Thank you so much for your review, it truly means a lot. You can click here for a fix for that bug I was talking about. I don’t really know exactly what the bug is but there are topics about it and someone even made a patch to fix it (it isn’t an official patch I believe) so hearing about this on forums and the achievement guide I checked referring to this kinda scared me off :(

I love it when there are different dialogues for wrong moves. Broken Age and Sam & Max also had that feature and you can hear a lot of funny dialogues because of it :) I want a plush Harvey too, he’s so cute! :D

Thank you :)

I wanted to play Machinarium again so newly added achievements were a nice motivation. I forgot how annoying the tic-tac-toe mini game was though.

I agree about replaying games, I hate doing that myself so unless the game has different endings I tend to check an achievement guide prior to playing it. I normally hate spoilers but I don’t mind being spoiled while reading up on the guide because I really don’t wanna miss anything once I start playing. I don’t see a reason to replay games like point and click for example and Daedalic put some annoying achievements about replaying games in different modes in some of their games before. Although in games like Downfall and The Cat Lady there are 3 endings so I welcome the replayability :)

I don’t care about the reviews. There are people saying that Alekhine’s Gun is the worst game they have ever played on Steam. How can I take that person seriously? They obviously haven’t played enough games ;) I wish the game was better than its predecessors Death to Spies though. Both Death to Spies games were amazing and sadly Alekhine’s Gun didn’t improve upon them. Yes after Skanda’s reply I’m more hopeful about The Breakout.

I loved the Hero of the Kingdom games and as far as the story goes the 2nd game is much better in my opinion. There are just so many hilarious moments. I read that they are making Hero of the Kingdom III and I’m really excited about it :D I hope the story will be even more positively outrageous than the 2nd :P

I tried to do the achievement myself but after about 30 minutes I lost track of where I was, reading about manual tries failing on Steam forums did not help the matter either. Yes I used the script and watched the whole thing happen in shock. That achievement is absolutely stupid.

I wish we could disable achievements from certain games. Similar to disabling Steam Overlay. Once you disable achievements in a game, that game will not give you any achievements even if you meet the requirements for them. How I wish this feature existed or the feature to remove achievements after deleting/refunding the game. >.<

but I read your post :)

Thanks :P

The Cat Lady and Downfall are some of my favorite games.

Fully agreed.

Thank you :)

I really enjoyed Hero of the Kingdom. Get ready for a lot of clicking though and it’s like a hidden object game, just not the Artifex Mundi type. The only thing I don’t like about Hero of the Kingdom games is that you need to do a lot of bartering to get enough gold to be able to progress. But I really enjoyed the game; music is nice, story is fun, game also looks cute in my opinion.

Just don’t take the game seriously. For example I mocked the hell out of being able to put people in my inventory (it was particularly funny when I had to put someone’s wife into my inventory cause she was lost and her husband asked me to bring her back) and carry them around to complete quests :D I found the story of the 2nd game to be a lot better than the first game. It’s a nice fun casual game in my opinion.

I still haven’t decided what to do, I’ll just end up playing what feels right at that moment. All of these games are installed, which means I fully intend on focusing on these currently so I guess the only thing that matters is what order I play them in :P

Not having a map is troublesome for me as my sense of direction wouldn’t save me if my life depended on it. Is the city too big?

Thanks a lot for your input :)

Although I know that they influence my behaviour on buying and approaching games some which are fair and some which are more worrysome

I know exactly what you mean. When I first started using Steam properly about 2 years ago I wasn’t an achievement hunter at all. I don’t know how or when things changed so suddenly for me. I didn’t become obsessed with them to the point of buying every single easy game with tons of achievements only to boost my numbers. My main goal was to complete everything the games that were already in my library had to offer.

