Log №10: October + November'24

Date	Total	Added this month	Beaten/Completed	Playing now	Never played (monthly change)
October + November’24	1316	+11	8	5	482 (-2)

Beaten/Completed

Playing now

November 2024

• Baldur's Gate 3
  

  189.4 hours playtime

  18 of 54 achievements

  

• Yoku's Island Express
  

  22.7 hours playtime

  31 of 31 achievements

  

• Baldur’s Gate 3: A ridiculously thorough game. Finished co-op after over a year of intermittent play.
• Yoku’s Island Express: Good unique pinball metroidvania. Previously beaten, but replayed to completion

Okay time for the long post of the month!

November 2024

TL;DR, another really good gaming month. A good mix of SG Wins and Backlog games, some from itch and EGS. Another lucky month for SG Wins so my backlog probably grew, but I had a lot of fun so here we are.

Beaten Games

SG Wins

Backlog

New Games

SG Wins

• King's Bounty: Dark Side
  
• Grindstone
  
• Strikey Sisters
  
• Figment 2: Creed Valley
  
• Lust from Beyond: M Edition
  
• Magenta Horizon
  
• This Is the Zodiac Speaking
  

Keys received as a gift

• Still Life 2
  

Purchases

None!

Freebies

None as well!

Progress on SG Wins

November

October

September

December Assassination #1

Main Quest #200 - 02 December 2024

I played LIMBO in 2016 and I remember hearing a lot about INSIDE when it came out, in 2018. Can’t believe it has been SIX years already since it released.
The lightning and atmosphere was top notch, I felt scared the whole way through. I feel like I enjoyed this one way more than LIMBO but I also did not really understand what the final stretch was supposed to really mean. I’ll need to research a bit about it and think about the game as a whole before I can give my full opinion.

Also, 200th game since I adopted the main/side quest system! It’s been a while.
I am however considering return to the monthly updates. There’s something to a monthly summary that catches my interest and I love stats.

Log #32 - November 2024

Backlog growth: +17

It appears I picked up some games during autumn sale^^

Assassinations of the past weeks:

• Zero IDLE
  

  88.6 hours playtime

  42 of 42 achievements

• Dex
  

  11.3 hours playtime

  32 of 32 achievements

• Cat Search in Feudal Japan
  

  0.4 hours playtime

  100 of 100 achievements

• 100 Hiddensaurs
  

  0.1 hours playtime

  11 of 11 achievements

Dex was really good! A short cyberpunk rpg, which I recommend checking out!

See you next month!

October 2024

Finished games:

• Dungeons of Hinterberg
  

  25 hours playtime

  49 of 50 achievements

• Breakneck
  

  13 hours playtime

  32 of 37 achievements

• Dome Keeper
  

  31 hours playtime

  27 of 47 achievements

• Figment 2: Creed Valley
  

  4 hours playtime

  14 of 18 achievements

New games:

• Creatures of Ava
  

  65 minutes playtime

  0 of 27 achievements

Quick thoughts:

Dungeons of Hinterberg

9/10

I loved this game. It is a dungeon crawler mixed with socializing with NPC’s. Magic started to show in world by opening dungeons full of monsters and riddles, and people started to commercialised them, because OF COURSE we would do that. And now game’s protagonist is going on holiday in Austrian Alps - mixed with some monster hunting. Every day we go on a trip, find dungeons, which a hand crafted and full of environmental riddles and monster (no procedural generation this time), and in the evening, we are spending time with one of the other people in village we are staying in (Like in Persona, but without time limit - here you can actually befriend everyone). It’s perfect mix of cosy, head scratching, and easy fighting.

Breakneck

5/10

Simple game - you ride a spaceship through dystopian wasteland, there is big bad alien spaceship behind you, when it catch you, game over. Every day new map is generated, and there are high scores among players. It was alright for some quick bursts while listening to podcasts, but nothing more.

Dome Keeper

8/10

A game that started new genre. you dig resources, upgrading your base with those resources and have to survive waves of monsters. The more resources you are taking to base, the slower you are, so you need to decide between speed and capacity. It’s extremely addicting and have some nice variety in game modes.

Figment 2: Creed Valley

8/10

Isometric game focused on fighting, with some light puzzles mixed. Everything is happening inside mind of a person - very Inside out style, and the player is playing as embodiment of courage - fighting things like fear of darkness. It’s also a musical, because why not. It’s just more of the fun from the first game, if you liked first one, you like this.

Wow, a month went by quite fast.. Thanks for the warm welcome last time!

Last month I said I wanted to make some progress on satisfactory, and finish subnautica.

And I did manage to make progress on satisfactory! I’ve unlocked oil and trains now! But I did not play any subnautica.

Instead I played:

Apparently there was a lot of new content in a patch I missed! so I played it a bunch, and went on some achievement hunting.

I also played

but I played it at a friend’s house, so I can’t seem to add it to my completed list here…

I quite liked it though! Engaged the critic part of my brain nicely :)

This month is exam season, so I’ll probably play mostly games like this (that are short and fit in a study break..)

November 2024

Got sick so had more time to play earlier on month. Than had no time at all so it balanced out.

Finished

Ongoing

Progress

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