Awesome theme, i’m in !

I’ll be back later when i started playing but for sure Civ will fit in this :p now i realize it was your plan all along

Yay, a theme I can participate in! And I can play my two new wins after a year-long drought! :)

That is pretty brilliant! I have a few of those! Will so take part in it! happy

List will follow ;)

Aw, dang! I was a few days too early for ‘the Little Acre’ AND ‘Off-Peak’ to count! I’ll keep an eye on making sure I try to pick SG wins/gifted games/freebies!

FINAL UPDATE!

Total games attempted: 15 // Games removed from backlog: 12 // Games completed: 10
Total achivements: 197 // Rough total of hours played: 110.3

I think this has been my favorite monthly theme yet! Thank you so much for hosting it

Does it count if I beat the game yesterday? https://www.backlog-assassins.net/posts/mly9vab

EDIT: Nevermind, I remembered I gave up on that game.

Phantom Dust / 14/45 achievements obtained / ~15.5 hours playtime this month / freebie / won’t play

Hm, I got almost all of my games for free… Whatever

I’m not entirely sure what I’m doing and am mostly doing this for fun so feel free to ignore me, sorry! Thank you :D

Really enjoyed L.A. Noire, more than I expected if I’m honest. I’m not a huge fan of Rockstar’s typical open-world formula, at least not since Vice City. The stories are great but there’s too much downtime between missions for me when I prefer a bit more linearity to my narratives. The noir theme and investigative gameplay really resonated with me - I always enjoyed the detective sections of the Arkham games and the game is largely made up of this. I think I’m in a tiny minority that enjoyed the ending. Phelps made for an interesting protagonist too, being so dis-likeable and flawed in true noir style. I don’t think I’ll finish off the last few achievements, I’ve heard how much of a pain it is to find all of the collectables and vehicles so I’ll leave it at a point where I still look back on the game fondly.

Edit: Just a note so I can remember my list: Trails, FF9, Beyond Reality, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Crookz, Last Federation, Aurion, Bastard Bonds, Subnautica, Castlevania LoD, Sunken, FF13.

Ooooh time to play ABZU muted

Sounds good to me, going to participate (if I can remember which games I got for free, heheh)!

Yay my first ever monthly theme. :D And I guess I’ll continue my journey of SG wins backlog killing. :P
All games are fresh from the start.
I guess I just needed an empty line in between text and table. >.>

Play a game you won

Yay! New theme!

This is what I might work on from my SG wins; will look through other freebies in the next day or two. :)

Great idea! I have only very very few games that are eligible, let’s see what I can find:

Oh this theme is just what I needed! I have some games that I got from various friends and that I somehow couldn’t start until now.

This is a nice theme. :3 If i get gift tend to play it asap due feeling it being considerate thing to do so looking now rather empty list. o.o’ Only Kentucky Route Zero bla bla bla… from SG wins, Dead Rising 3 as gift from cousin, but it’s for our LAN fun. After pair of checks did find one game though so guess will join in this event. :D

Edit: Got Mini Ninjas so will add it there too, have in fact gift of Worms WMD too, but only play it with friend so can’t really put it up there also. Guess he could play it with me for a while though again. o.-

I’m a big fan for gift appreciation - with amounts of games we buy, or won on SG and how important is to play one’s wins, personal gifts are often forgotten :)
Can’t promise proper gameplay, this month looks very, very busy for me. I made a list once about my gifts, it’s more or less up to date, if I didn’t forget games on it. So my part is just sharing my pile of shame for now :D https://www.backlog-assassins.net/lists/kl5gvmb

Sorry for the triple post, both after pressing reply or deleting the comment, the page failed to load with this error message: https://i.imgur.com/CUFaCYt.png

Hmm well don’t have a lot of gifts, but maybe it’s time to finish these two?

Allons-y!

I have that habit of starting new games and forgetting/not touching the previous one >_< it will be good to go back and finish these two!

