• This month was not easy outside (and coming month won’t be either), so i’m late. Next month i hope to finish Batman, or at least make a good progress.

Mostly completed or played - October 2025

• Crown Gambit : 100% my goty 2025, ink based game with a lot of real choices and a good replayability, deep story and interesting gameplay
• Ah ah ! Finally managed to beat Pharaoh + all the dlc ! It was fun but a loooong grind.

Won on steamgifts

• Karate Survivor - proof : From the communautary train 2025, you choose a serie of attacks and they auto-play from left to right. I was searching for a game like one finger death puch, this one is different but has a really good rythm, despite the grind i had a blast and it’s now my favorite SG win

October/November theme - こんにちは! Ça va?

• Signs of the sojourner : finished twice, a really nice game. I really enjoyed playing cards like dominoes, not to win a cards duel but to try to find common ground with the NPC. However game is harsh, with far too many symbols compared to the limited number of cards in the deck, and a fatigue system that hides many cards. The watercolor effect, almost like stained glass, looks beautiful though.
• Aotenjo beaten twice. It’s Balatro with mahjong (not real mahjong rules, it’s easiest and specific rules). So based on luck but you can alter the tiles. More sets and more difficulties, but i finally ended up beating standard blue (normal mode). Really fun and playable, despite the absence of story and the backgrounds monotony.

Given up

• No sense of driving, even with the elevation changes, it feels like you are on flat ground. All the tracks are similar, as if sections had been copied and pasted.
  You know the feeling when you pay with your time more than your money ? Here you go.

In progress - plan for next month

• Occasionally : CoH3 (still intend to slowly finish this one), Swat Commander (early-access), Isonzo (multiplayer)
• Espresso Tycoon : Yum ! Coffee !
• Batman is a SG win, finally managed to remap controller more or less, this month i’ve just beaten a 1st easy boss

Have fun for next month !

Mostly completed or played - September 2025

• Let’s! Revolution! and D&D Gamblers were great

August/September theme - The Great Backlog Harvest

• Dawnfolk story was excellent, endless mode not so much
• Rana Card it’s harvesting + gambling without money :D

In progress - plan for next month

• Occasionally : CoH3 (still intend to slowly finish this one), Swat Commander (early-access), Isonzo (multiplayer)
• NFS Unbound : EA being bought by another company, i should hurry to play that
• Pharaoh a new era : i finished the base game for the august theme but didn’t expect a dlc to be included too, currently trying to finish the dlc
• Karate Survivor : won in the SG communautary train, damn good !

Have fun for next month !

Mostly completed or played - August 2025

• Drop duchy was really good but grindy. Not a masterpiece but it’s a good complement to Tetris and Concrete Jungle.
• The royal writ : Amazing concept and graphic style, but from lack of balance just 10% players finished act 2 yet.

Won on steamgifts

• Tiny Terry - proof : Oh wow i won this one this month ! Short but funny game, it was a good relaxing time, loved the little hero !

August/September theme - The great backlog harvest

• Terroir : grindy but a good popularization of winemaking steps
• The wandering village : fresh concept of building a village on a moving animal but the story was disappointing, grindy and same environments on a loop, worths the 15€ of early-acess, but doesn’t worth the 30€ final price

In progress - plan for next month

• CoH3 : sigh and i’ve still this one unfinished, not that i don’t like it but there are so many games to play
• Ballionaire is really cool, not as good as Balatro but really a great complement
• Swat Commander is early access but like a dream already for Swat 4 fans (and i finished ready or not story), also it runs like a charm on my toaster
• Pharaoh i hope to finish it for the august-september theme

Have fun for next month !

Mostly completed or played - July 2025

• Broken sword reforged, surprisingly not the same game at all than the director’s cut
• Duck detective : both short but really funny, i could eat that everyday :D
• Pixel cafe : discount adviced on SG forum, super grindy but lovely story and characters ! ❤️
• Rack & slay : nice discovery, really good pool variation
• Islanders new shores is Dorfromantik-like addiction, grindy but crazy good, 100% recommend !

Won on steamgifts

• Playing relaxing games gave me the incentive to finish some unpleasant games won on on SG years ago… as i already played the pleasant ones lol (obviously i stopped trying to win games that i wouldn’t enjoy)
• Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - proof : won a decade ago, stopped when i was surrounded by spiders, finished on steam input as the game supports no more xbox 360 controller, lack of precision and general ambiance made it… not really fun.
• When Ski Lifts Go Wrong - proof : had played half of the game already years ago, now finished following a guide, most often a single solution by the milimeter, this one was totally infuriating
• Q.U.B.E. 2 - proof : i had given up at chapter 8 surprised by the creepy ambiance, now finished following a video guide, it’s a puzzle game, sometimes beautiful but the puzzles are really hard, and suddenly they can require timing and precision to step forward. In the end it was really Portal-like. Meh.

June/July theme - a.door.able

In progress - plan for next month

• CoH3 : sigh that’s a really good game but still didn’t progress last month
• @VinroyIsViral You’re right, Drop duchy is better than Canard PC review :p
• Received Patapon 1+2 (never played before) as a bday gift, just finished 1st what an amazingly cute little gem… 🥰 Now on the 2nd !

Have fun for next month !

Mostly completed or played - June 2025

• A highland song was awesome (like all Inkle games), i felt like a climber-explorer in a poetic environment ^^
• Chef life has a nice cooking system but devs would have done better to emphasize the quality of the dishes to be served rather than the quantity

June/July theme - a.door.able

• Portal : a classic but not really my taste
• Not tonight : fun “Papers please”-like but really grindy, also awful save system

In progress - plan for next month

• CoH3 : i didn’t progress last month sigh but hey i still didn’t give up !
• July theme a-door-able : this month i feel especially lazy, i’ll just finish Hidden Folks

Have fun for next month !

