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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
Uncharted 4 | PS5
Horizon Zero Dawn | PS5
Nier Automata | PS5
Deep Rock Galactic | XSX
FF XVI | PS5
Until Dawn Remaster | PS5
Black Ops 6 | XSX
Borderlands 3 | XSX
Diablo IV | PS5/XSX
Mafia: The Old Country | 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)

100%! (Jan8, Finished in Advanced Mode, cleared all arenas with minimum 5 hearts)

This game was fantastic! Don't miss out if you're into twin-stick shooters and Zelda, it's an odd mix of genres but it totally works.

2. Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Finished! (Feb 2)
Most annoying end boss ever with no save point between two boss fights. Otherwise I quite enjoyed the game, I didn't like the combat but by the end of it I thought it was alright. Character design was superb!

3. Diablo 4
Finished! (April 13)
Anticlimax in the end, final boss was too easy and there wasn't even credits rolling. Besides that I loved it. Was my first proper playtime of any Diablo, only played Diablo 3 before and only for a couple hours. The gear upgrade and skill tree system is more or less perfection. They really push you to experiment since you can move gear bonuses between you stuff and refund skills.

4. Pixeljunk Shooter
Finished! (April 18)
Old indie game that caught me by surprise on how many unique and fun mechanics they put in there.
360 degree aiming is low in resolution somehow, can't aim as precisely as I want. That's only negative. Otherwise, super fun game.

5. Ori and the Blind Forest - Definitive Edition
Finished! (April 19)
Replay on Steam, only played the original release on Xbox. Still such a wonderful game! One of my top 10 metroidvanias even though the combat is a letdown, the story and platforming mechanics carry it a long way.
Also one of the bigger industry losses I know of is that this IP is dead since Moon and MS walked separate ways and MS own the IP. Hopefully Moon can do their own thing at some point, call it Zori and the Unseeing Woods and make the character black or something like that, heh

6. Hollow Knight
Finished! (June 30)
Replay on Steam, I've finished it on console previously. I like this playthrough more than the first, felt super tight, don't know if the Steam version is better or if I've just got better at the game.
The plan was to get a good ending, but it was too difficult tbh, 42 bosses in a row to get the delicate flower to absorb the bad stuff. Not doable for me, so I found no good ending that I was able to accomplish. Ended up with the one with both the Knight and Hornet sealed up since I had acquired the void heart.
Still playing it after the text rolled, getting some extra achievements, doing attempts on the radiance but haven't beaten that boss yet.
Update Aug 7: 108% Completion. Radiance down. Dream No More Ending. Mr Mushroom flying off. Hunter's Journal filled. Delicate Flower delivered to everyone that can take it.

7. Cocoon
Finished! (July 6)
Holy wow omg what the!?!1! This is just pure brilliance! I'll take games like this over just about any big budget AAA game I can think of. The late game puzzles was pure inception craziness. Sooo cool! Had the whole family thinking out solutions by the end, made it into the best game of the year by far for me. But it's old now so no GOTY voting unfortunately. Pure 10/10

8. Avowed
Finished! (Aug 24)
I enjoyed this way more than I expected. The combat is great, one of few first person games with good combat, the dodging, parry, power attacks, it's all spot on. And I really liked the platforming/parkour gameplay too, the ledge grab and pull up is perfect. The maps are all good too, and loot chests are placed perfectly, sometimes difficult to reach just like it should be.
But lackluster interactivity, very little life in cities, boring loot, pull it down from any higher scores. Still, I would rate it 8/10. Overall it's one of the pleasant surprises this year for me.

9. Call of Duty: Black Ops 6
Finished! (Aug 25)
After a 20 year long period of ignoring COD I finally jumped in when Microsoft started adding these games to Gamepass.
I liked this campaign a ton! It really surprised me in how varied it was, I had no idea COD could have puzzles, and proper stealth, lockpicking, zombies. Genre breaking game for me. Best COD I've played so far, though I've only played MW3 before this, plus the first one on 360.
Day one on BO7 because of this game!

