November & December 2023

Steam - November

• A Juggler's Tale
  

  2.6 hours playtime

  18 of 18 achievements

• Dream Walker
  

  5.2 hours playtime

  no achievements

• She Remembered Caterpillars
  

  4.6 hours playtime

  12 of 13 achievements

• A Juggler’s Tale: Some original puzzles with slightly clunky physics. The rhymed narration – doggerel – was rather irritating, even if justifiable. Phillipe Genty did it better wordlessly.
• Dream Walker: A terrible match-identicals game that uses assets and story from Dreamscapes 2: Nightmare’s Heir. Some variation in rules, but no sense to what art assets are used in a particular level.
• She Remembered Caterpillars: Stylish colour-gate puzzler. Good puzzles, though only a few were particularly tricky.

Game Pass - November

• Jusant
  

  
  7h28m playtime

  12/21 achievements

• Jusant: Climbing exploration game – mostly more meditative than challenging thanks to very generous energy consumption.

Steam - December

• Sunlight
  

  0.7 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Rusty Lake Hotel
  

  2.7 hours playtime

  23 of 23 achievements

• Professor Lupo and his Horrible Pets
  

  19.0 hours playtime

  6 of 16 achievements

• Camelot 2: The Holy Grail
  

  12.4 hours playtime

  15 of 15 achievements

• Batman: Arkham Origins
  

  52.7 hours playtime

  26 of 60 achievements

• Dreamscapes: Nightmare's Heir - Premium Edition
  

  4.9 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Sunlight: Excellent meditative walking simulator.
• Rusty Lake Hotel: Weird but very enjoyable Flash-style adventure game. Left me wanting to play the sequels (and went back and removed a couple of their earlier games from my blacklist)
• Professor Lupo and His Horrible Pets: Good to excellent puzzler, at times exceptionally difficult, and occasionally cruel with timings.
• Camelot II: The Holy Grail: Mediocre Adventure/Hidden Object Game
• Batman: Arkham Origins: (previously completed on normal) Completed New Game Plus, and the Cold Cold Heart DLC. More different from Arkham City than I recalled, and probably the best boss fights in aggregate of any of the Arkham series, although the AC Freeze fight was clearly the pinnacle.
• Dreamscapes 2: Nightmare’s Heir: A so-so HOG, with hotspots occasionally overly hidden, and broken handling of high res monitors. Story was not great, puzzles were pretty ordinary, and I was already put off by the horror of Dream Walker from November.