January’s Stats

• Tyranny
  

  33 hours playtime

  20 of 50 achievements

• The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
  

  421 hours playtime

  213 of 339 achievements

• Kathy Rain
  

  5 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

• Strawberry Vinegar
  

  2 hours playtime

  28 of 28 achievements

• Nearwood - Collector's Edition
  

  5 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Zombie Solitaire
  

  12 hours playtime

  no achievements

• Gnomes Garden
  

  9 hours playtime

  23 of 23 achievements

• Mini Metro
  

  9 hours playtime

  17 of 32 achievements

• Dungeon of the Endless
  

  13 hours playtime

  7 of 33 achievements

• Endless Space
  

  5 hours playtime

  1 of 93 achievements

• Endless Legend
  

  10 hours playtime

  3 of 114 achievements

• Broken Age
  

  11 hours playtime

  43 of 45 achievements

• Bastion
  

  9 hours playtime

  9 of 24 achievements

• Race The Sun
  

  7 hours playtime

  11 of 25 achievements

• Indie Game: The Movie
  

  7 hours playtime

  6 of 7 achievements

• CONSORTIUM
  

  6 hours playtime

  8 of 39 achievements

• Grow Home
  

  11 hours playtime

  26 of 26 achievements

Kathy Rain

5 hours playtime, 20 of 20 achievements

I initially picked this game for tso's event as I had been wanting to play it since I won it. I was not disappointed, far from it. Not only it's one of the most gorgeous "retro pixel" style game I've played in a long while (the light effects are just stunning) but the story is also really interesting (and of course the game being set in the 90s is helping my nostalgia factor). Only one little thing has bothered me about the game but I won't talk about it here as it's plot related and extremely spoilery. However it doesn't change how much I loved this game. I highly recommend you pick it up if you have the opportunity to (or that you play it if it's sitting in your backlog already), and I hope they plan to make a sequel to it. This would have been my most satisfying finish of the month had I not played Tyranny in January too.

Strawberry Vinegar

2 hours playtime, 28 of 28 achievements

Well that was... weird. This Visual Novel is about a girl who gets visited by a girl demon who threatens to kill her if she doesn't feed her. Yes you read correctly. Yes, I was expecting weird but not in the sense it turned out to be. So the plot is just an excuse for a bunch of delicious food visuals. Where it gets kinda disturbing is that all the food visuals are accompanied by a very sexually metaphorical description (and shall I remind you for a second the protagonists are 2 little kids?). One of the possible endings involves romance but at least they had the decency to make some kind of timelapse in between the main story, so they're not kids anymore. I wouldn't say it's a bad game overall or ever one of those falling in the perv category, as the game is 100% safe for viewing and the only "sexual" element comes from the food descriptions. Maybe I'm missing some kind of fetichism here?

Nearwood

5 hours playtime, no achievements

Nearwood was a really gorgeous HoG game NOT by Artifex Mundi, for a change. However the quality was as good if not better in my opinion. The Hidden Objects scenes are not the type with a list of items to find but more with pieces of an object that then let you progress in the story. Nonetheless, if you like HoGs I highly recommend this one, don't let the lack of achievements fool you.

Zombie Solitaire

12 hours playtime, no achievements

On my quest to finish more of my SG wins, I finally installed this solitaire game. I'm ashamed to admit it but I would have installed it earlier if it had had achievements, but I'm glad I finally did. It actually has a story (not really anything super original mind you) that you progress through as you keep clearing zombies through your games of solitaire. Nice and entertaining side game, I might revisit it to get 3 stars on all levels and move it to completed. It was actually way less grindy than for example Chef Solitaire that I played last year.

Gnomes Garden

9 hours playtime, 23 of 23 achievements

It's the first game this year I really did not enjoy, and I guess it's part of my fault. I was under the wrong impression when I entered the GA for this game that it was a tower defense, but it turned out to be a ressource management/task assignement game. It wouldn't have been has "boring" if there wasn't that time factor involved to get 3 stars for each level (and yes I HAD to do it, don't ask.) and if it hadn't been a win, I probably would have moved the game to won't play if I'm honest. But I completed it 100% and I was so relieved to click on uninstall once I was done.

Tyranny

33 hours playtime, 20 of 50 achievements

Here's obviously where I put most of my playing hours in this month (well that and going back to playing The binding of Isaac Rebirth - Afterbirth +) and I can say I don't regret anything. It was my most wanted game and I got it as a Xmas present, so I was obviously extremely excited to finally play it. I'm not gonna say the game is flawless, because it is not, but it was pretty much everything I expected from Obsidian and I loved every second of it. I went the rebel path for this first playthrough, but the replayability is pretty high (and you can't get all the achievements in one playthrough or at least I don't think so even if you reload?) so I'll probably have at least another playthrough later this year. Time well spent.

