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The never ending struggle of beating the backlog.
I intend to beat all the (acceptable) games in my library. This promise has taken me way too many years and is still in progress. I don’t intend to complete games. Aiming to get 100% rate is not worth it for me. Completing the main campaign (or similar) and getting as many achievements on the way counts as beating the game for me.
February 2023
Continued cleaning in last month. Beat some games that have been lingering for a long time, which felt good. Still have couple more that I have begun but not finished. Two of them are SG wins. Not good. Should clear at least one of them during spring.
Finished
Solid card game with good co-op functionality. Unfortunately, managed to play only single campaign as three people but it was still fun to play with a single friend. Has been lingering in my library for a while so hunted some achievements and called it quits.
Cannot recall did I even participate in this Kickstarter but this game has been in my library for years. Planned to play in co-op but promised co-op functionality kept waiting for a long time. When it finally arrived, managed to play couple first levels with friend until he moved to another game. :D Finished the campaign solo. Good game and can recommend if you enjoy the genre.
Did not enjoy this one, unfortunately. It has too many flaws for me, enough to write a whole article about the things bugging me. :D Kept avoiding playing as there were more interesting games but finally finished the game. Quite many seem to like it, though. I recommend non-pure melee character if you plan to play the game.
Ongoing
PlateUp!
15.2 hours, 12 of 26 achievements
Monster Hunter: World
7.6 hours, 10 of 100 achievements
Progress
January
New year begins with a bit of cleaning. I had multiple longer ongoing games that I can now close. I also went through “won’t play” section and moved some of them as beaten. These were games were I had beaten some other version (original/remaster) and had no achievements. I still have some games on that list that are remasters with achievements and I have beaten the original without achievements. It is silly but they really look like a sore sight in my library.
Let the good fight continue.
Finished
Enjoyable shooter. Played both solo and co-op. Cleared this season but left some of the assignments (most of the weapon unlocks) to the next season. Everyone needs to have this rock solid beard growing simulator.
Another completion, don't have that many of these. Kinda funny game idea but would really need more QoL features and a bit more variety in gameplay loop. Still good for its price.
Beat the original years ago and now cleaned this remaster too (previously marked as won't play). These remasters with achievements really bug me. Took basically the same amount of time to beat it again.
Quite bizarre game that has more than one layer in it. It keeps changing gameplay-wise and the narration was well done. Not the most complex card game but other areas really carry it.
Ongoing
MONSTER HUNTER RISE
82.6 hours, 24 of 100 achievements
Across the Obelisk
66.7 hours, 99 of 129 achievements
Progress
November & December
The end of the year was a mess. Have been playing mostly Dragon’s Dogma and Deep Rock Galactic but both are still unfinished so didn’t put a post on November. Bought couple new games at the end of December so backlog grew again. With the winning of Witcher 3 GOTY, I’ll need whole spring to clear this mess.
DRG has been fun, especially in co-op, but requires so much game time. Getting near the end though, as I have now most of the season content unlocked. DD has been a solid disappointment. Haven’t been enjoying that one a bit. Hopefully your (previous) year of gaming has been good. Good moments for everyone in this year!
Ongoing
Deep Rock Galactic
97.0 hours, 43 of 69 achievements
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
35.3 hours, 20 of 59 achievements
Necrosmith
5.9 hours, 20 of 30 achievements
Faerie Solitaire Remastered
12.0 hours, 26 of 30 achievements
MONSTER HUNTER RISE
11.4 hours, 1 of 100 achievements
Inscryption
1.9 hours, 3 of 40 achievements
Progress
October
Slower month. Didn’t play that much and focused more on other hobbies. Still, a bit progress.
Finished
Won this on SG. It is a solid action game. Not that long as I think I beat the final boss in three hours. A bit more content and versatility (guns, maps, and monster) would have been nice as I think the game had room for that without turning into too repetitive. Game encourages fast gameplay as your counter resets if you don't shoot anything for a while. With higher counter you get more money and health drops. Has co-op but didn't have chance to try it.
