Progress Report #11: March 2024
Monthly tally - Backlog: 23, Yekhus: 10.5
Total play time: 54h
This is the month where I started really biting into the backlog, even if I'm still in the red. The main trick was playing a few very short games I had in there. I'll try doing more of that every month.
I'm satisfied with beating Turok and scratching it off. Sizable enough, and fun at first but a bit tedious over the last fifth of the game. Same for Reventure, which took a lot longer than I expected to complete. A very fun and interesting concept, but once again a bit too grindy and repetitive over the last stretch.
Completed or Beaten (7)
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Superliminal
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A Raven Monologue
4 minutes playtime
No achievements
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Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm -
5 minutes playtime
No achievements
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Blade Runner 9732
27 minutes playtime
No achievements
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Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
15 minutes playtime
3 of 3 achievements
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Reventure
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Turok
12.5 hours playtime
Progressed (3)
Excited to start Arx Fatalis. An old classic, but a great one to start exploring more the Immersive Sim genre. There are many great games in that genre which I have never tried over the years. A deeper exploration was long overdue, and this SG Win is the perfect excuse.
Also excited to finally start playing Stardew Valley. But since I'm doing it exclusively with my partner, it will be slow progress. Best case, you can expect to see it in this space month after month.
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Stardew Valley
5.5 hours playtime
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Patrick's Parabox
9 hours playtime
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Arx Fatalis
2.5 hours playtime
No achievements
Tried and discarded (2)
Too many games, too little time. So whenever I try a game I can't be bothered to keep up, I scratch it off mercilessly. It's a win. But the rule is that I have to give it an honest try first.
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Sheepy
0.2 hours playtime
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Akka Arrh
0.25 hours playtime
No achievements
Added to collection (Steam) (10)
- Creaks (gift)
- Satellite Repairman (IG giveaway)
- Wanba Warriors (freebie)
- Saints Row 2 (bundle)
- Red Faction (bundle)
- Red Faciton II (bundle)
- Museum Mystery: Deckbuilding Card Game (free)
- Cureocity (free)
- Rabbit Hole (free)
- Slipstream: Rogue Space (free)
Added to collection (GOG) (2)
- Nomads of Driftland - The Forgotten Passage (freebie)
- Hammerting (freebie)
Added to collection (Epic) (4)
- Astro Duel 2 (freebie)
- Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (freebie)
- Call of the Wild: The Angler (freebie)
- Islets (freebie)
Added to collection (Other) (7)
- Scarf (pass)
- Tomato Jones (freebie)
- Tomato Jones 2 (freebie)
- Mystery Case Files: Moths to a Flame (pass)
- Through the Darkest of Times (pass)
- Bridge to Another World: Secrets of the Nutcracker (pass)
- Bus Simulator 21: Next Stop (pass)
Congratulations on your assassinations!! ᓚᘏᗢ
I’ve never heard of Banyu Lintar Angin, what’s your impression of it? Also GL with Stardew!! I’ve never had success with multiplayer cooperation to finish a game or a play together thing, they always end up quitting.
Thank you my friend! That doesn’t sound very optimistic, for Stardew. But I’ll just have to see how far the journey goes, and enjoy it while it lasts.
To be clear, Banyu Lintar Angin can’t be called a game in any sense. It has zero interactivity. It’s just a very short graphic novel: a story told through static images, with a very slight touch of animated FX. But if that might still interest you, and as far as stories go, it was nice. In a minimal form, it conveyed a lot about the characters, their relationship, and their time together, and left me with a warm and cozy feeling… as odd as it might sound, felt a bit like remembering a very wholesome and happy childhood with siblings that I never had myself.
Congratz for Turok, this one is still in my backlog so need to keep playing it (only level 1 done).
Thank you! And how do you feel about it after playing that first level? Are you looking forward to the rest? Or did that first level put you off, somehow?
Liked the first level, so will look forward to play the rest.