End of Year Goals - October Update

Stat	Beginning	Current	Goal
Games Beaten or Completed	10%	12%	20%
SteamGift Wins Played	21%	26%	50%
AStats Ranking	2035	1745	< 1500

I have made steady progress on all of my goals, though my pace is a bit slower than it needs to be if I hope to complete them by the end of the year, especially the goal to have beaten at least 20% of my library. A combination of going a bit slower than expected, some games counting differently between total games and games recently played (e.g. Strong Bad’s Game for Cool People is listed as five episodes in my library but only counted as one complete on the recently played list), and new bundle games has meant progress towards that goal has been slow.

On the other hand, I’ve moved up the AStats (achievement tracking website) ladder faster than I expected, and my SteamGifts wins plays have come at about the pace I planned for. While the progress seems a bit slow on the latter, I have a plan in mind. I like to play games of a similar theme together, and right now I’m focused more on horror / spooky games (because of Halloween). I am playing some other games, but really going to be doing mostly horror / monster type games for the most part this month, and that limits my choice from my SteamGifts wins. I’ll make up for it in November, and am sure I will hit the 50% mark or more by the end of the year.

I know I promised regular, short updates / reviews of games as I finished them, but I’ve been slipping in and out of depression, and just fell way too far behind on that. I will try again to get regular with that starting this month.

Currently Playing:

Always Sometimes Monsters - started this a month or more ago, but its slipped through the cracks, going back to it very soon

Amnesia : The Dark Descent - same story as above

BIT.TRIP Presents… Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien - started this a couple weeks ago, playing a little bit every few days, I’m about 3/5 of the way through

Choice of the Deathless - really well written choose your own adventure game with an interesting story / scenario, played through it once a month or so ago, but probably will try to finish 100%-ing it soon

Gateways - fun little puzzle platformer, seemed to fit since I just finished Portal 2 and am working on Half-life 2: Episode 2 now, its basically a 2-d Portal game

Guns’N’Zombies - kind of fun, mindless arcade shooter that I started a week or two ago, only about 1/5 of the way through I think

Half-Life 2: Episode 2 - I started this last week, am about 1/3 of the way through, this is the only Half-life game I haven’t 100%-ed yet

Victor Vran - started this a couple weeks ago but got caught up in other games and haven’t been back to it yet