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mordsmiez

Log #34 - January 25

28% (234/826)
5% (40/826)
16% (136/826)
49% (407/826)
1% (9/826)

Backlog growth: +7

Assassinations of January:

I don’t feel like writing much about them, I think they were all free? Favourite was FIND ALL: Christmas. I think the Find All games are a bit nicer than the average HOGs.

That’s it from me, until next month!

86maylin

2025 January update

Most Enjoyable

  • LEWD GIRLS: Hentai Puzzle
    LEWD GIRLS: Hentai Puzzle

    2.1 hours playtime

    32 of 32 achievements

    Rating: ★☆☆☆☆

  • Glass Masquerade - Inceptions Puzzle Pack
    Glass Masquerade - Inceptions Puzzle Pack

    1.3 hours playtime

    no achievements

    Rating: ★★★☆☆

  • Glass Masquerade - Halloween Puzzle Pack
    Glass Masquerade - Halloween Puzzle Pack

    1.3 hours playtime

    no achievements

    Rating: ★★★☆☆

  • Glass Masquerade - Heritages Puzzle Pack
    Glass Masquerade - Heritages Puzzle Pack

    1.3 hours playtime

    no achievements

    Rating: ★★★☆☆

  • Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
    Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    39.5 hours playtime

    36 of 42 achievements

    Rating: ★★★★☆

  • Rusty's Retirement
    Rusty's Retirement

    118.4 hours playtime

    71 of 71 achievements

    Rating: ★★★☆☆

  • Vectronom
    Vectronom

    3.5 hours playtime

    20 of 20 achievements

    Rating: ★★★★☆

  • Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena
    Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena

    3.3 hours playtime

    no achievements

    Rating: ★★★★☆

  • Say No! More
    Say No! More

    8.2 hours playtime

    22 of 22 achievements

    Rating: ★★★★☆

  • The Pedestrian
    The Pedestrian

    3.1 hours playtime

    10 of 10 achievements

    Rating: ★★★★☆

Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

39.5 hours of playtime, 36 of 42 achievements
Personal rating: 8/10, Date of finish: January/07
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Going to call it beaten since I don't think I'll buy the new DLCs anytime soon. This is a lovely idle game about rubbers ducks floating in pools. :3 It's mostly a pure idle game where you spend time waiting for new ducks to spawn, watch ducks with various different kinds of ducks having different abilities float about and interact with each other/the map. Love it a lot because of the chill vibe, and it also helped me a fair few times when I couldn't fall asleep, so I just got up and listened to the ambient water splashing and ducks, and after a while I can finally fall asleep.

Rusty's Retirement

118.4 hours of playtime, 71 of 71 achievements
Personal rating: 6/10, Date of finish: January/11
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Grabbed this during winter sale cuz it seems like a cozy game. I am a bit disappointed by it, tho I'm unsure if it's because I kinda rushed it, turning it from an idle and chill experience into a micromanage sim. And not a good one since you can't micromanage everything for optimization. The game feels like it's meant to be played in the background, but also requires way too much manual work? And here's where I'm not sure if it's my mindset being not suitable for the game or not, because the game seems to not know whether it wants to be an idle game or not. Especially at the start of a save where plants have short cycles and you haven't unlock Splunk that plants seeds for you yet(tho Splunk is really bad at their job being super slow). Even later on it's just kinda annoying being "I unlocked a seed let me replant and reassign signs to plots, now I gotta wait for the next seed to unlock" and then also "10 minutes timer up and chip shop is back, better check it for better chips for my plants".

Vectronom

3.5 hours of playtime, 20 of 20 achievements
Personal rating: 9/10, Date of finish: January/13
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This game is a pleasant surprise for me because I randomly decided to select it for pagywosg, and it's super awesome and fun. It's kinda got the Crypt of the Necrodancer rule where you have to move with the beat(or half beat also works as well), and the neat thing about the game is the platforms change and move with the beat as well, and your goal is to reach the end warp block. It's got a really trippy style/presentation that might cause epilepsy for some people(tho there is an option to turn that off) so I couldn't really play it for long, but I really like it and I've been playing just a couple of levels a day, so it didn't bother me too much. All in all, an awesome game that I would recommend to anyone who likes rhythm games. :3

Samantha Swift and the Hidden Roses of Athena

3.3 hours of playtime, no achievements
Personal rating: 8/10, Date of finish: January/15
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This is a HOG without achievements which instantly makes me like it more because I can actually use hints. It also has that nostalgia HOG vibe, cuz it's literally an old game that came out in 2008. xD I grew up playing these games and they're the first PC games I've played actually, cuz my mom knows they'll help with my English vocabulary, and they did. :) So even though the objects a lot of times are obvious and stand out, even though the story is cheesy and predictable, I still really enjoyed it. I love how almost every scene is a HOG scene, and I love the object outline scanner(more HOGs should have that) which I only discovered how to use like half way into my playthrough, and I love the high quality artwork in the story segments. Recommend if you're nostalgia for some old school HOG.

