February Totals

Games beaten and completed in February

• Adam Wolfe
  

  16 hours playtime

  27 of 27 achievements

• Oxenfree
  

  12.5 hours playtime

  9 of 13 achievements

• Stacking
  

  12.5 hours playtime

  21 of 21 achievements

• Home is Where One Starts...
  

  5.9 hours playtime

  8 of 8 achievements

• The Whispered World: Special Edition
  

  21.6 hours playtime

  20 of 20 achievements

• Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
  

  4.3 hours playtime

  0 of 0 achievements

• Asphyxia
  

  17.7 hours playtime

  8 of 8 achievements

• Fall of the New Age
  

  4.6 hours playtime

  0 of 0 achievements

• Murdered: Soul Suspect
  

  42.8 hours playtime

  48 of 48 achievements

1127	games	+14
68%	never played	-1%
15%	unfinished	no change
5%	beaten	no change
5%	completed	+1%
7%	won't play	no change

My numbers could have been a little better this month, but I've been playing Pillars of Eternity (still), and I also started a couple of Challenge Me! games (Terraria and Evoland 2). Several of the added games are free games I've been interested in that I added to my library to make it easier to find them, so that's not as bad as it looks.

Acquisitions

• Haunted
• Mata Hari
• Kathy Rain
• Dark Souls 3 + Ashes of Ariandel DLC

I finally decided to try Humble Monthly, so this better be good tomorrow.

Challenge Me!

Challenge Post

I haven't posted about two of my completed February games yet. I wrote about the other games in previous posts.

Fall of the New Age

A sort-of HOG (there were very few actual HOG scenes) that has a few interesting mechanics, such as collecting items to disguise your character. You don't get a choice about the disguises, but they're kind of fun anyway. Some outfit pieces need to be repaired or assembled. You also have a slingshot you can use to hit some objects (usually people though). A ferret dances around and gives you hints when you click on him. Cutscene graphics were decent for this sort of game.

Murdered: Soul Suspect

ABC List 27 games

ABC Post

msboring27 and I played this for the monthly theme, but it was also on my ABC list and highly recommended by a couple of people on here. I actually got this game basically free a few years ago because of a price glitch on these AMD Radeon gold reward vouchers, which you are supposed to get when you buy a graphics card. Newegg was selling the vouchers alone for a dollar. I think it's the only price error I've ever managed to take advantage of, and it was great, because I was able to buy several of those vouchers for me and other people.

I really liked this game. I didn't know what to expect from it, having never read about, watched trailers, or even read reviews. Playing as a ghost, you get to do a lot of things you can't normally do in games, such as just run right through that wall or fence. There are some restrictions to that that have story-related explanations. There are several other abilities, but I won't spoil them.

The game is set in Salem, Massachusetts, and it takes pretty good advantage of its setting. While the witch hunts get a lot of attention, the game honors some more obscure aspects of Salem's local history, including the 1904 wreck of the Monohansett in Salem Harbor. I went to Salem on a school trip in jr. high and am probably going to visit there when I'm in the Boston area for a few days later this year, so running around through the semi-open world of Murdered: Soul Suspect helped me get kinda hype, too.

One of my favorite things in the game are the ghost stories you can unlock by finding certain items in each story location. It was always fun to see what kind of creepy story you were going to hear at the end. Another thing I like are the sidequests that have you helping other ghosts, but there were unfortunately few of these, and all could be done shortly after starting the game. I think the major criticism msboring and I shared throughout our time playing this is that we wanted more development of the side characters.