10. FAR: Lone Sails
Finished! (Sept 2)
What an odd title! One of the more unique titles I've played. Can't really compare it to anything else. In short you spend your time trying to traverse an empty world with a locomotive sail boat tractor thingy… Strange… But also good! It's a short game, anybody with a couple hours to spare abd an interest in something out of the ordinary should try this.

 

[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)- completed
2. Sand Land (ps5)- completed
3. Yurukill (ps5)- completed
4. Trails through daybreak (ps5)- completed
5. Walking Dead : Final Season (ps4)- aborted
6. Robocop Rogue City (ps5)- completed
7. Romancing Saga 2 Remake (ps5)- completed
8. Dragon age Veilguard (ps5)- aborted
9. Ys : The Oath in Felghana (ps5) - completed
10. Like a Dragon : Pirate Yakuza (ps5) - completed
11. Oblivion Remastered (ps5)- completed
12. Granblue Fantasy : Relink (ps5) - completed
13. Titanfall 2 (ps4)- completed
14. Xenoblade Chronicles X (Switch) - completed
15. Atelier Ryza 3 (ps5)- completed
16. Silent Hill 2 remake (ps5)- hiatus
17. Death Stranding 2(ps5) - completed
18. Mario Kart World ( switch 2) - completed
19. Berserk and the band of the Hawk (ps4) - completed
20. Donkey Kong Bananza ( Switch 2) - completed
21. Live a Live (ps5) - in progress
22. Persona 4 Golden (ps4) - in progress

 

[LectureMaster]

Let's do this!

Order	Title	Completion date	Completion	hours	Note
1	Vampire Survivors	1/23/2025	Platinum	20	PS4
2	Phantom Liberty	2/11/2025	Beat	45
3	Hotline Miami	2/23/2025	Platinum	10	PS5 version

 

[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.

Completions:

1. Jan 11- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle( PC Gamepass)

 

[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

 

[Windle Poons]

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]

2025 Queue

Shinobi: Art Of Vengeance *Now Playing*

Mafia: The Old Country *Now Playing*

Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered

Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater

Gears Of War: Reloaded *Now Playing*

Blue Prince

The Talos Principle Reawakened

Metro Awakening

Synapse

Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles

Painkiller

Everybody's Golf Hot Shots

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

System Shock 2 Remake

Resident Evil 7

Metro: Awakening

Lies Of P

Wild Arms 2

Backlog Candidates:

Coffee Talk Tokyo

Darksiders: Genesis

Dead Space Remake

Guardians Of The Galaxy

High On Life

Indivisible

Kill Knight

Metal Slug Tactics

Pentiment

Sea Of Stars

 

[hemo memo]

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

Starting with Ghost Trick

 

[FatallyYours]

Did well in last year's challenge completing 37 games

Completed challenge May 26th

Completed 22 games
Includes 13 Platinum trophies

Currently Playing
Unicorn Overlord

January

Spoiler: Final Fantasy XV PS4 - 7.5/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
DLC - completed all episode stories, but not all optional trophies
Overall completion 67% (up from 46% originally)
Replay - Played at release

Score 7.5/10 - good game, not brilliant

Quick side note, I've only ever played 13 (dropped quickly) & 15, so I have no nostalgic feelings towards the series at all

I never fully finished 15 on release, leaving the fishing, cooking, survival & most DLC trophies. I remember there being pushback about the final chapters or ending? I couldn't remember the story at all

I followed a reddit post for this replay/trophy mop up, telling me when to watch the films & cartoons, when to play the DLC's & the story is now much more complete. It's just a shame that you have to go to Netflix for the film, YouTube for the cartoons, SE site for the pdf file for the prequel book. SE should come back to FF15 with a directors cut or something & add all this in at the right place in the game

Spoiler: Final Fantasy VII Remake PS5 - 4/10

Story Complete
Base game - 67%
DLC - Not started
Overall completion 55%
First playthrough

Score 4/10 - it's fine, but a far way from being good

Let me again preface this by saying I haven't played the original, I have no nostalgic, rose tinted feelings towards it & it shows in how I feel about it whilst everyone else seems to fawn over the game

