samwise84’s profile
Hi there,
what to tell about me? Hmm, well let’s see. Most of my game buys are impulse buys…Well don’t judge me. Other women buy shoes or make-up, I buy video games XD
I will try to beat as many games as I can each month (right now I am at at least 1 each week), but unfortunately I’m a grown up with a job, so my progress usually depends on how much spare time I have.
I’ll try to at least beat 1 SG win + 1 backlog game each month (though I have beaten far more than that in the past year). Since I’m a member of Playing Appreciated all wins of that group have priority (since they need to be played within a month of winning).
What I want to achieve in 2020
- get my SG win played percentage up to 75% (it took a nosedive during the holiday season)
- wrangle my backlog into submission and make him stop screaming 😱
Update 60: First week of July
First week of June or more the first 12 days of June are over and my backlog suffered a bit under the steam sale, but not too bad if you ignore the 50+DLC’s for PPU I got XD Vacation is soon over and I need to get some more games under my belt before that happens ;)
It's supposed to be a pinball game, though if you are expecting a real pinball game you will be disappointed. The flippers are not reacting like they would in a normal game There are better games out there.
It's a lot better than the last one. But still the physics are kinda off.
I liked the game as a whole and the different minigames. Wasn't a big fan of the keybindings though and they could not be reset and the controller was not really recognized other than being able to hit pause.
The Coma: Recut 
I got frustrated by this game. The killer appears suddenly right on top of you and you have to do lots of backtracking to find where to go and the map does not really show dead ends and stuff. Part of it is also kinda like a maze where you will get teleported to a completely different part of the map. Could have been great :(
A really fun game. You have to type out the letters/numbers that appear on the screen. It has 6 different modes. Music was okay.
Was fun though in the end a bit to long/repetative. Like the story more than the last LoveKami one I did.
Liked the game, though wasn't a fan of the save system. Lost a shitton of progress due to not having a savepoint near me and having to constantly backtrack over the traps I just had passed just to reach a savepoint.
It's a card fighting game that I enjoyed a lot and will come back to again. Can't really compare it to others since I have not played them yet.
green = PoP thanks to AlvinCanCabbage & emymer for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,64% unfinished/never played games
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Detroit: Become Human
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate - Aki
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Lara Croft GO
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Rise of the Tomb Raider
SG wins:
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Chainz 2: Relinked
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Shadows: Awakening
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Island Tribe
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Wanda
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Ghost of a Tale
Old Keys:
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198X
Buys:
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Fantasy Quest Solitaire
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Zombie Solitaire
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Zombie Solitaire 2 Chapter 1
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Zombie Solitaire 2 Chapter 2
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Zombie Solitaire 2 Chapter 3
BLAEO Monthly: nothing more planned atm
PoP: thanks to AlvinCanCabbage & emymer for challenging me
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Deiland
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Tales of Symphonia
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Detroit: Become Human
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Rise of the Tomb Raider
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Hero of the Kingdom
PAGYWOSG:
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Wanda
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Ghost of a Tale
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TEKKEN 7
Just for fun:
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Farm Together
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate
Update 59: Last week of June and June overview
My progress in June was not really good, but what can you expect with a Steam Sale going on :/
Though it could have been worse. Only +4 for my backlog this month.
A nice match 3 game with a twist, you drop balls from above. Makes for an interesting gameplay :)
When I started this game I knew what was getting into. A long ARPG, kinda grindy in some places. And that is exactly what I got. I could have done without some of the bugs, like getting stuck behind mountains, not able to move any longer or getting stuck when teleporting, e.g. being able to teleport back to the city but when trying to get back to where I came from I could not move so i had to teleport back to the city again and fight through all the monsters again to get where I was. Sometimes quests would not pop or doors would just not open, if you were lucky a reload would fix that. When you were unlucky it did not and you had to reload an earlier save, if you were lucky enough to have made a copy of that.
