I have new hope!

This is my first post to show my progress and I think I did pretty well. I managed to play 20 games in January, twelve of which were SG wins:

• The Room
  

  5 hours playtime

  5 of 5 achievements

• Echo Tokyo: Intro
  

  71 minutes playtime

  6 of 6 achievements

• Refunct
  

  2 hours playtime

  4 of 4 achievements

• It's Spring Again
  

  4 hours playtime

  4 of 4 achievements

• Gomo
  

  3 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Tengami
  

  2 hours playtime

  4 of 4 achievements

• Spoiler Alert
  

  3 hours playtime

  6 of 10 achievements

• Hexcells Infinite
  

  19 hours playtime

  7 of 7 achievements

• Caffeine
  

  2 hours playtime

  11 of 11 achievements

• Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes
  

  16 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Energy Balance
  

  17 hours playtime

  9 of 9 achievements

• Kathy Rain
  

  11 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

• F.E.A.R.
  

  18 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Fran Bow
  

  21 hours playtime

  18 of 18 achievements

• Lifeless Planet
  

  9 hours playtime

  15 of 15 achievements

• Pushcat
  

  10 hours playtime

  2 of 9 achievements

• Two Digits
  

  9 hours playtime

  10 of 13 achievements

• DeadCore
  

  6 hours playtime

  6 of 29 achievements

• Ichi
  

  3 hours playtime

  4 of 17 achievements

• Party of Sin
  

  3 hours playtime

  3 of 33 achievements

“The Room” was a really cool puzzle game and I’ve added “The Room Two” to my wishlist. Also very good are “Kathy Rain” and “Fran Bow”. “Lifeless Planet” was surprisingly good, but a little rough in spots; it turned out to be more of a jumping simulator than a walking simulator.

“DeadCore” looks good and is pretty well polished, but is way too hard for someone like me that likes his puzzles to be a bit more casual. Maybe I will beat it sometime in the future, but for now I must accept that I don’t have the precision timing or patience to get good. On the other hand I finally finished “F.E.A.R.” after dropping it a couple times. Turns out that it is still a pretty good FPS for an older title.

Let’s see… Don’t bother with “Caffeine” it is terrible in its current state. If the developer ever finishes the rest of the chapters and optimizes the graphics it might be worth a second look. That seems unlikely though. “Refunct” and “It’s Spring Again” are great achievement hunter games ;). “Gomo” is a short and cute adventure with simple puzzles. “Grotesque Tactics” was okay-ish, but the camera was really shoddy and the jokes were barely worth a smirk.

The bad part of January is that I’ve added 28 games, including 5 SG wins, to my library. :(

I’ve set up a list with about 30 games that are good candidates to play next and each time I finish one I look for another to take its place in the list. My hope is that I can play 20 to 30 titles a month. The challenge is not be brain locked on what to play next since I have so many I want to play now. Shorter / easier titles help fill in the gaps when I don’t feel a strong urge to play or am too busy.

On to February!