September'23 overview
It was okeish again
| Date | Games owned | Added this month | Never played (monthly change) | Beaten/Completed during month |
| September'23 | 397 | +4 | 127 (-3) | 6 |
Overall September was similar to August. I bought two games A Juggler’s Tale and Zodiacats; won N++ from the community train on SG (one win out of 200+ joined giveaways) and took Alpaca Stacka for free (nice little game to play with a child, we completed it in 11 minutes). +4 new game to my library in total. And three of them already finished. Even though I didn’t had a lot of time to play this month again - my backlog albeit not significantly, but it has become smaller. Slightly proud of my self.
Games highlights of September:
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Rayman Origins
12.1 hours playtime
no achievements
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Cat Quest II
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Minute of Islands
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A Juggler's Tale
Rayman Origins: A very good, old fashioned, arcade game. Game sessions last 5-15 minutes. An ideal option for Steam Deck to squeeze in some gaming in small windows of free time. Diverse worlds, quite a lot of mechanics. It is generally done in such a way that it never gets boring.
Complex enough, but not too difficult to be off-putting. Only with the final boss I had problems: it can be beaten in 9 minutes (according to YouTube), but it took me almost an hour… Really happy I grabbed this one durin summer sale :) 8/10
Cat Quest II: I’m a big fun of the Cat Quest 1 - I have completed it with joy. It is even on my Steam profile listed as one of my favorite ones… Thus, I myself do not understand why I put off completing the second part for so long. Taking into account that soonish we will get Cat Quest III - I decided that time has come! Welp… I’m kinda disappointed as a result :/ I was playing solo, since it is impossible for me to find someone to play with and the game is 100% polished to be played in Co-Op.
When you are playing solo, the second character becomes an unkillable, death machine. Instead of finding the best combination of weapons, armor and spells or leveling up (as was the case in the first part) to defeat all the enemies that are becoming more and more powerful and tenacious you can just cheese everything using you stupid, but unkillable, AI partner. And game like forces you to do it - not doing it just feels like wasting your time. Probably in a Co-Op with a living being the game is much more fun. But for me it was “Meh”, not bad but nothing I will remember or will want to replay. 5/10
Minute of Islands: Amazing game. On the one hand, it is so slow that I would like to call it burdensome… The entire gameplay essentially repeats itself over and over again, changing decorations does not bring variety to the gameplay itself. But at the same time, it’s so captivating that I literally finished it in a few sittings and was intrigued the whole way :)
It felt like I was the main character in one of the depressing parallel universes of Adventure Time. I still don’t understand how they managed to pack it all in such a way that you can play the game from start to finish without wanting to quit. In general, I really liked it. Beautiful, exciting, emotional. 7/10
A Juggler’s Tale: I really like short interactive stories like this one. It is beautifully made with good sound. Puzzle/platformer part is solid made too. Storyline was also good with a nice twist in the end when I was like “Wow! I was missing that from the beginning, while it was clear!”. 7/10