Beaten and completed

This is long overdue and I still have a couple more which I’ll squeeze in the next update ;-;

I finally finished Scream Collector and it was actually easier than I thought it would be. I started off ages ago treating it like any other idle/clicker game but it’s more of an “active” idler, if it makes sense. Power-ups/items spawn every few minutes and they’re super useful, which made the second part of the game sooo easy once I started leaving it in the background and checking it every 10 minutes or so. Most of the time spent in it was in the first part, where I thought leaving it in the background alone would help a lot. It’s a cute little game and the developers are planning to expand it soon as far as I know. One of my favorite clickers so far.

I also finally finished 12 Labours of Hercules 3-5 and I started the third one right after the second, which made me dread every single level because I was so tired of the same game with just new levels, but for some reason, after a short break, I started enjoying the fourth installment and the fifth made me realize I’m really going to miss this series! Still waiting for a bundle or a sale for the sequels. Would definitely recommend these for someone who likes casual games or just wants to play a level or two in between other games :)

Faerie Solitaire: Remastered feels a bit.. old? I’ve played a few solitaire-based games before and all of them seemed a lot more polished and interesting than this one. Once again, had the feeling it would never end, I just wanted to finish it so I could mark it as beaten. It’s one of the worst solitaire games I’ve played, but it’s still fully functional and somewhat enjoyable at the very beginning. I did start playing the original version after to see the difference and honestly if you think the remastered one is bad, you should see the original. If you’re reaaaaally bored or if you want a game that’s fairly easy to complete, or maybe if it’s literally the only properly working solitaire game in your library, go for it. Otherwise, there’s always Solitairica and Chef Solitaire.

Trailer Park Boys is yet another idle/clicker game that I’ve managed to finish and while this feels like one of the most (visually) polished and maintained on steam, I can’t name it as a favorite because of a few reasons. The game is split in seasons which are basically resets, and you have a bunch of buildings which change every season. Now, if I’m at season 70 something, I KNOW what I’m building. I KNOW the animation for that and I also know the animation for when you automate these buildings. Also, you have characters, which, when you upgrade, you also get an animation. That animation can be repeated for one OR every single building, depending on the character. When there are events, you also get a tutorial, even though it’s the same for every single event. The rest of the animations (for buildings & characters) repeat in the events. All of these ridiculously annoying animations are 100% unskippable. Not to mention, every now and then, they give you a “Check out this deal!” message that actually forces you to click a button to view it, which is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other than that, the events that I mentioned are pretty much impossible to finish even if you use the special currency (which you have to buy or earn very, very slowly), unless you have 100% no life and can leave an autoclicker on and also maybe check it every 10 minutes for a whole 4-7 days that the event lasts, and these events are brought weekly.. For any building or character upgrade you need a certain amount of cards and currency (another special currency that you can buy or earn, thankfully a bit easier than the other one), but a lot of times the cards are so freaking hard to get. You only get a daily and an every-2-hour loot box equivalents which don’t contain much and you need to upgrade characters in order to automate buildings and, you know.. progress. They also offer you trades every few minutes (10? 15?) but obviously you have to be in-game to see them, and a lot of times the trades are shit or they are both shit and repeating. It’s to a point where I have 1000 cards for a couple of characters and 20-30 for others where I need 50+ to upgrade, but I’m never offered to trade from the 1000+ ones. It’s complete bullshit. And the autoclick part? You wanna autoclick? Fuck you. The developers put a limit to a few clicks per second which means even if you’re a complete no-lifer like me, if you were to leave an autoclicker on it wouldn’t do jack shit. No progress for you!
I honestly didn’t even realize how much I dislike this game but everything negative is honestly coated in “but it looks good! and the developers are active! EVENTS!!!”, when in reality it’s a piss poor, annoying cash-grab.

Shame pile

Honestly, nothing to say about these either. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen the same template that Achievement Clicker 2018 uses at least 3-4 times so far.