Enjoyed this one a lot! Great JRPG with superb game mechanics. Clearly shows how developers thought about things with multiple quality-of-life kind things like ability to teleport from anywhere in dungeon to outside. Real time combat was fun but kinda simplistic as it is enough to keep smashing your basic attack. Didn't even use heavy attack and only couple of skills. You control only one hero at a time and there is no use to switch between characters.
Has mini games like building your kingdom and strategy battles. They were alright but nothing exceptional. Music were a bit meh and animations quite simple (not that many and they kept reusing them a lot). Story was perhaps the weakest part. Nowhere near the complexity of western RPGs with deep characterization or multi-layered plot. It is very lighthearted, basically a children's movie level plot.
Progress
September
Autumn is on full speed. Hopefully games in my backlog will drop faster than the leaves from trees.
Ongoing
Across the Obelisk
41.7 hours, 68 of 129 achievements
Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
16.7 hours, 16 of 63 achievements
Finished
Not sure if this actually is better than Terraria. It has all kinds of things going for it but still felt somewhat lacking. Perhaps it was more of my negative mindset than gameplay. Anyway, main quest is tedious but otherwise game had good parts.
Quite simple gameplay but it was fun to smack known DB characters around. Would have liked a bit more depth to the mechanics. Also, collecting desired skills and items seems quite grindy as they drop randomly after fight.
Did not like this one. It is a roguelike strategy game with management in the mix and none of them work. I felt that the required ingredients for a good game were kinda there but used either incorrectly or in wrong quantity. I beat the "campaign" for all three managers but that was a chore.
Progress
August
Summer is gone but backlog still shines on. Forgot to include Dying Light as ongoing last month. Couple new games like Across the Obelisk which I have been waiting to get published for a while but some longer ones finished. Work, work, work.
Ongoing
Across the Obelisk
40.1 hours, 68 of 129 achievements
Legend of Keepers
25.0 hours, 10 of 24 achievements
The Long Dark
4.3 hours, 2 of 56 achievements
Starbound
31.4 hours, 17 of 51 achievements
Finished
It was a good game but a bit too long. With all the special edition DLCs included, things got dragged quite a while. Solid zombie smacker with basic parkour thrown in it. Would have been better in company but fun enough even as solo.
Another fun title. Cleared the game with all the non-DLC characters and the first two difficulties. Not bothering the higher ones as they seem to required team. Had hard time finding other players to play with so mostly soloed this one.
I didn't like this one. Disappointed based on the expectations from all the hype it had. The core mechanics just didn't feel enjoyable. Beat the game with all the heroes but didn't have desire to aim for the higher difficulties.
Progress
June 2022
Summer vacation from work so played more in this month. Quite many games ongoing but will take a while to get them finished.
Ongoing
Slay the Spire
32.1 hours, 21 of 46 achievements
Starbound
22.9 hours, 16 of 51 achievements
Children of Morta
8.0 hours, 18 of 45 achievements
Gunfire Reborn
23.2 hours, 57 of 102 achievements
Finished
I tried years ago playing Commandos so it has been quite a while since playing this genre. It has a solid gameplay. In the beginning, things required lot of trial and error but got easier once you understood the mechanics better. Still got slightly stuck in some cases so save-load-save buttons were hammered a lot.
This game took so long to finish. Started playing it November 2020. It has same gameplay problems that the first one had: crafting is clunky (hundreds of materials without possibility to filter), maps and missions repeat themselves (kill monster A, kill monster B in same map, kill monster A red version in other map), and so on. In the end, it is okayish Monster Hunter game with more rapid action and stronger anime vibes. Unlikely to play the third one, though.
Progress
June 2022
Back from vacation. Of course with larger backlog. The battle continues, it seems.
