Log #24 - Super belated end of year report 2023 + January - beginning of April 2024

Okay, I am sooo late with this… but better late than never, right? I have also not spent too much time gaming so far in 2024 (aside from finding all the cats), because I was traveling these past few months. I just got home a few days ago, so I am just going to treat this as my end of the year, why not?^^.

Backlog growth: +48

Assassinations from January - Beginning of April:

• Plant Therapy
  

  4.6 hours playtime

  40 of 40 achievements

• 100 Dino Cats
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• The Room Two
  

  2.5 hours playtime

  7 of 7 achievements

• 100 Robo Cats
  

  0.0 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• 100 Capitalist Cats
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• 100 March Cats
  

  0.0 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• Cats and Seek
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• Cats Hidden in Jingle Jam
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• 100 Christmas Cats
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• Cat Search In The Wild West
  

  0.2 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• Hidden Winter Cats
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• Meow Moments: Celebrating Together
  

  1.0 hours playtime

  15 of 15 achievements

• Looking For Cats In a Badly Drawn City
  

  0.0 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Looking For Cats In a Badly Drawn Forest
  

  0.2 hours playtime

  30 of 30 achievements

• Pickle Clicker
  

  4.6 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

• Please, Touch The Artwork 2
  

  0.8 hours playtime

  29 of 29 achievements

• Where Jellyfish 水母在哪里
  

  0.0 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• Agent Team Simulator
  

  6.7 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• I commissioned some invisible people 0
  

  0.7 hours playtime

  6 of 6 achievements

• 100 Funny Cats
  

  0.0 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• Lemonade Apocalypse
  

  0.4 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Torchlight
  

  55.7 hours playtime

  35 of 66 achievements

My goals for 2023 were:
1) Reducing the pile of unfinished + never played games to 70%: and the pile of shame currently sits at 69%, yay!
2) Increasing the total number of completed games to 200: I did not reach this goal with a total of 191 games completed.
3) Increasing my Completionist score to 60%: I currently have 61.5%, yay again!

Of course the numbers are a bit inflated since I added 3 months to my year and only played short and easy to complete games in these 3 months, but they’re my stats and I falsify them if I want to :P.

My goals for 2024 are:
1) Reducing the pile of unfinished + never played games to 65%
2) Increasing the total number of completed games to 240
3) Increasing my Completionist score to 64%

That’s it from me, happy gaming everyone!

Log #23

Backlog growth: +22

Hey there! I am still alive, I just was very busy with my thesis this past few weeks, but I finally handed it in two days ago and now I am nearly free! :D I unfortunately missed posting something for my BLAEO birthday in September and of course did not get too much gaming done, just some small, free games were completed and some idling was also done^^

• OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THIS KNIGHT
  

  0.3 hours playtime

  8 of 8 achievements

• THE BUTTON
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• The Most Boring Game Ever
  

  7.8 hours playtime

  9 of 9 achievements

• Picross for a Cause
  

  30.8 hours playtime

  6 of 6 achievements

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Log #22

Backlog growth: +8
I haven’t had too much time to play games these past two months due to working on my master thesis and finishing my last module at university and it won’t be getting better in the near future, but let’s have a look at the assassinations of June and July!

• Raft
  

  47.4 hours playtime

  57 of 104 achievements

• The Secret Order 5: The Buried Kingdom
  

  3.7 hours playtime

  31 of 31 achievements

• Dissonance
  

  1.0 hours playtime

  8 of 10 achievements

• 100 hidden frogs 2
  

  0.2 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• ELEX
  

  26.6 hours playtime

  29 of 50 achievements

Log #21

Backlog growth: +4

I managed to only add 4 new games this month, which is kind of a record for me! Let’s have a look at the assassinations of the last month:

• The Adventure Pals
  

  14.1 hours playtime

  31 of 31 achievements

• Crusaders of the Lost Idols
  

  1475.8 hours playtime

  99 of 99 achievements

• Luna's Fishing Garden
  

  3.1 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

• ARIDA: Backland's Awakening
  

  2.8 hours playtime

  26 of 26 achievements

• Ever Seen A Cat? 2
  

  0.6 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

• Ever Seen A Cat? 3
  

  1.0 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

• Just A Humble Swordsmith
  

  0.2 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Megaquarium
  

  17.6 hours playtime

  17 of 21 achievements

The Adventure Pals: Cute platformer, I had fun!
Crusaders of the Lost Idols: One of the long idle games in my backlog is finally done! Started playing this game back in 2015 and had long breaks inbetween. It doesn’t have offline progress, so I had to let it run in the background a lot.
Luna’s Fishing Garden: Short and cute idle game, a bit like Plantera.
Arida: Backland’s Awakening: Short game where you have to collect resources and do some fetching type quests with a light survival mechanic. Felt a little bit like a demo.
Ever Seen A Cat? 2: HOG, a bit repetitive.
Ever Seen A Cat? 3: HOG, a bit repetitive.
Just A Humble Swordsmith: Short, free autobattler.
Megaquarium: Sim in which you have to build aquariums. I have finished the campaign but will be back to collect the last few achievements in sanbox mode.

That’s it from me, hope you all are having a good month! :)

Log #20

Backlog growth: +13

I was on vacation at the end of March/beginning of April, so I skipped a report. So on to the assassinations of the past two months:

• DEMON'S TILT
  

  17.0 hours playtime

  29 of 29 achievements

• Samorost 2
  

  0.9 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

• Wordle 5
  

  1.9 hours playtime

  50 of 50 achievements

• Kitaria Fables
  

  21.9 hours playtime

  41 of 41 achievements

• The Last Campfire
  

  5.1 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

• Serial Cleaner
  

  8.9 hours playtime

  28 of 28 achievements

• The Almost Gone
  

  8.0 hours playtime

  12 of 12 achievements

• Down in Bermuda
  

  3.0 hours playtime

  19 of 25 achievements

Demon’s Tilt: Really cool pinball game, was quite addicted to it and had a great time! One achievement was a bit grindy, requiring quite a few replays after I had already done everything else. Worked fine on steam deck. If you are -like me- a fan of pinball games, I wholeheartedly recommend it!
Samorost 2: Cute, short point+click.
Wordle 5: Really, really bad! If you are thinking about getting it: don’t! xD Words are missing letters at the end or have an ‘e’ more, words are repeated in categories or don’t have any relation to the category, I don’t know why they released this mess.
Kitaria Fables: Cute little farm and fighting game where you play a cat :) A bit grindy at times. Works well on steam deck!
The Last Campfire: Really liked this relaxing, cute puzzling game. Liked the puzzles (engaging but not frustrating), design and atmosphere! Works well on steam deck!
Serial Cleaner: Even though stealth is not my favourite genre of all time, I really liked this one! The 70ies atmosphere was nicely executed and the levels were short, and fun to challenging. Works well on steam deck!
The Almost Gone: Was not my cup of tea, puzzles were so easy they were bordering on boring and the story was too vague for my taste. One achievement requires you to stay in the game for 5 hours, another one a replay, which are both pretty senseless and don’t add anything to the game experience, for the 5 hour achievement I just kept it running and watched TV -.-
Down in Bermuda: Cute short puzzle/HOG, I had fun but definitely liked Agent A a lot more. Works on Steam Deck, but I found the controls a bit fidgety.

That’s it from me, hope you all are having a great month!

Log #19

Backlog growth: +11

Belated post and I did not get around to playing a lot of games this month, but exam phase is over for me since yesterday, so hopefully the coming weeks will be a bit more relaxed!

• I commissioned some bees 0
  

  0.7 hours playtime

  11 of 11 achievements

• Doodle God
  

  15.8 hours playtime

  18 of 22 achievements

• Hidden Mars
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• IN THE BUILDING: CATS 3
  

  0.5 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Card Storm Idle
  

  192.2 hours playtime

  8 of 8 achievements

• Stardander Revenant
  

  1.4 hours playtime

  4 of 4 achievements

Log #18

Backlog growth: +12

I managed to complete at least a bit more than last month, including 2 longer games!

• The Elder Scrolls: Arena
  

  26.5 hours playtime

  no achievements

• The Secret Order 4: Beyond Time
  

  4.5 hours playtime

  33 of 33 achievements

• Solitairica
  

  43.1 hours playtime

  27 of 27 achievements

• Wheel of Innocence
  

  1.3 hours playtime

  17 of 17 achievements

• I Frog-ot
  

  0.4 hours playtime

  5 of 5 achievements

• Nova Lands: Emilia's Mission
  

  5.0 hours playtime

  6 of 6 achievements

The Elder Scrolls Arena: I have to say I am particularly proud of actually finishing this one. It was a bit of a hassle and also a bit monotonous, but the guide on steam “How to have fun while playing Arena” helped a lot xD! And since the Elder Scrolls are one of my all time favourite game series (especially Morrowind <3), it was really interesting to see where it all started^^. So next up will be Daggerfall!