Mostly completed or played - May 2025

• Stunning graphic style and sound ambiance, fun and well balanced : good alternative to Roguebook for deckbuilders casual players

April/May theme - 4ever

• Unfortunately i’m late, a mix of nice vacations and not cool administrative worries. But i finally found the motivation to reach the end of this one after some months. So in the end, it was well balanced and i liked a lot these 70h. But it wasn’t a masterpiece : no really endearing characters and the main story was forgettable. Still recommend for Suikoden fans because Suikoden-like are terribly rare.

In progress - plan for next month

• CoH3 : i progress slowly but have been able to link the west and east of Italy, before hopefully heading north !
• June theme a-door-able : funnily i never played Portal before, so why not ?
• You play a bouncer in Not tonight, so it’s probably related to doors ! ^^

Have fun for next month !

Mostly completed or played - April 2025

• Megaquarium : this month i hope to visit Nausicaa - yes it’s the same theme, like game and reality
• Dice & Fold is very well balanced, no story though, so Dicey Dungeon and Roguebook are better but it’s still a really good one
• All the others (yes i bought HB armor games bundle) : relaxing (good) but super grindy (not good) !!

April/May theme - 4ever

• Opus was a disappointment, i expected something about building a rocket like Kerbal and played a psychological sad novel, pfff :(
• Turnip boy robs a bank was good but not as much impactful as the 1st

In progress - plan for next month

• After finishing Dice & Fold, it made me want to start Astrea, and woo, so beautiful art style !
• Coh3 is quite intense, so i alternate with more relaxing games, and that’s how i didn’t progress cause after that i wanna finish the relaxing ones
• Eiyuden, i choose it for May theme “4ever” maybe it will motivate me

Have fun for next month !

Mostly completed or played - March 2025

Won on steamgifts

• Yosumin - proof : Fun little game ! Had given up because of timed-challenges, finally found the hmm speed of mind to finish it
• Dead in bermuda - proof : lol there is an easy mode not accessible from main menu facepalm
• Helico sim 2014 - proof : 9x the same 5 missions 😭 = 45 missions x 20 minutes ; fedex + putting out fires with a bucket of water attached by a rope to helico
• Battlestation Midway - proof : Loved every second ! Planes, destroyer, cruiser, aircraft carrier, all full arcade ! Yummy !

February/March theme - I turn my camera on

In progress - plan for next month

• Eiyuden and CoH3 : Still 2 big pieces that won’t be finished this month but CoH3 is totally my style of game so i’ve a blast ! 🥰
• Megaquarium : base game beaten, i’m going through the dlc campaigns. Cute and relaxing !
• Opus and Detective Di for april theme both 4h on HLBT

Have fun for next month !

Mostly completed or played - February 2025

• Door kickers 2 is a fun and worthy sequel but still needs some balancing, and some missions are quite infuriating like a puzzle
• Ready or Not optimization has been fixed, it’s now a Swat 4’s worthy successor
• New Star GP was super fun, i don’t like circuit racing usually but it’s all arcade and extremely well balanced
• Almost gave up Descenders (just 1 life left at the end), it’s a good game but reminded me ClusterTruck difficulty

February/March theme - I turn my camera on

• These 2 were interesting but quite grindy/redundant

In progress - plan for next month

• 2 really fun and big pieces that may not be finished in a month
• Would like to add Beasts of Maravilla Island for march theme, had given up because of nausea but i think i can finish it (though not 100%)
• Also i won years ago car mechanic simulator 2024 on SG but didn’t notice there was a helicopter game in the pack, i’ll try it out now (review score is abysmal)

Have fun for next month !

A short presentation once

Hello and thanks, i’m happy to join you and this powerful tool ! ^_^
My plan to fight backlog is… well i’m not a completionist, i try to finish main story or campaign, if not possible then at least a serious attempt.
Sometimes it’s not possible, i’m allergic to horror games. And also have to deal with playing with one arm. So i find solutions (controller remapping, mouse with multiple buttons, etc.) or not !
I tend to prioritarize games received from my husband, these are gifts i wanted to play on my 8 years old good enough PC. And then those from steam friends or SG.

Mostly completed or played - january 2025

• Aircraft carrier has been a very good surprise, even if it doesn’t go after Guadalcanal.
• Radio general had uneven difficulty missions but was fun, played it with mouse but it’s similar to radio commander and can be played with voice commands.
• Inkulinati was funny indeed, narrow environments favor specific tactics like pushing the enemy to the edge.

In progress - plan for next month

• Finished some significant steps but New Star GP and Descenders difficulty is quickly ramping up ! New Star GP is full arcade and a funny one, the AI rivals react with little emojis, they are sad or angry when we overtake them, happy or laugh when they overtake us. Descenders is really similar to trials fusion but 3D.
• You probably already know Ready or not, it’s a modern Swat 4-like. Great game but not well optimized since upgrade to Unreal Engine 5.
• As a Suikoden 5 lover, i’ve a blast on Eiyuden. The scenario doesn’t seem as powerful, but there is this little touch that makes you want to collect all the characters. The game is long and will need more than 1 month probably.
• Just added door kickers 2 received from a steam friend, because monday it’s out of early-access !! :D
• Also i’m tempted to add Do not feed the monkeys 2099 and Beholder 3, cause they fit the february theme.

Wish you all to enjoy this month !