• Agent Walker: Secret Journey
  

  4 hours playtime

  16 of 16 achievements

• Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt
  

  9 hours playtime

  22 of 22 achievements

• Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink
  

  6 hours playtime

  19 of 19 achievements

• GRAVEN The Purple Moon Prophecy
  

  5 hours playtime

  19 of 19 achievements

• Lost Grimoires 2: Shard of Mystery
  

  7 hours playtime

  12 of 12 achievements

• The Dreamatorium of Dr. Magnus 2
  

  2 hours playtime

  15 of 15 achievements

• Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova
  

  4 hours playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Scarlett Mysteries: Cursed Child
  

  6 hours playtime

  13 of 13 achievements

Ghost Files: The Face of Guilt (Artifex Mundi) - The story is centered around a detective who tracks down a murder suspect. You are equipped with a forensic kit that you can use to compare samples or fingerprints from the crime scenes. Quite nice, but not extraordinary. I'm always happy to play a HOG in which non-collected collectibles are in some way indicated on the screen. I wish more HOGs would have this feature. Or would that make them even more easy and casual as they are?

GRAVEN The Purple Moon Prophecy (Orchid Games) - Maaan, that was a huge lot of collectibles! 70 main collectibles plus 40 shards to gather, the latter needed for the story progress. I'm always stressed that I will miss one of them for the achievements (it happened several times with other games, which meant that I had to do an extra playthrough). The Steam guide (praise the person that created it) mentions only the main 70 ones. For the other 40, I had to double check the locations. I'm not enirely sure if I managed to find them all, but at some point a NPC popped in front of me and handed me in the missing ones. Pretty cool, but I still wonder if that was scripted or not... How many did you manage to find? I think I got around 26 or 27 of the required 40...

Scarlett Mysteries: Cursed Child (Artifex Mundi) - One of the shortest and the easiest HOGs I've encountered so far. The reviews praise the story, but for me it represented the least interesting part of the game. Maybe because it's a ghost story - a child is haunted by the ghost of her mother - and I don't dig ghosts, especially ones that have a diformed shape (head).

Vampire Legends: The True Story of Kisilova (Artifex Mundi) - Despite the positive reviews, I didn't enjoy it that much. However, it's the first HOG I played that had 2 possible endings. The idea is nice, but the implementation rather bad. There is a choice at the ending scene, but no option to save before it so that you see both of the endings. Also, nothing from the whole gameplay affects the ending (it's not a 'choices matter' kind of game).

Lost Grimoires 2 (Artifex Mundi) - The novelty that the series brings is the alchemy process - you have a grimoire of alchemy recipes and you are required to collect all the ingredients needed for crafting a recipe. The crafting itself is done through a 'connect adjacent gems' kind of game that has to be completed in a certain amount of moves. Lost Grimoires 2 is very similar in design with it's predecessors, both of them being good HOGs :)

Agent Walker: Secret Journey (Artifex Mundi) - The game setting is not something that appeals to me - WW2; despite that, playing the game was an enjoyable experience. As Agent Walker, you are tasked to find and destroy an ancient relic - the mythical Spear of Destiny - before a supernatural enemy gets hold of it and uses it to rule the world.

The Dreamatorium of Dr. Magnus 2 (Two Desperados) - After Lost Grimoires 2, this was the HOG that I enjoyed the most this month. The story was interesting enough - you must collect 5 crystals in order to help an inventor find and rescue his kidnapped girlfirend. However, I don't think I've ever encountered a worse voice acting as the perfomance of the main character. Listening to her annoyed me to bits, until i decided to turn off the volume and play without sound.

Clockwork Tales: Of Glass and Ink (Artifex Mundi) - I don't know if this was inspired by Syberia games (which I loved a lot), but it sure brings up memories of playing them. The story is very different, but you still have to deal with all sorts of mechanisms and automatons in solving the bunzzles, which is rather fun.

• Odyssey - The Next Generation Science Game
  

  6 hours playtime

  7 of 7 achievements

• My Name is You
  

  3 hours playtime

  14 of 14 achievements

• The Dark Tales of Katarina
  

  5 hours playtime

  27 of 27 achievements

• Happy Empire
  

  59 minutes playtime

  10 of 10 achievements

• Exteria
  

  2 hours playtime

  8 of 8 achievements

• Project:surviving
  

  2 hours playtime

  1 of 1 achievements

• The Last Photon
  

  2 hours playtime

  388 of 388 achievements

Odyssey - The Next Generation Science Game - I was excited to play this game, since I am a huge fan of the Myst series. But like every other game that advertises itself as a 'Myst-like game', it turned out to be only a very pale immitation of the original. The feeling that being the lone survivor on an island gives you, the graphics, the music and the style are somewhat similar to Myst, however the puzzles and the whole gameplay is quite different. It's not a bad game per se, but it's just not the Myst experience I was hoping for. If you decide to play it, you need to know that 90% of the time will be spent on reading a journal which will provide all the necessary information to solve the puzzles – it is even highlighted in yellow, so that you can skip the story parts and scientific explanations. However, skipping these ruins the whole game experience because the game's main purpose is to thoroughly explain a few science concepts like planetary rotation, astronomical concepts, pendulum theory, physics concepts. If you're a person that loves to find out the inner mechanisms of the universe, then this game is right down your alley, since it explains all of these in a very nice and understandable way, and in addition to that gives you puzzles to solve using the new-found knowledge, which sometimes are merely machines that exemplify these theories.

My Name is You - I'm not sure if this should be called a visual novel or not. On one hand, there's no gameplay apart from reading and choosing story branches. On the other hand, there aren't any backgrounds or pictures that change, and definitely not anime chicks with big... let's say eyes. Nevertheless, the game offers a variety of possible endings, some of which have an achievement associated. One playthrough takes around 10 minutes and always ends with a unique song. For me, it was really nice to listen to all of them.

Happy Empire - A pretty bad attempt at making a time management game, the only nice thing about it being the cute graphics and easy achievements. It has potential, but in its state it's pretty boring and buggy.

The Dark Tales of Katarina - I'm not even sure what this is or where the story goes... Probably not gonna touch it again, even if they decide to add new achievements.

The Last Photon - This game encountered a lot of bad feedback after the devs decided to jump on the trend of 'cheap & easy cheevos' and replace the hardcore platforming achievements with 300+ achievements obtainable at the cost of only holding down a button. It's a game I've always wanted to try, so it seemed to be an appropiate moment to try it. Conclusion: the achievements ruined the whole game; however I wouldn't have had the skills to finish it 100% anyway.

Exteria - Awful. Don't touch it please. Bad graphics, bad controls, bad gameplay.

Project:surviving - In its state, a joke of a game. 1 cheevo for spending 10 minutes cutting trees and crafting stuff from the wood.