April'23 overview
Good productive month
| Date | Games owned | Added this month | Never played (monthly change) | Beaten/Completed during month |
| April'23 | 367 | +4 | 135 (-4) | 7 |
Overall - a good gaming month for my backlog. The longer games finished while new additions to my library are short games. And well, again, can’t resist to praise the Steam Deck. Uber machine for utilization of free time for gaming (more specifically, snippets of free time that are scattered all around the day, like in transport or before sleep or while you have 10-30 minutes of “waiting for something/someone”). According to my Steam Stats this tiny beast allows me to spend twice more time gaming than I was able before purchasing it.
Games highlights of April:
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Metro Exodus
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution
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Shantae and the Seven Sirens
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Hard Reset
Metro Exodus: Open world elements done right. Stealth done right. Storytelling done right. Level design done right… I can’t find what is not done right :) The game is awesome, both DLCs are good. 9/10
Deus Ex: Human Revolution: I just drowned in the world of the game and explored all the nooks and crannies. The game has an insane amount of detail and is a lot of fun to explore. The number of ways to achieve the desired result in the game (climb somewhere, defeat someone) is really impressive. This game could also get a stable 9/10, but last chapter and final boss were so bad, that they really spoiled the overall game experience. 7/10
Shantae and the Seven Sirens: Previous month I have finished Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse and now Seven Sirens. Not sure if the issue that I haven’t made a bigger pause between games or not, but Seven Sirens feels more boring while doing backtracking. All two previous Shantae games I finished I got 100% of all collectable items, in Seven Sirens I gave up at 77%. Nevertheless the game is good and enjoyable. Very cute metroidvania. 7/10
Hard Reset: Old school, well balanced (I played on medium difficulty) arena shooter. Perfect for 20-30 minutes play sessions, good feeling of progress in the game, good level design. I got vibes similar to those I had from Painkiller (the original) and Quake. 6/10
Congratulations on all of your assassinations! I see a lot of people liking Metro Exodus but the zombies always put me off, jumpscares are terrifying. Doesn’t stop getting recommended to me though by people irl.
Thanks!
But there are no zombies in Metro… Some mutants, yes. And there are not a lot of jumpscare moments at all. I barely can remember like 5 in total.