Apart from Tifa's tits, I found nothing about 7 above average at all

Story was dull, non existent or dependant on you having played the original. Graphics were terrible in places, looking like a late gen PS3 game or early gen PS4 game for most of the time. Far too many squeeze through cracks slowly & mandatory slow walking scenes. Side quests, mini games & collectables were poorly implemented or not needed. I found every character annoying in thier own way with flower girl being the worst of the bunch. I muted voices due to her, the best part was her getting kidnapped & missing from the 2nd half of the game

This was a free game from PS+. I'll go ahead and do some more of the trophies, hell I may end up getting the plat for it, eventually, but I'm done with 7 for now

I don't think I'll play other parts for this game, even if they do become "free" on PS+. In fact it's put me off the FF series if this is FF at its supposed best. No thanks

Spoiler: Sherlock Holmes The Devils Daughter PS4 - 7/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
Replay - Finished the story originally late last year

Score 7/10 - good game, not brilliant

This was more of a trophy mop up run, seeing as I played the game late last year, but I'm now counting it as a "completed" game. I also needed something quick/easy/light to play after 2 big RPG's

Spoiler: The Outer Worlds PS5 - 7.5/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
DLC - 100%
Replay - originally played early 2024

Score 7.5/10

I played last year, doing a quick-ish, normal playthrough. Its now leaving PS+ so I wanted to go back & finish this off

I may have been a tiny bit unfair towards the game last time. The hardest mode - survival/Supernova makes you eat, drink, sleep, properly spec out your character & especially for the first 3rd of the game, forces you to be very careful with encounters. This made it a better game in my opinion, I actually enjoyed going through it again & the story has sunk in a little more this time round

February

Spoiler: Murder on the Orient Express PS5 - 7/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
First playthrough

Score 7/10

Much like the previous years challenge, I use these types of games as family time, slowly working through the game over a few weekends with alcohol & food

The story has been updated well for modern times. The game also helped break up all the big RPG's I've been playing

Spoiler: Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty DLC PS5 - 9/10

Platinum Achieved (previously)
Base game - 100%
DLC - 100%
First playthrough of DLC

Score 9/10

I did a full playthrough with the DLC, as last time I played was 1.52 & were now on 2.21, the base story is the same, but almost everything else has changed, so it was nice to play through again. I've played 164 hours apparently lol

I loved the DLC, vibes of Escape from New York, James Bond, Alien & The Matrix amongst others. The concert scene, although not my type of music, was just 1 standout point out of many. The James Bond style credits with the song/lyrics & the accompanying video being another! Yes, a credit scene! I loved the story, I loved the district, I loved the new bad guy, I loved the terrible choices I had to make constantly. I'm starting to think the best choice would have been to let the Prez die at the beginning lol, Alex lives, but unhappily in a run down bar living another persons life, Reed lives, but unhappily, forgotten by Washington, & Songbird lives, escapes & hopefully cures herself. It's not a happy DLC

March

Spoiler: Star Wars Jedi Survivor PS5 - 5/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
First playthrough

Score 5/10

I preferred the 1st game. It was ok, if predictable. The graphics were poor. Buggy & crashed constantly. Far too many collectables. Felt like I was playing a rebooted Tomb Raider game rather than a Star Wars Jedi Action RPG, more climbing than fighting the Empire. Disappointing

Spoiler: Hercule Poirot The First Cases PS4 - 6/10

Base game - 95%
First playthrough

Score 6/10

Another game that I played with my family. This is more of a point&click title. The game is fine, step back in graphics from the previous game, but I'm not sure it would have translated as well as a 3rd person game like Orient Express. Will clear up the Plat at some stage in a quicker single player playthrough

Spoiler: LiS True Colors PS4 - 7/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
First playthrough

Score 7/10

I've played True Colors on the PS5 a while ago, remembering that it was one of the better LiS entries. It was leaving PS+ & I knew I could get through the PS4 stack in a short amount of time. I'd forgotten some of the "big" story moments, so was nice to go through it again

April

Spoiler: L.A Noire PS4 - 7/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
DLC - 100%
Trophy mop up

Score 7/10

I'd played this a few times previously, when it first came out and then the remaster. I was in the mood for playing after a rewatch of LA Confidential

Always liked this game, graphically looks a bit old these days. Looking for all the cars was a pain

May

Spoiler: V Rising PS5 - 7.5/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
First playthrough

Score 7.5/10

I enjoyed this game, though I fully admit that I tweeked the server settings to make the grind more tolerable towards the end. Only played solo on a PvE private server, don't fancy playing against the great unwashed masses on multiplayer

Spoiler: Surviving Mars PS4 - 6.5/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
DLC - Green Planet 100%, others not started

Score 6.5/10

I've been playing this on and off for around 7 years, but made an effort to finish it off this year as part of this challenge. Finally got there!