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate - Da Vinci
green = PoP thanks to AlvinCanCabbage & emymer for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: +0,11% unfinished/never played games :(
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Slash It
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LoveKami -Useless Goddess-
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Detroit: Become Human
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate - Aerial Photography
SG wins:
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Book of Demons
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Felix the Reaper
Gifts:
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Aarklash: Legacy
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Detroit: Become Human
BLAEO Monthly: nothing more planned atm
PoP: thanks to AlvinCanCabbage & emymer for challenging me
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Chasm
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Deiland
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Tales of Symphonia
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Detroit: Become Human
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Rise of the Tomb Raider
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Hero of the Kingdom
PAGYWOSG:
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Slash It
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LoveKami -Useless Goddess-
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TEKKEN 7
Just for fun:
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Farm Together
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate
Update 58: 15th of June to 21st of June
Completed only 1 game this week and beaten one DLC’s in PPU. I would call that good progress.
Generic VN stuff. Boy likes two girls, can't decide which he likes more. Then he falls intoa coma and wakes up each day as one of the girls and learns that their perfect lifes aren't as perfect.
wasn't too big a fan of the font color, since the blue text was somtimes hard to read.
Pixel Puzzles Ultimate - 2000 AD 
11.5 hours, 18 of 18 achievements
green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: -0,02% unfinished/never played games :)
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Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
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Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep
SG wins:
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Bato: Treasures of Tibet
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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PAC-MAN 256
Update 57: 8th of June to 14th of June
Beaten/completed 4 games this week and also beaten two DLC’s in PPU. I would call that good progress.
I really like this VN. You are a criminal justice student that solves cases. The puzzles are nice, not too easy and not too hard. Getting all achievements is a hazzle though since you have no walkthroughs and the achievments discription does not help much. The translation is really good for a Chinese VN. One other sad point is that you can only play 2 cases. The third is locked behind a DLC.
I've read the book so I knew what to expect story wise. Liked the story, tough I sometimes found it too slow paced. Also not a big fan of the QET's Could have done without those.
It's a good maze game, if there were not the added timer and some of the traps are just crazy, especially since you get one hit killed.
Other things I disliked:
- no options menu
- no pause button
- escape brings you out of the level instantly
- no ingame-screenshot
- no window mode
Interesting war/survival simulation from the point of view of civilians that just want to survive. Will definitly get back to it someday for all the achievments I missed.
Pixel Puzzles Ultimate
88.1 hours, 76 of 1866 achievements
green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: -0,26% unfinished/never played games :)
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Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
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Highschool Possession
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Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep
SG wins:
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Highschool Possession
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Train Valley 2
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Randal's Monday
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Slash It
Activated free steam games:
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Kao the Kangaroo: Round 2
Update 56: 1st of June to 7th of June
First week of June and 2 games done and progress on 2 longer ones.
Sakura Fantasy Chapter 1
I liked the story, but it ends suddenly without any real conclusion. Could have been great of it was really finished. Not sure why they abandonded it.
The Chronicles of Jonah and the Whale 
The match 3 part of the game works well and the levels have different difficulties. What annoyed me to no end was the fact that in windowed mode the game got stuck in the middle of the screen and you could not move it.
Also the game seems kinda brocken since it repeats the same levels over and over again in level 4. It's supposed to have a max of 72 levels and I was at over 60 in stage 4 alone…
You have to collect certain parts and it would just not give me the levels to collect the needed parts. After playing over 50 stages of getting the incorrect levels I gave up.
green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: -0,17% unfinished/never played games :)
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
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Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
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aMAZE Gears
SG wins:
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aMAZE Gears
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Enigmatis 3: The Shadow of Karkhala
BLAEO Monthly:
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Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep
PoP: thanks to laura & Aldowuj for challenging me
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This War of Mine
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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
PAGYWOSG:
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The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录
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Farming World
0 hours playtime
no achievements
Just for fun:
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Farm Together
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate
Update 55: Last week of May
May is over and soon so is my one week vacation. I played some games, though not as many as last month.
14 games in total were beaten in this month and 13 were added.
I reduced my unplayed/unfinished overall backlog by 1,15% and added 0,07% to my unplayed/unfinished SG wins backlog in May. Hopefully the next month will be better.
I love this game. If you are into farming games, that you can play together with friends I can definitely recommend this.
You are basically building your farm from a one plot small farm into this huge thing with several fields where you can plant all fruits and veggies imaginable, you can plant flowers and trees, have animals of all kinds, build shops and your own houses and basically run a sucessful farm. Your friends can visit you and help you with your tasks, which are the basic harvest X amount of certain plant/animal/tree.
