Report #75
I did not manage to reach my goals for 2024 so I set myself the same goals for this year: Get my backlog (never played + unfinished + beaten) down to 170 games – which is still way too many games! And complete 80% of my newly added games in 2025.
So far I’ve not really made a lot of progress with my backlog but completing my newly added games is going quite well.
Completed Games
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X: Beyond the Frontier
39.3 hours playtime
no achievements
Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
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X-Tension
11.2 hours playtime
no achievements
Rating: ★★★☆☆
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Tinkerlands: A Shipwrecked Adventure
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State of Decay
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Synergy
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G.I. Joe: Operation Blackout
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Dark Sector
10.4 hours playtime
no achievements
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
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Foxen Island
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Half-Life Deathmatch: Source
0.6 hours playtime
no achievements
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
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Half-Life 2
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Half-Life 2: Episode One
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Half-Life 2: Episode Two
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Bushfires: Animal Rescue
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Broken Sword 1 - Shadow of the Templars: Director's Cut (2009)
9.0 hours playtime
no achievements
Rating: ★★★☆☆
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Broken Sword 2 - the Smoking Mirror: Remastered (2010)
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Broken Sword 3 - the Sleeping Dragon (2003)
10.7 hours playtime
no achievements
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
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PGA TOUR 2K21
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Two Portals - A Gemstone Puzzle Game
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Die in the Dungeon: Origins
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Divine Knockout (DKO)
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Grimstar: Welcome to the savage planet
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G for Gravity
Currently Playing
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Victoria: Revolutions
12.7 hours playtime
no achievements
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Ghostwire: Tokyo
If you are interested in my opinion on any of the games, please feel free to ask. My favourites from this batch would be Half-Life 2 and to my surprise PGA Tour 2k21 – wouldn’t have thought I enjoy playing golf so much… Foxen Island seems to have a broken achievement and was therefore my least favourite game.
Happy backlog clearing,
Vito
2025 goals -> Backlog: 184/170, 2025 additions: 7/10.
Thank you for the report!
What did you think of the Broken Sword games? Obviously your star ratings were so-so (3/5, 3/5, 2/5). I’ve only played the first two. And my playtimes were MUCH longer at 15.4 and 12.5 hours! I do tend to take my time, but I also much suck at P&C.~ Those are the only games above that I’ve played.
Thanks for the comment! P&C is really not my favourite genre, so that is the main reason those games do not rank higher in my rating. I think they are witty and humorous, but at times the puzzles went way over my head. I often used a guide when I got stuck, that’s the reason for my lower playtimes. The third part was really testing my patience with its weird controls, switching between scenes and camera movement. I don’t really want to blame the devs too much however, I think that is the case for a lot of 3D games released around that time. I guess it was a phase of figuering out, what works well and what doesn’t. Or maybe I’m just not used to P&C enough :D
Thanks for the reply. Yeah, P&C definitely went through an “awkward stage” when publishers wanted devs to use nascent 3D technology, and the result was often janky. I haven’t played #3 yet, but I’m sure it will feel clunky.