Log #33 - December 2024 + End of Year Report

Backlog growth: +5

Assassinations of December:

• Röki
  

  9.4 hours playtime

  26 of 32 achievements

• Idle Gem Quest
  

  23.5 hours playtime

  92 of 92 achievements

• Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
  

  20.7 hours playtime

  37 of 37 achievements

• Instinct War
  

  0.7 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• BIOMUTANT
  

  34.6 hours playtime

  46 of 46 achievements

Röki: This one was a really nice point-and-click game! While it’s generally not my favourite genre, this one I really liked. It is set in Scandinavia and you are on a quest to save your brother who was abducted by a monster. It’s not very hard and the solutions are all based in logic, so I was able to progress along at a nice. steady pace. Unfortunatelty, I missed a few achievements… If you’re into point-and-click/adventure games. I definitely recommend it.
Idle Gem Quest: Clicker game that I picked up for a few cents. That was definitely too expensive^^ I wouldn’t recommend it even if it was free. Still, once started, the completionist in me had to see it through.
Garden Life. Cozy Simulator: A simulator game where you grow flowers and other plants in a community garden, you can harvest and sell flowers, craft bouquets and fulfill orders from townsfolk. There is a bit of a story mixed in, which felt a bit low effort and failed to capture me in any way. Still, the garden was very pretty and I had fun collecting all the different varieties of plants. It’s not complicated in any way and I found it to be very relaxing. If you’re into this sort of game, check it out.
Instinct War: Very short game that I picked up for a few cents. It’s a dungeon-tile-game. I did not understand all of the mechanics (sometimes tiles were changing and I don’t know why), but still could reach 100% in under an hour. No recommendation from me.
Biomutant: Finally gotten around to complete a longer game again. I think it’s a solid game and don’t quite understand the hate it has gotten. Maybe it was a case of high expectations that weren’t met? In the beginning I had a lot of fun exploring the world, fighting and looting. That being said, it overstayed it’s welcome a bit. At a certain point, my character was strong and I had strong equipment, so finding more loot was completely uninteresting to me about 1/3 into the game. The characters and story were very bland and did not captivate me at all. “Puzzles” with one exception weren’t puzzles. Still, the world was very pretty, and it was a good game for turning your brain of, questing and killing stuff in a variety of ways. Recommend to check it out/pick it up on a discount.

Okay, with that out of the way, let’s have a look at my goals for the year:

• I wanted to reduce the pile of unfinished and never played games from 69% to 65%, but I managed only a decrease to 67%.
• I also wanted to up my total number of completed games to 240 (from 191 last year), but I only reached 228 completed games.
• Finally, I wanted to increase my completionist score to 64% from last year’s 61.5%, but I only reached about 62%.

It appears I failed all my yearly goals which is really just fine. I had fun gaming and living life and that’s what really matters. Still, I like having some goal posts for next year, which will be:

• Reduce unfinished and never played games to 64%
• Total number of completed games: 270
• Completionist score: 64%

That’s it from me. And even though the future in general doesn’t look incredibly bright at the moment, I hope 2025 is going to be a good year for all of you <3.