The score could range from 5 to 10 depending on when you asked, how my last run went, and how bored or annoyed I was at that time. Generally though, I enjoyed the game

Going to leave the DLC trophies for another time though

Spoiler: IXION PS5 - 7.5/10

Base game - 70%
First Playthrough

Interesting little game. Basically Frostpunk in space. City sim/resource management game with a sci-fi story

There's multiple endings, but I'm going to put the others on hold so I don't burn myself out by replaying this to quick

June

Spoiler: The Precinct PS5 - 6.5/10

Base game 63% complete

I've completed the story, I just need to finish off a few collectables, jumps and races for the Platinum

I actually really liked this game, but the game released very buggy, and it made me restart 3 times with total game progress lost, which soured my view, and hence the score

Would it have not made me restart 3 times, wasting my time, it'd score higher, and I'd be happy to complete the collectables right away, as it is, I'm moving on for a bit

July

Spoiler: Death Stranding DC PS5 - 8/10

Base game 77% complete

This is the 4th attempt at finishing this game, and finally this time it clicked and kept me engaged. I used a few tips from various places to keep me on track

Oh my God is this game wacky, but i loved the weirdness of it

That being said, I was planning on buying DS2 (hence this playthrough), but....I need some time away lol

Ill slowly do the requirements for the Platinum, but the game is finished!

Spoiler: F1 Manager 24 PS5 - 6/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
First playthrough

Score 6/10

An F1 management sim from Frontier, so I knew what I was in for really, having played Jurassic Park Evolution, Planet Coaster & Planet Zoo

I'm also a lapsed F1 fan. I was big into it when Mark Webber/Seb was at Red Bull and Jenson was at Braun, I went to Silverstone that year and everything. Dropped out a few years after that

The game, it's fine. I got it super cheap on a sale recently, a few quid, and I got my monies worth, but it is not worth a full purchase. Its a very stripped back management game, no where near as involved as the other games I mentioned, though I wouldn't be surprised if the F1 business were very picky about what you can and can't portray in a game about F1...

Its a super easy Platinum too, so theres that!

Spoiler: Vertigo PS5 - 6.5/10

Platinum Achieved
Base game - 100%
First playthrough

Score 6.5/10

A similar game to the Sherlock games I've been casually playing with my parents, basically an interactive murder mystery

Based on the film by Hitchcock but very different story, more modern and upto date, a few twists and turns, but an overall good story

There was one instance in the game where the controls were terrible and it's a critical part of the game, can't skip, can't remap controls, can't back out once started. That annoyance dropped the score down by .5

Spoiler: Holy Potatoes Weapon Shop PS4 - 5/10

Base game - 75%
DLC - Not started
First playthrough

Score 5/10

Bought the trilogy of these games for dirt cheap. Very easy, pretty quick little game, but very repetitive, hence why I've stopped before getting the plat, which I will do at some stage, I just got bored of making the same weapons over and over for the last few trophies. Will come back to this, with a podcast or audiobook, finish up the DLC and move to the next game after a break

August

Spoiler: Diablo 4 PS5 - 7.5/10

Base game - 67%
DLC - 46%
First playthrough

Score 7.5/10

I played the beta and found it underwhelming, but after 2 years it seems to have gone through enough changes to make it a semi decent game. Playing the "free" PS+ version, and then bought the DLC (cheap)

Completed the main story line, both normal and dlc story, done the season story and completed the full battle pass (season9) and worked my way up to Torment 4, pit level75, paragon 220ish, in about a week with a necromancer. I'm a little squishy when fighting some of the uberbosses, but otherwise I can clear a screen almost instantly. Slowly upgrading my glyphs to 100, (currently about 60 with all of them) and farming for 2/3 star ancestral gear to get that last little bit out of the gear, I've got 1 purple gear, 3 uniques and the rest is 1/2 star ancestral and fully masterworked

Will eventually make other characters for the individual trophies for them, but I've always liked running necro/minion toons, so will keep this as my primary, and rerun for season 10 probably

Wont get the plat unless some kind soul lets me kill them 5 times in PvP, or maybe i could crossplay with an alt on my ps4?

