mordsmiez’s profile
Hey there!
I joined on September 6th, 2021 because my bargain hunting had gotten worse and it was (and still is) time to defeat my evergrowing backlog. Since I’m bad at choosing and the size of the backlog doesn’t help, I devised a simple strategy: throwing dice! I “choose” most of my games this way. If I am not in the mood, they go back on the pile for the time being. I am also dogmatic about playing games series in order. And I do like playing classics :)
Genre-wise, I like RPGs, roguelikes and farming/life sims like Harvest Moon (and let’s face it, watching numbers go up aka idle games), and I spend quite some time irrationally hunting achievements and cuddling my two cats:)
Click here to see my progress since joining!
Resolutions for 2024 [End of year stats]:
- Reducing the pile of unfinished + never played games to 65% [2021: 83%; 2022: 75%; 2023: 69%]
- Increasing the total number of completed games to 240 [2021: 39; 2022: 130; 2023: 191]
- Increasing Completionist score to 64% [2021: 47.5%; 2022: 58.3 %; 2023: 61.5%]
Log #29 - August 24
Backlog growth: +5
Assassinations of August:
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Spirits of Baciu - Prologue
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Ralph and the Blue Ball
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Hidden Robo Cats
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100 Space Cats
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Hidden Cats in Jigsaw Puzzle
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Hidden Through Time
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Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
Spirits of Baciu: Prologue: Short demo for a point-and-click game, while that is not my favourite genre, it was short and enjoyable and had a nice art style.
Ralph and the Blue Ball: Short and cute HOG which is based on a real dog!
Hidden Robo Cats: Short, easy cat HOG.
100 Space Cats: Short, easy cat HOG. The better one out of the two I played this month.
Hidden Cats in Jigsaw Puzzle: Not a cat HOG! It’s a short and easy jigsaw puzzle game, the free version includes several Paris inspired scenes.
Hidden through time: Very high quality HOG! Includes user made levels. I started this quite some time ago but never completed everything until now! Really liked it and might pick up the DLCs and the sequel when they’re on sale.
Alba: A wildlife adventure: Really liked this game, you play Alba, a young girl visiting her grandparents on a mediterranean island who sets out to save the local wildlife. I really like the topic and the mix of fixing and cleaning up stuff and exploring the island to find all the different animals. If anyone knows about similar games, please let me know! :D
I have also started to use my steam deck for emulation this month, which is easy to set up and has been a lot of fun so far! I beat the original Legend of Zelda for NES and am looking for the next challenge, so let me know about some of your old school favourites, please! :)
That’s it from me, see you next month <3
Log #28 - July 24
Backlog Growth: +9
Assassinations of July:
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Lake
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Open World Game: the Open World Game
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The Gorcs' Forge
0.7 hours playtime
no achievements
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Devious Dungeon
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The Secret Order 7: Shadow Breach
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Omno
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Cell to Singularity - Evolution Never Ends
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Cattails
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Pewt 'em Up!
This month was pretty good, as I got quite a few games done!
Lake: A slice-of-life game in which you take a vacation from your stressful programming job in the big city to take over the post delivery job from your dad and deliver letters and parcels in your small, pituresque hometown. I felt like this premise did not make much sense xD. You meet some town characters and can romance two people. Your car radio plays like three different songs on repeat which quickly becomes a bit annoying. Many people seem to like the game, judging from the reviews and while it wasn’t entirely bad, it was not my cup of tea.
Open World Game: The Open World Game: It’s a parody on open word games in which you basically move around the map to collect everything there is to collect. The thing is: I had fun so I guess I am kind of a sucker when it comes to these kinds of collecting/completionist-mechanics… who would have guessed?
Gorcs Forge: Really short, bad resource management game. It actually has achievements, I don’t know why they aren’t shown on BLAEO. Some of them are nearly impossible, since the game is kind of bugged. So I decided that I am done with one playthrough.
Devious Dungeon: A simple and short rogue-like platformer. Good timewaster for an afternoon when you don’t want to think too much!
The Secret Order 7: Second to last entry of this HOG/puzzle series. If you know one of the games, you kind of know them all, but I was entertained for the duration of the game!
Omno: A short exploration/light puzzle game. I had fun playing and liked the atmosphere and the ending :)
Cell to Singularity: Finally completed one of my incrementals. This one has evolution as a topic and is quite educational if you read the texts. The mechanics are very simple, so there wasn’t much decision-making or thinking required :D
Cattails: A harvest moon-like game in which you play a cat, so of course I liked it! I am still not completely done with the game, but I have finished the main quest (which could have been a little longer in my opinion).
Pewt ‘em up!: Free space invader clone. I finished a complete playthrough, but still have some achievements and a harder playthrough, plus an endless mode to go through!
That’s it from me, hope you all have a lovely summer!
Log #27 - June 2024
Backlog growth: +13
Assassinations of June:
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Arali
0.2 hours playtime
no achievements
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The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
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101 Cats Hidden in Dubai
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Idle Research
I did not complete too much this month. Admittedly, I am kind of hooked on incremental games at the moment and those are often very long-term kind of projects. Anyway, onto the games:
Arali: Super short, super basic game, in which you fight against monsters utilizing 2 different fighting moves to free some tree spirits or something(?). It’s free and it works, so I can’t really complain, but I also would not call it interesting.