Ongoing
Desperados III
21.1 hours, 14 of 36 achievements
Slay the Spire
6.1 hours, 5 of 46 achievements
Starbound
5.4 hours, 10 of 51 achievements
Children of Morta
2.8 hours, 7 of 45 achievements
Finished
Zombie Hitler beaten! My first sniper game. Was fun playing with bullet time though I guess it doesn't really matter if you hit zombie to knee. Would likely to much more fun with company. Didn't find anyone online when I tried it after the campaign, though.
This one was wacky. Style above else! I really liked it. Action was spot on. Humor was good. The campaign was short enough to keep it interesting. Some of the missions could have had a bit more variety.
Those last couple achievements took their time! But now I have beaten the game with all main game factions with the hardest difficulty. It took some trials to find proper combos with all of them. Not that many different cards, I guess, but the core gameloop was nice enough.
Didn't play it after vacation and just marking it as beaten as I don't want to chase those achievement anymore. The main game loop was fun in the beginning. Then they changed how upgrades work and progression went rapid downhill. Don't know it is still in the same state.
Progress
January 2022
New year, same task. Managed to complete two bigger games. Will now take a break from gaming this spring. Trying to do other things and focus more on well-being. See you in summer!
Ongoing
Zombie Hitler doing hitlery stuff. Won this just before my break and couldn't finish it in one day. I guess it would be much better played with friends. Will solo the campaign and perhaps try multiplayer after it.
Still hunting for achievements. Have finished the game (hardest covenant/difficulty) now with three out of five factions. I still want those two and perhaps some of the boss ones. Perhaps they are easier to get once I can lower the difficulty.
Changes
Hitman
31.5 hours, 47 of 69 achievements
Baldy MacBald really loves strangling people.
HITMAN had been on my backlog since 2018. Started playing then but got stuck in the first bigger mission. Then Linux got busted and lost permanently internet connection. Took years until I reinstalled it and finished the game. I felt that this game (reboot) was more puzzle oriented than previous titles. I recall earlier games having more connected story with more action oriented take on assassinations. This one had few big maps filled with different types to approach the tasks. Most of the maps had the same goal: kill two different persons which made things a bit repetitive. The game was enjoyable.
Horizon Zero Dawn
72.2 hours, 74 of 79 achievements
Aloy Croft digs hunting mecha dinosaurs.
This one took quite awhile. Kept hunting those achievements which was much easier once hitting that sweet max level and opening the whole map. If you enjoyed Tomb Raider reboots, it hits in the same alley with similar style of gameplay and theme. Following a heroine climbing in lovely landscapes while hunting enemies with bow. It is a well made game with very little to complain for. Too long with the expansion? Also had some technical issues as I had to play this game on Linux as it didn't work on Windows. :D Proton has made life easier. It is still quite not there but close enough to start lighting that cigar.
Progress
December 2021
Year is over. Finished 18 games during this year, got 18 new ones. What a failure for backlog. :D Still, some of the currently unfinished games are in good progress so hopefully numbers drop in January.
Ongoing
Has been my main game lately. Good one but takes quite a while to finish this one. Already closer to the end, though.
Running through the covenants (game's difficulty levels). Don't know how hard the last ones will be but hopefully I get all cleared.
No progress on achievements.
Tested this one but will take time before I can return on it.
Managed to beat the main campaign on normal difficulty.
Changes
The game is basically a glorified Pacman. You go for the smaller fish. Eat them. Grow stronger. Eat bigger fish. Grow stronger. Eat crocodiles, other sharks, humans, boats, whales. Become the alpha female hunter of the ocean. Queen of waves that unleashes her fury to all and everyone. It outstays its welcome slightly too long. As I said, the game mechanic is quite simple. More varied enemies and more things to do would have been better. Luckily, it does not try to push for 20+ hours. But overall it was fun eating everyone and everything.
Progress
384 | games (+8 not categorized yet) |
1% | never played |
5% | unfinished |
79% | beaten |
9% | completed |
5% | won't play |