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[cormack12]

I've tried the 52 games a year challenge and it is just overwhelming though fun to try once. So I thought we could have a smaller one for those of us with more pressures on our time, or don't play as much as we used to. Rules are similar.

How do I take part?
Claim a ‘main post’ where you will list all your completions for the year. You can use fancy images or special formatting to make it extra cool. In addition to this post your updates, completions and thoughts as singular posts throughout the year.

How do I know when I've completed a game?
That can be tricky to determine, but it's ultimately up to you. If its a straightforward single player game then it's typically when the credits roll, but if it's say a multiplayer session based game maybe its when you’ve unlocked a certain feature or completed a battle pass.

Do the completions need to be games released this year?
Nope; any video game will suffice. It can be first plays or replays, classics or recent releases. It can be a game you started last year but are finishing this year.

 

[cormack12]

I'll claim my post and am starting with a replay of

Hogwarts Legacy | PS5

 

[Banjo64]

Reserved.

Last year I mistakenly updated my main post instead of making separate posts detailing each game. Noted for this time

 

[Fess]

I’ll try this, will probably fail but new year new challenges.

Started Minishoot Adventures in Geoff’s timeline for 2025.

1. Minishoot Adventures
Finished! (Jan 1) (True boss beaten)

 

[KungFucius]

Try this again. 12 I can do, 52 I would have to replay NES games for a few weeks to hit.

1. Stalker 2 - (In progress)

 

[rofif]

Ok let's go

 

[drganon]

I beat 21 games last year, so I should be able to hit at least 12 this year.

1. Master detective archives: raincode (ps5)- in progress

 

[LectureMaster]

Let's do this!

Currently picking up Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin from where I left in September. Also want to go back to platinum old GoW games.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Currently playing FFXVI but it's been going a bit slowly since I've got sidetracked by all the gacha games I'm also playing (WuWa, ZZZ and Genshin).

 

[balls of snow]

Lets go. Got 28 done in 2024. And the first game finished in 2025.

Jan
1) Alan Wake 2: The Lake House dlc

 

[Sleepwalker]

Reserved

 

[PatientGamer]

Yups, I'll try taking part in this.

January

1) Astrobot (In-progress)

Happy new year everyone!

 

[Heisenberg007]

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[dragonyeuw]

Last year was probably the most games I've completed in years as I mostly went through my Steam backlog. Terminator Resistance, Robocop Rogue City, and Resident Evils 1/2/3 remakes, Zero, Revelations/Revelations 2, 7 ( I also am playing 5 co-op and I started 6 but the latter is gonna be a drag to finish I think). And I completed the Order 1886 as my first completed game on my PS5, of all games( and enjoyed it more than it's reputation led me to believe I would). I've played others, but those ones aforementioned were completions( In RE2's case, I did the first two A and B scenarios for Leon and Claire and fucked around with the extra modes. I may do a Chris playthrough for REmake this year).

Anyways, I'm in for 2025. Games off the top of my head that I know I want to get through will include Indiana Jones, Silent Hill 2 remake, FFVii intergrade, RE Village and maybe 4 remake, and assuming I get the Switch 2, I've got a bunch of first party current Switch stuff I'd like to get through (and that's without knowing what the new system will bring and when). I also picked up The Forest and Tortured Souls off Steam last week for like $3 total to feed my out of nowhere survival horror kick. And I started the Quarry two years ago but didn't get far, so I'll probably just restart that and hopefully finish Alien Isolation ( just got past the first Xenomorph sighting so I'm still pretty early in that). Oh and I'm planning on grabbing a Quest 3 512gb ( I sold the 128 for a decent price a few months ago) and will definitely be playing the included Batman game.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Nice, first page style.

Got several games in the works now: silent hill 2, black ops (guess I'll work on what completing this game means), dragon warrior 3...

 

[adamsapple]

Sure, I'll bite. It's probably gonna end up being a lot more than 12 tho.


Reserved for adamsapple

1. Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League (in progress)
2. Arkham Asylum (next)

 

[RedC]

Will start playing Red Matter 2 today

 

[Duchess]

I'm planning on getting a PS5 Pro in 2026 (hopefully drives will be readily available by then). I'll be saving the best games for then. So, this year I'm planning on getting through:

Trinity Fusion
Horizon: Burning Shores
Sea of Stars
RoboCop
Hi-Fi Rush
Ravenswatch
Everspace 2
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Trine 5
Astro Bot
Pacific Drive
The Sinking City
Observer
League of Legends: The Ruined King
The Chant

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

No fucking chance

But good luck to everyone else.

