Jaded’s profile



Monthly Update: December 2024

Happy New Year!

Big difference from last month.
I both added a lot of games to my backlog, and managed to have some completions and play some fun games!


I played some longer games such as PoE2, Marvel Rivals and Coral Island.
My Coral Island stats are bugged, and I played probably an extra 15-20 hours offline, which it hasn't counted. It also didn't unlock those first few achievements. Coral Island also became the 3rd(I think?) game I played this month that involved clearing out trash, the 2nd of which was underwater.
May have been a bit of a theme this month!

Much more game activity from me, and this is with having no internet for over a week. I had 'upgraded' my plan with the same company.. then was on the phone (mostly on hold) with them for cumulatively about 10 hours over the week until they fixed the issue on their end... But, my internet is now double the speed for the New Year, so worth it!

2024 Replay

Jaded's Steam Replay 2024
🏅 Games Completed/Beaten - 2024
Added to backlog in 2024
Game priorities for 2025?


Played


Completed

Half-Life 2

Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator

23 hours
37 of 37 achievements

Very simple game - plant, harvest, hope to RNG that you get the next seeds you need to fulfill requests.

I enjoyed playing this - very simple and relaxing to play while chatting on discord.

Nothing exciting or new game play wise.

Half-Life 2

The Gunk

7.4 hours
17 of 17 achievements

A lot better than I was expecting.
Great game for screenshots as well.

This game was the first of the many games I played this month that revolved around clearing out trash…

Half-Life 2

Loddlenaut

6.1 hours
23 of 23 achievements

Super cute game - about halfway through I realised you could remove the pixelation style graphics in the menu.
This made the experience a lot better personally.

The second game of the month that involved clearing trash…

Played

Backlog

So uuuh I bought the year of HB Choice.
I also got a lot more in gifts that I expected, 4 from the SteamGifts gifting thread alone!
A lot of the games from here are ones I've been entering giveaways for for ages - I've already completed The Gunk and Loddlenaut from this :)
As I hide most games on Steamgifts, I currently only have 4 giveaways on the homepage!
RIP my backlog for the next year or so haha. I went so well this year not adding much to my backlog until this month!

Gifts

  • Gotham Knights
  • The Gunk
  • Loddlenaut
  • Beacon Pines
  • The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark
  • Path of Exile 2
  • Glass Masquerade 3: Honeylines
  • GreenManGaming Win

  • Balatro
  • Bought

  • Persona 4 Golden
  • Cassette Beasts
  • Garden Life: A Cozy Simulator
  • Moonstone Island
  • The Invincible
  • Venba
  • Atlas Fallen
  • Free

  • Marvel Rivals
  • Trade

  • Minami Lane

Monthly Update: November 2024

Another month of barely any gaming, so no extra tabs for my post this month.. oops. Very minimal effort this month haha.

Completed

I did 100% Slime Rancher, so not a complete write off month!

Backlog additions

Spirit of the North was free.
  • Spirit of the North


Monthly Update: October 2024

Played a bit at the beginning of the month.. I think I might be at 0 hours played for the last 2 weeks!

Essentially been smashing the work overtime while it's available, and we are going through a restructure.
Waiting to see what role I'm mapped to, and I have put in an application for one of the new roles. Not sure on chances, but eh worth a shot!

This all means I have had no time for games recently.
I did 100% Hades earlier in the month though so I'd say this month is a success. Sorry about my lackluster comments on games played this month!
I also didn't take any screenshots...um. Old ones it is this month..



Played


Played

Half-Life 2

Hades

67.1 hours
49 of 49 achievements

Loved it!

Recommend it if you haven't played.

Half-Life 2

My Time at Sandrock

142 hours
60 of 60 achievements

Finally had the missing achievement bug fixed… so yay 100%

Backlog

GreenManGaming Win

  • Cat Quest III
  • Reddit Win

  • Coral Island

Monthly Update: September 2024

Nightingale wiped all of the achievements I worked hard on earlier this year (and even made a 100% guide for!)...
Sooooo I re-100% it and made another guide. (Pls don't wipe again)!
I'm also very close to 100%ing Hades, so that was some good progress this month.