One major issue. You play a Diablo game without actualy fighting Diablo. You dont actually fight any of the big prime evils during normal story. Lillith isn't a prime, not even sure if she's a lesser evil technically? You fight a few of the lesser evils from previous games but they all felt very poorly implemented and a handful of new named Daemons. I also felt like there was only 1 big cinematic after the intro - the march into hell, which granted was pretty epic, but I'm sure 3 had cinematics at the front and end of every act? Lots of in engine/game story driven chats, but cinematic wise, I was disappointed, the team who make those over the top films are excellent

Spoiler: Civilization 7 PS5 - 7/10

Base game - 58%

Score 7/10

That score has changed over time. When it first came out, it would have been a 5 maybe, but has slowly worked it's way up to a 7

The updates are good, but really should have been in game from the beginning

The issue is I suppose after playing 6 for years, with the amount of content it had at the end, the gimped version we got of 7 at the start was just an empty shell, and still is to some degree

I have no major issues about civ swapping through time periods I suppose, but the game tech tree stops in about 1960. I totally understand that future tech/4th age will be added as DLC, but it's just jarring that options, tech, units, whole concepts from 6 have been stripped out to a bare bones 7

Ive completed the game anyway, all the milestones for every age and the deity playthrough, just slowly winning with various leaders for the individual trophies

I hope that 7 gets some proper love like 6 did to get it to a place where it deserves, but I wouldnt be surprised if take2 pull the plug quickly for support because of bad sales or whatever

Spoiler: Road 96 PS5 - 6/10

Base game - 100%

Score 6/10

Short, easy game, that was leaving PS+, I had a few hours to spare, and this filled that time

Not a bad idea for a game, you learn about the backstory as you go along, and its pretty interesting. Most of the characters are well written, but the little lad in glasses is very cringey

Worth a play? I'd say it's a fair game, to the point I'd have no issues running the PS4 version for another Platinum. Its inoffensive, it's quick, it's easy, it has an alright story, and it's "free"

Spoiler: Days Gone Remastered PS5 - 8/10

Base game - 100%

I liked the original game, so a prettier version at a discounted price with a few added features was always going to interest me

I tried to import my PS4 save for a full autopop, but for whatever reason it didn't, so I started a NG+, got about half way through and popped everything I needed for the Plat

I will casually play the rest of the game to completion, but I'm prioritising other 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]

Missed January.
February: 1) Finished yooka layle and the impossible lair. OST is still one of the strongest points. Level design is very remisnecent of those dkc games.

Final Boss was indeed almost impossible, but very rewarding. Kinda liked how you literally has to act as asshole to progress on the game. Anyway, worth my time.

 

[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 - Insomniac - Platform/Action - 7/10 - 14.1 hours
2. Deadspace 2 - Visceral Games - Action Horror - 9/10 - 11.5 hours
3. Deadspace 3 + Awakened DLC - Visceral Games - Action Horror - 6.5/10 - 14.8 hours
February
N/A
March
4. Final Fantasy 7 Remake + Intermission DLC - Square Enix - Action RPG - 7.5/10 - 42 hours
5. Still Wakes The Deep - The Chinese Room - Walking Sim/Psych Horror - 5/10 - 5 hours
6. Alone in the Dark - Pieces Interactive - Psych Horror - 7.5/10 - 11 hours
April
7. The Last of Us Part II - Naughty Dog - Action Adventure - 8.5/10 - 25 hours
May
8. Doom The Dark Ages - iD - FPS - 8/10 - 22 hours
June
9. SOMA - Frictional Games - Psych Horror - 9/10 - 8 hours

 

[Alpha Male]

Games I've finished in January:

Indiana Jones
Astrobot
Horizon Zero Dawn Remaster
Hogwarts

 

[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.

