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.
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 2023
- get my SG win played percentage up to 65% (it took a nosedive during the holiday season again due to some crazy friends) at 59% atm
- playing the same amount of games that I get
- wrangle my backlog into submission and make him stop screaming 😱
Update 116: February 2023
Why is this year going by so quickly?
okay VN
broken mess of a game. with controller I could not make the inventory work, with mouse and keyboard the whole game was a pain in the ass. Cut scenes only sometimes worked, most of the time I got a black screen. Story was interesting enough.
Actually loved this one, but some levels were super hard or maybe I am just not good enough for these types of games.
Kinda quirky VN about a murder mystery. Liked it well enough
Super cute walking sim where you learn about wombats.
Not really mixed trivia, felt like at least 50% was very specific US sports questions.
What a fun concept, loved the jousting part, not so much the platforming, just not good at it.
A lot easier than some of the others in this series, sometimes instructions are not 100% clear.
A short platformer, sometimes not the biggest fan of the camera.
Was as much fun as I remembered. Some of the puzzles and camera angles could be improved.
Finally able to play this one. Could have been better considering there was an update in the middle of me playing this which made the game no longer recognize the cloud saves -_- took me 4 hours to fix that one. Game was okay, you could see that it is kinda old, but that was to be expected.
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,67% change to last times unfinished/never played games (61,95% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:-0,21% change to last times unfinished/never played games (41,78% unfinished games)
SG wins:
PoP: thanks to Garandro & solublecrow for challenging me
Update 115: January 2023
How is it February already D: That month flew by. Manged to get a few games done.
Liked the game but after a while the quests got repetitive. With a lot of traveling back and forth. Nice fast travel system, without it I would have probably given up. Combat wasn't the most intuative either. Doesn't help that you mostly fight endbosses.
Rather weird but fun dating sim. You basically go to a monster high school and try to get a prom date. It's fun for the first round or two, but gets repetitve fast.
Fun little programming game, some of the programs you had to come up with were rather involved.
The game/story is super interesting if you like to learn something about Indian culture/gods, but the boss battles are crazy, one of them took me literally 3h and that was on easy difficulty. According to the forum the difficulty has been ramped up a lot in an update and people are complaining about it. You learn all those fancy moves that you cannot use cause if you try you will just get insta killed.
I do not really know how I feel about this one. It has a better story than most VN's I've read. The decisions are mostly for RPG reasons to get one of the 4 characteristics: good-evil, tactful-defiant that you need for achivements.
Liked it for the first 10h then it got crazy repetitve and having to look for 50 tons of scrap metal was just stupid grinding. Overall some of the cotrols could have been better, I sometimes got stuck with the vehicles cause the camera wouldn't move or the vehicles got stuck on something. Had to get out and respawn the vehicle -_-
Nice short VN
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,18% change to last times unfinished/never played games (62.62% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:-0,2% change to last times unfinished/never played games (41,99% unfinished games)
SG wins: Gifts:
by JennDjinn:
games I bought myself:
PoP: thanks to Garandro & solublecrow for challenging me
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Yesterday Origins
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
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Resident Evil 4
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
Update 114: 2022 is over welcome 2023
In the last year I've completed 51 games and beaten 47 games. That's a total of 98 retired games, a few more than last year. And I finished some big games too, Like FF X/X-2. I also played a lot of Call of Duty Warzone with my friends (and when I say a lot we usually play at least 1-2h per day).
For SG wins I went from 43,6% of unfinished or never touched wins to 42,19% (a drop of 1,41%, was hoping for more but I got lucky and won a few WL GA's, so I can't be too mad). And for the overall backlog from 66.53% of unfinished or never touched games to 62.8% (a 3.73% drop, which is better than last year), It is progress, I guess. Since I've beaten/completed so many games I am not gonna list them all. Too much work XD
Progress January 2023
Overall Backlog Progress:
Current Progress January 2022
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Overall SG Wins Progress:
Update 113: December 2022
December was a catastrophy for my backlog as expected. He is now crying in a corner needing therapy. I have too many kind people in my friends group and I am drowning in games that I got gifted.
Really loved the game, could have done fine without all the QTE. If you have not played it yet you should.
Rather short game about a Mortician. You are prepping the bodies for burial. Should have been a bit more fleshed out.
Love all the different modes, but some are really hard. Or maybe I am just too bad at it
Overall Backlog Progress:+0,83% change to last times unfinished/never played games (62.8% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:+0,34% change to last times unfinished/never played games (42,19% unfinished games)
SG wins:
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Little King's Story
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Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan
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Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
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Cocktail Rush
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Demolish & Build 2018
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Our World Is Ended.
