Aaaannnddddd…2024 is the books. Happy New Year everybody!!! I feel like I never stopped in 2024. I had a record year for my own personal gaming stats, hiked an average of 130 miles a month with my wolf hybrid, did a bunch of trail maintenance using only a Swiss Army Knife throughout the year, did a lot of work on my car, shoveled tons of snow (with tons more on the horizon), played countless hours of guitar and started getting back into drums as well, did a fair amount of general contracting and house renovation, developed a lot of high altitude variations of bread recipes, and plenty more I’m not remembering at this moment. I probably averaged about five hours of sleep a day and basically stayed busy my every waking moment lol. I expect to scale that back a bit in 2025, lol.

As far as the gaming part, I completed/finished my goals with 145 games, retired another 83 games, and paused or perpetually play another 20ish on top of that.

2024 Game Completions

8/8/88 Needle AL (Steam), A Highland Song (Steam), A Living Room (Steam), A Night on the Farm [Endings A, C, E] (Steam Deck), A Story About My Uncle (Steam), Albatroz (Steam), Alien Video Game Scientist (Steam), An Airport For Aliens Currently Run By Dogs (Steam), Another Crab’s Treasure (Steam), Answer Knot (Steam Deck), Assassin’s Creed Mirage (Steam/Ubisoft Connect), Avadon 2: The Corruption (Steam), Avadon: The Black Fortress (Steam), Avernum: Escape From The Pit (Steam), BOOKS (Steam Deck), Backspace Backspace Backspace (Steam), Balatro (Steam), Basements n’ Basilisks: Storms of Sorcery (Steam Deck), Beacon Pines (Steam Deck), Beyond Blue (Steam Deck), Bread around bread around bread around bread (Steam), Brotato (Steam Deck), Buckshot Roulette (Steam), Building 847 (Steam), Celestial Return Demo (Steam), Chained Echoes (Steam Deck), Chants of Sennaar (Steam), Cions of Vega (Steam Deck), Cleo - a pirate’s tale (Steam Deck), Coffee For Cthulhu (Steam), Cryohazard (Steam), Cubic Light (Steam), Cult of the Lamb (Steam Deck), Deep Beyond (Steam), Dread Delusion (Steam), Drizzlepath: Deja Vu (Steam), Drizzlepath: Picturae (Steam), EYE TO ME (Steam), Easy Breezy Drive (Steam/Steam Deck), Education (Steam Deck), Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition (Steam Deck), Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition - Broken Steel (Steam Deck), Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition - Mothership Zeta (Steam Deck), Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition - Operation: Anchorage (Steam Deck), Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition - Point Lookout (Steam Deck), Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition - The Pitt (Steam Deck), Fallout New Vegas (Steam Deck), Fallout New Vegas: Dead Money (Steam Deck), Fallout New Vegas: Honest Hearts (Steam Deck), Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road (Steam Deck), Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues (Steam Deck), Forest Fantasy (Steam Deck), Frostpunk (Steam), Frostpunk - The Last Autumn (Steam), GUTTER: The Cursed (Steam Deck), Geneforge 2 - Infestation (Steam), Getting There (Steam), Great North Shelter 2 (Steam Deck), Grimstone Valley (Steam), Helldivers 2 (Steam Deck), Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 1 (Steam), Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2 (Steam), Hexa Path (Steam), Highwater (Steam), I Live Under Your House (Steam), I Live Under Your House - It lives under the house. (Steam), INFRA [Party Like It’s 2011 and Winds of Change Endings] (Steam Deck), If On A Winter’s Night, Four Travelers (Steam Deck), Innsmouth 22 (Steam), Invaders Tower Defense Online (Steam), Isolomus (Steam), It Comes In Waves (Steam), JAMs (Steam), Jake’s Halloween Night (Steam), Jusant (Steam Deck), Kili’s treasure (Steam), Last Train Home (Steam Deck), Lighthouse Keeper (Steam), Little Brother Jim (Steam Deck), Little Kitty, Big City (Steam), Lucid Cycle (Steam), Lunacid (Steam), Man I Just Wanna Go Home (Steam), Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered (Steam Deck), Minit Fun Racer (Steam), Moksha Space (Steam), Mosaic (Steam Deck), My Name is You and it’s the only unusual thing in my life (Steam), Nomad Survival (Steam), Nothing (Steam Deck), Oneons: Prisoners (Steam), Our way down (Steam Deck), Phoenix Springs (Steam), Portal (Steam Deck), Psychroma (Steam), Purpose 1951 (Steam Deck), Rainy City: Pandemic (Steam), Recollection (Steam), RoboCop: Rogue City (Steam Deck), Rock ‘n’ Roll Will Never Die! (Steam Deck), Rogue Waters (Steam), Roundguard (Steam), Ruzar - The Dark Stones (Steam), SKALD: Against the Black Priory (Steam), Sammy Jukes: Twin Lakes (Steam), Scampr (Steam Deck), Scarytales: All Hail King Mongo (Steam), Sea of Dreams (Steam Deck), Snail Simulator (Steam Deck), Some Distant Memory (Steam), Something (Steam Deck), Sovereign Syndicate (Steam), Space Station Escape (Steam), Spring Falls (Steam Deck), Star Shift Rebellion (Steam Deck), Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical (Steam), Sunland Town (Steam Deck), Sunlight (Steam), Tachyon Dreams Anthology (Steam), Tails of Iron (Steam Deck), Tails of Iron: Bright Fir Forest (Steam Deck), That Which Gave Chase (Steam), The Abandoned Planet (Steam), The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales (Steam Deck), The Button by Elendow (Steam Deck), The Casting of Frank Stone [Merciless Killer] (Steam), The Cub (Steam), The Darkness Below Prelude (Steam), The Dead Tree of Ranchiuna (Steam), The Elision Effect (Steam), The Invincible [Road to the Alliance Base] (Steam Deck), The Invincible [Road to the Landing Zone] (Steam Deck), The Legend of Heroes: Trails from Zero (Steam), The Light Remake (Steam), The Lost Condor - Walking Simulator (Steam), The Nameless City (Steam), The Night Fisherman (Steam Deck), The Planet Crafter (Steam), The Quiet Apocalypse (Steam), The Sirena Expedition (Steam), The Story Is You - Look Within (Steam), The Thaumaturge (Steam Deck), The Whisperer (Steam), Title_Pending (Steam Deck), Tourist Trap (Steam Deck), Tree.Bonsai (Steam), Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Steam Deck), Twenty-second: Stories of Underground Kharkiv (Steam), Under the Sand REDUX - a road trip simulator (Steam), VOYAGER (Steam Deck), Vampire Survivors (Steam), Vampire Survivors: Emergency Meeting (Steam), Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell (Steam), Vampire Survivors: Operation Guns (Steam), Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari (Steam), Venba (Steam), Wardwell House (Steam), Watch Your Plastic Duck (Steam), Water Delivery (Steam), You know my name? (Steam), Zompiercer (Steam), tomorrow won’t come for those without ██████ (Steam)

