• Dead Man's Draw
  

  16 hours playtime

  15 of 20 achievements

This is a very nice casual game to play. It’s a rather simple game of pushing your luck with some strategy to it. There are a lot of levels to work through and you gain XP as you play to unlock more abilities to use in the game.

I’m currently working my way through all the levels with the hopes of being able to complete this game with all achievements. It’s taking a while and trying to convince the computer to just let me win is not going well.

One thing that would make this game even more fun to play would be multiplayer. A real person would be better than always playing the computer.

There was even a Kickstarter that brought out a physical game for 1-4 players. Dead Man’s Draw KS. Sadly, that’s on my backlog as well.

• Melody's Escape
  

  5 hours playtime

  5 of 8 achievements

I really enjoy music games. Audiosurf is one of my favorite games. When I saw Melody’s Escape on early access I decided to give it a shot.

I wasn’t disappointed with it in any way. It plays a lot like Guitar Hero where you have to hit the right button at the right time as Melody runs by that color icon. This isn’t too difficult on the more casual game modes but can get really challenging on the higher difficulties. There is a game mode to suit all play styles.

I’m currently trying to get some of the remaining achievements I have. Unfortunately these are for the most difficult game modes.

• Ultimate General: Gettysburg
  

  5 hours playtime

  2 of 3 achievements

In my effort to get more 100% complete games I thought I would try to get the one last achievement I needed for Ultimate General: Gettysburg. I really like this game when I first played it so I thought it was a great idea to go back to it.

There are only three achievement for the game. The only one I am missing is for winning as the Confederate Army. How hard could that be? Well, I’ve come to the realization that the Confederate Army just isn’t meant to win the battle of Gettysburg. Not under my command at least.

I am going to keep trying for the last achievement, but likely won't mention the game again until I have it completed. I am going to leave the game marked as beaten. After all, I played as the Union Army and won the battle. Then I played as the Confederate Army and lost the battle. That turns into a fairly accurate account of history, therefore, game beaten.

Speaking of the game itself, it is a really good strategy game that I enjoyed. The battlefield is not too big that you’ll be guaranteed to lose track of you soldiers. The progression of the battles plays out very well. The graphics are really nice and the colors work well to help identify your units and the terrain.

• The Talos Principle
  

  7 hours playtime

  11 of 40 achievements

I haven’t really played this much since last month and I need to get back to it before I start forgetting the story. Fingers crossed I get back in and beat the game soon.

I got The Talos Principle because it was a lot like Portal. There looked to be a great story and puzzles as you progress through the game. I won’t comment much on the story as I’m still working my way through the game but I will say it is revealed in interesting ways so far.

The puzzles, so far, have been great. You start out with simple ones but then they start getting more challenging. New devices get added to the puzzles every so often keeping it all from feeling repetitive.

• 8-Bit Armies
  

  6 hours playtime

  0 of 29 achievements

What can I say about 8-Bit Armies? It’s like the great classic RTS games of old, but it’s new. This plays a lot like one of my favorites, Command & Conquer. It is in no way a replacement for C&C though. 8-Bit Armies stand very well on its own so far.

Obviously it has its own graphics style that is presented very well. I’m not a big fan of the repeated 8-bit graphics in a lot of games lately, but it fits in very well in this game.

The missions have not been too difficult or too easy either. They have been a good mix but I’ve only played though 22 of the Renegades missions. I’m hoping the rest of the game keeps going as well. I’ve got the other 8-Bit games to play after this.

The interesting thing is that I’ve managed to get no achievements so far. I have not really looked at the achievements closely yet. I feel that ruins some games so I usually only look after I’m done the story.