Legend of Grimrock 2

24 hours playtime, 34 of 60 achievements

Really enjoyed all the different areas in the game rather than always being locked in a cave constantly as happens in the prequel. The world itself is pretty wide and can be a little overwhelming at first because I wasn't always sure if I was going on the right direction when there was so many paths of possibilities ahead. It has plenty of challenging puzzles and riddles but sometimes they're so out of the box that to complete them you need to either be a genius or consult a walkthrough, and I think you can guess which one of those two applies to me. The story itself is a little generic but the gameplay provides hours of fun and it is kinda easy to lose track of time while trying to unlock every little secret.

Project Lucie

1 hour playtime, no achievements

I feel like this one is more suited for children and it's probably more fun to play with a VR set. The story mode is so short that it's almost not existent. There's no tutorial whatsoever so it is frustrating to try to understand what to do without any guidelines. There's some interesting aesthetic ideas that work and the soundtrack is overall relaxing and well tuned but the game feels unpolished.

Agatha Christie - The ABC Murders

7 hours playtime, 39 of 50 achievements

Just another generic murder investigation story, which doesn't make it as a good adaptation from the novels. The controls are bad and the mechanics are even worse. While the puzzles are often too childish and predictable the game turns out to be very repetitive and clumsy. The animations are clunky, the characters aren't likable nor relatable and it just feels like a poorly made game. I struggled to get to the end game and there was no feeling of accomplishment whatsoever.

Murdered: Soul Suspect

10 hours playtime, 38 of 48 achievements

Almost felt like watching a movie with a bunch of interesting characters and well pulled plot twists to keep me entertained. It accomplishes a very decent engaging murderer, crime and mystery history with interesting gameplay elements with some cool mechanics meanwhile being a spirit, his abilities and interactions definitely pay off. The controls felt a little weird at first, which seem more suited for console players, but eventually got used to them after some hours of playing it.

Q.U.B.E: Director's Cut

4 hours playtime, 15 of 53 achievements

What a ride this game was. Total immersive experience with powerful voice acting. The game itself makes you question yourself and doubt your decisions, the tension that builds up until the ending is priceless and left me on the edge of my seat making me want even more. Plenty of creative puzzles with really inventive mechanics but I only invested my time playing the story mode which I think is more of my taste than trying to race against a clock in a bunch of rooms with no actual objective, but there's probably players who enjoy that, no judging. Only negative was not being able to put some subtitles to keep track of the amazing narrators while admiring the cool aesthetics of the game, after all I didn't even need them. Highly recommend this one.

Kathy Rain

7 hours playtime, 14 of 20 achievements

What a throwback, definitely missed playing old school games like this. The storytelling and the voice acting is on point, the pixel art is fantastic, and it's all mixed up with a interesting and unsettling story about the main character family's past. It ended up hitting me on the feelings and that promise of a sequel in the ending made pretty hyped for a part two of this great game. I actually didn't expect much from a game like this but oh boy was I wrong.

Blackwell Convergence

3 hours playtime, 5 of 12 achievements

It's been a while since I last played the Blackwell series, so I kinda missed a previously kinda of scene to remember what happened in the past games has most of the TV shows do. I always loved the story line premise and this one doesn't fall short. The characters are still funny has they can be and the interactions between the two of them are at the same time hilarious and genius. The game itself gets a little repetitive because it forces you to always come home to look for things on the main character's computer in order to progress in the game, the transitions between locations turn out a little slow and kill up the investigation mood of the game. It's not to hard and no to easy to get into which makes the difficuly right where it should be.

Blackwell Deception

4 hours playtime, 14 of 18 achievements

Better than the last installment of the series with some improvements which make the game more fast passed and engaging. Now we can use a cellphone and browse the web there instead of going home all the time. The interactions between the main characters are still there and I just can't tell you how much I love those two working has a team. Some new interesting gimmicks and puzzles that elevate the game even more. The history builds up greatly and makes you wanna play the finale episode right away, sadly I don't own the last episode but it sure feels like a promising one.