Say No! More

8.2 hours of playtime, 22 of 22 achievements
Personal rating: 8.5/10, Date of finish: January/15
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Discovered this game thanks to Longinus' post, and grabbed it during winter sale. The story is pretty cheesy and bizarre in an intentionally comedic way which is both pretty neat but also I did get bored sometimes during it. However, I did not expect one of the most emotional chapter to hit me as hard as it did. ^^; It's honestly really awesome. The ending is a bit cliche and boring tho, and the achievement of getting 100k noes is just overkill. Apart from those I'd highly recommend this little game to anyone, it's a really neat experience. :3

The Pedestrian

3.1 hours of playtime, 10 of 10 achievements
Personal rating: 9/10, Date of finish: January/22
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This game is gorgeous! The art direction is amazing and it's just a joy seeing the environments and where you little person can use as their world to solve puzzles in. Speaking of puzzles, they honestly aren't that hard, most of them I don't need to think for long before finding the answer, but the process is very enjoyable. :3 There's a twist at near the end which gets a bit mind bending, but I'm a little disappointed they didn't have more puzzles revolving that(only 1). It would be pretty neat if there's more. But that's when you know it's a good puzzle game, that you want more after finishing the game. :D

Time played 340 hours 59 minutes
Achievements gotten 214
Games 100% completed 6

Late post cuz I was on Chinese New Year holiday. :P Happy year of the snake everyone~This month’s playtime is a bit bloated because of idle time on Rusty’s Retirement and Rubber duck game. :3 And Tametsi’s time is also a bit bloated because later levels get very hard and the notes don’t get saved, so when I had to go out with parents and didn’t want to lose my notes I had to left the game open. xD Should be able to finish Tametsi this month, not a lot of puzzles left.

fernandopa

January 2025

New month, new year, new house, new country! Managed to beat some beefy wins, and I’m ready for some new ones as well :)

SG Wins

Gone Home

6.5 hours, 1 of 10 achievements


Grindstone

30.5 hours, 46 of 49 achievements


NAIRI: Tower of Shirin

4.2 hours, 20 of 20 achievements


Backlog

Mini-Ghost

3.0 hours, no achievements


SG Wins

  • We Were Here Together
  • Soul Axiom Rebooted
  • Metal Unit
  • Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition

Keys received as a gift

  • Crime Boss: Rockay City
  • Moonstone Island
  • Vampire Therapist

Purchases

None!

Freebies

  • Burntime Remastered
  • Dark Lord
  • InKing
  • Balantica
  • The Last Train

Jan 2025

4% (8/221)
16% (36/221)
2% (4/221)
74% (163/221)
5% (10/221)

Dec 2024

3% (7/216)
16% (34/216)
2% (4/216)
75% (161/216)
5% (10/216)

Nov 2024

3% (7/214)
15% (33/214)
2% (4/214)
75% (160/214)
5% (10/214)

Oct 2024

3% (6/201)
15% (31/201)
2% (4/201)
75% (150/201)
5% (10/201)

Sep 2024

3% (6/201)
14% (29/201)
2% (5/201)
75% (151/201)
5% (10/201)
mrstasilo

January 2025



Half-Life 2

while True: learn()

10.3 hours
31 of 31 achievements
9.9 hours

Half-Life 2

Liar's Bar

4.1 hours
no achievements
Half-Life 2

Metaphor: ReFantazio

83.3 hours
25 of 44 achievements
Half-Life 2

Dead by Daylight

1591.5 hours
267 of 270 achievements
Half-Life 2

Buckshot Roulette

2.1 hours
0 of 16 achievements
  • FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH

Feb 03 2025

vigaristti

Log #10

Completed
Half-Life 2

Prodeus

16.5 hours
30 of 30 achievements
Half-Life 2

Spec Ops: The Line

20.7 hours
50 of 50 achievements
Half-Life 2

Boomerang Fu

15.0 hours
13 of 13 achievements
Played
Half-Life 2

Bloons TD 6

445.9 hours
148 of 150 achievements
Half-Life 2

Metaphor: ReFantazio

45.5 hours
20 of 44 achievements
Half-Life 2

The Big Con

8.0 hours
29 of 51 achievements
ninglor03

Ninglors Log 381

27.01.24 – 03.02.25
59% (725/1221)
13% (157/1221)
1% (10/1221)
24% (290/1221)
3% (39/1221)

January Progress:
5
PPU monthly:
done
January Additions:
4
February Progress:

PPU monthly:
undone
February Additions:

Completed Games:

Won/Gifted Games:
Bought Games:
Currently playing:
Higurashi 6 Farm Together 2 Life is Strange: Double Exposure Deliver us Mars The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria

So much from me :3
Have a lovely week!
Queen Ninglor

VinroyIsViral

⭐ Completed Games of the Month: January 2025 ⭐

❤️ Favorite Games of the Month: January 2025 ❤️

💀 Disliked Games of the Month: December 2024 💀

Feb 02 2025

Senses

A really silent month

Another month low in gameplay, moving from houses, work, pets, there is so much right now around me to sit and play properly, but managed to at least put proper time on a game this month yay!!

This post makes sense #3 - January 2025

Half-Life 2

SILENT HILL 2

17 hours
24 of 43 achievements

4.5/5

4/5

5/5

4.5/5

18/20

If we ignore Shattered Memories (because for some reason a lot of people do heh) this is the very first time I was able to play a Silent Hill from start to finish and I am so glad I did, while I was unsure if I would be required to play the first one to understand, that doesn't seem to be the case as the story can be perfectly understand without it… Well… the story is difficult to understand not gonna lie but… Lets keep it as an awesome game okay?

7 Playthroughs? Really? Well this will take me several hours considering that even rushed it can take like 4 hours each... maybe

February game plans:

NateSCC
Half-Life 2

Space Crew: Legendary Edition

6/10
24.1 hours
30 of 30 achievements (100%)

#337
#4 of 2025
February 2, 2025

Mskotor

January 2025 Update

Next update (works only on profile page)


Overall backlog progress :

25% completed
64% beaten
2% never played
9% won't play

Side note


This game does not have 2 stars only because I see how deep and enjoyable the combat can be, for the people who enjoy micromanaging the battlefield. I will start to play the second one by looking for QoL mods, to remove as many “leftover” drag mechanics as possible 😅

I’ve beaten Cyberpunk 2077, which will count as Feb game. And even when combat feels lackluster (or I just get OP by doing all side missions), the story is good and engaging. The ending is not great though.