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

Order​	Title​	Mini Review​	Image​	Date​	Score​
1​	Potato Flowers in Full Bloom (Switch)	Started back in December but finished it today after 36 hours. It's a cute first-person grid dungeon crawler (favorite genre) with teams of 3 with as 7 or 8 classes. The game has a simple story and is quite straightforward (4 areas with between 1 and 7 floors each) however got stuck a couple of times since you had to do like two locations at the same time. It's been ages since I had to rotate equipment and weapons to exploit weak points in enemies so it was a nice change of pace. Experience is based on size difference which means you cannot grind yourself to a big size, you ought to advance. Overall a cool game for anyone starting this genre. Encountered one crash (but game saves automatically often enough) and probably a dozen typos (like the one in the screenshot).​		1/2​	6/10​
2​	Mon-Yu	Started this after Potato Flowers and it took a good while, almost 52 hours. Another first-person grid-based dungeon crawler with 9 different locations (each with 1-3 different floors). Played in "medium setting" with map available only after finding the map (options were always on or never available). The character creation screen lets you choose the developers themselves as game characters which was funny. There's a level cap for each stage which means some battles are harder since you cannot grind, but you can save anywhere. Had to repeat final boss 30 or so times playing with statistics and skills and RNG which felt dirty.		1/27​	5/10​
3​	Labyrinth of Zangetsu	A (mostly) black & white dungeon crawler with hand-drawn stages and enemies based on Japanese yokai. Follows Wizardry rules. Finished it in 46 hours and a half in "hard" mode which prevents you from copying the save file and leaves corpses at the entrance of the level instead of the room where they died fortunately since I lost my team against the final boss. One optional boss left. No crashes. 5 main stages, each with 3-7 floors. Simple but I liked it.		2/6​	7/10​
4​	Wizardry: The Five Ordeals	Finished "The Price of Deception" in about 53 hours, consisting of 9 floors and then a new location with 3 complex floors. It's Wizardry, it's hard and some stages (like the second floor of the second location) are really complex. There are 5 other stories, each of which I will count as a different game because they are all new stories running on the same engine (with the option to carry over the characters). Love Wizardry, however this conversion was choppy in compared to Proving Grounds done by Digital Eclipse. It's much more faithful to the 2006 game but they could have done a bit more, especially with the labyrinth movement.		2/12​	9/10​
5​	Wizardry: The Five Ordeals	Finished the "Traveler's Property" scenario in about 34 hours and a half. This one has the classic 10 floor structure, the story is much more straightforward than "The Price of Deception" (if that's possible at all) but the last stage is far, far harder. In fact my monster compendium is missing a dozen or more regular demons which I hadn't been able to defeat still at all. This stage doesn't give information about item curses or buffs so it's half guessing and half remembering. Carried over the characters from "The Price of Deception" (the procedure is kind of convoluted for sure), they start at level 1 but at least I keep their rolled statistics.		2/23​	8/10​
6​	Demon Gaze Extra	Oh, yes, this is a far, far better dungeon crawler than I expected. Easily the best Japanese I played this year. It never felt dragging unlike Mon-Yu, it felt it was rather fair in most encounters other than the guardian of the last bosses, last boss took me half an hour or an hour, the other took me 3 days. The story is compelling, there are some ecchi stuff but nowhere near Moero Crystal H level, it has options like autowalk and repeat commands in battles that make grinding (if necessary) much less tedious. The music and voice acting is great as well (all things considered). Clear time was little over 57 hours. Got some stuff for postgame too but not too much.		3/12​	9/10​
7​	Kowloon High-School Chronicle	A visual novel / dungeon crawler hybrid. Story is divided in 12 episodes, each with an opening and an ending clip as if was an anime, pretty cool. As the main character you interact with other students and professors and make ties so that they can join you, even your foes. Story is about how Ancient Egypt and ancient Japanese gods were related, so it has a HUGE amount of Japanese lore which I liked. Game is grid-based but maps are already filled when you enter the area. Reached the final 3 bosses at level 42 after 62 hours but had to grind 10 levels and get better equipment, finishing after 74 hours.		5/1​	8/10​
8​	Sakura Dungeon	A somewhat ecchi dungeon crawler made by a company full of "Sakura" games. Game itself was bad, laggy even though there were no animations at all, became sluggish and sluggish as if leaking memory and crashed every 30 minutes. Gameplay is fine, got many enemies to capture for your team, story is not that important. There are about 20 or 25 floors in the dungeon, about 32 hours of gameplay plus an extra 3 floors and two bosses in the postgame (which took me an extra 2 hours and a half).		5/18​	4/10​
9​	The Lost Child	An old dungeon crawler where you control the Chosen One and an Angel who came to save humanity, with an interesting twist halfway. I liked the fact that there's no 20x20 board where the map is situated, so maps can be longer or shorter and you have no idea until you traverse the map. But it also tells you whether you have done 100% of a labyrinth which kind of spoils the fun of searching for hidden stuff. Took me 50 hours. It got some nice animations for the story. Postgame (100 level dungeon) put me above 99:59:95, the maximum in-game clock, Switch says 125 played hours in total. Very limited online.		8/2​	9/10​