 

[duck_sauce]

I claim this post and start the year with the following game.

January
- Allan Wake 2

Games on my list:

Diablo 3
Silent Hill 2
Final Fantasy Remake

 

[Cert.in.Death]

The list is in no particular order, I expect to finish at least 12 games by the end of March. Granted, I intend to frontload most of the time-intensive games this year. Albeit I will likely play something not this list, so I'll try and remember to update it when I do.

Objective is to achieve the platinum trophy for every game listed, you are welcome to check my day-to-day progress here (I do almost all of my single-player gaming on Playstation):
PSN Profiles Account

2025 Backlog

1	Reveil
2	Ad Infinitum
3	FFVII Rebirth *currently playing*
4	Black Myth Wukong
5	Metro Awakening
6	Sprawl
7	System Shock
8	Helldivers II
9	Cyberpunk 2077
10	Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
11	Armored Core VI: Fires Of Rubicon
12	Resident Evil Village
13	Jurassic Park Classic Games Collection
14	Unicorn Overlord
15	The Talos Principle II
16	Guardians Of The Galaxy
17	Kill Knight
18	Citizen Sleeper
19	Synapse
20	Metal Slug Tactics
21	Immortals Of Aveum
22	Young Souls
23	Sword of the Vagrant
24	Darksiders: Genesis
25	Dodgeball Academia
26	Indivisible
27	A Hat In Time
28	Saturday Morning RPG
29	Unsighted
30	Dishonored
31	Dishonored 2
32	Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
33	Mass Effect
34	Mass Effect 2
35	Mass Effect 3
36	Pentiment
37	Resident Evil 3
38	Dead Space Remake
39	Rez Infinite
40	Sea Of Stars

2025 New Releases

1	Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
2	DOOM: The Dark Ages
3	Judas
4	Mouse: PI For Hire
5	Lunar: Remastered Collection
6	Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves
7	Riven (PS5)
8	Coffee Talk Tokyo
9	Ghost of Yotei
10	Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater
11	Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound
12	Death Stranding 2: OTB

 

[hemo memo]

That's easy as I can hit that target. 58 though? That's just insane.

Starting with Ghost Trick

 

[FatallyYours]

Trying not to increase backlog this year by buying new games. Did well in last year's challenge completing 37 games from my backlog, looking to do a similar amount this year hopefully

Currently Playing;

Final Fantasy 15 - replay after years away. Never did any dlc or finished everything in base game
Planet Zoo - will take time just to go through normally
Age of Wonders 4 - will take time just to go through it normally

Spoiler: A rough plan for the year (in no order)

A Plague Requiem (played 1st, never played 2nd)
Adrift (never played, play between bigger games)
Anno 1800 (half way through)
Ass Creed Odyssey (finish up base game for plat)
Ass Creed Unity (maybe, has ubi patched this for 60fps yet? Need to do DLC and finish off base game for plat)
Broken Age (never played, point and click, game to play in-between big RPG's)
Cat Quest (never played, quick/easy rpg)
Death Stranding (never finished it, need to just complete it)
Gone Home (never played, easy walking sim to break up bigger games)
Iron Harvest (RTS that I started, near beginning, just need to complete)
Lego City Undercover (started but never finished)
Lego DC Supervillians (started but never finished)
Life is Strange 2 (never played, easy, quickish game to break up bigger games)
Oxenfree (never played it)
Risk of Rain (Need to finish off a few trophies for 100%)
Sniper Elite 2 remastered (started but never finished)
The Walking Dead s2 (never played, quickish point & click game to break up bigger games)
Ghost Recon Breakpoint (Need to finish off base game)
Torchlight 2 (Diablo clone that I only just started years ago)
Trover Saves the Universe (did half thr game and stopped, need to complete)
Untitled Goose Game (never played, quick easyish game to break up bigger games)

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Really enjoyed taking part last year.

Reserved!

 

[Bojji]

Reserved.

1: Indiana Jones

 

[WX3]

RESERVED

Hopefully I get to update this 12 times this year!

 

[justiceiro]

Reserved. Let's try this once

 

[Jrecard]

Committing to this for 2025. I started my log for 2024 but fell off and finished I think around 8 games without really keeping track. Will do better here!

January
1. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart - Completed 14.1 hours. Really well presented and fun 3d platformer/action game. The in map rifts and dimension switching in real time was a pretty cool gimmick.