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Sumire
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Gamedec - Definitive Edition
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Monster Train
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Before We Leave
by KuuleHain:
by adam1224 aka Clandestine Claus :
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Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
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Without Within 2
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Without Within 3
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LEGO® DC Super-Villains
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Monster Prom
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Persona 4 Golden
by Mousewithbeer:
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StarCrossed
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Last Resort Island
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Japanese School Life
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World Keepers: Last Resort
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Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
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Demon Hunter 2: New Chapter
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Narcissu 10th Anniversary Anthology Project
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Mind Snares: Alice's Journey
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Time Mysteries: Inheritance - Remastered
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Time Mysteries 2: The Ancient Spectres
by PV:
by cece:
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Paperbark
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Coloring Pixel Advent 2
0 hours playtime
0 of 25 achievements
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Coloring Pixel Advent 3
0 hours playtime
0 of 25 achievements
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Coloring Pixel Cute Pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 25 achievements
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Coloring Pixel Insects pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 25 achievements
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Coloring Pixel Platformers
0 hours playtime
0 of 25 achievements
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Coloring Pixel Autumn pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 25 achievements
by Moony:
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Heart of the Woods
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Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
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Family Mysteries: Poisonous Promises
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Persian Nights 2: The Moonlight Veil
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Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet
by Kakhi:
by Toast:
by PolyHertz:
PoP: thanks to Garandro & solublecrow for challenging me
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Human Resource Machine
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Raji: An Ancient Epic
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Demonheart
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Yesterday Origins
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Castlevania: Lords of Shadow – Ultimate Edition
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Resident Evil 4
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The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition
Update 112: November 2022
Why does she have to be so lucky - Sam’s crying backlog Nov ‘22
We did it, we finally did it and I only had to wait nearly 3 years. Mouse and me have beaten this very cute game with loads of puns. Towards the end it got kinda repeptitive but I still enjoyed it a lot. To play coop you have to jump through some unnessary hoops since it only is offered in Remote Play Together. And one has to play with m+kb and the other with a controller.
Not sure what to think of this game. Got boring after a while.
Nice game similar to the Telltale games. Fully voice acted. Found kb+m controlls to be a bit yanky though, had to switch to controller which worked fine.
Amusing telltale game. Telltale meets Borderlands.
Good storyline. Liked the game. Could have gone deeper into the subject matter.
One of the worst HOG I've ever played. Get's half a point cause it actually works.
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,3% change to last times unfinished/never played games (61.97% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:+0,8% change to last times unfinished/never played games (42,19% unfinished games)
SG wins:
Update 111: October 2022
Another lucky month and my backlog is still crying. But hey, I managed to beat FF X-2, so I am happy, even if my backlog is not.
Tried to play it since I have fond memories of the game (played it a lot as a kid), but sadly it crashes nearly every time I tried to change into a different menu/restaurant. After over an hour of crashes I gave up.
I guess it was an amazing game when it came out, though for me it felt mostly dated.
Although this is pretty old I actually liked it, but games back in the day were hard D:
Games gives basically no ammo at the start so while the enemies have shotguns you have a wrench to hit them with…
Nice match 3 game, enjoyed it a lot, though some levels are pretty tough.
Nice farming and building game. Cheevos are pretty grindy though.
Finally finished with FF X-2. Gameplay (mostly fighting) is different to the previous one, but still pretty damn good game. Loved pretty much everything about it. Such a beautiful game <3
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,19% change to last times unfinished/never played games (62.27% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:+0,06% change to last times unfinished/never played games (41,39% unfinished games)
SG wins:
Update 110: September 2022
I had a lucky month and my backlog is crying again.
Out of all the Sudoku games I played this month, this was the worst one. You could not use the keyboard to enter the numbers but had to click through them 1,2,3,4,5,6,… every time. Was annoying as heck.
Funny little sudoku game, but adventure mode is annoying since you can only make 10 mistakes and most of those will be accidental misclicks.
Nice free Sudoku game with tons of free game modes and Sudokus. Loved that you could write notes which numbers would fit and that they got auto taken out once you filled one field in. Helped a lot.
okish FMV
Story is a bit convoluted. Has some twist and turns.
Loved this one, especially the levels where I had to make the brdige break to kill all the enemies.
Only finished FFX, Fun game. Great athmosphere. Sadly a bit grindy towards the end.
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,15% change to last times unfinished/never played games (62.46% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:+0,91% change to last times unfinished/never played games (41,33% unfinished games)
SG wins:
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West of Dead
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Monster Sanctuary
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She Sees Red
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Bridge Constructor Medieval
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GreedFall
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Spiritfarer
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Namariel Legends: Iron Lord Premium Edition
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Cute Girls Love Books
0.1 hours playtime
no achievements
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The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Descenders
Update 109: August 2022
Work is still kicking my ass, but more games lost their place in the backlog.
Cute game, where you collect and farm slimes. Get a bit repetetive towards the end.
controlls are bad, game likes to crash and feels dated, Might have been great in it's hayday.
Same memory game like the cats one, just with smilies now. Gets boring quickly.
