulty starts to rely too much on precision.
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Roboquest
4 hour playtime
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Mini Thief
70 minutes playtime
Tried and discarded (2)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
XIII Classic: a real pity, this one. I started playing it, and felt nice and fun. I wanted to keep going, but this version is just painfully buggy. Resolution, sound, mouse problems... but the game killer was where it sometimes didn't close properly, froze my whole windows and I had to restart my computer to keep using it at all. Sad and terrible, but at the end of the day, it's one game less on my backlog.
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XIII - Classic
1.8 hours playtime
No achievements
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Distant Space
8 minutes playtime
Added to collection (Steam) (4)
- Chef: A Restaurant Tycoon Game (SG giveaway)
- Karma City Police (SG giveaway
- Stellar Mess: The Princess Conundrum (Chapter 1) (freebie)
- Mangui (free)
Added to collection (GOG) (4)
- The Smurfs 2 - The Prisoner of the Green Stone (pass)
- Dark Sky (pass)
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut (pass)
- Yes, Your Grace (pass)
Added to collection (Epic) (9)
- Humankind (freebie)
- Sands of Aura (pass)
- AK-xolotl: Together (pass)
- F1 manager 2024 (freebie)
- Garden Story (freebie)
- World War Z: Aftermath (freebie)
- El Hijo: A Wild West Tale (pass)
- Republic of Jungle (pass)
- Redemption Reapers (pass)
Added to collection (Other) (8)
- Deadfall (freebie)
- Stunt Kite Party (pass)
- Risk of Pain (freebie)
- Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk (freebie)
- Daiku no Medium (freebie)
- Megalith (freebie)
- Wolfenstein: Youngblood (pass)
- Night Reverie (pass)
Played Demos (1)
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Blue Prince demo
2.9 hours
No Achievements
| 975 | games |
| 69% | never played |
| 3% | unfinished |
| 14% | beaten |
| 8% | completed |
| 6% | won't play |