The Secret Order 4: Slowly making my way through this HOG series.

Solitairica: I have been playing this game on and off for the last couple of months, but finally managed to beat it with all decks and collect the last achievements. I really liked it. It is simple, but fun and perfect for a quick round inbetween.

Wheel of Innocence: Free visual novel. Visual novels are not my genre, so I don’t feel like I can judge, but I would say it is okay since it’s free^^

I frog-ot: Weird little free game.

Nova Lands: Emilia’s Mission: Free demo. Building a base on a planet. I liked what I saw, so I wishlisted the full game.

Log #17

December + End of year update!

So this post is a little late because I started into the new year with a terrible cold, but I am feeling better now, so here it goes :)

Backlog growth: +12

In December, I only finished 3 games:

• Escape Memoirs: Mini Stories
  

  2.1 hours playtime

  no achievements

• The Secret Order 3: Ancient Times
  

  3.6 hours playtime

  26 of 26 achievements

• The Lost Dachshund
  

  0.2 hours playtime

  no achievements

None of those were particularly interesting^^, so I’m not gonna write anything about them.

So, as for my resolutions for 2022: I managed to meet all my goals!
I wanted to reduce the pile of unplayed + unfinished games to at least 75% [from 83%], which I just about did. I have a total of 130 completed games now (goal was 55 [from 39]). I think I kind of underestimated how many smallish games I would finish and set kind of a too low goal, oh well. Lastly, I raised my completionist score to 58.3%. The goal was 52.5 % [from 47.5%].
So, all in all, I’m happy with this year’s backlog progress :) For next year, my goals are: Reducing the pile of shame to 70%, reach 200 completed games and a completionist score of 60%! But as always, these are just nice to have, the main goal still is having fun :D

Hope you all had a good start into the new year, until next month!

Log #16

Backlog growth: +16
I completed/finished a few short games and one medium last month! My favourite was Spiritfarer :)

• Spiritfarer
  

  27.9 hours playtime

  39 of 39 achievements

• TOHU
  

  5.1 hours playtime

  18 of 21 achievements

• IN THE BUILDING: CATS
  

  0.5 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Fate of Dynasty
  

  0.4 hours playtime

  5 of 5 achievements

• Resonance of the Ocean
  

  0.2 hours playtime

  5 of 5 achievements

• Cube Farmer
  

  1.0 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

Spiritfarer: As I said before, this was definitely my favourite this month! Art-style, dialogues, atmosphere were really top notch. I was also moved emotionally (though not as much as some of the reviewers on steam^^). The crafting minigames felt a bit like a chore, which is the only negative aspect I can find with the game. But since you didn’t have to craft a lot of items to move forward, it was also okay for me. Worked perfectly on steam deck.
TOHU: Short point and click adventure. Was not really to my liking. It was also a bit buggy, so I had to restart from a certain point a few times to be able to continue :/. I somehow missed to talk to one of the NPCs, so I would have to do another playthrough for completion, we’ll see about that^^
In the Building: Cats: Nice, short. Not much to say about it, you have to find hidden cats^^
Fate of Dynasty: It’s a free, short puzzle game.
Resonance of the Ocean: Another free game. Nice art style, very easy.
Cube farmer: Logic puzzle game, where you have to move a cube into a hole (with the right side up). Levels were easy - challenging.

Log #15

Backlog growth: +11

This has been the least productive month since I joined BLAEO. Only three games completed… and they aren’t even long!

• Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2
  

  3.6 hours playtime

  26 of 26 achievements

• Evan's Remains
  

  3.8 hours playtime

  17 of 17 achievements

• The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
  

  1.1 hours playtime

  no achievements

Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2: I have a strange addiction to this series that I cannot even explain-.-‘ And what can I say? I liked this part as well.
Evan’s Remains: I liked the riddles, but the story was meh and there was way too much (not too well written) dialogue for my taste. Played it on Steam Deck which was fine, until a certain achievement led to the display of a certain error message and I just wasn’t able to continue. I started over again on PC. As everything is skipable, it didn’t take long, thankfully. A few days later I saw a fix for the situation on the steam forum, so I guess there was a way around starting over.
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit: Was very nice for a free demo and I guess it gives a glimpse into the Life is Strange 2- Universe?

I hope my report will be a bit longer again next month, until then happy backlog assassinating to all of you!