Then there are also the fairly regular events every few weeks, where it is actually nice if you have friends to do them with.
I really like the game. Basically you play a virus/bacteria and try to infect the whole world and then kill everyone.
It's a nice game, though some of the achievements are super hard to get because they rely on RNG events to happen. So basically the only way to get those is to save at certain times and reload the savepoints if you did not get the events.
I will definitly get back to it though. Just after playing it for a few days straight I needed a break.
It was an okay point'n'click, tough I liked Silence better overall. I found Sadwick to be too whiny. And I also liked Spot better in Silence. Gameplay wise I cannot really complain, though the way how you could select something was a bit cringy as well as the achievement to have Spot change form 500 times. Really? I am not sure why devs think it is a good idea to put such grindy achievments in games.
A really cute platformer that reminds me a lot of the old NES games I played in my youth. It is just as hard as some of them. I strongly recommend using a gamepad for playing.
Watch the trailer. This is exactly what you'll get.
A fast paced arcade space shooter.
Nice soundtrack and a lot of upgradeable weapons and a ton of achievements.
It can be fun, if you like games like that.
green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: -0,48% unfinished/never played games :)
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Sakura Fantasy Chapter 1
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
SG wins:
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GET EVEN
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TEKKEN 7
BLAEO Monthly:
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Atlantis: Pearls of the Deep
PoP: thanks to laura & Aldowuj for challenging me
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This War of Mine
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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
PAGYWOSG:
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The Adventures of Fei Duanmu 端木斐异闻录
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The Chronicles of Jonah and the Whale
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Titan Quest Anniversary Edition
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Farming World
0 hours playtime
no achievements
Just for fun:
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Farm Together
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate
Update 54: May 18th to May 24th
4 games this week and great fun with some friends. Also it’s vacation time. So I guess this week went rather well.
I had great fun playing this game with some friends (thanks MouseWithBeer, PV and Jip). We started out to play a bit and ended up playing for nearly 9 hours. RIP Saturday.
It is a fun puzzle game, though I am not sure how you are supposed to do some of those puzzles alone.
I was lucky enough to have people with me that actually have played the game more than once before so they gave me great tips on how to move, which is not an easy feat in this game. You basically look like you are drunk all the time or doing the macarena XD
If you have the possibility, play it with some friends. It is great fun. I will probably get back to it again. Just to get some more achievements ;)
This was just not my kind of story. On the surface it seems like an innocent story, but especially with the ending it gets a lot darker, overall I found it kind of akward. And some of the achievements are just meh. I mean why make you search for dew drops that are barely visible most of the time.
If you are into point'n'clicks it is a solid game.
Found the first game better. Here I was stuck a lot of the time, having to upload irrelevant data to progress. The story did not grip me like the first time around and I was not a fan of the two new features. It was hard to find the correct terms for the search bars, so basically just dragging various possible terms on them over and over again, until you find the right one. Also the dragging of the datachunks did only sometimes work. I nearly got stuck on episode two because I did not upload a picture that had a phone number in the background.
And then you have the 3rd episode where they introduce "The Influencer" a completely new feature, where you can influence the people with either truth or lies via social media. I will not understand why this feature was only introduced in the last chapter of the game shrug
I liked this game. Story was good and the battles were a nice addition, though some of the special moves are kinda hard to do. Though you do not really need them. I was able to do the tournament before after episode 1. It was feeling like an interactive comic.
Overall it was a fun experience.
green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: -0,36% unfinished/never played games :)
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Plague Inc: Evolved
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
SG wins:
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Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt
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Prodigy Tactics
0 hours playtime
no achievements
Update 53: May 11th to May 17th
Still not much progress in May. Can only get better.
A nice VN about 2 goddesses that now live among the people like a lot of them do. Their dream is to become part of a goddess idol group that is revered by all. Therefore they take part in an idol contest. Both of them seperately are not going far, but with the help of the "hero" they form an idol duo and together they make it through the preliminaries.
And on the love front you have 3 different romances.
Voice acting (Japanese) and music was nice. Took me longer then the HLTB time to complete though.