 

[Alpha Male]

Reserved

These are the games I'll be finishing up in the near future:

Astrobot
Indiana Jones
FF7 Rebirth
Starfield
Age of Wonders 4
Homeworld 3
Star Wars Empire at War

New games coming out I'm planning on finishing in the first part of the year:

Assassin's Creed Shadows
Avowed
Tomb Raider 4 and 5 Remasters

 

[ReyBrujo]

Hey! I'm in the 52 games one but I will pick this one with a personal twist: 12 first-person dungeon crawlers in 12 months. I already finished my first (Potato Flowers in Full Bloom) one and working on my second (Mon-Yu: Defeat Monsters And Gain Strong Weapons And Armor. You May Be Defeated, But Don’t Give Up. Become Stronger. I Believe There Will Be A Day When The Heroes Defeat The Devil King., gotta love Chinese titles). Might be hard to find other 10 I haven't played on Switch though.

1. Potato Flowers in Full Bloom
2. Mon-Yu
3. Labyrinth of Zangetsu
4. Class of Heroes 1
5. Class of Heroes 2
6. Wizardry: The Five Ordeals
7. Kowloon High-School Chronicle
8. Demon Gaze Extra
9. Sakura Dungeon
10. Drawngeon: Dungeons of Ink and Paper
11. TBD
12. TBD

 

[SenkiDala]

Well this time I'll bite. Indeed 52 seems undoable for me (or it'd become a pain instead to be a pleasure).

It can also motivate me to finish games on my backlog that I REALLY want to finish but never did...

I'll start with :

January : Hollow Knight (on Xbox) / I expect a lot of it.

Next games that I could chose :

• Castlevania Symphony of the Night (1st playthrough)
• Final Fantasy XIII (new playthrough)
• Final Fantasy XIII-2 (new playthrough)
• Binary Domain (1st)
• Daymayre 1998 (1st)
• Doom 3 (attempted it dozens of times and never completed it)
• Final Fantasy VII OG (new playthrough like almost every year)
• Mad Max (1st)
• Mass Effect Andromeda (1st)
• NieR Automata (1st)
• Momodora (1st)
• Octopath Traveler (1st)
• Sea of Stars (1st)
• Witcher III (never got to the end... far from it)
• Tomb Raider I or II or III remastered (finished the OG ones but not remastered)
• Okami HD (new)
• Wolftenstein II (1st)

Well I could continue for long, in fact I think I've hundreds of games on my backlog...

 

[Aion002]

Last year I tried and I failed.

This year I will try harder.

For January I finished Stellar Blade yesterday and I am working towards the Platinum right now.

Edit:
Which I just did it:

Now I will start working towards my Rise of the Ronin plat, which should take up to the Monster Hunter Wilds release.

 

[AJBungah]

Reserved. Can't see me even making 10 but I will try.

Currently dabbling in Astro Bot helping the kids with tricky bits and doing the odd world when I've had a chance over the Christmas holidays.

Downloaded Indiana Jones off Game Pass PC and played through the first section. Looking forward to more.

Also got a Fallout 3 GOTY replay planned as I haven't played it since release.

 

[Katajx]

I hit 22 last year. I’ll try for this again this year. I already have 2 with good progress for January.

 

[Kings Field]

1. Killer Frequency - Replayed it on the portal after beating it on Xbox when it dropped. Fun game
2. Gran Turismo 7- beat the "main" game but not 100% yet.

 

[bbw_lover87]

Started granblu relink lets go

 

[reinking]

I'm in.... My goal for this year is more playing and less buying and whining.

Current playing.
PS5 - Astro Bot - I still need to complete this one.

Started but not very far and will most likely restart because of the gap in playing time.
PS5 - Metaphor: ReFantazio.
PS5 - Master Detective Archives: Rain Code.

On deck.
PS5 - Silent Hill 2
PS5 - Horizon Forbidden West
PS5 - Fantasian New Dimension

It's not all going to be PS5 but it looks like I am starting 2025 off that way.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Seems doable. Here's my progress so far:

1) Mass Effect 2
2) Mass Effect 3 (in-progress)

 

[Jesb]

I’ll try this.

Currently working on Indiana Jones.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

I’m in.

January - Alien: Dark Descent (WIP)

 

[watdaeff4]

This is something doable for me

Right now playing:
FFVII Rebirth
Persona 5
Black Ops 6 campaign

 

[RCX]

I did 52 in a year several years ago and in retrospect it was an absolute slog towards the end. 12 in a year is much more doable and will definitely drive me less mental!

Ok, let's start out!

1) Warhammer Space Marine 1. Damn good game, loved the 360 era design and the story was surprisingly compelling.

Started just before Christmas and finished the first couple of days of the new year. A perfect 7-8 hour campaign.