Acquisitions
- Fortune-499
- Marco Polo
Challenge Me!
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Hand of Fate
21.7 hours playtime
18 of 53 achievements
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The Deer
.7 hours playtime
0 of 0 achievements
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Chaos on Deponia (completed)
30 hours playtime
34 of 34 achievements
Hand of Fate
A Challenge Me! game, which I'm doing super well on this month. I have a chance at beating all of them this time, after I dropped the ball the last several. Anyway, I really like this game. I mean, I hate it, too. But still. Every new game is exciting because you haven't yet been dealt crappy cards that ruin your run. Each level is set up as cards on a table. Each card represents an encounter (a fight, a shop, an NPC, a treasure chest), which I thought of as like a room in a dungeon. There's a surprsing amount of resource management. You need food for every move. You need money, health, equipment, and all the while you may have curses put on you or draw pain cards that take away those resources. I have a few tokens left to get along with some achievements I think I can get relatively easily. I may be playing this one on and off for a while, since it fills a sort of niche spot and I don't have another game like it. I even decided to put it in my Favorites group, so extra thanks for the challenge!
The Deer
I am straight-up cheating by picking this game. I picked it for someone's Challenge Me! who asked for short games since it fit with the monthly, so I figured I would play it too. Totally not because I'm trying to pad my numbers or anything like that. 86maylin, the person I challenged to play this, wrote a very accurate review on their profile (but not offcially posted yet): it's not a good game for anyone. That said, it was kind of cute, and I actually did learn something. Like about giant sea "cows". I mean, I've seen them before, but I didn't specifically know what they were or anything about them. So, I guess I can say this game got me to read about sea cows on Wikipedia.
Chaos on Deponia
A Challenge Me! game (only one more to go!), and also qualified for last month's Monthly challenge but I"m only posting it now. I beat the first one with my Team Assassination partner, and we decided to continue the series. Anyway...we let this one sit a long time for multiple times during all these platypus puzzles and acquiring a million items. It was overwhelming, especially with so many missable achievements. Like the first one, the story kept me engaged enough to ultimately stick it out, and the humor was good. I'm still confused on if Seagull is actually not Rufus's dad, or was just being an asshole when he told him he was a trash baby?
"He's just getting a hammer."
September Totals
| 1188 | games | +4 |
| 7 | games beaten or completed | nice! |
| 67% | never played | no change |
| 14% | unfinished | -1% |
| 5% | beaten | no change |
| 6% | completed | no change |
| 7% | won't play | no change |
I’ve forgotten some details, but from I remember last board in Hand of Fate can be quite difficult because of blessings and curses RNG. Endless game is also a neat addition.
Oh man you already finished Hand of Fate? D: I’m definitely losing then. xD
For The Deer, maybe it’s me, but when it threw paragraphs at me even I don’t want to read them, not to mention little kids. :P So I didn’t really learn anything from it.
Yeah, I did really well with the Challenge Me. I just have Hacknet left. Guess you picked the right games for me at the right time. What was key to me for beating Hands of Fate was making sure I got the Time Heals ability/spell (fully heals you 3 times). I had enough food to walk back and forth across the last shop in front of the final boss until the ability was for sale (the shop inventory changes every time you land on the card). I tried to make other preparations, but that was by far the most significant factor. I lost several times (mostly before reaching the boss) and unlocked new cards in Endless Mode before I focused on just making sure I could get Time Heals/not wasting my money on other stuff.