Done the Egyptian, Babylonian and Greek campaign. Love the game but after a while it gets repetetive so I'm taking a break.
It's a funny puzzle matching game. Enjoyed it quiet a bit. Some levels towards the end can get hard.
Enjoyed myself quiet a bit with this game. Even though it's quiet old it still plays nicely. Not the biggest fan of the magic part, if you have more than 3 spells it's hard to pick the correct one.
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,04% change to last times unfinished/never played games (62.61% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:-0,37% change to last times unfinished/never played games (40,42% unfinished games)
SG wins: Gift by trashes:
PoP: thanks to Cece09 & Metalhead8489 for challenging me PAGYWOSG:
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Ultimate Sudoku Collection
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Cognition: An Erica Reed Thriller
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Sacra Terra: Kiss of Death Collector’s Edition
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Sudoku Quest
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Neon Space 2
Update 108: July 2022
Work is still kicking my ass, but this time around I managed to get some games done.
It's an okay memory game, but no real challenge.
A VN about the abusive relationship between a mother and her daughter.
Kill all the spiders and make the most carnage possible. Sometimes I found it hard to find the spiders even with the radar.
I don't think I will ever really like this game. Might be interesting for people that play the card game. I found it too complicated with all the extra rules.
A cute puzzle platformer with a nice story. Some of the puzzles are rather hard, but you can skip the puzzles if you can't solve them.
Average HOG fare.
Cute cafe sim, where you can send animals you find to your cafe. A lot of running around, doing abitrary tasks for the villagers.
It's an investigation game, where you solve cases with the clues you were given. or have found. Solving the cases is easy as long as you read all the articles. Really enjoyed the game.
Actually enjoyed the game a lot. Though I wasn't a fan of the constant backtracking.
Enjoyed the game, though I could do without the RNG parts that will suddenly kill your people or rob you of a district.
Fun platformer, loved the humor.
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,85% change to last times unfinished/never played games (62.65% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:-0,89% change to last times unfinished/never played games (40,79% unfinished games)
SG wins: Gift by Ninglor: Gifts by PV:
PoP: thanks to Cece09 & Metalhead8489 for challenging me PAGYWOSG:
Update 107: June 2022
Work is kicking my ass and I am too lucky. Guess my backlog has to suffer from it XD
Walking simulator where you can only slowly walk around. Story is a bit convoluted, but still pretty decent. Graphics are good. There is a bug though that whenever you load a save or reload a checkpoint you are floating in the air and can't move. You have to go into the settings and accept without changing anything. Then you can move again.
Loved the story and game play. Had a few jump scares, but not overall scary.
Not really a full game, more like a prologe. Solid gameplay, but nothing special.
5k achievement spam game that unlock the second you add the game to your library, just install it and they are yours. It's basically a copy and paste from all the other Trivia Vault games.
Great blast from the past. Still fun even after all these years.
Really nice VN, was a bit confused by the astronaut story tbh. Loved all the Ireland tidbits.
Loved this clever HOG game. Some folks were pretty tricky to find.
Overall Backlog Progress:-0,12% change to last times unfinished/never played games (63.5% unfinished games)
Overall SG Wins Progress:-0,87% change to last times unfinished/never played games (41,68% unfinished games)
SG wins:
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Hidden Folks
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If Found
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Spring Flower
0.5 hours playtime
no achievements
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Spellcaster University
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Trivia Vault: Video Game Trivia Deluxe
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Professor Watts Memory Match: Cats
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I Am The Prosecutor: No Evidence? No Problem!
0.5 hours playtime
no achievements
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Kill It With Fire
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The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
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Embr
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The Surge 2
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100 hidden fish
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Coloring Pixels - RPG Book
0 hours playtime
0 of 20 achievements
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Coloring Pixels - Flag Pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 20 achievements
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Coloring Pixels - Emoji Pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 20 achievements
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Coloring Pixels - 1-Bit Pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 20 achievements
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Coloring Pixels - Food Pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 20 achievements
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Coloring Pixels - Music Pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 20 achievements
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Coloring Pixels - Flowers Pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 20 achievements
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Coloring Pixels - Tarot Pack
0 hours playtime
0 of 20 achievements
PoP: thanks to Cece09 & Metalhead8489 for challenging me
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Taken Souls: Blood Ritual Collector's Edition
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Thrillville: Off the Rails
0 hours playtime
no achievements
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Slime Rancher
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Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
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Lacuna
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WARSAW
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Fable Anniversary
1413 | games |
58% | never played |
4% | unfinished |
17% | beaten |
20% | completed |
2% | won't play |
- Won on SteamGifts 541
- Games where I'm stuck 7
- not working properly on my PC 5
- Queued for playing short wins 30
- Queued for playing medium wins 43
- Queued for playing long wins 43
- Queued for playing very long wins 115
- Currently installed 88
- One or more parts/DLCs beaten 6
- Gifts from friends 116
- Queued for playing no HLTB wins 9