skanda’s profile

October report

Completed/Beaten:

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

62 hours playtime

43 of 93 achievements
Kids of Hellas: Back to Olympus

6 hours playtime

31 of 31 achievements
LIMBO

4 hours playtime

12 of 13 achievements
Pilgrims

57 minutes playtime

21 of 45 achievements

Played:

Destiny 2

37 minutes playtime

2 of 23 achievements
Sid Meier's Civilization VI

457 hours playtime

136 of 246 achievements
Tabletop Simulator

76 hours playtime

9 of 27 achievements
The Jackbox Party Pack 6

7 hours playtime

8 of 20 achievements
The Outer Worlds

8 hours playtime

5 of 48 achievements

Games/DLCs added to my Steam library:

Destiny 2 (Free)
Kids of Hellas: Back to Olympus
Pilgrims
Spyro Reignited Trilogy
The Jackbox Party Pack 6

BLAEO Curator Page

Our curator page is now live! It’s focused on interesting new releases that would otherwise go unnoticed in the flood of games that get released on Steam.
We’ll use “Recommended” for games we have first hand experience with and “Informational” for games we’re recommending based on other information (description, screenshots, reviews,…).

It’s similar to the #interesting-new-releases channel on our Discord server where we share interesting games released in the previous, current or next month, but a Steam curator page offers better management and readability of the recommendations.

We’d also like to thank Narayan for coming on board and helping out with this new BLAEO project.

Find your new favourite games here: https://store.steampowered.com/curator/11333775.

September report

Completed/Beaten:

Oxygen Not Included

117 hours playtime

26 of 35 achievements
Paws: A Shelter 2 Game

2 hours playtime

9 of 19 achievements
The First Tree

2 hours playtime

7 of 14 achievements

Played:

Assassin's Creed Odyssey

31 hours playtime

12 of 93 achievements
Cat Quest II

88 minutes playtime

1 of 9 achievements
Sid Meier's Civilization V

78 hours playtime

79 of 286 achievements
Sid Meier's Civilization VI

451 hours playtime

133 of 246 achievements

Games/DLCs added to my Steam library:

Cat Quest II (Gift)
Guacamelee! 2 (Gift)
The First Tree (Gift)
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition (Gift)

August report

Completed/Beaten:

Beware Planet Earth

11 hours playtime

17 of 33 achievements
Girls Like Robots

4 hours playtime

5 of 9 achievements

Played:

Forza Horizon 4

24.5 hours playtime

20 of 127 achievements
Oxygen Not Included

72 hours playtime

17 of 35 achievements
Sid Meier's Civilization VI

424 hours playtime

133 of 241 achievements

Games/DLCs added to my Steam library:

Oxygen Not Included

Rough plans for September:

some DLCs for the monthly theme,
Oxygen Not Included (yes, moar!),
Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Uplay pass),
Forza Horizon 4 (Xbox Game Pass),
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice (Xbox Game Pass).

July report

Completed/Beaten:

Atom Zombie Smasher

8 hours playtime

15 of 41 achievements
Bejeweled 3

12 hours playtime

42 of 65 achievements
Jack Lumber

3 hours playtime

17 of 27 achievements
Sneaky Sneaky

3 hours playtime

18 of 29 achievements
Super Lucky's Tale

5 hours playtime

19 of 58 achievements
The Gardens Between

2.5 hours playtime

17 of 17 achievements

Played:

Forza Horizon 4

20 hours playtime

9 of 127 achievements
Sid Meier's Civilization VI

390 hours playtime

129 of 241 achievements
Tabletop Simulator

70 hours playtime

8 of 27 achievements
The Jackbox Party Pack 5

17 hours playtime

8 of 20 achievements
Vampyr

1.5 hours playtime

Games/DLCs added to my Steam library:

Prey - Mooncrash (DLC).

Played as part of the Xbox Game Pass for PC: Forza Horizon 4, Super Lucky’s Tale, The Gardens Between, Vampyr. I subscribed for another month because the games included in the pass are just too good (with the exception of Vampyr <_<). I’m actually really excited about these subscription services - I already liked Origin Access before but what Microsoft and Ubisoft are doing is even better. Looking forward to September and the free UPlay pass!

Announcement

Posting this here for everyone that’s not subscribed to the “BLAEO Announcements!” thread.

The guidelines have been updated and are now pinned in the Discussions section of the Steam group.

The new guidelines are:

1) Be nice.
2) When posting content, it should respect the privacy and rights of others.
3) Piracy, pornography, or any other material that may be inappropriate to a general audience should not be posted to the site.
4) While the site gives you a lot of freedom for writing posts, do not abuse that. Keep your posts related to gaming and try to keep your posts readable. Also, if your post has too many large screenshots, try embedding only one of them and linking the others, or reducing their size, or use HTML to come up with a creative way to alternate between them.
5) Do not spam.
6) Do not double post.
7) Do not beg users for gifts or ask for any kind of donations.
8) External links are fine as long as they do not contain referrals. If you want to promote your own website or any kind of project, you can include it in one of your regular posts only once (see guideline number 5). You can have the link displayed on your profile, but don’t try to circumvent this particular guideline by repeatedly telling people to look at your profile to check out your website/project.
9) Do not enter group-exclusive giveaways if you have not been active lately. If you do, you will be kicked out of the group.
10) Once you apply for Steam group membership do not keep asking for updates on your application.

June report

Completed/Beaten:

Mimpi

3 hours playtime

no achievements
Mimpi Dreams

2 hours playtime

32 of 57 achievements
The Emerald Maiden: Symphony of Dreams

2 hours playtime

13 of 13 achievements
Tropico 6

31 hours playtime

16 of 40 achievements

Played:

Forza Horizon 4

6.8 hours playtime

9 of 127 achievements
Sid Meier's Civilization VI

348 hours playtime

117 of 241 achievements
Steep

0.9 hours playtime

6 of 47 achievements
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands

48 hours playtime

13 of 57 achievements

Games/DLCs added to my Steam library:

Nothing!

I also did some late spring cleaning and deleted:

my SG account. My profile is still visible at this moment, but should disappear soonish. I stopped using SG at the end of October and in these last 8 months I never felt the need to log in again so it made sense to finally delete 7 years of my activity (joined on Oct 8 2011 & made 11120 comments) and take control of my data/personal info.
60 games from my Steam library. I’ve been using this website a lot in the last few months to find games that qualify for the monthly themes. Unfortunately one of the main side effects of using that tool is realising that I own too many games that I either a) don’t even know I have, b) never want to play. The most obvious “the heck is this thing” ones are now gone!

May report

Completed/Beaten:

12 Labours of Hercules VIII: How I Met Megara

6.7 hours playtime

19 of 24 achievements
Assassin's Creed Origins

28 hours playtime

22 of 67 achievements
Karateka

64 minutes playtime

6 of 12 achievements

Played:

Armello

24 hours playtime

10 of 50 achievements
Sid Meier's Civilization VI

318 hours playtime

115 of 241 achievements
War of the Human Tanks

3 hours playtime

2 of 61 achievements

Games/DLCs added to my Steam library:

12 Labours of Hercules VIII: How I Met Megara
Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Gathering Storm (DLC)

April report

Completed/Beaten:

FETCH

4 hours playtime

42 of 50 achievements
Renowned Explorers: International Society

5 hours playtime

52 of 165 achievements
Yooka-Laylee

16 hours playtime

27 of 35 achievements