Another month down, more games stricken from the backlog. August Backlog Destruction Report! This was mostly a SteamGifts month and by coincidence a lot of them were point-and-click games.
| Game Completed | Recommended? | Quick Notes |
| Varenje | Maybe/No | Fairly average point-and-click but it has an intentionally broken achievement. |
| Strong Bad’s Cool Game For Attractive People | Yes | Decent P&C from when Telltale made good games. |
| Tex Murphy: Martian Memorandum | Yes | If you can put up with ancient games this is a good choice |
| Tex Murphy: Mean Streets | Maybe/Yes | A weird mish-mash of genres but the story is good |
| Snake Pass | Yes | The best snake-em-up since Snake |
| Playing History: Vikings | Maybe | Short but interesting educational game. No corpse/slave tetris. |
| Graveyard Keeper | Yes/Maybe | Stardew’s dark and grindy cousin. Only play it if you are patient. |
| Tex Murphy: Under A Killing Moon | Yes/Maybe | Good story but weird controls from the long-long-ago |
| Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive | Yes/Maybe | As above. |
Nine games down and only four added this month. I won the Tex Murphy Collection many years ago on SG and thought it would be a good idea to play through them all in one go. Unfortunately Overseer doesn’t seem to work on my PC and a lot of reviews say it is buggy for them too. I’ll probably watch a Let’s Play and mark it as Beaten even if that is cheating. It’s a decent franchise but very dated control-wise.
I decided that I have done a decent job so far this year and had a little break from the backlog destruction. Snake Pass was something I have been wanting to play for a while so I played that and also treated myself to Graveyard Keeper (with a 30% off coupon that appeared from nowhere). Both are worth playing but require patience. Snake Pass can be frustrating because controlling a snake is odd and Graveyard Keeper is a grind-fest (though the developers are rebalancing it quickly).
In September I will be blasting through some trash games that I guess were given away for free. I’ve assembled a temporary list Here. I doubt I will fully complete each game but I’d like to give them at least a few hours before being crossed off the backlog and never played again. Maybe some will be redeemed and get to live with the other not-trash games in my library!
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Congrats on your progress! Also I like your layout. It’s easy to read and straight to the point. I’ve really been eyeing Graveyard Keeper. Can you give me more of your thoughts on it? Is it incredibly hard? I’m not good with hard games but I do want another stardew valley type game.
Apparently I sent the reply to myself by mistake :P
It’s not difficult at all, you just need to do a lot of work to unlock new crafting items, skills etc. There isn’t much challenge unless you are trying to beat the game as fast as possible. You might end up stuck for a while if you accidentally use your resources inefficiently but you’ll never be permanently stuck or get a game over. Like in Stardew running out of hitpoints just sends you back to your house, there isn’t any real penalty for being killed.