Not much else happening, except I am going back to my substantive role at work tomorrow so I get to say farewell to WFH nearly every day.
Life is going to be tough 😆



Played


Played

Half-Life 2

Nightingale

131.6 hours
28 of 28 achievements

The update wiped all the achievements which was annoying as a completionist!

The new update is good story/progression wise - the game now has a progression tree to unlock recipes/crafting stations which is a lot better than the previous iteration where you had to find traders for specific recipes. The story now has set story realms, rather than the realm/npcs being randomly generated on an area of a map. Makes it a lot simpler to help others/find out information/less chance of something blocking progression.

Along with 100%ing the game again, I made another 100% Steam achievement guide for it as I went. Hopefully there won't be another achievement wipe! :D

Half-Life 2

Hades

56.4 hours
45 of 49 achievements

I got to the Epilogue, so the game is now Beaten… but I'm still really enjoying the game and I'm pretty close to the 100%!

Hopefully it will be a completion next month :)

Using I don't like games like this, but I really enjoyed the gameplay, and of course the setting and story, voice acting were all great.
I especially liked how it seemed like no dialogue was repeated…even though I have gone through so many runs against the same enemies. (Even Tisiphone's 'Mmmmurddder' was different, and had development as you went!)

I definitely recommend it if you have any interest in it!

Backlog

GreenManGaming Win

  • Fera: The Sundered Tribes

Freebies

  • Stray Cats in Cozy Town
  • A Park Full of Cats
  • An Arcade Full of Cats

Monthly Update: August 2024

I made progress this month!
A few games beaten, some progress in others, and I managed to stick to my priority list pretty well.



Played


Played

So I actually made some significant progress this month!
Half-Life 2

Enshrouded

52.8 hours
37 of 37 achievements

Very fun game to play with friends!

I also managed to build a secret door into our base and it was only found after 5-10 minutes when someone 'accidentally' took their pickaxe out and found the hidden floor underneath. How dare they!
But anyway, it was a fun time!

Half-Life 2

My Time at Sandrock

139.9 hours
59 of 60 achievements

I hate this game.

Not really, but it has left me very annoyed as there is a bugged achievement I tried to get for many, many hours after finishing the grindy achievement. So yes, all my good feelings of this game have now fled. It was enjoyable (before attempting to get this bugged achievement), and had better QoL than My Time at Portia.

But yes, my feelings of resentment is all it has left me with haha

Half-Life 2

God of War

22.1 hours
17 of 37 achievements

I finally went back and finished it!
I really enjoyed the story, controls were a bit iffy sometimes as a m/k player.

Not sure if I'll 100% as there were a LOT of collectibles left.

Half-Life 2

Hades

20.3 hours
14 of 49 achievements

I guess I have technically beaten this game a few times, but I feel getting the 'Epilogue' is the real ending?? So I will leave this as unfinished.

I found I enjoyed it a lot more on my desktop than my Steam Deck!

Half-Life 2

Hi-Fi RUSH

3.4 hours
11 of 71 achievements

Like Hades, I've tried this on desktop with m/k and am enjoying it a lot more than when I tried it on my Steam Deck.

Backlog

No additions this month!


Monthly Update: July 2024

I have not beaten, nor completed any games this month....but I did delete games from my library. BACKLOG PROGRESS, WOOHOO!! 😆

I removed these games (minus Viki spotter, which got removed from Steam..)


Played


Played

Most of the month was spent on Sandrock. So close, yet so far.

Backlog

    SteamGifts

  • A Plague Tale: Requiem
  • Bought

  • Dinkum
  • Chained Together
  • Enshrouded
  • Free

  • Cakey's Twisted Bakery

Monthly Update: June 2024

Not much played this month - I got sick for a couple of weeks so gaming wasn't happening!


I did play about 12 hours of the Aloft demo, which I enjoyed. I loved the building especially - it had a lot of QoL stuff like allowing overlapping, poles that could be extended in height etc. Be interested to see how it develops, as the game did feel a little sparse, but the building did hold me over for a while!

Otherwise my time was mostly playing a bit of God of War at the beginning of the month and My Time at Sandrock the last couple of days of the month!


Played


Played

No beaten or completed this month unfortunately!