I’ll see what I can do! Placeholder table:

It was super fun playing all these games. I’d like to add a quick comments about them:

Pickers: Different hog. I never saw something like that. You buy and sell the objects you find in the several scenarios. I suck in math :P
Mechanika: A short point n click. Dark humour all the way LOL
To The Moon: It’s a walking simulator, not my type of game, but had beautiful music and story. In the end was very rewarding to play. I heard they will make a animation!
BADLAND: It was challeging. The level design is beautiful and smart. There’s local coop and I wish I had someone to play with.
Zombie Bowl-O-Rama: Casual bowling game. There’s online multiplayer :D
Suits: A Business RPG: I enjoy rpg turn based games. This one was fun in a sarcastic dark humor way. Too bad was so short.
Westerado: Obviously, my favorite this month. I got a thing for pixelated games. It was super fun doing all achievements and doing random stuff just because I was feeling to XD
Secret Files: Tunguska: An adventure point n click game. It reminded me the old times when puzzles made so little sense (it’s a old game btw)
Alex Hunter - Lord of the Mind PE: I love hogs, but this one was hard to play. The puzzles are most trial and error, so I was a little bit disappointed, since puzzles are my favorite part in these games.
Mystery Masters: Psycho Train DE: An okay HOG. Kinda creepy, I liked the theme.
House of 1000 Doors series: Really good! I wish it had steam achievements.

Don’t tell anyone I’m inspired by the guy below

Awesome will definitely participate! Love the theme, thanks for hosting this time around.

Wow I’ve played a lot this month, especially with my brother. Hours are inflated some, but difficult to gauge how much was AFK. Either way, been a great distraction and productive backlog assassin-ing. Overall I had a lot of fun and enjoyed what I played!

Rusty Lake: Roots - Review.
Gigantic - Review. Have played all the characters, am considering it beaten.
Kitten Adventures in City Park - Wao shorter than I expected. Saw everything in 8 minutes, since it’s aimed towards children (didn’t realise). Little ones may enjoy this more. Added this in March after seeing it on BLAEO because…kitten.
Papers, Please - The Short Film - Review. Wanted to watch this once it was released (even opened it), but wasn’t in the right mood. Very well made, am happy to have seen it! If you love the game I think you’ll love this too.
The Cat and the Coup - I was incredibly ignorant on the topic, so this game led me to research more on the topic. I thought a lot of the art collages were beautiful and an interesting way to tell the story, the game play being alright but not the main focus.
Terminal Hacker - Review. This has survived a few purges of removing freebie games since I added it Dec 28, 2016…and I must say I really wish I’d deleted it. Flat out terrible with repetitive words, flashing lights/noises for no reason, just a waste of time. Was hoping for a decent enough word game, but man my low expectations still managed to be disappointed.
A Raven Monologue - Review. I’ve been only playing freebies that I’d already owned but after seeing this one on BLAEO I just had to install it and am so glad I did. A beautiful experience.
Didn’t enjoy Banyu Lintar Angin - Little Storm - as much, but still nice artwork to look through (like a graphic novel). I particularly loved this dedication.
Splasher - Was super grateful to have won this, looked like a mix between several of my favourite games (Super Meat Boy meets Portal 2 gels/Splatoon). Overall I really enjoyed it, though the difficulty majorly ramped up by the end. I spent like 3 hours on the last 4 levels alone. I did struggle with the controls a bit, and in some ways it’s actually harder than SMB because not only do you have to platform but you need to use your ink perfectly. Often I’d accidentally spray a little bit and go flying where I didn’t mean to and struggled with precision whilst needing to place it quickly underneath yourself and then immediately the wall etc. I actually got super sick for 2 days after playing the last few levels, the game is too intense for me rn so I’m not gonna do the speedrun modes. But I’m happy with what I play and proud of myself for beating it! If you enjoy platformers would definitely recommend.
Mirage: Arcane Warfare - I’m counting this one as beaten, since I’ve played 5 hours and have played all the different characters and gamemodes. The more I play (with other people) the worse the lag gets too, so I think I’m done with this for now unless they make some updates in the future (not likely, sadly). Was a lot more fun than I expected, is nice playing with friends (shame servers take it’s toll vs. really smooth solo). This made me interested in trying Chivalry: Medieval Warfare though!
Rakuen - Sadly I missed one pet so couldn’t 100% it, but wow what a journey. Really beautiful, can see why it’s so well-loved. The gameplay itself is pretty meh (a lot of “fetch this” quests and backtracking, which just isn’t my cup of tea) but the game as a whole was wonderfully done and clearly made with love, beautiful music too. Annnd of course it made me emotional. Would recommend!

p.s. In case you didn’t realise I believe the FAQ is copied from the Rewind Theme, so a couple of the points are a bit “off” talking about unfinished wins.