But this has led to some problematic behavioural patterns when buying games. I’m already a very picky person and know exactly what genres I enjoy and what kind of features I look for in games. So if I set my eyes on a game, I know I will enjoy it. It’s just heartbreaking to check its achievements and realise that I can’t even get like 40% completion on it and decide to skip the game. Games like Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny are good examples, I love isometric RPG and grew up with games like Neverwinter Nights and Dragon Age Origins but if I bought them I’d end up with 2-3 achievements which would be a disaster to my completion rate and I’d end up being depressed about it. This is not healthy behaviour for me. I actually had to “abandon” certain genres just cause of hard their achievements are for me. Turn based strategy for example. I personally don’t have that “I won’t buy this game if it doesn’t have achievements” attitude, though if I hear that achievements are broken it’s a definite no from me. Sadly sometimes it can be too late though, I had 100% completion on Mafia III but they added a DLC which comes with 2 glitched achievements and the developers haven’t even acknowledged the constant criticisms yet. Goodbye 100% forever…

I have a big love+hate relationship with achievements. While It would be liberating to not care about them I still can’t deny the overwhelming personal satisfaction that stems from tough completions.

I also don’t tell people how pointless I think collecting games is. Well, I think it but I try to refrain from saying that in public ^^

I think the exact same way. Achievements are optional but I don’t, for the life of me, understand the idea of buying a game to not play it >.< I can understand collecting old games with nostalgic value. But seeing people consider games like Dishonored 2 and Dark Souls III or any other game basically as a mere +1 to their library, farming them for cards but not playing them at all is a very alien concept to me.

I really loved the Warcraft references :) I started following the news of Dungeons 3 some time ago after finishing the 2nd game. Being able to play with any faction during campaign is a great change, if I buy it I’ll definitely go with Demons :) It’s also nice to see the additions of new rooms and units, Dungeons 2 was seriously lacking in that regard. Now they only need to add “possession” spell which allows you to directly control a unit from a first person perspective. From what I read so far, developers seem to be against this feature though :(

I read that A Game of Winter DLC for Dungeons 2 was really unbalanced especially after how easygoing the base game was. This is troublesome. I guess I’ll wait a long while until a lot of proper reviews are posted about Dungeons 3 to make sure it isn’t like the DLC. What did you think about that if you played it? Especially some missions are considered to be impossible and I read that some people changed stats in game files to boost the power of their units to keep up with the campaign. This sounds very scary :P

Thanks a lot for the achievement help by the way and the motivation to play this game. You deserve full credit for that :)

I like to read your posts by getting a drink and settling in because I know have a good read ahead of me. :)

Aww you flatter me, thank you so much :) I could actually write the world about The Cat Lady and Downfall, it’d fill up the entire feed. But I went with a stale/simple review instead of it being overly emotional. I truly think the same about your posts too, I love your reviews and every time I read them I get this image of you working as a writer for a magazine or a website etc.

I do have a perfectionist nature which is really hard to deal with because nothing is perfect, no matter how cliche this sounds. The importance I put on Steam achievements is a result of how much I lack them in real life.

I have no idea why Dreamfall Chapters is that long. I do know that it requires a minimum of 2 playthroughs because it has a lot of mutually exclusive achievements over the course of the game. For example in order to get one achievement in book 3, you need to make a different decision in book 1 otherwise you won’t get the opportunity to earn that achievement in book 3. So a simple reload won’t work. You really need to start over. S17tabris mentioned finishing it in 42 hours, HLTB shows 62 hours as “longest” recorded time for 100% and 50 hours as leisure. I’m a slow player so even though it shows 41.30 hours for completionists on HLTB, I know it’ll take me longer than that. I really do want to play it though despite not playing the previous games :P

Adam Wolfe is the best HoG I played, plain and simple. Although the gameplay leans a lot more towards hidden object puzzle adventure with an emphasis on puzzle adventure. There are only about 4-5 hidden object scenes across 4 episodes but they did a fresh take on them compared to the HoGs from developers like Artifex Mundi. So you will hardly have those traditional “here is a full list of items you need to find in this pile of mess”. They still exist but they are so few. The story is very intriguing even though it becomes weaker during the last episode. The length of the game is around 7-8 hours which is pretty awesome for a HoG as they’re usually 2-3 hours or 4 at most. Voice acting is really good too which is very rare for this genre :)

Thank you so much for your wonderful words :)