2024 Games Retired

63 Days, A Wanderer’s Adventure, ARCADE GAME SERIES: PAC-MAN, Ant-Gravity: Tiny’s Adventure, Archipelago: Island Survival, Assassins Guild, Back to Home, Bad Rats Show, Banana, Blasted Road Terror, Blood Orange, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Bonesaw, Cats on Duty, Chronicles of cyberpunk, Clock Simulator, DIG THE GROUND, DUST - A Post Apocalyptic Role Playing Game, Deadlock (Playtest), Delta0, Distant Space, Distant Space 2, Djinn - The Forbidden Knowledge, Dragon’s Dogma 2, EGG, Elevator Experience, Entropy, Epic Adventures: La Jangada, Eve of Calamity, FUREA UERZT, For What Will Come, Fragmented Mind, Frostpunk - On The Edge, Gordian Rooms 1: A Curious Heritage, Gravity Snake, Hi-Fi Rush, Hoa, Ice Nosfe, IdleCoin, Infinite Innocence, Infinity Castle Dungeon, Iron Lung, Jagged Alliance Gold, Kill It With Fire 2, Last Whisper, Lighthouse Keeper, Marble Trap, Minimalism, Moonring, My Jigsaw Adventures - Forgotten Destiny, Mystery Solitaire Cthulhu Mythos, NORTH, NUTS, No Space For All, Operator8, Paper Ghost Stories: 7PM, Pathfinder: Gallowspire Survivors, PolyRoyale, Power Chord, Rogue, Rogue Robots, SKYHILL: Black Mist, Sand Land, Seaside Racing, Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, Ship Graveyard Simulator, Sky Sojourn, Snowsquall Grip, Soldat 2, Songs of Skydale, SpaceEngine, Star Tank, Stolen Realm, Sword of Fargoal, System Shock [2023], The Day of Survival, The First Friend, The Last FARMER, The Long Drive, Time Re:Quest, Time on Frog Island, Total Party Kill, Undying, Urban Explorer (Playtest), Walking Simulator 2020

Most Memorable Games of 2024

INFRA and The Quiet Apocalypse are the two games I still reflect on, so those were definitely the most memorable. Honorable mention to Last Train Home, Lunacid, Dread Delusion, Zompiercer, Phoenix Springs, and The Invincible

Biggest Disappointment of 2024

Dragon’s Dogma 2, and it ain’t even close. Dishonorable mention to Sherlock Holmes Chapter One and Sand Land. I expected more out of all three of these.

HOLY TLDR!!!