A nice VN about 2 goddesses that now live among the people like a lot of them do. Their dream is to become part of a goddess idol group that is revered by all. Therefore they take part in an idol contest. Both of them seperately are not going far, but with the help of the "hero" they form an idol duo and together they make it through the preliminaries.
And on the love front you have 3 different romances.
Voice acting (Japanese) and music was nice. Took me longer then the HLTB time to complete though.
Nice standard HOG. Story was somewhat interesting. Though the neverending collectibles that hide themselves and only appear every 30 seconds or so are annoying as fuck.
Nice standard HOG. Story was better than the last one. Davy Jones abducts your daughter. You have to find out why and get her back.
But again with these collectibles. If you count the animals you need to pat there are 62 in total.
green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: -0,19% unfinished/never played games :)
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The Night of the Rabbit
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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
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Shuyan Saga
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The Whispered World Special Edition
SG wins:
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Frankenstein: Master of Death
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Chasm
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Agents of Mayhem
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Lara Croft GO
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Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
Update 52: May 1st to May 10th
Well May did not start as well, as April ended. I am lagging behind on my games, since The Evil Within took me forever.
Not sure how I should feel about this game. It was a pure gorefest. I mean it starts with you dropping into a pool of blood in the first 5 minutes of the game. And it will get more gory the longer it goes on.
I would not really class it as horror, more like a disturbed version of realtiy. Tough you get chased around by "zombies" with chainsaws a time or two ;)
Story wise I am still not really sure what it is about. It is all rather convoluted. Basically you are a detectivve that was called into a horrible murder scene in a mental hospital. All of the previously send cops have been killed and you are there to investigate why. Turns out a mentally unstable person is using an experimental machine that connects peoples minds and you are pulled into it and are trying to get out and trying to keep that mental patient in. The scenes are totally fractured and weird. Sometimes you are traversing the city, then a village, then the hospital again.
Gameplay wise I found some of the level bosses rather hard. Not because they were hard to beat, more because it was hard to find out how to beat them. Once you knew how to beat them it was pretty easy.2 Though the final endboss was a joke difficulty wise. It was harder to get to him then beat him.
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
It's an okay HOG, gotten rather old. Resolution is not the best on HD screens, which makes some of the hidden object scenes quite hard. Puzzles are nice enough though. Different from the ones you usually see today.
Can't really say much about the story since I never really read the book.
green = PoP thanks to Aldowuj & Laura for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: -0,12% unfinished/never played games :)
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The Night of the Rabbit
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LoveKami -Divinity Stage-
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Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren's Call
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Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones
SG wins:
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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy
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MagiCat
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NEOVERSE
Monthly in a Month: won't take part this month
PA: none
PoP: thanks to laura & Aldowuj for challenging me
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Shuyan Saga
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
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Orwell: Ignorance is Strength
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This War of Mine
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Plague Inc: Evolved
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Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
BLAEO monthly:
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The Whispered World Special Edition
PAGYWOSG:none more planned for now
Just for fun:
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Farm Together
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate
Update 51: April is over and my backlog must love me
April is over and I played a shit ton of games. 11 games alone in the last week of April and 28 in total (even more if you count the 12 HOGs from the twelve pack seperately).
I reduced my unplayed/unfinished overall backlog by 2,62% and my unplayed/unfinished SG wins backlog by 4,13% in April. Well hopefully the next month will be as good for my backlog.
Liked the game. And will probably play the sequel some day. It makes you think a lot about the surveilance going on 24/7.
From the game play point of view sometimes it was a bit tricky to drag the right pieces of information to the right profile. Sometimes you have to try it a few times for it to work.
Did not find the game that scary, just mostly weird. Not a really big horror fan, maybe that's why.
This game was actually fun. Building some weird machines to achieve whatever the goal was for that level. For some I needed a guide though.
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK SPORTS
It works, that's about the only really good thing I can say about it. Only interesting if you are into US sports from the 90's. Otherwise you have not much chance of answering any of the questions. Only Couch-Coop, no online multiplayer.
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK HEADRUSH
Liked that one, was very reminding of my youth. Though probably also only interesting for people that really lived through the 90's. Only Couch-Coop, no online multiplayer.
