• Firewatch
  

  9 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

Firewatch could probably get plenty out of me, but still with my writing in mind possibly not nearly as much. Since I won the game and had the month deadline, I was almost tempted just to wait until the last few days to play it. I started earlier and then re-read the description say finish in a month and actually thought to adjust the date to when I activated it which was like a a day or two more.

The voice acting is the highlight and the game is pretty much entirely focused around having it anyway, so I wouldn’t imagine the game to have been such a hit if it was pretty.. poor or just not as great. That’s almost all I want to say, though. The story for how Henry ended up as a ranger surprised me only because they decided to write the tragic backstory to his life (slight spoilers, but honestly barely)

There’s a story and I would say it works without giving away details so not to hint what it is about or what it isn’t. You know, a little emotional journey depending on how you feel. Had more feelings than I did for Owlboy, at least.
I enjoyed it enough without having finished it to give it back to the group I won it from, so I hope that user will enjoy it as much as I did. One thing that I expected the game to have was a bit of world to explore.. things to find or something, but it’s not that type of world. I did find a raccoon sitting on a tree stump doing something that did spark up dialogue from Delilah that wasn’t one of the achievement events, but I don’t think there’s really much else to find as everything is pretty much there as part of the game for the plot and 2 or 3 locations for achievements that also have dialogue.

Personally, it was worth the $10 but don’t play it like I did and try to explore. Just stick to the directed plot… and pick up the turtle when you find it to save your achievement hunting. One randomly shows up on the first day when I finally decided just to restart the game to go look for one on Day 2, but there it was along the way.. waiting. That last achievement took me a while to get. The game should roughly be 4-5 hours instead of my 9.

if it helps anyone, a turtle (apparently it’s a chance they spawn or something, so it could be random) was near the beginning on Day 1 when you head towards your tower, I think, and I guess it’s right near the sign where it says Trailhead.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=864396920

• bOllO
  

  15 minutes playtime

  6 of 6 achievements

This one is actually repetitive and entirely boring once you realize each level is the same +1 more hallway per level to bounce into (not my type of game. Time will be better spent on games that have more value for me. Since I only went to Level 11, the only difference I noticed was the walls start breaking down from your bounces, so there was that padded added challenge. Falsely put down as Complete, but whatever. Someone in the forums made it to Level 94 or 96 and I wonder what compelled them to.

• Titan Souls
  

  11 hours playtime

  20 of 27 achievements

I’m going to buy this game for a friend once it hits sale on Steam just as a small way of giving actual money (since I have $ in steambucks, I guess, to the devs since I enjoyed the game a lot more than I did when I played the demo. I actually finished this game and Stray Cat Crossing right after my last post or in the following day or two.

• Stray Cat Crossing
  

  4 hours playtime

  no achievements

I enjoyed LiEat a lot for some reason and the story telling is probably on a similar level, but I enjoyed this one less. Most likely because it has even fewer characters and I had no strong feelings for most of it. Plus, I did not really enjoy the ending of the game.

• Oxenfree
  

  89 minutes playtime

  0 of 13 achievements

ur next.. soon. I really want to sit and play Oxenfree but sometimes story heavy games give me a hard time to sit down and let them play even though I was having a fine time the first hour I was playing.. and the game doesn’t seem like it’s tough to play either. Just.. ME.

• English Country Tune
  

  2 hours playtime

  no achievements

For now, I want to mostly listen through my music playlist, wipe out albums I haven’t heard and play some light puzzle games that don’t need the game audio to be an experience, thoo.. to double taking games and music at the same time.
also the game is still puzzling me in some levels. I’m glad it changed up a bit so I don’t have to smash balls around since that 3d world maneuvering is confusing to get used to.

• Hidden Folks
  

  9 hours playtime

  5 of 5 achievements

Technically, I finished this game, too… but it’s unfinished. I guess the dev is going to add more levels later. I wonder if people are rebelling yet. Only good if you like Where’s Waldo, I’d say, or can HANDLE THAT. Kind of a headache when you can’t seem to find that one object somewhere, though..