Backlog

    Steam Sale

  • My Time at Sandrock
  • Free

  • Islands of Insight
  • The First Descendant

Monthly Update: May 2024

So the month started with me logging 65 hours into Stardew Valley in a new playthrough (my achievement run was a multiplayer save which is gone....), so I can try get my 100% completion back. Once I actually looked into the achievements, and realised I essentially have to do all the achievements again, I may have taken a break and moved on for a bit.. Ahh well, I did make some progress!

I completed V Rising, which I hadn't gotten into previously but with the official release decided to give it a go. I also just managed to 100% Littlewood before the end of the month, so I'd say I did well this month.


Played


Completed & Beaten

Half-Life 2

V Rising

48.2 hours
49 of 49 achievements

I hadn't managed to get into V Rising previously but with the official release decided to give it a go.

It was great! The boss fights were interesting, and some were fairly difficult on brutal, such as Solarus and of course Dracula.. I managed to finally beat Dracula after many, many deaths, some strategic skill switching (shields are pretty much necessary for the last phase) and somehow managing to avoid the AoE at the end and DPS him down quick enough…

I did change the server settings so crafting/gathering was essentially easy mode, while the combat was brutal. Made for less grind and more fun.

Half-Life 2

Littlewood

55.3 hours
60 of 60 achievements

I had fun with Littlewood, but going for the 100% at the end was painful. There are a lot of grindy achievements, the worst being fishing 2500 fish, catching 2500 bugs and completing 150 quests.

The mining 6000 nodes and chopping 6000 trees were grindy, but weren't as bad to finish.

If they lowered these achievements and had something like 'Get every house to tier 3', it would still have been a similar amount of time to grind, but a lot more interesting. Ah well!

Half-Life 2

Risk of Rain 2

10.6 hours
26 of 118 achievements

Played with some friends and managed to view the credits, so tentatively marked as 'Beaten'.
Will likely come back to it when friends want to play :)

Played

SO many hours spent on Stardew. Paused because I needed a break.
I got distracted from Fallout 4 by V Rising, and am unsure if keen to go back.
Palia was....very grindy.. Pretty, but seemed like a game I don't want to waste my time on.
Hades seems fun for drop in/drop out style gameplay so will likely play it on and off!

Backlog

    Gift

  • Hades
  • Hi-Fi RUSH
  • Bought

  • LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga
  • Free

  • Palia

Monthly Update: April 2024

Annnd another month of barely any games played.
I had only 9 hours played until the last few days of the month haha.
I managed to lose 2 completions this month. Stardew and Palworld both added more achievements.. nooooooo! (I realised this when checking my profile and saw 2 games missing from my profile showcase)
Stardew I will have to replay the whole game again 😭, but I started working towards the Palworld ones the other night which I need to defeat some kind of raid style boss. My first attempt went...well, it went...


Played


Played

Tales of Berseria was so close to being the only game I touched this month. 😅

Backlog

    SteamGifts

  • Everdream Valley

Monthly Update: March 2024

Later post than usual... Well this month I got a Crunchyroll 2 week trial so uh...
I watched a heap of anime?
RIP backlog.

Anime seasons watched...: Click 👇

The Apothecary Diaries
Solo Leveling
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
Shangri-La Frontier
The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs
Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
Tearmoon Empire
Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I'm Not the Demon Lord
Ascendance of a Bookworm (season 1)
Campfire Cooking in Another World with My Absurd Skill
The Great Cleric
7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!
The Saint's Magic Power is Omnipotent (season 1)
My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! (season 1)
Why Raeliana Ended up at the Duke's Mansion
Berserk of Gluttony
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special
The Rising of the Shield Hero (season 1)

Yeah uh just a couple seasons here and there... I didn't mention ones I dropped a few episodes in either. Interesting to see how Isekai seems to have exploded in popularity since I last watched anime


Played


Completed

Half-Life 2

The Gardens Between

2.8 hours
17 of 17 achievements
Half-Life 2

The Answer is 42

2.1 hours
16 of 16 achievements

Played

I made Geralt in the DD2 character creator.. and that's probably the most I achieved in gaming this month. 😅

Backlog

Gift

  • Twin Mirror
  • SteamGifts

  • Life is Strange 2
  • Free

  • Dragon's Dogma 2 Character Creator & Storage