Heh, too many to choose from! =P I’ll try to mix it with sg’s similar thread ;)
Also laptop cooler has just arrived, hopefullly I’ll get to play some more again! Lately it shut itself down after a couple of minutes into mildly-heavy games to avoid heat problems :(

Reserving for the moment, I’ll update later with list of games :)

NB: List above is liable to unexpected changes.

At first I was sad because I just finished Dead Cells last month and it was my last win I wished to play. Then I won not one but two games! on SG so now I can participate too!

This is a great theme! I finally have an excuse to play some games I’ve got for free, so this time I’ll participate!

Last update: 2018-06-01

I like this theme. I will update this post when/if i finish another one.

Meh, I’m not for forward planning, so I’m gonna list just the ones I’ve played & beaten/completed… Can’t actually remember which games I’ve gotten for free and from where so this’ll be interesting… ;)

Playtime includes any idling.

Uhm… Do the free to play Steam games really count? I understood that only games which normally have a price you didn’t have to pay it due to a promotion or receiving a gift count.

If free to play games count too, then I beat Echoes of the Fey Episode 0: Immolation as well (1.2 hrs, 7/11 chivs).

My modest list:

It has been a while since i did monthly theme and this one looks great :)

So let’s see if i can finish all 6 episodes of Season 1, and if it goes great i might start Season 2 as well.

I have played both of these when they were released and so far i figured memory helps a little ^_^

*Updated 31.05

I am 100% missing some games in here, but there is too many of them and I am too lazy.

I won Faerie Solitaire but I also got the remastered version and I started with that one. I’m still going to play both if I can run the standard version, but please let me know if I should only join with one of them ^^ Also, I started 12LoH V a couple of days before this month, so the amount is for the past 2 weeks.

Will be adding more as I see which ones I’m in the mood to play next. Also, thank you for the theme, I was actually just starting to play through my wins since I found a few I want to play in the near future. I’ve been very low on motivation for a couple of years now so I’m usually just thankful when I’m in the mood to play anything at all ;-;

Nice theme, here are my games. I’ll update the list as I go.

Might be adding more later

I just finished one! And another!

Update table? :)

I’ve beaten a six SteamGifts games this month (two of them count as five games though) but they don’t have achievements, so I won’t list them. Here are the ones that have achievements to show progress.

Right! So I have officially beaten Black ops 2. I need 4 more achievements to fully beat it, I may be able to add 3 of those relatively easily, but the storyline is finished, and so I’m calling it beaten. Hours added : 5, achievements total 31/35

I also completely forgot about subnautica. I had ‘finished’ it before when it had 3 achievements, and earned under half of the new ones when they were on the experimental branch. I’ve now carried on and beaten it. What an amazing game!

Oh by gosh, I’ve been participating without even realizing it. I’m taking a slight break from the craziest parts of my schedule for a little while - a bit of downtime, see if I can recharge the batteries - so I’ve been playing a little this month, at last at last.

Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle is a free game from the devs behind Slayaway Camp - wow, that’s really hard to type. The base 8 scenarios are free, and then there are further DLC scenarios to buy beyond that. The game is a hoot, so I’m planning to pick up the paid part of the package - well done, devs! - but in the meantime, I’ve finished the free content, and I’m marking it so.

I’ve managed to beat some games that match this theme:

* - there are a few story DLCs with 20 additional achievements
** - there is a DLC with 4 additonal achievements
*** - I’ve not unlocked all the players - that would require hell lot of grinding and at least 40 hours of playtime)