July 2024

Beaten:

• Tales of Berseria
  

  123.9 hours playtime

  35 of 51 achievements

  7046

• Crawl
  

  14.2 hours playtime

  15 of 45 achievements

  6614

• Castlevania Advance Collection
  

  46.8 hours playtime

  39 of 48 achievements

  3923

Progressed:

• Mini Metro
  

  21.6 hours playtime

  44 of 73 achievements

  4793

• Grand Theft Auto V
  

  150.7 hours playtime

  37 of 77 achievements

  5819

• Gloom
  

  1.1 hours playtime

  4 of 36 achievements

  427

• Has-Been Heroes
  

  7.7 hours playtime

  4 of 26 achievements

  570

• Portal 2
  

  16.2 hours playtime

  44 of 51 achievements

  6520

• Stardew Valley
  

  67.3 hours playtime

  19 of 49 achievements

  1569

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  

  653.1 hours playtime

  65 of 75 achievements

  6107

Added:

• Full Void
  

  0 hours playtime

  0 of 12 achievements

• Quadrilateral Cowboy
  

  0 hours playtime

  0 of 10 achievements

• Orcs Must Die! 3
  

  0 hours playtime

  0 of 38 achievements

• LEGO® Bricktales
  

  0 hours playtime

  0 of 21 achievements

Big re-organise this month.
The sharp-eyed might've noticed a bigger change in my progress bar than is normal, and that's because i spent some time (re)sorting my progress lists. Mostly just pulling things back out of "won't play" into "never played". While there's a lot of games i've jumped over, i don't exactly want to rule out the possibility of playing them in the future (however tiny of a chance it is). So "won't play" should primarily be games with multiple versions, where i either don't need to play the original, or don't feel like playing through the re-release

Anyway, to business as usual. Finished Tales of Berseria, Crawl, and Castlevania Advance Collection this month - wrote posts about them, not much more to say.
For polishing, let's bash through the list:

• Finished one more challenge map in Mini-Metro
• Started GTA Online to maybe get those achievements, but honestly that game is just chaos to my eyes, so i switched to director mode instead, which was far easier
• Went back to Gloom, but i wasn't having fun with it, so i'll drop it for now
• Has-Been Heroes i was starting to have fun with, but it seems there's a bug on the Steam Deck where it doesn't save your progress - not having that so also benched
• Roped a sister in for Portal 2 co-op achievements (did a bit more there than i planned, but that's a good thing)
• Stardew Valley 1.6 seems to have calmed down by now, so decided to jump back in for a bit - maybe one day i'll get to mark that one done
• And then Skyrim.. For background, we're currently emptying out the house to move countries (this month(!)), and i've been meaning to upgrade the PC for a while, so i thought i'd just get a new one on that side, saving space on the trip. Once i started cleaning up the hard drive though, i realised my Skyrim mod set-up is so meticulously crafted on this machine, over many hours days, that i very much doubt i'd be able to re-create it again - especially since i'm seriously considering finally giving up Windows. So i dived back in, playing through the Dawnguard vampire questline. Squeezed in the last bit last night, but i might mess around with a Raven Rock refugee playthrough for a bit more

Part 2 of the restructuring was to simplify my monthly playing list, focusing it down to something achievable. I decided on pulling through five games each from "unfinished" and "untouched", since i rarely beat more than five in a month, or play more than ten. If i do empty the list, there's always those piles to pull from. We'll see how it goes, but i'm feeling good about it

Big long wall of text this time, but everything happens at once, as they say..