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK MOVIES
Movies are really old, damn I am old and I even only knew a few. Mostly movies from before the 90's.
Only Couch-Coop, no online multiplayer.
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK TELEVISION
TV shows in question are mostly 60-early 90's US shows, if you are not farmiliar with them don't bother with this game.
Only Couch-Coop, no online multiplayer.
YOU DON'T KNOW JACK Vol. 6 The Lost Gold
Can't say much about the game. Could not get it to start.
I played it so you won't have to, pretty much gives you all the cheevos from the start. The game consist of bad handdrawn stickfigures and the whole text is Shakespear, Merchant of Venice
What you need to know about the game? BOOBS and Tentacle/Slime monsters. That's about everything that game has to offer.
Hidden Object - 12 in 1 bundle
Now that I have played the whole bundle I have to say they rank from shitty as fuck to tolerable to weird.
#6 - Paranomal Asylum - 2,5 Hrs long
Quirky infos that you can find in each location about Paranormal things. Other than that your typical medicore HOG fair.
#7 - Haunted House - 2,5 Hrs long
Liked it, you have to solve the mystery who killed the family some 18 years ago. Some of the puzzles were weird, but you can skip those after a while.
Quirky extra infos about hauntings found in symbols throughout the scenes
#8 - FBI Paranormal 2 - 1.9 Hrs long
Only a few locations which will be visited twice. Each location contains of one HOS and one puzzle. The HOS itself are not bad. They become bad though with the added time scoring thing. I play HOGs to relax, not to be scored on them.
#9 - Jekyl & Hyde - 2h long
Did not really get the story, jumped in years a lot. Did not like the HOS, a lot of nonsensical click 10 times on the screen shit to bring fog away or such bullshit.
#10 - Jack The Ripper - 2 Hr long
Simply game, though some annoying puzzles and weird questions about the murders and scenes. And the find differences in letters puzzle was annoying. End was very strange.
#11 - Bonnie & Clyde - 4,5 Hrs long
There are a some HOS in this one where even if you try really hard you won't be able to see them. Annoying Map Puzzle, that does not make any sense. Could only figure it out by trial and error. I played it for you so you don't have to. Stay far away!!!!
#12 - Frankenstein - 2,5 Hrs long
Frankenstein has cut your GF to pieces and you have to put her back together again. You get help from your GF's brain , with whom you talk. Have to visit every location multiple times.I think it was the weirdest one of the bunch.
green = PoP thanks to aragon789 & BarbaricGenie for challenging me
red = Monthly in a Month
blue = PAGYWOSG
grey = BLAEO monthly theme
orange = completions/for fun games
Overall Backlog Progress: -1,06% unfinished/never played games :)
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The Night of the Rabbit
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The Evil Within
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Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
0 hours playtime
no achievements
SG wins:
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Sakura Agent
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Paper Shakespeare: Stick Merchant of Venice
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Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Luxor HD
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Borderlands GOTY Enhanced
Free games:
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Total War: SHOGUN 2
Old activated games:
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Of Orcs And Men
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Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Monthly in a Month: not decided yet
PA: none
PoP: thanks to laura for challenging me
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Shuyan Saga
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Ken Follett's The Pillars of the Earth
BLAEO monthly:
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The Whispered World Special Edition
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The Surge
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Lords Of The Fallen
PAGYWOSG:
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LoveKami -Divinity Stage-
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Nightmares from the Deep 2: The Siren's Call
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Nightmares from the Deep 3: Davy Jones
Just for fun:
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Farm Together
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Pixel Puzzles Ultimate
| 946 | games |
| 68% | never played |
| 5% | unfinished |
| 12% | beaten |
| 13% | completed |
| 2% | won't play |
- Won on SteamGifts 216
- Queued for playing 8h 138
- Queued for playing 8h-15h 115
- Queued for playing 15-25h 98
- Queued for playing 25+h 146
- Queued for playing no HLBT times 46
- Games where I'm stuck 6
- Not yet completed 15
- Possible games PAGYWOSG June Mouse's favourite things 40
- not working properly on my PC 4
- PoP 7
- Possible games PAGYWOSG Mouse's fav National Days 75