I hadn't managed to get into V Rising previously but with the official release decided to give it a go.

It was great! The boss fights were interesting, and some were fairly difficult on brutal, such as Solarus and of course Dracula.. I managed to finally beat Dracula after many, many deaths, some strategic skill switching (shields are pretty much necessary for the last phase) and somehow managing to avoid the AoE at the end and DPS him down quick enough…

I did change the server settings so crafting/gathering was essentially easy mode, while the combat was brutal. Made for less grind and more fun.

I had fun with Littlewood, but going for the 100% at the end was painful. There are a lot of grindy achievements, the worst being fishing 2500 fish, catching 2500 bugs and completing 150 quests.

The mining 6000 nodes and chopping 6000 trees were grindy, but weren't as bad to finish.

If they lowered these achievements and had something like 'Get every house to tier 3', it would still have been a similar amount of time to grind, but a lot more interesting. Ah well!

Played with some friends and managed to view the credits, so tentatively marked as 'Beaten'.
Will likely come back to it when friends want to play :)

Fun game, but has some frustrating achievements!
I focused most of my game on making sure to get Emily's romance achievement - once that was done, it was a lot easier to gradually work on the others.

I did enjoy my time in MTaP, and am glad that I went back to finally beat (and then complete) the game.

It did become a bit of a slog for the last few achievements (the child ones), as by that point I had already gotten all the house upgrades, the factory was fully upgraded and I had a heap of pre-made items for the commissions. I ended up speeding through the days at this point!

I'm keen to try out My Time at Sandrock sometime in the future!

Great game - I even replayed the game to the end twice, and halfway through again with a multiplayer campaign. I rarely replay games, even shorter games for achievements.

I highly recommend that people play as the Dark Urge character. My very rushed second play through as the Durge was very interesting with the expanded story.
There is also a lot of mods available now, so that was fun to do cosmetic mods for this second play through!

My screenshot folder ended up with 4,782 screenshots.. just a few…

It was well worth being the only game that I have paid full price for this year.
I will be shocked if it is not GOTY.

Mediocre all the way through.

I wouldn't recommend at the current price for what it is.

First game is complete on Insanity!

I originally finished 1 and attempted 2 years ago… 2 feels so dated as they fully lean into the cover shooter mechanic. First game, I could go full biotic, and with the overheating mechanic (and not having to collect ammo) didn't really feel like a straight FPS. Biotic seems nerfed a lot in 2.

I'll hopefully get into 2… maybe..

Going from Starfield to this, really emphasized how mediocre Starfield is for a new game..

Amazing game honestly.

Already planning to replay it for the 100% achievements (5 to go..) :D

I have a whole review on why I don't recommend Starfield on Steam…

I'm struggling to finish it to be honest - but I'm going to power through :/

Coming from BG3 where everything seemed to be handcrafted, to Starfield, where everything seems low effort, copy paste… I dunno. Very lackluster game I was hoping would be better.

I've played somewhere between 1-3 hours on the steam deck while I was away this month. (Wasn't keeping track..)
Great game to be able to pick up for 5-20 minutes at a time!

Also brilliant being able to play offline - we had no internet in the middle of nowhere at the time (Horrific, I know!)