Virginia

5 hours playtime, 8 of 17 achievements

Breathtaking visuals with the most amazing soundtrack ever seen in a game. The game plays has a short mute movie with no voice lines which works great to grab the player's attention but somehow the scenes are sometimes so random that I felt lost while trying to understand the history itself. The brute cuts between scenes are annoying and it always feels like I'm always being interrupted. There's a big meaning behind all of the imagery but maybe it is a little to out there. It's short and leaves a lot of unanswered questions. I do believe this could be much more than what it is, I felt a little disappointed.

Tacoma

4 hours playtime, 12 of 12 achievements

I always like games with space stuff, I don't know, I just dig them and same happens with movies or anything else with sci-fi thematic. I wasn't sure what to expect from Tacoma but the minute they showed the technology that could replay events and almost anything that happened to the crew of the space station I knew I was in for a treat. I almost felt like a futuristic Sherlock Homes digging up what was actually going on and oh boy did I enjoy it. Really liked the narrative, the history, getting to know each character without even knowing them apart from their colorful silhouette was fun and intriguing, maybe just a little to short for my taste because I enjoy longer playthroughs and that ending made me want more.

The Norwood Suite

2 hours playtime, 17 of 17 achievements

What did I just played? Well the game itself it's simple, someone needs an object and you just go find it in this creepy and surreal hotel. Simple enough right? But there's no actual story to grab your attention and the controls are not perfect which annoyed me a little. The Norwood Suite is so out of the box that it gets a little funny, but not enough for a good scoring.

Tomb Raider

18 hours playtime, 30 of 50 achievements

I've been wanting to play this forever and finally I have a decent computer to run it. I just loved the old Tomb Raider games, it felt so nostalgic playing once again has Lara Croft. It's great seeing Lara's evolution throughout the game and she eventually becomes the Lara Croft we know from the old games and I enjoyed that alot. I found myself always wandering off checking the landscapes while trying to get every single collectible and had fun doing it. Exploring tombs, great mechanics, engaging story and overall an amazing game. Can't recommend it enough.

State of Decay

15 hours playtime, 23 of 46 achievements

This game was on my backlog for a while, I simply couldn't run it on my old laptop. But that's fine, I can run it now. I finished and I got mix feelings about it. The game itself has a great premise which consists in trying to survive in this open world full of zombies while rebuilding your own society, sounds cool. But it doesn't do it's job completely. The missions are completely random and I just wanted for the main story missions to show up so I could finish it and go back to another game. I completely hated having to run around the map just to get to this location and then another one and then another one and then another one and got tired of it eventually and just wanted the game to end. I didn't feel the survival part of the game so much, I liked how they implemented perma-death but that's about it because you don't actually manage the resources and all the other things, you just fetch stuff and that's it. Overall it's still fun to play and you start caring for your characters but I feel that it falls a little short.

Massive Chalice

14 hours playtime, 17 of 28 achievements

I love tactical strategy games so I knew I was gonna enjoy Massive Chalice. The game itself plays amazing and there's a deep history behind it. It's fun taking command of the bloodlines, the marriages and the heroes. There's plenty of classes to play with and to mix around which makes it even more interesting. But somehow these things get a little to repetitive in the end game, you just stop caring for all those grown characters that are just gonna get married with some old snag so you can continue the bloodlines but still, it's a great game for all the tactical game lovers out there. The game exhausts you and the ending proves it right, completely got me this one.

The Long Dark

22 hours playtime, 11 of 40 achievements

Best game. Seriously, best game. I didn't know I could like survival and exploration simulators but The Long Dark is a game to be recognized. Simple yet one of the most fun games I ever played. I actually only played the story mode but that mode itself completely overwhelmed me. I got lost exploring all the scenarios while managing the food, my clothes, my weapons, the cold and the dangers that exists in the wilderness. The game itself is so alive that I'm completely out of words. I can't wait for the other episodes to come out so I can explore more of this great story. Still I have to try out the survival mode, I haven't yet because I know if I start it won't be able to get me hands out of it so soon so better attack my backlog instead.

Owlboy

9 hours playtime, 2 of 12 achievements

Heard alot about Owlboy back in the days when it came out. It's great seeing these old pixelated adventures coming back to life it just amazes me. Really engaging story with alot of funny characters. I'm not a big fan of the platform genre but I pretty much enjoyed it apart from the controls, they just seem clunky sometimes and it annoyed me a little bit but not enough to stop me from enjoying the game which was a great ride from beginning to end.