 

[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
3) Kingdom Come Deliverance II
4) Fantasy Life i
5) Shining The Holy Ark
6) Thief
7) System Shock 2
8) Rimworld (Odyssey ending)

 

[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]

 

[yamaci17]

hehe I guess I can join this one alongside with 52 games challenge? however for me 52 games challenge is something that I mostly do with games that take between 30 minutes to 4 hours!

for 12 games challenge, I will try to make sure I finish at least 12 games that takes at least 10 hours. could be one per month or more than one.

note for mods this is how table looked before the update when I just copy pasted them into here:

1	Indiana Jones and the Great Circle	60 hrs	9-January-2025	4.5	87.45	PC
2	Horizon Forbidden West	54 hrs	8-February-2025	3.5	78.7	PC
3	Black Myth Wukong	80 hrs	16-March-2025	4.5	85.8	PC

and this is how copy paste looks like now:

 

[Fess]

Is it better to make a new post or just edit the first post when more games are finished? Or maybe do both? Add to a list and bump the thread.

Anyway, I got 100% in Minishoot Adventures today. Fantastic game!

Getting close in Final Fantasy Remake. Chapter 14 now. Really enjoy the story so far! They've fleshed out the characters a ton compared to the original. Still don't like the combat but it's not without strategies later on. Hell House boss was a struggle.

 

[cormack12]

Hogwarts Legacy down for the year! Working on nier automata and huntdown atm, also playing drg and will be playing se resistance end of the month

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Had a good time last year doing this, much more achievable than the 52. I almost always sit in between that, including a mix of both short and long games.

1. Death Stranding kicks things off this year, technically started in mid-late December but did not get far. Really enjoying this one, though I didn't know what to expect going in. It's going to take a while to complete because I've been spending a lot of time rebuilding roads and ziplines, trying to get the preppers to 5 stars and I'm only in episode 5.


Future games on the list:

God of War: Ragnarok
Monster Hunter Wilds
Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom
Tunic
Metroid Prime 4
Whatever the new 3D Mario game is called
Silksong

I'm sure there will be other things that come along to distract me as well, including random games from my massive backlog that will call to me.

 

[Lokaum D+]

This year i ll try to finish at least 6

1. KCD1 - finished, amazing game, really really underated - 9/10
2. SH2R - i think i m to dumb, old or not empathetic enough to care/understand this game - 6/10
3. MHWi
4. SH1 - geez, how are u suppose to get the good ending in these games ? - 5/10

 

[Roberts]

Reserved!

05.01 - Astrobot - PS5 - 8/10
14.01 - Terminator: Resistance Complete Edition - XSX - 7.5/10
19.01 - Call of Duty 6 SP - XSX 8/10

 

[Fess]

Badabump

2. Final Fantasy 7 Remake
Finished! (Feb 2)
Most annoying end boss ever with no save point between two boss fights. Otherwise I quite enjoyed the game, I didn't like the combat but by the end of it I thought it was alright. Character design was superb!

 

[SenkiDala]

Finished nothing in January... No time and not in the mood to focus on 1 game. I'll try to finish 2 games in February. It works too right ?