September’s Stats

• MONSTER HUNTER: WORLD
  

  197 hours playtime

  39 of 50 achievements

• Stardew Valley
  

  157 hours playtime

  22 of 40 achievements

• A Normal Lost Phone
  

  82 minutes playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

• Alice's Patchworks 2
  

  12 hours playtime

  15 of 18 achievements

• Another Lost Phone: Laura's Story
  

  2 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Card City Nights
  

  14 hours playtime

  8 of 8 achievements

• Batman: Arkham City GOTY
  

  30 hours playtime

  31 of 64 achievements

• Knights of Pen and Paper 2
  

  17 hours playtime

  27 of 33 achievements

• Knights of Pen and Paper +1
  

  4 hours playtime

  7 of 42 achievements

• Kingdom: Classic
  

  5 hours playtime

  7 of 34 achievements

• Future Proof
  

  5 hours playtime

  17 of 17 achievements

• Pixel Puzzles 2: Space
  

  28 hours playtime

  55 of 55 achievements

• Unavowed
  

  8 hours playtime

  15 of 56 achievements

• Mushroom Wars
  

  3 hours playtime

  5 of 15 achievements

A very short game with an unusual gameplay, which turned out to be a really interesting way of storytelling. For those who haven't heard about it, the whole game play as you navigating through a smartphone interface and trying to piece together the story of that lost phone's owner. For that, you get to access texts, emails, messages and unlock various applications to learn more about what happened. I won't get into spoilers territory as the game is pretty short so I'd recommend you play it instead.

This game is sort of a sequel to the game above, but only if you consider that the gameplay is what links them together. The story is completely independant, making the order you play the games totally irrelevant. It was as interesting as the first one, they both try to touch serious subjects through that minimalistic gameplay. Recommended as well, I hope the studio will make more of those.

Relaxing puzzle game, in the direct continuity of the first one. I wouldn't just sit there and play this but it's perfect for when I'm watching a movie/tv show, or my brain is too fried after a day of work to get into something more intense. I wouldn't recommend it for completionists though, as to get the achievements I'm still missing, you'd had to more than double the playtime with replaying levels over and over to grind the money. I remember doing it for the first one, i'm not gonna inflict that on myself another time. Ain't nobody got time for that.

I'm trying to pick back up games in my unfinished category that I have dropped a long time ago when I was starting a lot of games but never focusing enough to really finish many of them. Card City Nights was falling into that category. By the makers of Ittle Dew, it is in the same universe but it's just a card game, vaguely reminding me of the card game in Final Fantasy 9, but not quite as good. It's an entertaining "side game" though and I had fun with it. I might look into the sequel, but maybe if you don't have it yet in your backlog, look directly at the sequel, it seems more polished.

I can't believe I'm almost clocking 200h in this game already... I've been slowing down a bit after I finished the last mission story but I'm still having fun hunting with friends, which I think is the best part of this game. Story wise it's pretty basic filler, so it's clearly not a game for those who look for a solid storytelling in every game they play. Other than that, it's a classic Monster Hunter, but more beginner friendly as for once, it actually explains to you the basics instead of just dropping you there and expect you to already know how to play (which was the impression I had with every other MH game I played in the past). Monster Hunter games are either for you or not for you, it's hard to explain but it's one of those series that is polarizing when it comes to liking it or not. I obviously loved it, but I don't recommend (or not recommend) it unless you know if you like monster hunter in general or not. My advice would be to watch a few gameplay videos and see if you're interested for yourself. Really had a blast with my friends though.

Another unfinished game I picked back up and it was a nice adventure, even though a bit grindy in parts, but only because I like to do a lot of side quests. For those who haven't heard of the series, you play a group of D&D players sitting at a table with their DM and playing an adventure. I really like the meta tone of the series and this one is definitely more of the first, but better. (I tried to go back to the first one too but apparently all save files got erased in an update at some point, and I prefered to finish this one first than restarting the other from scratch). I'm curious about Galaxy of pen and paper, if any of you have played it, feel free to tell me if it's worth it in the comments.

This is a truly hidden gem. Thanks again to Adelion both for the discovery and a copy of the game. Now, don't let the simple graphics nor the fact that the game got poorly bundled not long after its release fool you, this game was really interesting. Basically you're stuck in a time loop relieving the last 12 minutes of your life before an asteroid kills you until you can find a way to escape the situation. Those 12 minutes are playing real time as you go through the game and try to advance the situation. Luckily between each iteration, you keep your knowledge of your various discoveries. There are a lot of endings (basically every achievement is a different ending, plus a few "failure" ones that don't unlock achievements) and the more I played the more I wanted to know.

Just a casual jigsaw game and certainly not the best of them. I'm partly responsible for the insane play time I have on this, as I didn't realize til the very last puzzle that the game saves your progress if you exit before a puzzle is finished. To my defense, it's not very clear either. Anyway, the puzzles were okay, but it's not even as practical as completing a puzzle on Jigidi. Okay as a side. I wish I knew a good jigsaw game to scratch my puzzle itch, or I'm gonna end up buying physical ones again.

My new favourite Wadget Eye game is here. Surpassing the love I had previously for Shardlight, Unavowed is a mix of everything Wadget Eye do well (great narrative, cool pixel art style, no nonsense P&C...) plus some (multiple playable characters, multiple ways to solve each investigations, multiple endings...). It offers a great story but also great replayability, making me eager to have at least another playthrough, and to also listen to the dev commentary. Highly highly recommended for P&C fans.

Last but not least, as I mentionned last month, I started a fresh co-op playthrough of Stardew Valley with my girlfriend after they officially released the last big patch. Turned out that not only it was delightful to play together, but also there was a lot of new content since the last time we both played it, and we kept finding new things. Yesterday at last we finished to repair the community center and even though we're not done playing it felt both sweet and sour at the same time. It felt good to restore the community center and ruin JojaCorp but at the same time, I liked visiting the Junimos and now they're gone and all we have left is that giant junimo plushie in our bedroom. If you still haven't tried Stardew Valley after all this time, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?

• King of Dragon Pass
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 43 achievements

• Little Nightmares
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 22 achievements

• Figment
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 23 achievements

• tiny & Tall: Gleipnir Part One
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 9 achievements

• Sniper Elite 4
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 85 achievements

• Modern Tales: Age of Invention
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 24 achievements

• Scarlett Mysteries: Cursed Child
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 13 achievements

• Unforeseen Incidents
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 18 achievements

• The Tiny Bang Story
  

  0 minutes playtime

  no achievements

• Farabel
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 54 achievements

• My Brother Rabbit
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 30 achievements