More May, but.. it’s June now.
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The Magic Circle
11 hours playtime
14 of 14 achievements
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Shelter
4 hours playtime
no achievements
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Stories: The Path of Destinies
18 hours playtime
37 of 37 achievements
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Mini Metro
5 hours playtime
18 of 38 achievements
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The Flame in the Flood
18 hours playtime
17 of 36 achievements
The Magic Circle: the meta game. kind of entertaining, but really short (3-4 hours). I played more just to achieve.. pointless.. achievements. I think I still had the most fun with this game than the rest.
edit: for achievement hunters, make sure to Edit all the objects/monsters your first time going through so you don’t have to hunt them later (all you have to do is go inside the mind for it to count)
shelter: it was entertaining enough for me and eventually I just let it run to finish off a stupid card drop. I hated when I lost my badger babies.. so I restarted it a few times. I hope the DLC goes on sale so I can play its sequel.
I looked at the other mode it unlocks when you finish but it has 0 appeal to me. I don’t want to log in each day just to play it. I read about what happens and that was good enough for me. I only finished it so I could start Shelter 2 but it has DLC I figured I’d rather play with than not play so I skipped it. I still enjoyed the game, though, but the first level shortly bored me and I was wondering if the entire game would be the same.
Mini Metro: not exactly the type of game I like so I just finished each basic map and considered it complete.
Stories: The Path of Destinies: gets dull once you, if this is you, want to see the rest of the stories in the game because it can be very repetitive, yet very short. each story run is very short once you’ve done your exploring and realize nothing exists to find. some levels have some scrolls that are written by some of the game characters if you open the locked doors with the other swords.
each run for a story is 25 minutes or so, but the worst part is sometimes the game does not let you skip (developers, why..) some scenes, like the very start of the GAME, each time you are going to replay.
The Flame in the Flood: minimal story, maximum resource gathering and use and rafting down a long river. I finished this but then noticed the month changed by 10 minutes.
Future future queue
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch
0 minutes playtime
0 of 32 achievements
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
0 minutes playtime
no achievements
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Layers of Fear
0 minutes playtime
0 of 27 achievements
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Cornerstone: The Song Of Tyrim
0 minutes playtime
0 of 12 achievements
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Oxenfree
89 minutes playtime
0 of 13 achievements
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Ryse: Son of Rome
0 minutes playtime
0 of 73 achievements
Oxenfree is a game I really want to play, yet I keep stalling it for some reason. It’s likely because I like exploring and it sidetracks so much in a game that it will waste (more) time and I will probably look around until I realize there is no point to it and then focus on just the main story.
Octodad might be short enough so I can play the first and then the sequel. They seem like silly games, and hopefully not incredibly frustrating with the controls.
Sid Meier’s Pirates! is also strangely appealing because it feels like an odd game I’d usually never look into to play myself. Seems a bit long though.
Purely just looking at playing my SteamGifts wins for now still and those 3 are hovering around what I want to start next, I think.
I think I have a thing for meta games :P The Magic Circle has been on my wishlist for a while. Did you get it in a bundle/cheap somewhere?
I won this around the time it was bundled in the HB Monthly. May 25, 2016. A whole year ago..
I would say it’s worth playing if you have an interest. The steam page has a demo you could download to try the game too http://store.steampowered.com/app/323380/The_Magic_Circle/
The dialogue was enough to move the game for me but the gameplay isn’t exactly great and there is only so much of it (but it did not bother me and I was okay with it)
One of the random dialogue near the end of the game was entertaining to me because of people mentioning videogames + fun.
The line was “Is this.. fun? Am I having.. fun?” Not actually a spoiler, but more entertaining because of dumb people around me mentioning the two in tandem so often. I just hide it in case people like being surprised, but you’d have to check back here again after you finished it if you even remember.
if you can endure a facecam and don’t mind seeing the line in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9AeKWx_dhQ&feature=youtu.be&t=29m32s
I’m not sure if you could find a cheap copy now, but I’m sure if you look some people may have it. That’s effort, though.
Some people might have it from the old bundle for around $2 if you’re on any forums to look, though.
Thanks for the response! Good to know about the gameplay.
I can endure a facecam, but I won’t watch more of the video because I’d like to experience it myself :P
I think I’ll but the game at the next Steam sale.
Magic Circle was a very good surprise for me and I enjoyed playing it very much. Glad to see you also liked it :)
Played Octodad recently but only yesterday made a post about it.
If you go straight for the end, I think you can reach it in 2-3 hours. My higher playtime is due to me trying to get more achievements.
I admit that there have been a couple of sections I was starting to hate, but with a couple of tries I managed to pass them. Could it also be my fault for not learning commands too well (still don’t know how to throw things) =P
If you think you’ll like it though, go play it.. the good sides will compensate for those (few) “hard” parts :)
I think I’ll play the Octodads. I want some short and silly games for now to unwind from non-silly games.
Didn’t play the original but I’m pretty sure the second will do the job :)
EDIT: Hope you’ll enjoy it anyway, even if I may have praised it a bit too much now =P
I bet I will.. I hope.
Actually, I delayed playing this goofy game until a friend shows up since they like to spectate and sass me while I play random games on Steam, but they haven’t been around. So I played Sid Meier’s Pirates! instead and had a mixed adventure. The sailing can be ultra slow on the sea and most of the time in the game is padded from travelling but when you are struggling to even move your ship at all.. it’s ugh… so annoying. I would have probably played more even if it’s all about exploration and hunting pirates or sinking ships and getting rich, but the slow ship travel is a huge minus.
edit: the first Octodad is 30 to 60 minutes (probably 15 to 20 if you’re super fast, though)
I had no idea how you could actually end the game until I looked into it and apparently it’s just whenever you FEEL like retiring as a Pirate. After the six hours I spent, I retired after I lost a fight and lost everything there. I can’t believe the fight with a pirate suddenly became so difficult. So I technically finished the game because there’s really little difference in what you do in the game. It’s kind of a weird game in that sense, but there’s no real story to progress to come to an end. You save 4 family members and defeat some evil count for story, but it may make no difference in the end of the game; it just adds to your ranking when you retire.
Just play around and live as a pirate cause the pirate life.