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor: Mystery puzzle game! I liked that it was basically puzzle after puzzle and the story was told via letters you find across the house. Puzzles were more on the easy side, I would say, but not so easy they were boring. The hardest part for me was to remember which room contained which puzzle, clue or chest and so on, especially later in the game when you open up more and more rooms.
101 Cats Hidden in Dubai: Standard cat HOG, slightly below average for this kind of game, I’d say.
Idle Research: Technically, I “completed” this 1.5 years ago, but the dev just removed an impossible achievement, so now it’s officially completed, yay! If you like incrementals, I recommend to check this one out. It’s not too long (by incremental standards) and I found it to have a nice flow of unfolding mechanics and no major road blocks.
That’s it from me, hope you’re having a nice July wherever you are :)
Log #26 - May 2024
Backlog growth: +10
Assassinations of May:
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The Secret Order 6: Bloodline
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101 Cats Hidden
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Wild Animals - Animated Jigsaws
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LEGO® Harry Potter: Years 1-4
12.7 hours playtime
no achievements
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100 Istanbul Cats
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Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
60.4 hours playtime
no achievements
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Gothic II: Gold Classic
42.3 hours playtime
no achievements
Secret Order 6: Another one down in the series, two to go!
101 cats hidden: Typical cat HOG, relative low quality.
Animated Jigsaws: Wild animals: Jigsaw puzzles with animated fotographs, you have to complete every picture in several sizes for full completion.
Lego Harry Potter: Year 1-4: I probably would have liked this game as a young teenager, but now not so much. The humour was not my thing and it was pretty easy.
100 Istanbul Cats: Nice, typical cat HOG.
Dragon Age: Origins: Already talked about it in last month’s post. I have finished the Awakening DLC, so I consider it as completed now.
Gothic 2: Gold edition: Another classic down! Really liked it, but the ending was kind of anti-climatic? I played the classic edition in this playthrough and will return to it for night of the raven at some point.
That’s it from me, happy gaming everyone!
Log #25 - April 2024
Backlog Growth: +3
Assassinations of April:
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I commissioned some cats 0
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Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition
53.6 hours playtime
no achievements
I didn’t finish a lot of games, but I have beaten a rather long one, so that’s something!
I commissioned some cats 0: A nice, free HOG with several pictures in which you have to find cats and balls of wool.
Dragon Age: Origins: Finally got around to playing the first entry of this popular RPG series. The game has massive crashing issues and was pretty hard on normal difficulty at times. The dialogues with and between your companions are really, really well written and the voice acting was really good as well (coincidentally two characters in the game were voiced by actors from Star Trek: Voyager, which I am a huge fan of), so this was a big plus for me. I would have liked it even more, if you weren’t forced to choose one companion to romance. Also, some of the dialogue at the end of the game did not fit to the game choices I had made e.g. Alistair talking about being king, even though I chose Anora, or Anora talking about Alistair dying in the final battle even though he was very much still alive. But these are just minor points for me. Overall, I really enjoyed the game and can recommend it for fans of RPGs. I am still not completely done with the game, as I still have to beat the Awakening DLC, which I am currently playing.
That’s it from me, hope you’re all having a good start into May!
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:
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Plant Therapy
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100 Dino Cats
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The Room Two
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100 Robo Cats
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100 Capitalist Cats
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100 March Cats
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Cats and Seek
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Cats Hidden in Jingle Jam
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100 Christmas Cats
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Cat Search In The Wild West
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Hidden Winter Cats
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Meow Moments: Celebrating Together
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Looking For Cats In a Badly Drawn City
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Looking For Cats In a Badly Drawn Forest
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Pickle Clicker
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Please, Touch The Artwork 2
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Where Jellyfish 水母在哪里
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Agent Team Simulator
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I commissioned some invisible people 0
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100 Funny Cats
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Lemonade Apocalypse
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Torchlight
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^^
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OH MY GOD, LOOK AT THIS KNIGHT
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THE BUTTON
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The Most Boring Game Ever
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Picross for a Cause
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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!
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Raft
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The Secret Order 5: The Buried Kingdom
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Dissonance
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100 hidden frogs 2
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ELEX
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:
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The Adventure Pals
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Crusaders of the Lost Idols
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Luna's Fishing Garden
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ARIDA: Backland's Awakening
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Ever Seen A Cat? 2
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Ever Seen A Cat? 3
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Just A Humble Swordsmith
0.2 hours playtime
no achievements
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Megaquarium
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:
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DEMON'S TILT
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Samorost 2
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Wordle 5
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Kitaria Fables
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The Last Campfire
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Serial Cleaner
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The Almost Gone
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Down in Bermuda
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!
| 792 | games (+2 not categorized yet) |
| 50% | never played |
| 17% | unfinished |
| 5% | beaten |
| 27% | completed |
| 1% | won't play |
- Won on SteamGifts 5
- June 22 3
- July 22 6
- Multiplayer? 3
- August 22 7
- September 22 9
- October 22 3
- November 22 6
- December 22 3
- January 23 6
- February23 6
- March 23 3
- April 23 5
- May 23 8
- June 23 4
- July 23 1
- Jan-April 24 22
- current month 7
- 24 - Beaten/Completed 21