Dungeon of the Endless

13 hours playtime, 7 of 33 achievements

I had played that game before but I realized I had never took time to properly complete a run, and since it was the Endless Day earlier this month, I decided it was the appropriate time to do so and grab the related achievement instead of delaying it again to next year. Despite the dev team practices turning shitty while they were formerly great people, the game remains good nonetheless and I had a great time. I'll obviously play a lot more of it in the future as it's a roguelike, but I'm glad I finally manage to sit down long enough to complete a whole run.

Broken Age

11 hours playtime, 43 of 45 achievements

I really enjoyed the game even though I totally see where the polemic and bad rep from when it was first released came from. Act 1 is seemingly so much shorter than Act 2 and if I had been one of the backers I'd have felt scammed. But played at a whole the game is pretty good, the graphic style is cute and the writing is pretty funny. The ending left me a little bit unsatisfied as I wish they had written a real conclusion. I don't think a sequel is planned so I guess it'll have to do. Worth playing if you have it in your library and like point and clicks.

Bastion

9 hours playtime, 9 of 24 achievements

I had played Bastion a long time ago on Xbox 360, but I had it sitting in my PC backlog and felt the monthly theme was the perfect excuse to have a second go at it. Well, I remembered how good the game was but I had forgotten how amazing the soundtrack was. I enjoyed this second playthrough as much as the first, and I maybe plan on giving it another try on New Game + to try to get a few more cheevos some time in the future. If you've never played it, please give it a try.

Race the Sun

7 hours playtime, 11 of 25 achievements

That game was sitting in my library for so long, I didn't think I would ever play it, let alone enjoy it (I'm very bad at those kind of games usually so it gets frustrating fast). So on the last Sunday of January, here I was, staring at my backlog and in particular the monthly theme list, when I decided "Eh, let's give it a try for an hour, and then move it to done.". Next thing I know, it's 4 hours later and I'm wondering why I'm so hungry. This game was surprisingly addictive and I kept finding myself saying "Just one more run and I'm done" for most of that day. I still suck at it, which is why I'll never get all those difficult achievements, but at least I can consciously move it to the beaten category. (Also, not important but the icons for the achievements are so pretty *__*)

Indie Game: The Movie

7 hours playtime, 6 of 7 achievements

I had been curious about this movie for a long time but had always stayed away because it is featuring (among others) Phil Fish. Since a friend me an extra key for it earlier this month, I decided to have a go at it and it's actually a good movie if you're interested in indie games AND you can tolerate the unsufferable Phil Fish for a while (the movie conforted the opinion I had of him though). I even ended up watching the 2 commentaries (The one from Team Meatboy is the best though) and the extras (Not just for the cheevos, you can unlock them easily if you're not interested in watching the content by skipping one minute before the end). It also includes a little game that consists of matching drawings of indie games characters with the name of the game, illustrated by Edmund McMillen, which is not much but was really fun to play. If any of you own the special edition DLC, I'd be interested to know if you think the content is worth the 5€ they ask for it, thanks!

Consortium

6 hours playtime, 8 of 39 achievements

The premise of the game got me very interested but sadly the execution was really clunky. It took me already 20min to manage to start the game without it crashing when starting a new game, and even after that, the game was filled with bugs, several of them leaving me stuck with no other option than to reload a previous save. I still think the plot is not bad but between the unintuitive game mecanics and the bugs, I couldn't really enjoy it overall. I'm torn because I'm still curious about the other storylines but I'm not sure I want to inflict more of the gameplay on myself.

Grow Home

11 hours playtime, 26 of 26 achievements

I'm a bit torn about this one. I really wanted to love it as it reminded me of Chibi-Robo! on Nintendo DS, but at first the game got me quite frustrated. The controls are a bit goofy at time (on purpose I assume?) and there was nothing more frustrating for me to fall from the plant by mistake and having to reclimb it over and over. However, the game grew (no pun intended) on me (the presence of sheep in the game might be a factor) and in the end, I think I'll play a bit more of it to hunt a few more cheevos as now that the main objective is beaten I find the game more enjoyable.
Edit: I edited to reflect the new stats as I put 4 more hours in the game today (Feb 1st) and got the 15 cheevos I was missing. I don't want it to appear in February report for just those 4 hours so that's it ;)

• Traverser
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 20 achievements

• The Escapists
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 37 achievements

• STASIS
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 27 achievements

• VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 34 achievements

• Hard West
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 35 achievements

• Indie Game: The Movie
  

  7 hours playtime

  6 of 7 achievements

• BloodGate
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 22 achievements

• Goetia
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 16 achievements

• STEINS;GATE
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 42 achievements

• Castle of Illusion
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 12 achievements

• Jotun
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 36 achievements

• Why Am I Dead At Sea
  

  0 minutes playtime

  0 of 27 achievements